This image shows how I’ve been doing my drawing. That is, I have the reference in a separate window (this reference is mine), and I Tile the windows, thus having the reference and drawing side-by-side, both being the same size:
This has a big advantage: After zooming in, I can click a button on my stylus that zooms to fit, and the images once again match.
There are advantages to pasting as a reference image also, namely, I can use the Assistant Tool rulers to check angles, etc. However, after zooming in, zoom to fit results in something like this:
Maybe I’m too oldschool but when I don’t need the reference image for color picking I just open it outside of Krita on a different monitor or if it’s a physical image I stick it on with sticky tape.
I read this post with no replies some days ago and hesitated. Today, someone kindly responded, as we should to someone who is genuinely struggling. So here is my tuppence-worth:
We are led to believe more detail equates to a “better” picture. So, we get started drawing the eyes before we have a head to place them in. Consequently, the placement of the eye has no reference - it now exists as a caricature on an otherwise empty page.
Many moons ago, before the camera and “phones that can do photo” we learned the Principles - The Grammar of Picture Creation. Pictures were created and not copied. We did not “paint what you see” and painting “as a child” just demonstrated a lack of formal training but now it is a Virtue - similar to not washing and using wrong grammar and swear words.
Visit the Internet Archive and read the books on how to draw before they are gone forever. Study Harold Speed and Bridgeman. Understand what drawing “from the general to the particular” means. Reject those who say “learn the secrets of XXX in three easy lessons”. Their goal is personal enrichment and you are just a contributor.
