OUIL404- Reference & Observation drawing

Drawing from reference 

• Allows you to spend more time looking at an image at your own convenience than you can with observational drawing
• If you need a reference of something you couldn't go see; like the sub saharan landscape.
• However you can be tricked into copying the image rather than translating it into your own tone of voice. 

   

  Drawing from Observation:

• You develop the skill of being able to translate an 3d object into a 2D object
• You are translating the would around you into your own tone of voice.
• It forces you look at the object in a different light and think of more ways to express the image without straight up drawing it photographically.
• You can be limited in the time you can draw something, and observation is not always suitable for a brief, especially a limited time brief.