References and studies that went into EACH of the pieces he’d work on. Learn how to research who artists were and the why behind their works. Please. It’s free. And easy.

I’m seeing a lot of discourse over using references and tracing… I can’t stress this enough: people need to learn about artists. Outside of learning to mimic styles; really learn older artists work processes. For the love of god… Leyendecker has an entire portion of a museum dedicated to ALL the

Thank youuuuuu

Thank you!

I’ll give you the big fancy file later you can post and play with ~

I’m lowkey really happy with how this came out. Still tonssssss I could do, but this felt like a good stopping point.

This whole gen AI stuff is exhausting. The push to force ppl to consume it against their will or use it is crazy.

I’m just…. Tired.