When someone first showed me how to use a web browser I thought, “Wow, now I can have a visual reference for just about anything at my finger tips.” That was about 10 years ago and though I have collected and lot of interesting photos from the web, I have rarely used them in my art making. I’ve concluded that the reason is that it is extremely uncomfortable to draw from a computer screen. I printed a couple low-res web images out on my photo printer and drew from them to see if it would be any easier. It definitely is. This is pretty exciting for me – the promise of infinite reference material via the WWW is revived.
These sketches are the first steps of series I have been wanting to do on the topic of fisticuffs.
