I'm kind of confused about reference and what will help me improve and what is considered cheating, or cheap.
If I copy the pose of an existing image, would you consider it cheating?
I have been trying to improve drawing poses, and it seems drawing poses from reference helps me, but I really don't want to take the wrong path and spend my time doing something that will not help me improve.
I don't draw the outlines of poses, i use shapes and use the pose for inspiration to lay down in my paper.
Here's an example in the image, I used Green Lantern's pose as reference to apply it to my own hero, I didn't copy the muscles,costume,face,hair,lighting,and i added plasma powers in his hands,cape, and made lower leg visible.
Feel free to critic my drawing, in anatomy or design.
This is my badly made signature.