03-14-2012, 12:47 PM
You should DEFINITELY 100% be using reference for all of your pieces that are not studies. When in doubt, always find ref. Sometimes you will be strapped for time or what you are trying to draw has no real-world correlation... but in all other cases, ref is KING. All the guys at MB use ref. Dan Dos Santos, Rockwell, Ilya Repin, Leonardo da Vinci, Antonio Lopez Garcia - all these folks use ref as much as possible.