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Re:Copying is the way design works by raincole on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @02:08AM (#41043009)
> If you want to be strikingly original, you probably want to be an artist instead of a designer.

Copying is the way art works as well (at least for those who are not doing super-edgy-fine-art).

Typical journey of a digital painter:

1. Refuse to copy. Refuse to even look at references.

2. Hoard references. Over reference.

3. Copy in the right way.

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Re:Copying is the way design works by tetha on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @02:52AM (#41043267)
Music isn't very different either. A common recommendation is to first learn to play songs you like, and then to start diverging a bit and to adjust the things you don't like and merge the ideas you like later on.
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