Basically what the title says. What's the trick to matching up the proportions of a reference onto your art without tracing?
This is the reference I made in Blender that I am trying to replicate in Aseprite
#How do you translate 3D refs to 2D so well?
old kelp
languid smelt
An age old trick passed down through millenia... take the head and see how many heads long a part of the body is. (This torso looks about 3!)
heady stirrup
Get a grid, draw a grid on the reference, mark out all the proportions and stuff draw the same grid on whatever software you want to use or even on paper, use the grid as a guide to match up the reference to what you're drawing.
I wouldn't necessarily recommend relying on grids though, they will spoil you and you won't learn anything, but in a crutch it works well.