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.
