BEYOND the photo
1 SOFTEN THE EDGES
One of the common pitfalls that Alyssa’s students make when working with reference photos is an urge to draw outlines on the canvas that don’t occur in real life. The fault lies with the reference material itself. “The photo relies on contours and doesn’t describe volumes adequately just by the very nature of it being a flat object,” she explains.
The solution involves softening edges by blending them
