How to Draw from Photographs

A Note of Encouragement

Although my goal with this book was to help artists work with technology—such as the digital camera and the computer—you may have noticed that all the basic principles of art still apply, even with the help of these tools!

The camera can help us gather visual information in a twenty-first century way, and also increase our efficiency as artists, but the artistic vision still resonates from within you, not the machine.

I have often thought about what the great masters would have done with all the high-tech tools artists have available today. But spending time studying their works, it quickly becomes apparent that they ...