I’m still trying to find a good replacement for not having a model for my nightly paintings. So tonight I spent well over an hour trying to find a good photo online. Finding photos with good lighting is very difficult, photos destroy most details in light and shadow anyway.
So I liked this photo but I really disliked painting from it. Almost instantly I felt more illustrative, and the painting reflects this. Its flat and very linear. Its not super bad for only 30 minutes of work, but now I know that painting from photo is not the way to go. Not only does it do most of the work for you by turning a 3 dimentional image into 2 dimentional but any details in the shadows are almost completely lost, as well as very subtle transitions in color and value that really turn the form.
