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New work will be added this weekend....finally

Yesterday 39 C (102 F), Today 43 C (109 F), Tomorrow, Thursday and Friday are all about 40 to 42 degrees C (107 F).
Then we get a change at around pm Friday and it plummets to around 22 - 23 C (73 F). Then we have sane weather for a few days.
But tonight and the next couple of nights we have to sleep when its 28 C (82 F).....
Good News: Many ladies wear little ..... to cope with the heat.
Bad News: Too hot to draw them..(there are no life drawing sessions until February either) although I never question the benefit of "study".
Summer was late reaching Melbourne Australia but it is certainly making up for lost time.

I have a lot of works to add to this site; some old and some new. 

After an argument with some stairs in a Sydney hotel I returned home to Melbourne in plaster after snapping my fibula, just above the ankle. 3 weeks later it was deemed unstable so I had to have surgery to add a plate and pins to secure it. Now I have at least 6 more weeks to go......BORING !!!!!!

Perhaps it's a chance to draw a little..

I know this is a popular subject but I still want to ask: how many people trace or copy via image transposition/projection etc..?
Sometimes a portrait is so good..its too good. When it is superimposed over the photo (ex Google, where else) every single hair is exactly in place.
This is obviously not drawn by eye.
A while ago a friend asked if I do..and when I told him no he insisted that all great artists do so and that I should not be so stupid about it.

I don't believe what he said about being stupid    but after doing some web searching found that there are famous artists that did/do trace their work.
So I'm just asking: how many of you consider it cheating to draw this way?

Kind Regards,

Wayne

ps: FYI: 95% of my work is life drawing (live models in front of me in un-tutored classes) and 5% is from a photo on my IPad sitting on another tripod, beside my easel.