11-23-2014, 03:19 AM
I think a big part of the bias toward learning from photos is that beginners dont understand photography and how light looks different in a photo than to the eye. A beginner might take any photo they find and do studies from it not knowing that its not a well shot photo. It might be over exposed or low resolution which can cause them to learn bad habits. Another issue is that when it comes to drawing a real life 3d object will always be better to learn from than an already flat image. Oh course it still fine to draw from photos but drawing from life will give you more bang for you buck. Now thats all there really is to it I think and once you consider that you can just use your own judgement of what to study from. If Chris P's chart is correct, the time it took for me to type this is way longer than it takes to become a master painter? So painting for less than 3 minutes will turn me into Brad Rigney?