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Thank you so much for the advice, Mike. I'll keep a drawing and a camera with me all the time. Hope I'll have some luck. Sometimes I saw some interesting people on the street, I just wish I could draw them but I was too scared to speak not to mention asking them to pose.
I have a small 5mp Pentax compact digital camera and a Nikon film SLR. Since the SLR takes much better photos than my small Digi Cam, I took these reference photos with it. Usually I work from big photos like 8" X 10" or 8" X 12", actually I have a few enlarged for the pastel painting. When I first asked her to pose, I only had pastel in mind. Then when I got the photos developed, I started doodling with my pencils and eventually got addicted to it. This drawing, for instance, was an "accidental decision". I bought the canson paper for pastel initially but it eats up the tooth too quickly, so I tried it with graphite. As I got carried away with the drawing, I couldn't be bothered to enlarge the ref photos. But it's ok, I have one photo of her pose and one close up of her face. Both photos are very clear. Besides, with this "looser work" I don't really need to see so much detail. So it turned out alright I guess.
Thank you Michele! yes, experimentation is good but I think it's more important to find your own artistic language in the process.
BTW, if it's not too much trouble, can anyone tell me how to make good quality copies of drawings/ paintings at a reasonable price? I had one 15" X 20" drawing professionally scanned and printed, it cost $80 for the scanning and $50 for each print. I had 4 prints made altogether, cost me a total of over AUD$ 280 which is around US$200 and I had to wait for a week. I'm not even sure if my original drawing worth $200.
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