Where do you get your reference from?

[Core]

I hope this is in the right spot, not really asking for art help but theres not any general art forum to my knowledge.


I know having a reference for poses helps drawing people a lot, but I have no clue where to get these kind of poses short of having someone pose, or posing in the mirror... while still somehow seeing myself. Do I just have some seriously bad luck in google?

[i<3kakashi]

morguefile.com is pretty good, though some retards put random pictures up instead of drawing references.

[mUcHo LoCo]

i just look thru my old manga and try and find a good 1 then draw it out and replace it with another char or www.animegalleries.net

[Elvenboyslut]

i just look thru my old manga and try and find a good 1 then draw it out and replace it with another char or www.animegalleries.netA manga artist recently had action taken against her for doing that. She lost her practice and was blacklisted.

Your best bet is to get to know the way the body is set up. Then you can draw poses yourself without needing to copy something. Otherwise, use magazines and photographs. You can always just pose yourself and "feel" what the postition should look like or look in a mirror.

[Jef88]

http://www.ctgilles.net/images/pictars/google.jpg
google :P
comics-manga
http://www.fineart.sk/index.php?cat=1
http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=14035
http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=14045
http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=14119
http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=14735
or sites of other manga artists :amuse
and use the search option of DA :thumbs

[Mousuke]

There are lots of things to use as references--the most useful of which I think are photos or magazine ads (which usually have some pretty good poses and perspectives).

Also, something I do a lot is watch people in between classes and copy down a quick stick figure form to build off of later. Stick figure forms really help, actually.

Good luck!!