am I paranoid

[Travis77]

Has anyone used pictures of other members cars as a baseline for their color scheme? Why I ask this is because I have recently photo copied a picture then used markers to play around with different color schemes(been real slow at work). I would like to eventially post a few pics to get opinions, but only if they are welcomed.
My next step is to get a professional rendering done. Until I can narrow down a few color choices I do not want to be bugging artists and be asking them to play mind reader.