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Originally Posted by Justin Snodgrass
. . . I was not seeking praise with my post. . . . there is a purpose and a place for such a method. [projection] . . .
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Justin, the detail and presentation of your methods on your website belie this. Having painted a recognizable, workmanlike image, you are justifiably happy with the result. Good for you.
To instruct and/or delineate methods of working presupposes mastery. As you are a recent graduate with a baccalaureate, this is at best, premature, especially when you enter a forum where not only have a fair number of the participants been seriously dedicated to the practice and study painting for long years, but many are recognized, respected masters of national and international reputation.
Does painting from projections have a purpose and a place? Certainly. Graduates of trade schools where the skills apropos to the sign and display industry are taught become eminently capable at it within six months to a year, generally on a scale ten times or more of your 4'x4' painting. Most do not labor under the illusion that they are creating timeless art.
It's unfortunate you point to Leonardo's non-accomplishment of bloviating over a war machine that was never built. His dilettantism and puffery were his undoing on several occasions, when he had to flee the wrath of an unforgiving warlord for his non-performance.
Speaking of great masters, it's incredible how often a death-bed regret that life should end just when "understanding" of painting was within grasp is recounted. The biographies of Titian, Michelangelo, Tiepolo. Renoir and others include such, although all lived to ripe old ages. There's a moral for all of us in that.
Read, listen, converse, study hard and work harder, and you'll do great things if painting is your muse. God bless your youth and enthusiasm, but please, leave your ego at the door.
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