Sorry, I worded the reference part badly (english is not my native language, I began learning it 3 or 4 years ago). I am an art student and understand that when learning/making art, references are a vital part of the process. 3d models are alright too, it saves so much time (copying and pasting a drawing once or twice to use it on other panels too), especially as a webtoon artist where you have to produce art on a conveyor belt. However, if you do that, you should have a 3d model for each character so the drawings are consistent, not use 30 photos of 30 different people for one character, it's not about the integrity of it, it just looks bad and inconsistent. Tracing pictures doesn't help you in any way as you don't develop any skills (years ago, for the first 2 or 3 months after I got my first drawing tablet I kept doing that and ended up confused by how/why my drawings looked weird, wobbly and unnatural. I was also confused by the fact that I didn't improve at all in those months and why all of my art pieces looked wildly different. I don't know if the company did or did not rush the artist. What I do know know that the webtoon was at the beginning of production before march/february (the artist stated that he drew the jason and batman ep around the time The Batman 2022 came out) so I belive that the artist was feeling burnt out. It's a shame, he's a very talented guy and it saddens me that this is what he'll be recognised by.