/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3585262
you will never have enough information to create from imagination without it looking like a cartoon or some tacky abstract. everything else requires detailed observation or expressionism.

you can remain in your comfort zone while still feeling challenged. the point isn't learning new information to fit into your preconceptions, but continually finding a way to escape them. which is closer to the tradition of drawing what you see,

>>2005033
>If a great artist was doing a study of a hare, would he draw every hair?

The animal in the painting was supposed to be an ermine, but they had no ermine around so Leonardo took a ferret for reference.
To these days the painting is referred to as "La dama con l'ermellino" (the lady with the ermine).
And yes they used actual live animals for reference back then, they didn't had pics.

Try critique this you morons