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>>7687963
You two see art differently, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Using grids or tracing is undeniably a crutch, not necessarily cheating tho, unless you have a specific artistic journey based around drawing and painting from imagination, which a lot of people do, but not everyone.
A good example is Norman Rockwell, he would stage everything from actors, props, and specific locations to take pictures. Then he would trace over those pictures by using a projector, and he would copy almost everything from those pictures, only exagerating stuff like gesture of facial features. Still, Rockwell was a student for Bridgman, so he had vast knowledge of anatomy, which helped him with a lot of his art, obviously.
Does the fact that Norman Rockwell pretty much only put a painting filter on pictures he meticulously took make him less of an artists? I wouldn't think so, is he a far less skilled artists than if he would have created most if not all of his paintings purely from imagination? yes probably, but his mark on American art history is undeniable, and his wallet was also not empty.
I do look down on artists who trace or use grids, but that's just a personal preference because of what my artistic goals and journey is, but 99% of people, especially normies, do not care about people using grids or tracing.
