>>3996087>don't learn from others. #1. I see their skills as a tools I can learn express my own art rather than becoming a clone.
#2. In a million years of drawing you will not reinvent the wheel. If your goal is to make fantasy or anime art, it would be a complete waste of time to reinvent it from memory. If your goal is to attempt to be 100% unique, don't learn from others and that's fine. My goal is to get better and that means learning from others instead of my own mistakes. Do you wish to reinvent construction and gesture and maybe find something new rather than focus on making art? then go down this path.
#3. You're always taking in influence weather it's indirectly from memory(mediocre carnival artists/non professionals) or directly(the best that have learned from others but have maintained a unique take).
#5. who is saying this, a mediocre carnival tier artists? why are you saying this, because people exist like op pic that are just clones and you're obsessively afraid of becoming that? Original artists exist that have taken the same path of learning from others, op's pic is a strawman, it comes down to the individual.
#6. Drawing/painting is not all about being completely 100% unique, and learning from others won't make you unable to be unique with the tools you learn.
I should ask you op to live in isolation and never interact with another human being, reinvent your universe so you can never be influenced by anything.
