The Buckets by Greg Cravens for February 28, 2019

I didn’t know what an ‘Eddie’ looked like ’til I saw one.

Eddie Michelangelo, I presume? He wants to design an original!

And as we all know, cheaters never win.

Eddie is never one to take the easy way

it’s not cheating its crutch to start.

The myths around artists abound. The idea that magically knowing how to draw a thing without learning how is one of my favorites. Of course, that myth is mostly held by kids who think that basketball players just automatically know how to play, and musicians just picked up an instrument one day and flew into a song without knowing how. Cute idea.

it’s called a ‘reference photo’….meaning just that. You refer to it for details and scale, but you don’t (or shouldn’t) trace it

Life as a kid is just SO DARN HARD.

lol you’d think some would grow out of it but I’ve seen people throw tantrums over the use of references

cute. believable.

It is funny because there really are adults who think that it is cheating to use reference material. I’m not talking about tracing a photograph, just using one to see how the detail go together.