THE ULTIMATE REFERENCE THREAD

Re: THE ULTIMATE REFERENCE THREAD
« Reply #25 on: Aug 08, 2010, 02:54 PM »
Yeah I agree. I think the latest batch of photos has great quality as well. I also love the UFC (I guess) fighting ones. How and when is it appropriate to draw from 2D photos like this though? I don't wanna fill pages with photo reference and then be told I should have done more life drawings.

Re: THE ULTIMATE REFERENCE THREAD
« Reply #26 on: Aug 08, 2010, 05:33 PM »
photo reference means just that: reference. If you're unsure about how a body should look from a certain angle, or what clothing people actually wore from a certain time period, then you use reference to see what real life looks like.

Re: THE ULTIMATE REFERENCE THREAD
« Reply #27 on: Aug 08, 2010, 11:19 PM »
Yeah I agree. I think the latest batch of photos has great quality as well. I also love the UFC (I guess) fighting ones. How and when is it appropriate to draw from 2D photos like this though? I don't wanna fill pages with photo reference and then be told I should have done more life drawings.

I've been told by haughty art teachers that referencing from photos are not exactly the way to go--mostly because you're referencing 2D work to 2D work. So in reality you're not really learning how to render a 3d object in a 2d world. The photos have essentially done the work for you. So no skill has been gained.

But when its all you got? Eh. Loosely reference photos for inspiration. I still find live figures to give a better learning experience.

Re: THE ULTIMATE REFERENCE THREAD
« Reply #28 on: Aug 08, 2010, 11:31 PM »
Can't say I agree with that. Drawing a still life from a set position will, assuming you aren't messing your angle up, be essentially the same as drawing from a photo. It's not like the photos don't show shadow or anything, because they do. And even if you are simply reproducing something that's already there (which is really what drawing is 90% of the time, whether you're drawing from life or your own imagination) it will help you learn and it will help you improve. When I was little I would draw things straight out of comic books, and later when I was drawing a character from my imagination in a similar pose, or with a hand in a similar pose or something, I could recall the picture I had drawn before and use it as a base. It really surprises me that your art teachers would say something like that. Then again, that probably means your art teachers won't force you to do master copies, and THAT I envy. Master copies are the opposite of fun.

Re: THE ULTIMATE REFERENCE THREAD
« Reply #29 on: Aug 19, 2010, 08:01 PM »
I don't know if this has been posted here yet, but this a sorta old news item: Crazy old Japanese man builds a functioning giant beetle robot. Besides being crazy awesome, it's cool see something that most people wouldn't even dream of constructing in real life. And certainly there could be some ideas for robots or even characters, no?

Re: THE ULTIMATE REFERENCE THREAD
« Reply #30 on: Sep 16, 2010, 11:37 PM »
"How To Photograph an Atomic Bomb" by Peter Kuran.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/09/14/science/20100914_atom.html
Some of the color images in this book are so striking and beautiful (it's it's own horrifying sort of way) that I may just buy myself a copy. I couldn't find many decent linkable images, so you'll have to put up with a NYT.com slideshow, sorry.







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Re: THE ULTIMATE REFERENCE THREAD
« Reply #31 on: Sep 17, 2010, 06:53 AM »
I can only imagine that all those people are either sterile or dead now.

Re: THE ULTIMATE REFERENCE THREAD
« Reply #32 on: Sep 25, 2010, 01:17 PM »
Urban Decay.
http://www.darkpassage.com/postmortems/index.html
http://www.abandonedtheaters.com/
http://www.solis.darkpassage.com/below/index.htm
http://solis.darkpassage.com/detroit/
http://www.solis.darkpassage.com/cyanide/pools/index.html

Majority of these places are of abandoned facilities that have seen some serious neglect over time. I find them pretty inspiring actually for certain themed comics.




Destroyed Urban Landscape references - post 'em here!
« Reply #33 on: Jul 31, 2011, 03:09 PM »
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2010/06/battleship-island-other-ruined-urban.html

Amazing pictures of a place called "Battleship Island".


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Re: Destroyed Urban Landscape references - post 'em here!
« Reply #34 on: Jul 31, 2011, 04:23 PM »
Hashima? Yeah welcome to everyone else's 6 years ago.
I lost the bookmark, but I used to have a link to a japanese photographer's site. All he did was take pictures of that & abandoned places like that all throughout japan, like train lines, & (overlook-style) hotels, & psych wards tucked away in forested hills that were slowly reclaiming the land. It was all cool stuff. Can't find it now though.
But if you're going off about Hashima now, let me put you ahead of the curve & let you in on Baikonur & Pripyat.

Re: Destroyed Urban Landscape references - post 'em here!
« Reply #35 on: Jul 31, 2011, 05:20 PM »
You are a man of decerning taste. This will shave hours off of my next BB.
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Re: Destroyed Urban Landscape references - post 'em here!
« Reply #36 on: Jul 31, 2011, 05:33 PM »
You are a man of decerning taste. This will shave hours off of my next BB.

If you're doing it right, its gonna add hours' :P

Post your action reference shots!
« Reply #37 on: Sep 25, 2011, 03:55 PM »
What kinds of sources do you get your action shots from?

Do you have a favorite website? do you have some cool images you found off og google? are there any videos or movie stills you use?

One of my favorites is this stunt video.
http://vimeo.com/27612305
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Re: Post your action reference shots!
« Reply #38 on: Sep 26, 2011, 03:26 PM »
Cool vid, downloaded it into my ref folder.

I have nothing really to post but instead a suggestion to check out pro-wrestling. They act and preform maneuvers that are exaggerated. So you are able to see clearly the actions involved and the effect it should have. Japanese pro-wrestling has some top notch stuff.

Re: THE ULTIMATE REFERENCE THREAD
« Reply #39 on: Jul 10, 2012, 07:27 PM »
So, using stock photos as reference in your comics...

This is something I feel like a lot of artists discount as cheating, but in reality, almost all pro comic artists use reference shots to some degree, even if it's only to remind them of how the anatomy works in a pose they rarely draw.

I recently asked for Voiders' favorite stock sources on the DA Chat, and I got several very interesting links, almost all of them on DA.

Here is a list of what I got and what I have found while working on my recent comic.

MALE
http://daestock.deviantart.com/ *formerly Danger99Stock
http://jasonaaronbaca.deviantart.com/
http://sunshine114.deviantart.com/
http://ahrum-stock.deviantart.com/
http://stock-cursedmind.deviantart.com/
http://brandon-tarian.deviantart.com/
http://anyman82.deviantart.com/
http://jademacalla.deviantart.com/
http://ohnostock.deviantart.com/

FEMALE
http://senshistock.deviantart.com/
http://imperialstarletstock.deviantart.com/
http://curiouspeaches.deviantart.com/
http://spiked-stock.deviantart.com/
http://kxhara.deviantart.com/

MIXED
http://mjranum-stock.deviantart.com/
http://birdsistersstock.deviantart.com/
http://kristinkk.deviantart.com/

DIRECTORIES OF STOCK
http://pose-emporium.deviantart.com/ (this one has so many links out to other stock providers that it's mindblowing)
http://daposes.deviantart.com/
http://manstock.deviantart.com/
http://ladystock-archives.deviantart.com/
http://romancing-the-stock.deviantart.com/
http://stock-backgrounds.deviantart.com/
http://action-stock.deviantart.com/
http://backward-perspective.deviantart.com/
http://ps-stuff-box.deviantart.com/
http://portraitstockers.deviantart.com/


So where do you get your stock photos? POST THEM!
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Re: THE ULTIMATE REFERENCE THREAD
« Reply #40 on: Jul 10, 2012, 07:30 PM »
Stickied as this will be helpful for people.
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Re: THE ULTIMATE REFERENCE THREAD
« Reply #41 on: Jul 10, 2012, 07:57 PM »
My Dungeon.

Re: THE ULTIMATE REFERENCE THREAD
« Reply #42 on: Jul 10, 2012, 08:09 PM »
oh nice! this is awesome!

Re: THE ULTIMATE REFERENCE THREAD
« Reply #43 on: Jul 10, 2012, 08:20 PM »
I go outside.
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Re: THE ULTIMATE REFERENCE THREAD
« Reply #44 on: Jul 11, 2012, 01:24 AM »
I did zero referencing for my current comic. I really need to do some though! D:

Here is some stuff from my archives..
http://artsyposes.com/
http://www.pixelovely.com/gesture/figuredrawing.php (can't pick and choose, it's randomized for gesture drawing)
http://eyedrawthings.com/?page_id=3 (expressions)
http://photo-reference-for-comic-artists.com/

Re: THE ULTIMATE REFERENCE THREAD
« Reply #45 on: Jul 11, 2012, 04:07 AM »
I get all mine from http://image.google.com :P

But imma check out all these sites, looks very exciting!

Re: THE ULTIMATE REFERENCE THREAD
« Reply #46 on: Jul 11, 2012, 04:26 AM »
I go outside.

Where's that? can you send the link :)

Re: THE ULTIMATE REFERENCE THREAD
« Reply #47 on: Jul 15, 2012, 01:33 AM »
This is an amazing set of links!

I don't have any new sites to add but in regards to environments/objects I use google sketch up to help me visualize the perspective and find interesting 'camera' angles and such.

I started building some blocky city, maybe someone else will find it useful, too:
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_coOzjwbArRNU5QY1JZYXNGMDQ

Re: THE ULTIMATE REFERENCE THREAD
« Reply #48 on: Jul 15, 2012, 09:53 AM »
thanks for the resources... this comic has me realizing the power of references!
Fell from my dreams and into the darkness...

Re: THE ULTIMATE REFERENCE THREAD
« Reply #49 on: Aug 05, 2012, 10:18 AM »
I just found a new one. You may have already followed the latest picture on the front of DA back to their page, but here is mjranum-stock.

http://mjranum-stock.deviantart.com/

They have a very diverse action pose collection, as well as lots of ether generic and exotic poses.

And Death playing bass, because why not?
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