If she's a practicing artist, she almost certainly cut her teeth doing tracing at some point. And if a digital artist, she almost certainly used a cracked copy of a tool.

The big eye-opener for me in college was taking a class that put me up-close with artists and learning that there were, in the whole class, a grand total of two students who hadn't started doing 3D modeling on a cracked copy of Maya (and the two, if memory serves, learned on Blender).