08-10-2009, 02:56 PM
You've got a better idea of it, Rokkan. It's not that you need to use reference all the time, but nobody knows how to draw absolutely every single animal, building, clothing style and fabric completely out of their head without researching. Collecting and working from reference is where you start a lot of things. Even if you don't literally draw from it and just use it to generate ideas, it's a pretty important part of the process. Thinking that everything you draw should come straight out of your head with none of that kind of preparation is very naive.