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Hello my darlings! Today I wanted to put out a short blog that is something I feel really strongly about. I feel like one of the biggest misconceptions having to do with art is that there come some sort of wellspring of inspiration and inherit knowledge of how things should look. This is 99.9% of the time completely inaccurate.  The single most important tool in your artistic arsenal is reference.  Almost all artists (or at very least trained artists) use some for of artistic reference. This can come in many forms! For example if you're in school and you have a model sit for your class then that is your reference. If you set up a still life of a bowl of fruit, the bowl of fruit is your reference and so on. It used to be that in a traditional style arts school that you did endless master copies and drew from life until it was totally ingrained into you. So glad that I went to a Bauhaus style art school.  One of the best things about the current age is that...