Am I allowed to use reference Images while doing my 50% of purely recreational drawings or would that be considered a study?
Since we should push ourselves to try drawing new things when drawing for fun, then I would say yes, absolutely, since how are we going to draw it if we dont know what it looks like?
Yes. Absolutely. Do it.
Not only can you draw from reference for fun, but it's a genuinely good practice. What determines if a piece is a study or recreational is the intent behind it in my eyes.
Whatever the case, reference is a valuable tool for drawing. Don't be afraid to introduce it into your more recreational work.
While I have a massive library of non-instructional art books I've collected over the years, there's only a handful that are actually important to me. This is one of them - so much so that I jammed my copy into my overstuffed backpack when flying back from my parents' house just so I could have it at my apartment. My back's been sore for a week.
The reason I hold this book in such high esteem is because of how it puts the relatively new field of game art into perspective, showing how concept art really just started off as crude sketches intended to communicate ideas to storytellers, designers and 3D modelers. How all of this focus on beautiful illustrations is really secondary to the core of a concept artist's job. A real eye-opener.
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