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Subject: Using photos

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Daffy69001

Posts:86
05/06/2007 3:51 PM Alert 

Is there anything wrong with using your own photos for drawing? Say for portraits? From some of the postings, I get the feeling it is frowned upon.
rpartin

Posts:427
05/06/2007 11:05 PM Alert 

If you want to use photos, especially your own, let 'em frown.
Drawing from life is also important, and develops your skills, but many times isn't practical or possible.
Ron
klippie

Posts:1880
05/07/2007 12:14 AM Alert 
I agree.

Retha
If at first you dont succeed.........don't ever give up!
1Painter42
Posts:156
05/07/2007 12:01 PM Alert 
I use photos for 90% of my artwork. I work full time, and can only paint evenings and weekends (when I'm not spending time with family, running errands, doing chores or gardening, etc.) So time constraints make it difficult to paint from life. The times I can it's like a luxury. I've taken a couple of photograhpy classes, and when I see something I want to paint in the future, I take a photo of it, from different angles, and perspectives, with the idea of using it later. Painting from life is a valuable tool and you learn a lot from it, but if its paint from a photo or not paint at all, feh! no contest. If I couldn't paint what I can when I can, I'd be the one frowning!
Justine
www.remingtoncreations.com
vikingwife

Posts:882
05/08/2007 7:24 AM Alert 
I use photos for most of my work. I don't have the time (right now anyway) to draw/paint on site. I've also taken a photography class, and it has really helped me to better identify light and shadows and how to recognize subject matter that might make a more successful composition. But the advantage of live drawing....for ME anyway....is that it really forces me to work faster. And you might capture some lights and tones and shadows that seem to get lost when you take a still photo. I think people have too much debate over the issue. If your art turns out fantastic.......who cares HOW you achieved it!

Jess
Egon

Posts:375
05/09/2007 1:23 AM Alert 
Hi folks - when I started painting I used my own photos -

There is a big problem - the camera needs a lens - with different focal length
Our eye has also a focal length ~ 80mm - portrait photographs use a similar lens too
If you use a photo taken with another lens - and you translate everything correct on your painting
- you does not recognice it - other people see the perspective does not work
Example : If you are in the high mountains - the summits are somewhere in the sky (view ankle 90 degree or more
if you take a photo you need a 35 mm lens to size it down to cover everything ( sorry its difficult for me to explain it in English ) - and your impression of the mountains reaching the sky is gone ---> perspective wrong
Drawing from life - can only help
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