Is everything plagiarism these days ?
So this might be a bit long but pls bear with me.
Hi so I'm a budding artist and design aspirant. I do acrylic painting, sketching and crafting. Now these days I have been seeing on instagram how everything is wrong in art.
All my life I have been using references or something. For example for paintings i usually take a tutorial step by step or a picture and recreate it. How else would I know where to give highlights and shadows and the correct shades ?
Even with crafting each and every one of my works were either pinterest inspired or a yt tutorial.
Same with live sketching, your looking at a scenery or whatever now is that wrong ?
Now about drawing I used references or maybe from my imagination but the others ? Ofc art can be created beautifully from imagination but for these elements you need references and you need tutorials sometimes. Nobody is a pro. Does that make me a bad artist?
I really would love ppl's opinion on this. Feel free to comment.