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Hi Julie,
I am all for all forms of measurement that our senses and limbs can give us but I draw the line at computer programmes doing the seeing for us. Superimposed images in photoshop for example do not seem more ethical in my book than tracing. Clients are buying our skill not that of technology and anyway how can we really measure our own skills if we resort to software? What enjoyment is there in using software to locate our errors?
Draw draw draw is excellent advice but only if done in a spirit of constant self criticism and rigour. I know that is not an exceptional view and that most here would subscribe to it but it should not be completed with draw draw draw then fix the problems in photoshop. Our eyes and thumbs are all we should need and if that is not enough then perhaps we are in the wrong job.
Tracing, projection and software may be great equalisers but is that what we really want? Here for example I want to be able to compare my skills, such as they are, with my peers and how can this be done when the peer in question might have traced the image then corrected periodically in photoshop?
William Coldstream - co-founder of the Euston Road School. He was prof at the Slade school in London from the 30's I think until the 70's and the dominent figure in analytical realist painting. My tutor on my foundation course had studied under him. Ilaria I know has posted one of his paintings and the Tate has several on their site.
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