hi!! this might be a weird question but i do a lot of traditional artwork and every time i photograph my sketchbook the quality of the images is genuinely horrific… all ur traditional art always looks fantastic and i was wondering if you have any tips for taking better pictures of traditional sketches? tysm in advance, i love your work!!
okay I took a wee little screen recording for ya just because that’ll probably be more helpful than me trying to explain it
DESK REVEAL !!!!
general tips-
• make sure you have good lighting, whether that’s from a window or from a lamp, just make sure there are no shadows getting in the way.
• if there ARE shadows, you can just stay further away from your sketchbook and zoom in a bit more.
• sometimes you’re gonna have to play with the settings more because there will be more shadow to take care of, that’s mainly up to your discretion but I found that the brilliance one works pretty good (but alas not every phone will have that so work with what ya got)
• same goes for colored drawings, minus the mono filter !! make sure there’s nice lighting with little shadow. also for that sometimes I mess with the temp and tint of the picture depending on how cool or warm the lighting is. And I use Picsart to spruce em up a bit more, but you can still get a pretty solid pic without that app.
• EDIT - also I have the sketchbook slightly reclined !! it seems to help with the lighting and keeping shadows out of the way