Reference Pics
3yr
JemsPens
So i love old photos and i love to paint them- there are a million amazing photos out there that are great reference, better than i could ever take. Does anyone know or understand the level of copyright behind using them for painting. I feel its a big grey area and 'it depends' as stan would say haha. Feedback on this appreciated thankyou !
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3yr
I think the way you're using them you shouldn't worry about it. From my little understanding, copyright law is very unspecific and muddled but in theory as long as your works are transformative enough they are considered to be 'fair use' of copyrighted material... but to clarify I'm no lawyer haha. I'm a big fan of the painting btw!
sorry for the late reply- thankyou so much!!! i overthink everything so i figured good to check what other people think about it. and yes i found the same about copyright law its a bit of a grey area. thankyou again and glad you like the painting that means a lot :))))
Humm... as far as I'm concerned, I personally would not consider the art piece in the first image may have any "copyright" issue to do with the second one. One can easily argue it's copied/referenced the same way as saying it's not. I think you don't need to worry about it this much. And even if you set out to copy a photograph, you will end up with drastically different result. Commercial stuff "reference" other imagery every day. If you are worried, maybe consciously credit the reference you used.
Take these two images below as an example, the concept artist does not mention Andrew Wyeth, but it's more than obvious this is certainly a direct reference. (you can see it on artstation /artwork/28xw8B , proko seems to block links)
Wow that is a great example, i hadnt really considered looking at examples as i am not sure how to find them like you say people don't really mention them if they can avoid it. Thankyou so much as i use a lot of old photos and even if you can't tell by the end i worry a little haha. Thankyou !!!
