Chatterbox: Down to Earth

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O.K., so slight moral dilemma.

So, I can’t draw without having something to look at. That’s not a problem most of the time, since I usually refrain from drawing and painting and things of that sort, tending to prefer playing and writing music. But more and more, I’ve been having to draw things for school (which I need to be perfect, and I tend to labor over), and I actually like to do sort of sketches in the mornings now. But, again, I can’t draw without having a model. That’s usually not a problem, when I can find a model. But if I want to draw something like a snowy field (ha-ha, I live in Florida), or something where a model is not readily available (because I need to have the object right in front of me or I don’t know how to draw it) then it’s a problem. Because then I have to search up a picture of what it looks like, and then I find myself trying not to copy it exactly, and then I finally give up, because obviously I would never plagiarize something, and I feel bad even if I’m just sort of copying the model picture because it wasn’t really my idea. *Gasps from that gigantic sentence* So, to what extent can you use a picture that someone else took or made, without it being copying? What do you think? And if anyone has tips for me to improve my art skills, that would be really useful, because right now I’m not so good, and I’ll probably have to draw more things for school.

Ha!, The captcha thing just said "hegp", which my auto correct tried to correct to "help". Yes, I need help. Ah, if only I had a captcha.