I don’t like drawing from photographs although I am quite OK
drawing from pictures of other people’s drawings and paintings. Or copying my
own drawings.
My latest technique is to run a video of the person I am
trying to draw in the background as well as using several photos of them to
make a freehand pen sketch.
Of course there are various ways of tracing a photo of Boris
Johnson, running a photo of him through various apps that produce something
that looks like a drawing or painting or even using some type of camera lucidia.
But to me doing this produces something artistically different to what I want
to draw when I try to get the likeness of a person.
Drawing a likeness, particularly directly from a person, is
a bit of a no win situation whether it comes out well or badly. Going a little
way into the high country of the mind here, I think what I am trying to do is
to produce a catalyst for the posteriori knowledge already in the mid of the
person viewing the picture.
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Comments, since I started writing this blog in 2007 the way the internet works has changed a lot, comments and dialogue here were once viable in an open and anonymous sense. Now if you comment here I will only allow the comment if it seems to make sense and be related to what the post is about. I link the majority of my posts to the main local Facebook groups and to my Facebook account, “Michael Child” I guess the main Ramsgate Facebook group is We Love Ramsgate. For the most part the comments and dialogue related to the posts here goes on there. As for the rest of it, well this blog handles images better than Facebook, which is why I don’t post directly to my Facebook account, although if I take a lot of photos I am so lazy that I paste them directly from my camera card to my bookshop website and put a link on this blog.