Fanart Help

[longlongwaytogo]

Okay so I'm posting a lot today apparently. :) Sorry for any spammage of your friendslists.

I'm trying to draw some fanart, but I draw from reference photos (not of the characters, since it's for a book). I can't find any of this pose, because I don't know how to search for it. So I was wondering if someone with a digital camera could pose for me?

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Try these

[kynth]

http://z.about.com/d/painting/1/0/K/Q/1/FigureSketch1.jpg... )

Re: Try these

[longlongwaytogo]

Thanks for your effort but they're all facing the wrong way...

Re: Try these

[kynth]

aww poop

Re: Try these

[longlongwaytogo]

tell me about it. :P

[marl_w]

I don't do fanart but I do alot of portraiture painting/printing, so I hope that counts.

Um, whenever I get stuck I like to go to the library and browse through artbooks (not so much figure for the artist books, though this works for some people, they frustrate the hell out of me ^^) but though books about artists with a bunch of colour images. Im a big 18th century portraiture fan, so that works for me. You can learn alot by looking at artists who have been successful, I love figuring out how they ballanced the painting, ect :).

Oh and I find Anatomy books to be way more fun to draw from that set figures (though I am a bone structure freek, lol)

Lastly, just sitting round an area with lots of people helps me with figure. I like to make sketches (i emphasise SKETCHES, they dont have to be finished works, they are for reference) of people sitting/standing/doing people things.

Hope that helps.
You should post some of your stuff for us to see!