Having recently failed at learning to play the guitar, I'm familiar with the concept of trying to play someone else's song as a learning tool. It provides a goal and a measurement of progress.
But once you're out in the professional (ie: for pay) retouching arena, how valuable is having your own look?
I privately ask most RP LIVE presenters this same question. I rarely get the same response. It ranges from "I didn't know I had a look" to "mimicking looks is how I get work" to "if I had a look I wouldn't get work".
So though I've drawn no useful conclusions of my own, and I'll admit to some abstract concept of "unique is better", I'd be curious to get more varied opinions on this matter.
Do you have a look of your own? Do you try? Or do you try to avoid it? Or do you aim for someone else's look you like? And is this necessarily a bad thing (in work, not in learning).
But once you're out in the professional (ie: for pay) retouching arena, how valuable is having your own look?
I privately ask most RP LIVE presenters this same question. I rarely get the same response. It ranges from "I didn't know I had a look" to "mimicking looks is how I get work" to "if I had a look I wouldn't get work".
So though I've drawn no useful conclusions of my own, and I'll admit to some abstract concept of "unique is better", I'd be curious to get more varied opinions on this matter.
Do you have a look of your own? Do you try? Or do you try to avoid it? Or do you aim for someone else's look you like? And is this necessarily a bad thing (in work, not in learning).
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