I decided to switch it up a little and instead of doing a still life I took a quick photo of my ear and used that as my reference. I know plenty of people who would immediately say that I shouldn't have done that. That working from photos is cheating or inferior to working form life. To some degree I'll agree. I'll agree it is inferior in some ways to working from life, but it is not 'cheating' in my opinion.
The thing to keep in mind when working fomr a photo is that even though you trust the camera, it will lie to you. Colors may shift, there could be lense distortion, light bloom, range clipping (like when all the darks just get mushed into a synonomous black color and all the details are just gone from them. Just learn about these things and be aware of them. Then you can make informed decisions about how closely you want to follow your reference.
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