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[Fedodika]

"Inventing: the reference is probably only available in my head (stitched together from other references)."

Inventing is always a culmination of observing references. ideally you should be able to break down the drawing in simple shapes, and understanding those simple shapes well enough to turn them and construct the subject in different angles.

You should copy, but only with the intention of understanding the forms at their core. Some normies use the grid method to copy photographs and shade them photorealistically putting 50 odd hours into it. Then when they have to draw from imagination they're totally fucked because they dont understand the forms at their core.

Yea you should make the drawing as accurate as you can initially, but use the knowledge of the core forms to guide you incase you make mistakes you see later on.