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The thing that holds me back as an artist is my stubborn refusal to properly use references to plot lines out. I feel like a cheater, a fraud, any time I do that. I have this wrong thought that if I'm not a human copying machine, perfectly drawing anything from memory and without sketching it out, that I should just kill myself.
@Jazzy_Butts the few things I drew recently I didn't trace or anything but I did have them up on my second monitor I was drawing. Used color picking too since I'm colorblind. I figured you probably have to do that to some extent in order to learn through repetition.