It is no secret to many that you can have a magical effect on a living creature using its image. However, not only magicians, sorcerers or psychics can do this. Any photograph or portrait at the field level is associated with the original. And by consciously or unconsciously taking energy from the portrait, another person can cause us irreparable harm.
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People who served as models for famous artists often died prematurely. Such rumors circulate, in particular, about the legendary Gioconda Leonardo da Vinci .
Princess Lopukhina , who served as a model for the artist Vladimir Borovikovsky , died three years after her portrait was painted. Doctors were never able to determine the exact cause of death. Boy's mother Vasya posing Perov for the painting “Troika”, forbade her son to be a sitter. However, he did not listen to her and soon died.
About ten sitters met with premature death Repina . Surgeon Pirogov and composer Mussorgsky died a day after the artist finished their portraits. Stolypin shot the day after his portrait was completed.
Killer photos
Photography is a much stronger conductor of bioenergy than a portrait painted by an artist on canvas or paper. After all, a photograph is an accurate image of a person or. And some cameras can even record an aura! It is not for nothing that most psychics work using photography.
...This story happened several years ago in Yekaterinburg. It started when two men began walking around the city’s children’s institutions, introducing themselves as photographers. They offered to take artistic photographs of children for a fairly low price. Many agreed...
And then panic arose among the townspeople: in many children’s portraits strange attachments were discovered in the form of pieces of photographs of graves, crosses, coffins, monuments and various parts the bodies of the dead, as well as bunches of dry grass. Inside the portraits there were sometimes ominous inscriptions, such as: “As the grass dries, so dry the child,” or the letter “C” in Latin, which meant: “Satan.”
By the time the story became public, it appeared that some had become seriously ill. The disease affected the part of the body that was depicted in the attached picture. For example, if half of the face was depicted, then on this half the child began to have problems with vision, sinusitis or otitis media.
Journalists conducted an investigation. It turned out that all the photographic portraits were made in a state photo studio. The only thing that the employees of this studio could be accused of was illegal business. The director of the institution stated that the investments were nothing more than ordinary used photographic paper used to strengthen portraits, and neither she nor her employees had anything to do with children’s illnesses.
On the advice of priests and healers, many parents of sick children burned portraits. When they were burned, children often suffered from... If the “deadly” attachments were destroyed, the child soon recovered.
The mystery of the eerie portraits has never been solved. All that remains is an assumption: the employees of the photo studio may have been members of some kind of sect, or one of them practiced .
No less danger comes from energy vampires or simply people who, for some reason, lack their own energy. The more people see the portrait, the more energy it gives off. Sometimes, looking at the image of a person, we feel a surge of strength... And what happens at this time to the original? As a rule, we don’t even think about this.
Anomalous phenomena researcher Viktor Velinsky and his colleagues conducted an experiment. They took a newly hatched chick, tagged it and photographed it. The photograph was multiplied and distributed to relatives and friends with a request to contact the portrait in difficult situations, in a bad mood or feeling unwell. And what? After some time, the chick began to wither before our eyes. His growth stopped, his appetite also disappeared... Everything was fine with the rest of the chickens from the same litter.
But what about the replicated images of various and “charged” portraits of psychics? - you ask. Famous politicians and stars have enormous energy potential - otherwise they would not have achieved such success and recognition. Healers also have big amount bioenergy and at the same time know how to install energy protection. But sometimes these people give more energy than necessary. And then they are haunted by illnesses, accidents, troubles in their personal and family life...
Safety regulations
Some people who know about magical properties portraits, they flatly refuse to be photographed, for example. This is, of course, an extreme. But still, some safety rules should be followed.
Don’t take pictures for any reason, because you have nothing better to do.
Try to prevent your photos from falling into the hands of people you don’t know, don’t know well, or are hostile to you.
Under no circumstances should you tear or damage photographs or portraits of yourself or your loved ones.
Do not carry photographs of your loved ones with you to show them to others.
If you are looking at a photograph or image loved one, which in this moment is not next to you, do not feel sorry for him and do not lament: “How are you doing without me? You will disappear! It’s better to try to mentally transfer to him part of your life force, to support him with your energy.
According to tradition, you cannot keep a portrait of the bride or groom before the wedding. You shouldn’t even take pictures together - such couples often break up or end up unsuccessful. If you do have photographs together, it is better not to keep them at home, but to give them to a trusted person for safekeeping.
Who would refuse to have his own portrait, and a painted one at that? famous artist? Meanwhile, this can turn out to be very risky. IN popular consciousness There has long been an idea of an inextricable connection between the image and the original. Therefore, back in the 19th century in Russia, artists faced reluctance and fear from ordinary people paint their portraits. It was believed that if something happened to the portrait (it exploded or burned), then the person would also suffer: he would get sick or die.
Bioenergy therapists come up with an incredible conclusion: people depicted in portraits often die violently or prematurely. It is based on facts when death befell people depicted in the paintings of famous masters of world and domestic painting. Let's look at some of them.
The mystical connection between a person and his portrait has been known since ancient times.
One of God's first commandments to the Jews, transmitted through Moses, reads:
“You shall not make... any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth below, or that is in the water under the earth.”
The Jews observed this prohibition for centuries, making an exception only for animals.
Islam also prohibits painting portraits. There was a similar ban in a number of primitive cultures. People interested in painting have noticed a number of cases when those whom great artists of past centuries and in our time depicted on their canvases suddenly died. Examples? - Please.
Rembrandt, one of greatest masters brushes 
Outlived two wives and all children. Saskia is familiar to everyone from “Flora” and other immortal paintings. 
She died 8 years after the wedding. Rembrandt also painted children a lot. Three died in infancy. The fourth - Titus - lived only to be 27 years old. Second wife - Hendrik Stoffelds. A favorite model, depicted in many paintings by Rembrandt. She also died quickly.
Goya immortalized the Duchess of Alba in a number of his paintings: “Naked Macha”, “Dressed Macha”. Three years later, Alba died suddenly. 
Modigliani... The master's loudest paintings were inspired by his student Jeanne Hebutien. Three years later, she jumped out of the window and fell to her death. 
Picasso's two wives and grandson committed suicide. They also posed for the great master.
About the same story happened with the great Flemish painter Rubens. His regular model was his first wife, the beautiful Isabella. He often wrote to his daughter. 
Isabella died before reaching thirty-five years of age; her daughter died at the age of twelve. Rubens mourned his loved ones for a long time and only many years later, when he was already over fifty, he married the sixteen-year-old beauty Elena Fourmens, who also became his model. 
Soon Elena...buried her husband herself. Her youth turned out to be stronger... Modern experts claim that she had a very strong biofield that could protect her from “pulling” her life energy behind the canvas. The first wife was deprived of this quality and paid with her life.
The famous model of the artist Vladimir Borovikovsky Lopukhin died three years after painting the portrait for no apparent reason.
The same fate befell the boy Vasya, who posed for Perov’s painting “Troika.” This is how his mother felt: she forbade her son to pose for the artist. 
Many of Serov's models died soon after posing sessions. The most mysterious was the death of the model depicted in famous painting"Girl illuminated by the sun" (popularly called "Girl with Peaches"). 
In just a month, she burned out from sudden onset consumption. only love Konstantina Somova, who posed for him for the painting “Lady in Blue.” 
Vrubel painted a portrait of his little son born with a cleft lip (from last wife - famous singer Zabela-Vrubel), and the painter depicted his offspring without even trying to hide the congenital deformity. After completing the portrait, the boy died. Soon, unable to survive the tragedy, Vrubel himself died.
Has gained notoriety famous painting Leonardo da Vinci "La Gioconda". Delight and admiration for the creation of the great Florentine are mixed with mysteries and fear. We won’t dwell on the famous smile of Mona Lisa, but it’s worth talking about the strange (not to say terrible) effect of the image on the viewer. 
This amazing ability of the canvas to make impressionable people faint was noticed in the 19th century, when the Louvre opened to public visits.
The first such person from the public was the writer Stendhal. He unexpectedly stopped at the Mona Lisa and admired her for some time. It ended badly - famous writer He immediately fainted near the painting. To date, more than a hundred similar cases have been recorded.
Leonardo's genius? After all great artist I have never worked for so long on an ordinary portrait. It would seem like an ordinary custom item. But no, the artist will not be satisfied with his work until the end of his days and will rewrite the picture for the remaining six years of his life.
All this time he will be haunted by melancholy, weakness, and exhaustion. But the main thing is that he will not want to part with the La Gioconda, he will look at it for hours, and then with a trembling hand begin to make adjustments again.
Louvre workers, by the way, noted that long breaks in the museum’s work lead to the tarnishing of the Mona Lisa. It gets dark, but as soon as visitors fill the halls of the museum again, the Mona Lisa seems to come to life, rich colors appear, the background brightens, the smile is more clearly visible. Vampire - and that's it!
The great Ilya Repin also suffered for many months over his painting “Ivan the Terrible kills his son Ivan...”. At the early stage of painting the canvas, the artist admitted that he removed the canvas out of sight. Repin in different time Several sitters posed. Sketches of the prince’s head have reached us, in which we can recognize the artist V.K. Menk and the famous prose writer Vsevolod Garshin, who, soon after posing, threw himself down a flight of stairs and fell to his death. True, Garshin was a mentally ill person, whose illness worsened from time to time. But still... 
First, Repin's painting, completed in 1885, was shown in the studio to the artist's friends: Kramskoy, Shishkin, Bryullov. The canvas made a stunning and depressing impression on them.
Then “Ivan the Terrible” was presented at an official exhibition in St. Petersburg, and the reaction of the general public differed little from the reaction of the artist’s friends. The realism bordering on naturalism frightened many viewers. President of the Academy of Arts, Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich told his wife before visiting the exhibition: “Don’t be scared, get ready, now you will see this terrible picture.”
In Moscow, the demonstration of the painting was initially prohibited by Emperor Alexander III. And only after some time the ban was lifted with reservations about the undesirability of showing the film to women and children.
By the way, Repin finished the portraits of the surgeon Pirogov and the composer Mussorgsky literally the day before their death.
Stolypin was shot the day after finishing work on his portrait.
At least eight more of the artist’s models suffered premature death.
And there are hundreds of similar examples. But even the experts who refuted these supposed legends admit that some kind of mystical mystery still exists.
Igor Vagin, Russia's leading specialist in thanatology (the science of death), believes that a portrait is a bioenergy-informational phantom of a person. Why do people tear up photos of their partners during divorces? Because they want to bring them misfortune. And a portrait is a more powerful structure. The mechanism of action, according to Vagin, is simple.
To exhibitions famous artists masses of people are walking. At the same time, talented craftsmen have many ill-wishers. To whom is all the envy, hatred, and black energy transferred? Of course, to portraits of loved ones, into which the masters put their love. And the more talented the portrait is made, the more vulnerable the original. Some of the spectators are simply jealous of the beauty of these women.
Bioenergy therapists are absolutely sure that all these facts are not mere coincidences. One of the mechanisms by which an attempt is made to explain this phenomenon is to transfer the negative energy of people to the portrait, which is transferred to the model, as a result of which she often dies untimely.
From this they draw a conclusion, perhaps an offensive conclusion for artists: they should be very careful about posing.
Many sensitive people, for example, Vanga, Edgar Cayce and others, refused to pose for artists. Apparently, they foresaw the fatal consequences of these seemingly honorable proposals.
Rostov dowsing operator A. Babanov has already for a long time studies the influence of works of art on mood and psyche. He is sure that some paintings can provoke illness and even death of the owner of the room in which they hang. The famous psychiatrist Professor A. Bukhanovsky is sure that pictures in themselves do not cause mental disorder. But they can simulate or enhance psychological condition, in which the person is located. For example, if he is depressed, then the picture can strengthen it. This is especially true for works of symbolism or cubism. According to Bukhanovsky, if a picture evokes strange sensations, spoils the mood, scares or even generates ghosts, you need to get rid of it immediately.
For some reason, these days the topic of borrowing in drawing comes up very often in my feed and with my friends in personal conversations. About ethics, plagiarism and more. A strangers ask: “Is it possible to draw from photographs?”
and in particular, “Is it possible to draw from photographs found on the Internet?”
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I still can’t begin to answer, because, yes, it is possible. And here you joyfully close this window and run to circle the photos, but after all this "Yes" goes quite a lot "But".
Why this may not only be possible, but also necessary:
No matter how much some authors and critics would like to suggest that “a real artist must draw everything from your head,” otherwise he’s not an artist, that’s not true. The artist is not obliged to know what the costume of the courtiers looked like under a particular ruler and how it differed from the costumes of those who were slightly higher or slightly lower in rank. And this was strictly regulated. Come on, you can’t walk so hard - to draw the Statue of Liberty, a car, or even a correctly standing foot - you need to study how it looks. It is clear that in the case of the foot, we can always ask a neighbor to stand in front of a mirror or take a photograph of our limb for study.
But often we simply don’t have the necessary nature at hand. This is why we take books and Google and study. There are many photographs to look at from all sides - sizes, proportions, plasticity of lines, texture, etc.
Yes, ok, you can use your imagination, but you can give up on authenticity. The end result is something completely arbitrary. Yes, it’s the author’s, but the viewer will not have the necessary recognition. Even if we are talking about fantasy scenes. If our character walks on grass, not some conventional grass, but one that looks like sedge, for example, we need to go and see what this sedge looks like.
Whatever the topic you are drawing on, the sources always seem to be of tangible help. You can stylize, play with details, but without these details, we have nothing to play with.
Aspects that may confuse everyone here:
Legal.
The Internet creates the illusion that once you can download it, it’s now mine, but it’s a no brainer that every picture has an author. And this author can quite legitimately be outraged. And then they will knock you on the head. Not great. Therefore, do not copy one picture one to one. Work with several, work with composition, style, color, details. Photography is an auxiliary source. The main ones are your brain, imagination and skill.
Ethical.
Dostoevschina, Oh, what kind of artist am I if I can’t depict everything that comes into my head? That's it - you can't. Humble yourself. You can do something - and that’s already good. Not enough knowledge? Get it! This is the same educational moment.
Technical. The one that confuses me the most.
Why? Drawing using references does not mean tracing photographs. And even more so, other people's drawings.
Let's take the first photo we like and circle it.
What will we get as a result? Wide chest, it is not clear where the growing limbs are coming from. Without knowledge of anatomy, without analyzing and processing what you see, it will not turn out convincingly. Let’s leave the “I beautifully outlined a photo in a vector” genre in the 2000s; now no one is interested in it. Like hyperrealism created using a projector.
How to do this correctly?
- Think with your head
- Use your imagination. The idea of your work is not to copy someone else's. The task is to fill your own with reliable details.
- Study composition, anatomy, perspective, chiaroscuro, color harmonies and other things that are essential.
— Upgrade your skills with live sketches.
— Use the degree of convention that you and your idea need. Don't know how to draw anatomically correctly? Stylize! Simplify! Make it flat. Change the proportions. But again, consciously, your goal is to make it convincing.
What not to do?
- Do not circle photographs. It hits all three points - it is legally dangerous, ethically questionable, and technically weak. Use photos as a secondary source, not the main one.
- Do not use only one image as a source. It won’t give you knowledge, but it will give you away.
Every drawing, every project can make us better.
Moreover, in wastewater we are our own masters and can set our own tasks.
Someone here will say that his goal is to rake in more money, and not some kind of mythical development, and I will send them away. On the blogs of those who write that stock is easy for everyone. I will say that it is a qualitatively different level that can distinguish your work from the ocean of others.
I wanted to illustrate the material with special pictures, but right now I want to draw what is being drawn, and not educational materials, Sorry.
There will be a sketch in color from the working draft. Considering that I clearly painted a New Year's atmosphere, I can show the result no earlier than November. And the experience of drawing a storyboard is difficult, but awesome. It’s like I jumped to the next step in a week)
There are many religions in the world, one of the most popular is Islam, along with Christianity and Buddhism. Each religion implies its own foundations and traditions, its own prohibitions and its own holidays. Islam is the youngest religion and one of the most widespread. Those who profess Islam strictly respect the rules prescribed in the Kooran. In general, religions carry a huge number of prohibitions, many of which seem strange.
Surely, the most famous prohibition that all Muslims on the planet follow is not to eat pork or any products that contain lard, bacon and everything that is made from pork. Along with this, Muslim girls and women must be covered; only the hands and the oval of the face can be open. Prayers are obligatory several times a day, and every year all believers fast. These are well-known factors, but there are also those that few people know about, such as:
- You can't listen to music;
- You can't use foul language;
- Alcohol is strictly prohibited;
- Smoking is also prohibited;
- You cannot use images with eyes and draw them.
This is where it gets interesting, we’ll talk about the eyes.
Why you can't draw eyes
It is believed that by drawing an image with eyes, a person begins to worship it and eventually creates an idol for himself. Eyes are the mirror of the soul; looking at other people’s eyes, even if they are drawn, a person on a subconscious level tries to adopt some habits, habits and rules of behavior. It’s not just that Leonardo Da Vinci’s great and immortal masterpiece “La Gioconda” captivates the minds of millions of people around the world. Her gaze is simply mesmerizing; it’s almost impossible to look away.
Undoubtedly, there is some kind of magnetism in the picture, but the ban on drawing eyes appeared long before the artist created his greatest creation. Stendhal also wrote that after he looked into the eyes of a painting for a long time, his head began to hurt and there was a decline in vitality. The Louvre employees themselves say that when there are no tourists and vacationers, the colors of the paintings significantly fade and fade.
Many non-religious people believe that the more accurately a painting’s view is drawn, the more soul and strength the artist puts into the painting. If his thoughts while working on the painting were black, then such a painting could become fatal. There are several fatal paintings in the world, the owners of which die suddenly. So famous picture with a crying boy in every house in which it hung, it brought misfortune. All the houses burned down to the ground, but it was the painting that somehow miraculously survived.
Islam's opinion on why you can't draw eyes
Islam believes that the image of animals and people with eyes is a likeness and a way to become like the creator, which can offend him and incur his wrath. Religion knows several cases when people developed a manic desire to draw eyes. A mullah was called to such people and he, together with his assistants, begins the process of expelling the shaitan from the unfortunate person.
The desire to create a masterpiece that will surpass the beauty of the creations of the Almighty overshadows people's minds, making them easy prey for dark forces. Expulsion is possible, but it is long, quite difficult and dangerous to health and life.
Nevertheless, millions of people around the world continue to draw not only landscapes, but also people, and do not suffer from any mental disorders. All over the world there is a huge number art galleries, exhibitions of photographs and drawings with faces and eyes, and cases of insanity are rare.
Whether or not to believe in signs and beliefs is up to you, but remember one thing, only those signs that you believe in come true.
Usually people who do not have special art education, do not dare to portray human faces. This is understandable; for this you need to know the anatomy, structure of the skull, types of facial muscles and much more. Such students are more interested in learning how to draw flowers, still lifes or landscapes, they seem more accessible... However, in order for a drawing to look like a specific person, academic knowledge in the field of painting is not at all necessary. This sketch may not become a masterpiece, but it will preserve the memory of some meeting.
Artists who already know how to learn to draw portraits recommend that all beginners pay more attention to the eyes: the achieved similarity largely depends on them. With all the diversity of people living on earth, they are conventionally divided into a relatively small number of types. The most common type of eyes is almond-shaped, but there are others (it is important to understand what they are like for the person being portrayed). You should also decide on the inclination of the outer and inner edges of the eyes.
Now the nose. It is narrower at the top and wider at the bottom. The line of the bottom edge in the drawing is already there, all that remains is to convey the features of its shape. For beginners just learning how to learn how to draw portraits, it is best not to try to depict this facial feature in too much detail.
The mouth is represented by three main lines. The top edge resembles the letter “M” stretched on the sides. The bottom line is an arc curved towards the bottom. Between them the mouth itself is a small winding line. Beginning artists unfamiliar with anatomy should not draw teeth.
Eyebrow and hair lines usually work out better than anything else. Outlining the shape of a hairstyle is a relatively simple matter.
Drawing ears also usually does not cause difficulties, unless, of course, we go into detail about their structure, which requires certain knowledge.
What remains is the neck and clothing (or rather, the collar or neckline). This is already quite simple, but such details give the whole sketch completeness.
After finishing the work, it’s a good idea to take a break, and then (for example, the next day) evaluate for yourself how well the result successfully conveys the external resemblance and, possibly, the character of the person drawn. May be important small parts(such as moles, for example).
And finally, some tips for those thinking about how to learn to draw portraits:
- It is better to use a soft pencil.
- Don't be afraid to make a mistake; you can correct it with an eraser.
- You need to draw what you see, not what you want.
- If you have the ability, continue to study persistently.
And further! Any criticism should be treated with angelic patience, especially if the drawing is commented on by a professional artist.
