Copyright Weekend
Oh, that age-old saga… a tale of woes and witch hunts, of legal nightmares and people getting their knickers into a twist.
While some sorrowfully misguided people adamantly claim it is cheating to use reference photos, the majority of the art community agrees: Reference photos are a must-have when you want to paint something you have never painted before, and to paint something you want to get right, even if you have painted it many times before. Because, how can you know what something looks like and recreate it truthfully when you don't know what it looks like? - Exactly. You need references.
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