https://thevirtualinstructor.com/blog/is-it-ok-to-draw-and-paint-from-photos Fri, 28 Jun 2019 01:03:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 https://thevirtualinstructor.com/blog/is-it-ok-to-draw-and-paint-from-photos/comment-page-1#comment-20900 Wed, 27 Feb 2019 22:34:37 +0000 http://thevirtualinstructor.com/blog/?p=3834#comment-20900 I have hear people say that copying from a photo is cheating. But sometimes a photo is all we have left of someone who is no longer in our life. The photo may be a fairly accurate physical representation of the person, but does not necessarily convey what we saw in them and felt about them. If we want to use the photo as a guide to memory in making a drawing that shows how we saw and felt about them, I think it should be OK to do that. And I think such a drawing should be evaluated on its own merits. Just copying a photo is cheating, but capturing yourself in an interpretation of a photo is not IMHO. Not allowing photos is kind of like saying we have to give up on people just because they are no longer with us. That seems wrong to me.

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