Pretty Deadly

agent-jaselin:

drawing-cookie:

Damn you didn’t have to kill half the comic book industry like that

rowantheexplorer:

This is how you get comic book artists that don’t know how anatomy works.

cipheramnesia:

That… that… they… Are they aware of like… every artist? In history?

winterartstuff:

It was a whole thing on devaintART in the early/mid 2000s. Like some people decided that using references was as bad as tracing. And there were so many young artists like “hey check out this work I did WITHOUT A REFERENCE because I’m not a TALENTLESS HACK who CHEATS to make my art c:”

It was a wild time lmao

cipheramnesia:

Sorry, who is out there saying artists can’t use references? That’s like a huge chunk of the whole history of art?

drawing-cookie:

I don’t know who needs to hear this but…

Y'all are allow to use references. Like people out here are like using refs are cheating I…

Use references You’re gonna look like a fool if you say this shit to someone who like…does this shit for a living

Please for the Love of God has references PLEASE

Anyone who says real artist don’t use references don’t know what they are talking about

I didn’t spend most of my college career learning about art and history of for y'all to be saying this nonsense

I would like to add that in the illustration even tracing from a photograph reference or the like (or using a projector to blow up or shrink a drawing to trace it) Is not considered a big deal. Especially if you’re trying to get a deadline. (old masters did it using camera obscura even.)

(via astralcamellia)