If the model's out there and I need it, I'm going to use it. A lousy artist can use the best model in the world and never create art of any kind. A good artist can create art with anything. Saying that you should never use a model, just stuff you create yourself is like saying we should never buy a car, we should make them ourselves. Or that we should make everything in out house from scratch. Life just doesn't work that way. Why should art? Models are just tools. It's what you do with them that creates art. Should a motion picture studio create all the props and scenery from scratch for every movie? I don't have time to create models nor do I have any software for creating them. And even if I did, why should I create my own when there are models out there to use? How many variations of a stove or a lamp or a table are really necessary? Do you try to create models increasingly different until they're so individual they become unrecognizable? Can you really create a refrigerator that's totally distinctive from every other refrigerator out there? How many different kinds of couches can you create? If using models is only coloring a picture, then why can 10 pictures using the same model look entirely different? If the coloring statement was the truth, then they should look exactly the same shouldn't they?

Talent is God's gift to you. Using it is your gift to God.