At 10/3/08 03:18 AM, The-iMortal wrote:
Who took the reference pic...?
She took the one of me, I took the one of her. I composed both shots, lighting and poses though.
The reference photos were such utter shit though that they are nothing more than a rough guideline for the final piece, which is acutally how i like them.
The way I see it, if you are going to work from a photo, and the photo itself is a work of art, then why bother making a drawing of it. To me the drawing needs to either improve upon the photo, or add an element that a photo couldnt capture. In this case the lighting and the omition of tons of the ambient and backround crap (and because i used the same camera as the one im taking pics of the pieces with, the clarity and image quality) are what the drawing "added" to the composition. I normaly work from life when I draw figures, but the way that I wanted these it just wasnt possible.
When i get a better camera I will update the shots of the finished pieces, because the piece of shit im currently using rapes them, especially the second one. You should have seen them before I corrected the quality in photoshop, so blurry and washed out that it was just a grey blob.