/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>2673039
I've been doing them since ~2008 with a variety of techniques, my mindset toward them obviously doesn't help at this point though.

If anything I've probably used these now and in the past as a means to experiment with technique more so than anything else, trying to see what I can get away with in regards to simplification and color exaggeration. I'm not sure what i'd do with a longer study, 1 hour seems enough to get the information I want down and after that it has always felt unchallenging to draw what I see, I think the time would be better spent drawing something from my imagination and applying the lighting/color scenario as opposed to rote copying, that way im forced to understand it.

Thats not to say that using a 2d reference is wrong but more so my (and I think a lot of people that do these from CA, permanoobs, crimson and the like) way of using them has been.

Appreciate the thought out response and you're not wrong as i've experimented like that before.