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"Imitation is fine as a means of adding tools to your mental artbox, but the danger is always in trapping yourself into only using that one tool and not fully developing your own way of seeing the world. In the end you'll find yourself only being as good as the other person was in the past while they keep moving forward. Worse is that when people are looking for someone to draw like artist X, artist X already is out there and better known than you."

--Dan Haskett, master character designer, in response to a student's question about the value of learning to draw like another artist.

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