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Published: 2019-06-12 21:50:17 +0000 UTC; Views: 6555; Favourites: 371; Downloads: 0
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Another study cause I wanted to practice a little bit more before continuing with commissions!! Also I wasn't very happy with my last photo study because it looked too soft for my taste.Related content
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Thought it was a photograph at first, stunningly beautiful!Β Β
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This looks great! You should be happy with this one!Β
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When you say "photo study", does it mean you draw the entire thing from scratch, or do you take a photo and then draw on top of it? I've seen people do both, so the term always confuses me
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From my understanding--and experience, as I call it anatomy study--it can be both to an extent. Tracing is usually a step down from a photo study, as artists will use tracing to develop muscle memory and then graduate to free-handing the piece.
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Uh... I don't think so. As an artist I never used tracing and I think no drawing process should include any tracing because that's just coping and the point of doing studies is to understand form, why things look the way they look, why they act the way they do so we can portrait them accurately. Not just drawing contours.
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^^ And that's fine. It's a training technique, not a means to an end, for lack of better words. When I studied art I was taught that contour lines are the foundation for art--I was also terrible with them, but learning contours helped me significantly in building my own art style. My hand became more practiced until I was able to free hand my own studies and grasp my them much better. How to look for the expression of what I was studying, how to recreate it with my own flavor. Do I think tracing work and passing it off as yours is wrong? Absolutely. Do I think tracing as a means of studying a particular art style you want to learn is wrong? I don't.
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Oh okay. I think I misinterpreted your comment! If the point of tracing is to practice and you are not going to post the result on the internet it's okay. But I think we have to be careful as artists because there are a lot of beginners who think drawing is to trace others work because they saw some artist saying it was good, (without explaining that it was only for practice) and that could create very bad habits on them.Β
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Nooo I draw from scratch! People shouldn't draw on top of the photograph, that's useless.Β
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And you still get it to look JUST like the photo?!! π How?! I know getting good at art takes really long and is just about hard work, but... oof, when I see amazing artists like you it's hard for me to imagine your art ever looked "bad" at one point lol
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Actually I just manage to make it look realistic but it doesn't look exacly like the photo. My studies never look exacly like the photo I'm afraid
Anyway thank you sm!
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