So I am planning on writing and drawing my own comic i want it to be fairly realistic in full color with painted backgrounds possibly some parts even being animated, it’s gonna be a bitch to make. So I came up with the idea of sculpting pose able models of my characters out of clay so that i could take pictures of them in hard to draw angles and poses to save time. The first one i made took around 3 months it was extremely hard but all together I’m very happy with it especially the face which was the hardest part. I had never sculpted anything before so I was pretty proud of myself and showed my friends and told them my plan and they said i would be cheating if i took pictures of my own handmade model and traced it for my comic. Also one of the friends who said this is an artist too who regularly traces other people’s art for collages or other things she won’t lie if you ask her if it’s traced but she tells people she ‘made’ it but is careful to avoid the word “drew”. I was very hurt when my friends said this and i told them that and they were very annoyed with me and told me they were just being honest and i would be cheating if i followed through with my plan. Which i personally feel is like telling a 3D animator they are cheating because they didn’t draw every single one of their frames but instead made models. What do you guys think?

TLDR: my friends said i would be cheating if i traced my own handmade model of my characters for my comic book which i made to save time drawing hard to draw angles and poses. 
