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Published: 2011-04-18 15:54:36 +0000 UTC; Views: 429; Favourites: 1; Downloads: 11
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Ok, so the last lightstudy was awful and since I don't want a bunch of mad Tom Welling fans rampaging onto me, I decided to do another one using a photo reference this time.**** SPOILER ALERT!!! SPOILER ALERT!!! ****
This is the same episode as the last one, another shot I thought was interesting colourwise (the background was beautiful in motion).
It's Clarke Luthor with Tess in a restaurant.
**** END ALERT!!! END ALERT!!! ****
I had the photoreference in a window to the side. No colourpicking from the photoreference, only guesswork (otherwise you never learn). It's amazing how much eyebrows do... it wasn't looking like Tom at all, then I nudged the eyebrows down slightly and voila. Also, he has a lopsided grin (Tom Wellings acting evil!).
Hopefully this will appease the fan girls and get to live another day!
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oh nice colouring and you only used photoreference on a window to the side? good work, most just draw on top of photos and casualy predend they coloured it on free hand
this is defently somehting I could need to practice on and it looks quite fun even for drawing a human^^
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Actually, I think most serious artists draw with the photoreference to the side. Unless they're warming up. When I do anatomy sketches using photos (nude omg!), I sometimes do a few traced (real quick, no more than a minute each) just to warm up. Then I start sketching with the reference to the side.
The plus side to using a real human/object is that you see the volumes in 3D. But photoreferences for practice is cheap and almost as good.
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yeaI usually use photoreference of sorts myself though tha's mostly just for finding a interesting pose since I've adopted a rather cartoonish colouring style. still your drawings do makes me wanne try something more challenging^^
heh I know of a guy who INSISTED I needed to trace more and that was "God gift to artists since everything came out looking better if you traced and you"learned so much from it 
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Well, if you're tracing color from a photo and you THINK about what you're doing, then sure, you'll learn stuff. But that's for practicing. I mean, you can use photos in your work, that's another deal... like if you're doing concept art and you have to draw a whole city in ruins, there's no reason why you shouldn't take a photo of a city and draw the destruction on top of it.
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