{"id":2211,"date":"2022-02-18T11:17:16","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T17:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/?p=2211"},"modified":"2022-02-18T11:17:16","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T17:17:16","slug":"photo-references-and-proportion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/?p=2211","title":{"rendered":"Photo References and Proportion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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9\u201dx12\u201d charcoal and carbon sketch on Stonehenge paper<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I nearly always draw using a photo reference, the only way I can achieve a likeness. Well, maybe I achieve a likeness when I draw from real life, but a photo helps immensely. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What a photo often results in, however, is distortion. I know my horse well, and even though the above sketch I completed resembles him and even resembles the photo, it isn\u2019t quite Pete. Pete is a Standardbred and has a rather long, Roman nose. This photo, taken about 20 feet away from him and zoomed in, created a foreshortened effect and his nose looks more like a Quarter Horse. If I were more experienced, I could change this to make it more Pete and less distorted photo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Along with photo effects, I have some odd habits with drawing horses. I tend to place the eye too high and make the nose too wide pretty much every time. Believe it or not, I\u2019m not trying for a photo real effect. My goal is to capture a likeness in an artistic manner. I don\u2019t wish for my art to look like a photo, but I do hope people can look at something I\u2019ve drawn and say, \u201cHey, that\u2019s Pete!\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I nearly always draw using a photo reference, the only way I can achieve a likeness. Well, maybe I achieve a likeness when I draw from real life, but a photo helps immensely. What a photo often results in, however, is distortion. I know my horse well, and even though the above sketch I completed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[380,407,420],"tags":[356,597,415,370],"class_list":["post-2211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-pastel","category-pencil","tag-art","tag-charcoal","tag-drawing","tag-horse"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3wmm6-zF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}