/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>1553193

That concepts in general are influenced from what has been observed.

>>1553185

You're probably looking to much into this. When an individual mentions to study from reality, it's not with the context of expanding creativity, it's intended to expand technical skill.

With the context of technical skill, many artists do claim that it's necessary. Life drawing is a suggested method of improving technical skill since all of it's fundamentals can be easily utilized. Speaking from anecdotal experience, it aids heavily with 2D observational technique, form, perspective, gesture, anatomy, proportion, rendering, etc.

Mitsuo Iso, the guy who animated the spider tank battle from Ghost in the Shell movie, claimed to study a spider heavily in order to capture it's peculiar movement.