Is there some law against studying photos? Is there some virtue about drawing directly from your head without using references? The finest artist I ever worked for, WALLACE WOOD, ALWAYS used photographic references. Even da Vinci used human models and would have used photos if they had existed at his time. A great idea lacking in realism.
I’ve been around a few artists sites and there really is this weird attitude that using reference is ‘cheating’. Not among all artists, of course, but those who do believe it usually have worse drawing skills than those that do use reference.
Heck, Boris Vellejo used photos of models as a basis for some of his paintings. I think he even used photos of his wife, Julie Bell as reference in a few.
Artists have always used reference, since the time of the Old Greeks, if not earlier. Some of the models of famous artists through history became as famous as the artist who painted them. This idea of a reference being cheating is very new, and it probably originated in some art school in an animation class or some such where some professor insisted students learn how to draw people from memory.
I seem to recall reading that Norman Rockwell stated that nobody should use a photo reference while learning composition, but that a photo reference was a must have once the fundamentals were established. I think the point was that those who learn from photos often can only copy photos, while those who learn composition know how to pull from photos as a resource.
Lydia
8 years ago
Maybe seizure risk. That yellow is giving me a migraine, and I don’t get migraines.
Maybeee, she’s the one doing the seducing? With her seductive Wolfy powers. (I’ll pass on the generous offer, though. I did used to get them when I was younger and taking a medication that can apparently trigger them. Believe me, I feel for anyone with that issue.)
… waxing a she wolf … that is dangerous territory. I must back away from the computer for awhile.
Naaman Brown
8 years ago
At first I thought the she wolf was being seductive, but then the title would have been “Seduction by the She Wolf”.
Catie
8 years ago
I’ve just noticed it’s the same author as the previous fetus cover. With quite a collection of covers. It’s funny how some of his anatomy is passable, like the girl next to the fetus, but other is totally weird (and no, the She Wolf isn’t the worst of it). I suspect he must be referencing or downright tracing the decent ones.
invader
8 years ago
Tell me how the hell, is she wolf here even standing on those toothpick lower legs.
Oh, God. I pity the poor fellow who had to seduce that.
‘Bring Sexy Back’ maybe? On account of the ‘seduction’ in the title, not the bewbs. Although bewbs are not a bad argument either.
Is there some law against studying photos? Is there some virtue about drawing directly from your head without using references? The finest artist I ever worked for, WALLACE WOOD, ALWAYS used photographic references. Even da Vinci used human models and would have used photos if they had existed at his time. A great idea lacking in realism.
I’ve been around a few artists sites and there really is this weird attitude that using reference is ‘cheating’. Not among all artists, of course, but those who do believe it usually have worse drawing skills than those that do use reference.
Heck, Boris Vellejo used photos of models as a basis for some of his paintings. I think he even used photos of his wife, Julie Bell as reference in a few.
Artists have always used reference, since the time of the Old Greeks, if not earlier. Some of the models of famous artists through history became as famous as the artist who painted them. This idea of a reference being cheating is very new, and it probably originated in some art school in an animation class or some such where some professor insisted students learn how to draw people from memory.
I seem to recall reading that Norman Rockwell stated that nobody should use a photo reference while learning composition, but that a photo reference was a must have once the fundamentals were established. I think the point was that those who learn from photos often can only copy photos, while those who learn composition know how to pull from photos as a resource.
Maybe seizure risk. That yellow is giving me a migraine, and I don’t get migraines.
I can give you mine, Lydia, if you’d like a comparative measure? 🙂
I agree, though. Just…I’m trying to figure out who it was that was trying to seduce HER. Yoish.
Maybeee, she’s the one doing the seducing? With her seductive Wolfy powers. (I’ll pass on the generous offer, though. I did used to get them when I was younger and taking a medication that can apparently trigger them. Believe me, I feel for anyone with that issue.)
Were her hands a transplant from Groot?
She Wolf catch phrase: “My hands are Groot.”
LMFAO. You win.
Agreed. Perfect.
She-Wolves favour Brazilian waxes then…
Sheesh, it disturbs me that I even noticed that..!
… waxing a she wolf … that is dangerous territory. I must back away from the computer for awhile.
At first I thought the she wolf was being seductive, but then the title would have been “Seduction by the She Wolf”.
I’ve just noticed it’s the same author as the previous fetus cover. With quite a collection of covers. It’s funny how some of his anatomy is passable, like the girl next to the fetus, but other is totally weird (and no, the She Wolf isn’t the worst of it). I suspect he must be referencing or downright tracing the decent ones.
Tell me how the hell, is she wolf here even standing on those toothpick lower legs.