Share Your Inspiration and Reference Collections

[HGohwell]

So, inspired by this thread

I was offering some advice about art and one told me to open it up as a thread all it's own! So here it is! Please share pictures of your gestures! I'd love to see what people come up with. Gestures, whether you're doing them or looking at them, are a great art exercise, tool and reference/resource. SHARE YOUR GESTURESSSSS What is a gesture? The idea of the gesture is to draw the head, spine and the immediate body part that you think is important. Only, super quickly - like 3 seconds, …

I was thinking about where we get our pose references and general inspirations ect. I'm sure I'm not the only one who has hundreds of photos collected to help with everything from poses to lighting. I thought it'd be cool if we shared for everyone.

I use Unsplash, I've got collections for everything from specific characters and locations, to these my General Inspiration collections where I put things that catch my eye to be sorted or not later. If you're familiar with my comic you might notice a few pieces that I used. There's only 99 per collection, I think it gets a bit unmanageable from there.

General Inspiration | 99 best free light, urban, city, and night photos on...

General Inspiration 2 | 99 best free woman, portrait, female, and girl photos on...

And a bonus: my rather limited texture collection.

Textures | 20 best free texture, background, pattern, and surface photos on...

So feel free to share yours too and hopefully we can all help inspire each other.

[kimketli]

Here is my pinterest page. It contains textures, poses, backgrounds, drawing techniques and many other collections as well. Have fun!

Kim_Ketli (kim_ketli)

[Eveeka]

Here is my little collection:

Tutorials favourites by Eveeka on DeviantArt

[HGohwell]

Some really great stuff here. It's great to see such a huge range of collections too. Thanks guys!

[Fierce_Chai]

Thise are some great ressources you posted, I will definately check them out!

Here are the references and ressouces I have gathered so far:

• Line of Action: https://line-of-action.com/
  Tons of references and practice courses for figure drawing, animals, hands&feet, faces&expressions and much more

• Sirius-sdz (deviantART) https://www.deviantart.com/sirius-sdz
  Extremely big variety of high quality textures for free and without rules for usage

• Floorplanner https://floorplanner.com/login
  Tool to create 3D models of interior and rooms. Needs registrations and you can make a few rooms for free, the rest needs to get paid.

• Sketchup https://www.sketchup.com/de
  A free 3D programm to make buildings out of basic geometric shapes, very useful to create references for backgrounds with buildings involved.

• Easy Poser (Can be found in the App Store)
  Free phone App where you can create 3D models of humans and pose them. Has a lot of features, but a few need to be paid.

• Digital Brushes http://digitalbrushes.tumblr.com/
  Tumblr blog with a lot of free photoshop brushes from various professional artists.

When I think of more, I can add them here.

[hades]

Here is my pinterest!

Andi (sketcherbook)

For poses if I'm stuck, i use pose dolls. I invested in them a year or two ago.