I was painting a snow-scape of my son coming home from school. Even though I project and trace an outline of my photograph onto the canvas, often the lines disappear when I paint and the image walks around a bit.
I use the lines to help placement and hold a composition but to make a portrait I let go of the pencil line and just paint.
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| Here the head got way too big and I had to cut it back a bit. |
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| Here is an example of how I use Photoshop images as a painting reference. I make a colour swatch of the colours from the image and I draw in guidelines to help me align things. |
