Through yesterday's workshop I got a greater understanding of what it means to draw from reference. Whilst you're looking and engaging with an image, it is especially important to not just copy it. The purpose of drawing from reference is to look at and begin to understand the image in front of you. Repetitive drawing highlights details in an image you may not have previously seen the first time around, and redrawing it allows for a deeper understanding of the reference as a whole. Once more confident and sure about the reference image, the way you translate it onto the page through your own hand can be more exaggerated and stylised, resulting in a more successful illustration.
Selected drawings made from reference
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