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-Photographs can be sent to me by email, however, if you have a hard copy of the photograph you wish me to draw then you can post it to me and I will scan it in straight away and return it.
-Photographs must be of a good, high quality, showing a range of light and shade. A picture taken with a flash that has bleached out detail is no good, similarly, a subject deep in shadow with not a lot of detail would not make a great portrait either.
-The subject needs to be in focus and the face as close up in the frame as possible so that I can see the detail when blown up to A4 size.
Examples of what not to send in:
-Photographs must be of a good, high quality, showing a range of light and shade. A picture taken with a flash that has bleached out detail is no good, similarly, a subject deep in shadow with not a lot of detail would not make a great portrait either.
-The subject needs to be in focus and the face as close up in the frame as possible so that I can see the detail when blown up to A4 size.
Examples of what not to send in:
In this photo, although it's a great image and very funny, I cannot see the whole of the dog. If I cannot see it in the photo, then I'm afraid I cannot draw it as I am not familiar with what the animal would actually look like.
Movement shots can look great on camera, but if you imagine taking one of these dogs out of context as a single portrait, then it would end up looking rather odd!
As you can see in this image the photograph is out of focus and neither dog is in a particularly flattering pose to be drawn.
A good example:
In this photograph, both dogs are well lit, in focus and the image is of high quality. It is hard to get two animals posed together nicely, so I can always use some artistic license if required and rearrange the dogs (sometimes even face one a different way), into a more suitable juxtaposition, as I did with the portrait below: