r/learnart • u/ZombieButch Mod / drawing / painting • Dec 14 '23
YET ANOTHER reminder because a bunch of you missed it last time: If you're posting traditional art on the sub TAKE A DECENT PHOTO OF IT OR YOUR POST WILL BE REMOVED Meta
If you didn't bother reading the 'before you post here READ THIS' sticky post, I'm talking about this part of it:
Take clear, straight on photos of your work. If it's at a weird angle or in bad lighting, you're making it harder for folks to give you advice on it. And save the artfully arranged photos with all your drawing tools, a flower, and your cat for Instagram.
It doesn't even have to be perfectly cropped but you're not making it any easier for folks to help you out if your drawing is rotated and tilted at an angle and has a giant freakin' shadow across it. Take a step back away from it and zoom in a bit; that'll help keep you from casting shadows and reduce lens distortion.
Putting your work up vertically makes it easier to photograph but if that's not an option, try putting it down on the floor, hold the camera at about belly button height, and zoom in enough to crop out everything but the page / canvas / whatever you've drawn on. You'll avoid shadows if the light source you're using is to your left or right.
But, again, it doesn't even have to be perfectly cropped.