02-11-2015, 11:05 PM
Caisne, Yes, I am absolutely using ref. Unashamedly so:) I think it would actually be impossible to do something like this without ref. Brad Rigney is my fucking hero so if he does it...
Being 1000% honest I don't know why anyone would NOT want to use ref especially for a finished painting. There are far too many gaps in my visual library. Our brains are not computers with rendering capabilities. For exercises and practice paintings for sure you want to test to see where your skills and visual library are so you do them from memory. Even the great masters used ref and since I am infinitely less skilled then they are so I would be a damned fool to not use it:)
More: adding in details and fixing things as I go along... Really not happy with those skull sconces on the wall... bleech! Those little bastards need a better design!
Being 1000% honest I don't know why anyone would NOT want to use ref especially for a finished painting. There are far too many gaps in my visual library. Our brains are not computers with rendering capabilities. For exercises and practice paintings for sure you want to test to see where your skills and visual library are so you do them from memory. Even the great masters used ref and since I am infinitely less skilled then they are so I would be a damned fool to not use it:)
More: adding in details and fixing things as I go along... Really not happy with those skull sconces on the wall... bleech! Those little bastards need a better design!