/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>1860854
You will never get good at drawing from imagination if you always use a reference without even trying to use your brain first. Your brain gets used to always having the solution right in front of it. And obviously studying from reference comes first, that's a given and a fucking retarded strawman on your part to imply that people who advocate drawing from imagination wouldn't do studies from reference.

Also, unless you have real life models at hand and shoot every pose yourself from all kinds of perspective angles, you will always have to make compromises. You can always tell a great draughtsman apart from a mediocre one who depends on photo refs.