Yes, that's true! One of the cleverest uses I saw of a mirror on a cover is an example where the mirror showed the face of an angry character who, without the mirror there, we normally would only have seen from the back...
What throws me off about drawing reflections is that the mirror doesn't see what you, the viewer, sees. It shows the back of things, so in order to draw it, you have to think all the way around whatever you're reflecting.
Yes, that's true! One of the cleverest uses I saw of a mirror on a cover is an example where the mirror showed the face of an angry character who, without the mirror there, we normally would only have seen from the back...
What throws me off about drawing reflections is that the mirror doesn't see what you, the viewer, sees. It shows the back of things, so in order to draw it, you have to think all the way around whatever you're reflecting.