I copy so much stuff. Everybody from Mike to Boticelli to Monet and Mickey Mouse.
Copying from photos can give that flat effect too but I did about 3 years of live portrait drawing and that really helped.
> you asked me about the hands. I have found
> myself that it's far easier to copy
> another's art than draw from life. One thing
> that is problematic about drawing from a
> photo (which I have on occasion) is that one
> often gets an image on the canvas that lacks
> a completely 3d appearance, if that is the
> desire.












