Melanie Rockett
Sep 8, 2018 · 1 min read

Totally agree with everything you say. Here are MY add ons.

I started drawing with colored pencils. Did some internet searching for a course or two.

Found some sites of color pencil “artists.” And wondered WTF? They were gridlocked on making a perfect reproduction of a photo.

Some people even purchased their art. Let me see … one artist charged over $2000 to reproduce a photo of their pet. So let me get this straight? YOU take a photo of your pet. You send this to the artist along with $2000. You get back a perfect reproduction of the photo of your pet. Hmmmm. You could have spent $100 and had YOUR photo reproduced on canvas. You could have purchased a $500 photo printer, spent another $50 on canvas like paper and done it yourself.

I now do perfectly wonderful stick cat figures with my color pencils. I am working up to a drawing of my cat. What I will never do is create a picture of a picture I already have.

Melanie Rockett

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