Our advice; copy who you wish to copy, especially your favorites, do examine where they fall short, what’s there that makes you a little different, and then you should amplify and transform that into your type of work. Your uniqueness is the ability to take something and own it. No one will know that you copied at first glance except you tell them. Copy here is not to copy verbatim but a source of inspiration to make a similar art in a non-similar way.
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