Painting from Reference - need tips

If you have Moschino Stuff you can use the pose marker even on visiting Sims or hire someone to pose. At least they won't walk away. I tried to have my sim hold their toddler then selected pose but they always put the toddler down first. So I put the toddler in a high chair and placed the pose maker behind the high chair. Then had the dad pose. It worked.

I have also used the pose makers to take large photos. Hung the best one on on the wall and did paint from reference. Just zoom in on the photo so you can't see the edges. You can do panoramic painting this way also. Take photo and move just a little right and take another picture and so on. I usually do 3 large photos of a view I like. Then do a paint from reference of each large photo. Now you have 3 paintings to hang next to each other. Some of the views in the game are really amazing at certain times of day.