Where do you guys gather poses from?

[DianeInsetinha]

I've been trying to find better and more striking poses to drawn, but Pinterest gives me mostly dull and not so challenging stuff while things like quickpose don't have many ways to narrow down to what I want. So, where do other artists take their poses from? Lol

Also, where did older illustrators got their poses before the internet? I know artists like Alex Ross pay models to pose for him as a basis for his paintings.

 

[DayBreak_Illusion]

I've been trying to find better and more striking poses to drawn, but Pinterest gives me mostly dull and not so challenging stuff while things like quickpose don't have many ways to narrow down to what I want. So, where do other artists take their poses from? Lol

You can use this site, create a pose with the dummy and it searches a slew of places. You can click any of them for the full image if you wish to draw the whole person.

Pose Search

x6ud.github.io

Also, where did older illustrators got their poses before the internet? I know artists like Alex Ross pay models to pose for him as a basis for his paintings.

Medical books, classes, being in places with lots of people and drawing from life. People in Greek times would do just that, although medical books weren't common at the time, they would buy dead bodies and dissect them. It was more normal with artisans who had money. Now during the last century, its basically what I said.

 

[DianeInsetinha]

You can use this site, create a pose with the dummy and it searches a slew of places. You can click any of them for the full image if you wish to draw the whole person.

Pose Search

x6ud.github.io

Medical books, classes, being in places with lots of people and drawing from life. People in Greek times would do just that, although medical books weren't common at the time, they would buy dead bodies and dissect them. It was more normal with artisans who had money. Now during the last century, its basically what I said.

Zamn, great advice plus a history lesson? Hell yeah

 

[DayBreak_Illusion]

Zamn, great advice plus a history lesson? Hell yeah

If you haven't checked this thread has books you can use for poses

ARTBOOKS FREELY AVAILABLE

For those interested, there are plenty of artbooks on video games and anime freely available on archive .org . For example : The Art Of Metal Gear Solid I-IV Gallery Works : Konami https://archive.org/details/the-art-of-metal-gear-solid-i-iv-gallery-works-jpg The Art of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons...

retrogametalk.com

for more challenging, i.e. Dynamic poses plenty of books on that, but those require you to know some basis of perspective and foreshortening.
Another way is just type on google "foreshortening poses" and draw whatever you find, the harder and agonizing the better youll understand.

 

[Sorion]

Posemaniacs

 

[JuanMena]

Depends on my current state.

- I am able to draw any pose, because I know Anatomy, Gesture, Proportions, and a long ETC.
- I developed a way to "think in 3D"... in my mind, I see a shape, for instance, a Cube... and I can rotate it and move it in my mind and transfer that picture onto paper or whatever.
- Since I know anatomy, I can do the same with poses. I simply think of a pose, I rotate it in my mind, and I transfer the image I'm seeing in my mind into paper.
- If I'm drawing often, I can ("literally") project the entire lines into paper, and I just trace the "imaginary lines" I'm seeing in paper.
- When I don't draw often, this skill gets "dormant", and takes me a lot of continuous practice to "get it" again.

THEN there's times when I'm not feeling like thinking and I just use reference.

So basically:
- Anatomy, Gesture and Proportion Knowledge = Unlocks unlimited poses.
- Constant drawing = Unlocks "3D thinking" and "line projection"
EDIT 2 = Sculpting helped a lot too!
- If not feeling like thinking, I just copy reference.


For this I used to draw 8 hours for 5 to 6 days, continuos Anatomy/Gesture practice... all digital because it's just practice.

Nowadays? I draw once a year, maybe twice if lucky.

EDIT: And I hope I don't get banned from saying this, but in essence, anatomy reference is just literally naked bodies. DO YOU KNOW SITES THAT OFFERS FREE PICS OF NAKED BODIES?


EDIT 3 = I never learned to draw shoes.

 

[contrail_]

80s fashion magazines, obviously.
Looking up an image based on the word 'pose' will not yield interesting images or poses.

 

[Tekki]

3D programs like mikumikudance can be a good resource for poses. The community has made a lot of them and you can view them in full 3D, but if you don't feel like getting and setting up the program itself you can still use the preview images as references.