Originally posted by Katy Lied
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Great Artists, ancient and modern have all relied on models, and eventually on cameras (camera obscura):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3aA6xi_jmc
Donato Giancola does amazing sci-fi work, drawing from great reference photos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2sgl1N6hE8
Now I realize that Rockwell and Giancolo are drawing by looking at the image or even "plein air" but is that really that different than tracing—especially if its a photograph, for which you own the copyright?
I mostly draw by looking at my subject matter I have posed and then photographed. But sometimes I do trace, especially if the photo was so carefully constructed by me to be traced. Here's an illustration created from a photo I use as an in-class demo (drawing free-hand by looking at the photo; no tracing):
pistacios_illustration.jpg
Water colour, Acrylic, coloured pencil on water colour paper 8x10"
pistacios.jpg
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