PAINT A PORTRAIT – PART 2: SKETCHING
Today I’ll hire and photograph a live model before working on a detailed sketch and transferring it onto canvas. If the Old Masters owned cameras they would have used them. Yet I doubt if they would have given up using live models altogether, as I haven’t, and I have the choice.
To a beginner it may seem pointless to draw from a live model when we can easily use photography. After all, the photograph doesn’t move. However, it doesn’t outweigh the advantage of seeing the model in three dimensions.
“I’ll paint this artwork within a week to 12 days if all goes well”
The information in a photograph is flawed compared to the information we see when drawing from life. What the photo severely lacks is the
