Home FAQ 2.3: Does he use photographs or models?
4/23/01, 10:24 p.m. And do you make photographs for your paintings? I take a lot of photographs anyway. And sometimes I do take polaroids for figure studies if I think it suits that particualar work. 7/28/01, 10:38 p.m. In a lot of my work I like to contrast the page and storytelling with both abstract design and some realism. When I’m going for a very realistice piece in painted art, I often start with photo reference. In Kabuki, it is fairly easy for my to take photo reference of my girlfriend and other friends and use photos that I have personally taken in Japan. And the script is tailor made for me to make up the rest. And sometimes I like to bury more Japanes Pop culture in there as well. In Daredevil, I worked from someone else’s script for the first time, so I wanted to make sure I was able to fulfill all the requirements that the script called for. I wanted to make sure that I had enough on site photo reference to pull off everything that Brian asked for. I shot about two hundr
