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THE POWER OF REFERENCING Visual referencing has its place in designing and illustrating today. Visual memory referencing has its limitations. It is an access to imperfect, past or limited visual memory of a subject. Bridging the gap between an imperfect visual memory and reality lies the power of referencing. Aspiring artists like Kent Trammell and Tim Von Reuden talk about how from their experiences, it’s far more enriching learning and using references to craft out illustrations and projects. French painter, printmaker and illustrator Henri Marie Raymond has paintings and illustrations that were created using references back in the 19th century. Contrary to popular belief, referencing is used by all artists. Some may argue that it plays a vital role with beginners only, but as it stands, it aids every artist to produce refined work. According to Kent, it does not matter what level of skill you have reached, referencing will always have its place in your work. As a texture and shading artist, Kent uses a variety of images as reference material for his projects. He looks into various types of material with interesting textures that provide both dull and vibrant colors as the like strikes it. Reference doesn’t have to be an image. Inspiration can be drawn from various places, including videos. Top: A fairytale character sketched out from a reference picture of a plant. He likes working with both reference material and illustrations in one photoshop file at the same time. This allows easy access to both textures and colors immediately. 22
RESEARCH DOCUMENT The key to using referencing as a powerful tool to aid one’s designs and illustrations is to use it with the intention of learning from it. A lot of artists today misuse and misunderstand the power or efficient referencing by tracing images. It should act as only a guide for one’s work and should not dominate it. If used correctly, the need and intensity of referencing fades overtime as one develops a reference guide in their mind’s eye. Being an artist and illustrator, I have always used referencing to perfect various kinds of imagery that ranges from human angle proportions to maintaining or improving landscape and architecture drawing. It has allowed me to develop my skills as an illustrator and designer to work more efficiently. Top: Back in the 19th century, famous french painter Henri Marie Raymond used staged photographs as a reference guide for his paintings. 23
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