With photographs, reference is physically preserved.
A photograph (reference image) was taken under low illumination before quantification of photons emitted from Xen36 at a binning of four over 5 minutes using the Living Image software.
He takes pictures of his subjects and then uses the photographs as references for his drawings.
In the 70's, Mr. Hockney's realism intensified, but it never looked overworked, and though he used photographs as references, it did not turn into Photorealism.
Reverting to a more conventionally naturalistic style and often using his own photographs as references, he painted portraits of well-to-do people and decorative murals for their homes.
"Wang Qingsong: When Worlds Collide," at the International Center of Photography, is the first museum show in New York for the Chinese artist, whose elaborately staged color photographs mix references to classical works of Chinese art with allusions to the country's consumer culture.
He also makes them from scratch, or by using photographs as references.
Longo used his "Men in the Cities" photographs as reference for his drawings.
From him too, I learned that designing a play is a process of discussion, anecdotes, sketches, photographs and reference books; that you have to keep asking, "What's this for?" and "What does this mean?"; and that a designer needs to be an architect, engineer, painter and sculptor.
On these photographs, facial reference lines were drawn to create a smile frame.
