Do You Know What I Like About You?

This is a very basic idea of how the references I use when I am creating an image come together. I am constantly looking up images on the internet, in books I've collected, photographs I've taken and various other places to make one image. The final product is usually a collage of things that I've found.



I sometimes use images from other artists to see how they've interpreted a pose or an object and then try my hand at it. I don't usually start something thinking "I'm going to put barnacles on this bad boy." I usually have a pose in mind or look in some of the places I often get inspiration from and once I start drawing, it always changes.

Music is also very important to the progress and feeling of the painting. So is silence.

One last thing I want to add is that it takes just as long to draw something crappy as it does to draw something good. You don't know which one it'll be until you've finished.