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Morguefile. Big old free photo archive from the dawn of the web. “We are a community-based free photo site, and all photos found in the Morguefile archive are free for you to download and re-use in your work, be it commercial or not. The photos have been contributed by a wide range of creatives from around the world, ranging from amateur photo hobbyists to professionals.”

Open Access at the Met. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York: “Whether you’re an artist or a designer, an educator or a student, a professional or a hobbyist, you now have more than 406,000 images of artworks from The Met collection to use, share, and remix—without restriction.”

Smithsonian Open Access. Download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images […] from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.

Posing Sites and Apps:

Adorkastock. Stock photos for pose refs. DeviantArt gallery started in 2007.

FreePhotoMuscle.com. (translated page link click here) Japanese stock photo pose site that includes buff people, but in funny poses and costumes.

CroquoisCafe. (NSFW, nude model poses warning) A stock photo pose site. You should be aware this org has been linked as pro-Trump. I leave it to y’all to decide if you want to use the resources or not. I highly encourage not financially supporting them and trying to support the individual models if you can.

Line of Action. Fantastic site that includes posing refs, community discussions from other artists, figure study, anatomy, etc. So much stuff in here.

PoseSpace. Extensive library of poses. Some free resources others are paid. I’ve not fully evaluated both, but you should be able to use this all mostly free and get great use out of it.

SketchDaily. This one is one of the better ones out there. You can time yourself, search by pose, clothing options, body type, perspective, etc. All real models.

JustSketch.me. A pose app for any device. Has apps for most devices and a webapp. Customize and pose models/props/scenes.

Quickposes. Pose site that gives you timed challenges to become more proficient at poses.

POSEMANIACS. Ref site with anatomical poses. All the ref pics are of 3D models with only the bones and muscles. Can be helpful for seeing how muscles behave in certain poses. limited to two body types tho.

MagicPoser. A wonderful app that’s great on mobile. Lets you choose size of models, number of them, style, etc. Significant features are use of snap point with the physics engine, adjustable lighting, multiple perspective, 360 angle, articulated hand posing.

Clip Studio Paint Modeler. Free 3d tool that works with Clip Studio Paint. You can import your own data or other models you find online. Not quite an alternative to Blender, but the integration with CSP is very nice.

Egg a Zyoutatsu Atarichan Drawer. (requires enabling flash player or downloading and using standalone flashplayer) Drawing tool for pose practice. The developer is working on an html5 version.

DesignDoll. One of the best pose tool apps out there. You can customize so many things. They also have an extensive collection of ready made poses here. You can use the free or pay once for life and have the poses integrated into the client as well as the ability to export your obj to other programs like blender or smt.

Stock Photo Sites:

Unsplash. Giant free stock image site.

freeimages.com. Another stock photo site, less features than some others.

StockSnap.io. Stock photos with a creative commons CC0 license, which essentially means you can use the photos however you want and don’t have to attribute to them. (though its nice if you do attribute)

Burst.Shopify. Tons of royalty free high quality images. Similar licensing to StockSnap.

pixabay. I feel like most people know about this one, but it features entirely free CC0 licensed Photos, Videos, and Music. No attribution required, but still nice to support a giant site with all this content.

Viintage. Big collection of public domain vintage photos.

Gratisography. For commercial or personal use. They specialize in odd, quirky, wild stock photos.

pexels. Great free stock photos and videos. Only a few stipulations of what they don’t allow, but their license info can be found here.

Faestock. An artist and model with a huge amount of fantasy and fae and other types of photos available. Their terms for use are here.

MorgueFile. Old stock photo archive that’s been around a long time.

Museum and Institution Open Access sites:

USA National Gallery of Art. Over 50k works available for download.

New York Metropolitan Museum open access. 490k works to browse. Even codes for Animal Crossing New Horizons patterns.

The Smithsonian Institution open access. Probably one of the largest open access collections available online. Around 3.9 million items available to view.

💚The friend, the lad, the scrunkly💚

I recently finished the main game and I wanted to draw one of my favorite characters in Inscryption! I’m very charmed by this little guy, Lonely Wizard, and I hope I did him justice here. Also I made a transparent version underneath the read more.

It is unfortunately a bit of an open question; the shortest answer I can give is:

This is pretty small potatoes, to be fair - I have peers who have reference folders magnitudes larger than this. I keep many bookmarks for references I can't save to my hard drive, like exported / embedded turn tables of models and similar things. I have a number of reference books on my shelves that I pull out to look at when needed.

The long answer is that I get reference from everywhere; anything that catches my eye as potentially useful I will save and sort for later use. Feathers, wings, poses, maladies, fashion, etc.

But, I need to note that visual reference is only half the battle. In terms of anatomy specifically, I took courses on anatomy for the purpose of art, and what I learned from those courses informs my choices of reference, how I search for them, how I interpret them, and how I use them. Some of it is just memory, but I always make a point to support that memory with more reference. When drawing hands I look at and pose my own hands often. When watching movies I'm also watching how the bodies of actors and animals move. When seeing people outside I'll note specific features and file away to myself what causes those features or what allowed x-motion that person performed to happen.

All of this aside: Visual reference is always useful, but understanding anatomy - understanding what you see - makes a very big difference. The key for finding great reference for anatomy is to have an understanding of anatomy, even if it's small. It may sound counter-intuitive, but it is very much the truth. Although my memory can be a bit of a troll and I'll forget the names of specific bones or muscle groups, I'll still recognise and know what those bones and muscle groups are and what they do. When I look at a photo of a dancer and see the musculature of their legs straining against the skin, I know what those landmarks, striations, and forms are and mean.

Understanding what goes on under the skin immensely impacts how you are able to read what is visible on the skin.

I'm sorry this isn't the most direct answer! If I knew of a reference collection that was easily accessible and offered a lot of knowledge, I'd share it. Anatomy involves much more than just reference, it involves a lot of reading and observing, as well as a lot of patience.

no worries, not a dumb question! I don't know what advice I can give you cause my thrushpelt amv is p much my first try at lineless stuff haha, but uhh I can show you how I my lineless process ( its p similar to my lined art process)

Alternatively i think you could skip the sketch and do lil rough blob shapes and draw inside it and tada some quick lineless art

Really crappy/quick tutorial on how I draw muscles?

👏use references👏 (pictures, but also your own hands too!)

simplify them, I almost always start with one of these shapes :00

Before I did some hand studies I thought that the palm always stayed flat, but that is very much not the case KSDFJKLSD (touch your thumb to your pinky, see how scrunched up it gets??)

SO, a big brain moment for me was imaging the palm of the hand as like,,, this fleshy slab with a couple of rods (the bones of the palm) running through it.

don’t forget about these two globs

and look for these sort of lines

almost always start with one

of these shapes :00

🕸🪞SPIDERSONA AU: THE FOX SISTERS🪞🕸

this is a pretty broad question and im guessing/hoping you meant “how do you color in black and white in your comics” so have a few random tips about values and paneling and stuff i guess

OOC: Silly meme that I absolutely HAD to draw these two as. I don’t think there’s a meme out there that 10000% captures their vibes as much as this:

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