justsomeguy
Bluelight Crew
i guess i didn't give my good reasons. copying masters -- not to produce a piece of original art obviously, but rather as an excercise -- unpacks the master work for the student in ways that simple visual observation can't achieve. Trying to emulate or directly reproduce the master-work gives special insight into the problems of painting or drawing - what strokes were used to create a particular form, how were these colors mixed, what does this line quality do for the lines around it, etc.