Sketches and photographs’, does the truth (not truth more what I want to say) lie between them or somewhere else completely.
Why am I looking at this again shouldn’t I have it worked out by now. I think in the past I would have taken a snap developed it and just used it as reference how it was. Now I take many snaps download them and bring them into Photoshop. There I can manipulate them, compose, blend, and draw into them. I can also scan in the sketches and do the same then bring the whole lot together and rework. I recently made a drawing based on a photo then overlaid it back onto the photo. My partner who is also a computer games artist, took a look and said oh that’s cool which filter is that…it was the me filter, the edges blur but it’s always the me filter. Is manipulating images in Photoshop very different from manipulating paint on canvas?
I sometimes wonder if the reference then becomes the work itself, or just remains a study for some final work.
