To do this, I draw a box with the same proportions as the one on the reference photo.Todays artists can capture images and videos spontaneously with a smart phone or camera, process photos into art forms all their own, and print them on any of a number of papers and in many different sizes.The options are quite literally limited only by your imagination.
Quick announcement - EmptyEasel has created a quicker, easier way for artists to have their own art website. Click here to learn more and get a simple art website of your own. I like the feel and smell of oil paint and colored pencil... I typically place a grid of quarter- or half-inch squares over the entire photo, which helps me re-create the image more accurately on my paper. If youre using digital images, your photos are already easily available. The cursor will become a plus sign () (see the red arrow below). Drag the cursor over the part of the image you want inside the grid. I started in the upper-left corner (blue arrow) and dragged down and to the right. You can redraw a grid as many times as you need using the undo option. Then, reposition your cursor and try again until you get the right placement over your image. Diagonal lines are especially helpful with faces and complicated images. By default, the foreground box will be black (its red in my example above) and the background box will be white. Make sure that the color you choose can be seen on your reference image. You may need to try several colors to find the best color for whatever reference photo youre working with. Thats the setting I use because most of my reference images are fairly small. If youre working with a larger image, however, or if you just want a line thats easier to see, you can change the width to make your line thicker. Click and drag the mouse across the grid to the opposite corner. In the illustration below, Ive drawn the first diagonal and have partially drawn the second. In this next image I added a light green diagonal to each quarter of the reference photo grid. If the final drawing is small enough, I make another grid of the same size and dimensionsjust without the reference photoand print that to draw on.
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