The Nude Reference Thread(18+)

[FlameDragon]

great idea for a thread!

[Naomi Ningishzidda]

www.artrenewal.org (http://www.artrenewal.org) has many older male bodies in the old master's pieces for the girl who asked a while back. Which is great, because, there's less worry about copyright infringement. (you should never sell or display work in your portfolio that is a copy of a photo someone else took, without buying the rights) It's not photography but it can work in a pinch.

I like using porn images but my inspiration was Sorayama in highschool...personally I don't view sex as any different than another human activity. So I appreciate the image I pulled earlier out of this thread that was pornographic! banzai!

[Capprotti]

An AMAZING collection of playmates of the month I stumbled across on a google image search (how did I get any of these images on a search for Paul Bonner [could be the last name]). Anyway, the old images are the best, very classic.

http://www.freeweb.hu/playboymagazin/playboy/

[Naomi Ningishzidda]

Amazing indeed, thanks alot for this gold mine....

[Thujon]

Everybody said it already, but nontheless: Thank you sooooo much!!!!!!

The community here is the best!!!!!!

[wiggum]

On second thought the link I put here was inappropriate

[Aardvarkphil]

Mr Elwell is this user legit.

[Annubissl]

To EvanFisher the name of the site alone is does explain its content MET Most Erotic Teens. so ya its not surprising most of its content resemples soft core porn, but there are a lot of useful poses in there if u have tiem to comb through it.

[nirudafat]

*18+

this was sent to me some time ago and has been buried in my favorites for quite some time. maybe some of you can use it:

http://www.freeones.com/

they're not all necessarily nude, but obviously if you pick a name with a 'P' next to it you'll be sure to get nudity. Also a good reference if you need to find a particular celebrity/model/etc... for charicatures etc...

dude..this is a porn site...are porn sites=reference sites..

[resonanteye]

Still haven't found any good sites for overweight/normal-shaped models. I see enough thin, breasty, young people already in the nude, I need to find more older, average-or-over-weight, and less athleic images. anyone?

[stoneindian]

TRY WWW.3D.SK They have all kinds of models.

[Blaz]

Finally everything in one place!

"Long hunts for reference nudes on internet" days are over! :D
...for a while...

[Osmus]

Keenox- that link was awesome

[mute.pablo]

About 90% porn.

Thanks to those who actually consider that there is women on these forums.

[Naomi Ningishzidda]

Here's a photograph of me, no makeup/half a bottle of Bacardi downed, 3 am - you can rip it if you like, but send me a link to your work in return so I can check it out:

http://www.dazimua.com/images/nudes/rum2.jpg

5'7" 135 pounds, 27 1/2 yo...

[BAMartin]

I have to chuckle a bit...

the filename is rum2....

rum being the reason rum 1 didn't make it?!?

[Naomi Ningishzidda]

ah, image was too dark, not good for drawing reference

[BAMartin]

you're a better person than me.... my 'drunken' photos are dark too, but mainly because I'm taking a close-up of the floor! ;)

Anyway,
thanks for the post!

britt

[chan]

Well, I'm not an amazing artist. I more of a movie maker. Heres a link I think the site is good, some pictures can be a little erotic.

LINKS:
My favorite:
http://www.kindgirls.com/photo2/metart/kelly_5433/kelly/12/8/0/
others:
http://www.kindgirls.com/gallery/metart/kelly_5433/kelly/12/0/
warning, some of these pictures/groups of pictures are erotic.
http://www.kindgirls.com/archive/1

[The Iconoclast]

http://vintagegirlymags.com/blogger/

Don't think this has been mentioned before, but here's a site with scans of nudes before Photoshop and breast implants. Great for drawing references, cause you know the anatomy's not deformed (aside from lens distortion).

[Naomi Ningishzidda]

I was looking for underwater photos of nudes, I only found one - this is a generally good site for looking at real anatomy as you would see of animals on national geographic

http://www.nudist-resorts.org/gallery/067.html

I took a bunch of myself this morning, unedited because almost everything of women on the fucking internet is edited to hell

it annoys me...even Domai edits with their own kind of editing that erases the subtle musculature attachment hollows and shit

[Fiori]

Anyone have links to any overweight/thin reference images. I am pretty tired of seeing too many beautiful women and men, not that they arent interesting to draw but I prefer the irregularities of the body in art to the perfect. So while I would relish in drawing someone like Naomi, unless she adds on about 8 more stone i'd probably have to go looking for someone in McDonalds.

Thanks for the nudist resort though Naomi, alot more "imperfect" people :)

[Naomi Ningishzidda]

it's nice I figured out my timer, I only have 10 seconds to get in a pose though

look at the way the top of the femur shows through the skin on the bottom pose

note that my hip bone is wider than average, to accommodate larger babies. if you placed your fingers on the side of the hip there you would feel the bony surface under about a 5 cm fat layer so that is actually showing a different skeletal type than usual :) this is a very plains native american type skeleton

skin tone is not accurate, irl it has olive undertones and none of the pinkish hue you see, although it is that pale, you would definately see a lot more green

this causes the abdomen to attach at a far wider point than most people (mostly men) try to depict with a wasp like figure which can only be achieved through use of extreme corsets... it's not natural. very skinny waists only happen with smaller hip bones and that's about it :)

I have to pay about a 100 dollars more for my jeans to get something that isn't made for fat people :( ie "skinny leg" jeans that fit my hips look baggy from the top of my thighs down) D:

Nordstrom's is the only place that carries jeans that fit me without having to get custom alterations.

http://www.dazimua.com/images/CA/2.jpg


http://www.dazimua.com/images/CA/1.jpg

[FlameDragon]

it's nice I figured out my timer, I only have 10 seconds to get in a pose though

look at the way the top of the femur shows through the skin on the bottom pose

note that my hip bone is wider than average, to accommodate larger babies. if you placed your fingers on the side of the hip there you would feel the bony surface under about a 5 cm fat layer so that is actually showing a different skeletal type than usual :) this is a very plains native american type skeleton

skin tone is not accurate, irl it has olive undertones and none of the pinkish hue you see, although it is that pale, you would definately see a lot more green

this causes the abdomen to attach at a far wider point than most people (mostly men) try to depict with a wasp like figure which can only be achieved through use of extreme corsets... it's not natural. very skinny waists only happen with smaller hip bones and that's about it :)

I have to pay about a 100 dollars more for my jeans to get something that isn't made for fat people :( ie "skinny leg" jeans that fit my hips look baggy from the top of my thighs down) D:

Nordstrom's is the only place that carries jeans that fit me without having to get custom alterations.

http://www.dazimua.com/images/CA/2.jpg


http://www.dazimua.com/images/CA/1.jpg

Excellent poses!

[Nightblue]

wow, I totally wasn't aware of this thread till I googled "nude reference". This is AWESOME! Thank you for providing the much-needed refs!

[Dorkthrone]

I don't know if this has already been posted, but it's by far one of the best references sites I've ever seen. Not a hint of porn.

http://www.female-anatomy-for-artist.com

You can view all the thumbnails for free and some full-size samples, but to view all of the images full-size you need a pay account. Excellent poses, each one shown from multiple angles.
Glad to see more people referencing this amazing site. This and 3d.sk are what I use for my ref.

[Dorkthrone]

Someone posted this link earlier. I think it's actually pretty good anatomy reference.
http://www.bvwphoto.ch/
Especially the forms galleries.

[Pixeltuner]

Naomi: That's pretty ballsy, posting yourself nude here. Be careful that some lurker doesn't let this end up on some amateur site.

[Naomi Ningishzidda]

yeah I don't really care

[Pixeltuner]

yeah I don't really care

In that case, I didn't say anything :p I like the bacardi pic though, it has a certain 'edge' combined with the spontanous feel of "hey, let me take a picture then while I'm at it" which you don't see in 'posed' nude photography. You should do more 'bacardi' shots then. :p

btw, a lot of cool links here:

http://www.indienudes.com

And this one guy has the same "hey we're nude" feeling.

http://www.ryanmcginley.com/

[Naomi Ningishzidda]

(acceptance of) nudity is so close to the next enlightened level of humanity it's almost scary...considering we should have been through that lesson 3000 years ago in Greece or whatever...xians, oy...

No more bacardi for me I'm afraid, but perhaps I'll post some more pics, these were a gift for my BFF...

[jhgoforth]

(acceptance of) nudity is so close to the next enlightened level of humanity it's almost scary...considering we should have been through that lesson 3000 years ago in Greece or whatever...xians, oy...

No more bacardi for me I'm afraid, but perhaps I'll post some more pics, these were a gift for my BFF...

I'm just amazed you could get in position with a timer....now I wonder how many shots of a blurry butt falling off the bed there were. ;P Great photos as well as work as always. Way more gutsy than I.

[Aurelyx]

http://www.fineart4men.com/pics/ph0561.jpg

Lats. First page.

[dwilliams]

^wtf is that? BANT


*Edit* cool they got rid of it

[Dorkthrone]

^wtf is that? BANT

How soon do you want to bet that the porn spambot will get banhammered? Me, I'm betting within the evening.

[cptjack]

Those are some LATS, lol.

[Silvertone]

Google book previews...

The figure in motion, (female) (http://books.google.com/books?id=5wbCciV3_FAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=subject:%22Photography+of+the+nude.%22&client=firefox-a&sig=ACfU3U0ymwCFf5DNrgIJKf17DrTIIweOyw#PPT6,M1)

The human figure, (male) (http://books.google.com/books?id=MwQPcYvGMiAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=ruby,+the+human+figure&client=firefox-a&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0)

I'd say, just get the books.

[basementPete]

I have figure reference material available on my site (http://www.basement-picasso.co.uk/new/index.asp?tab=blank&section=blank&link=blank). This does require a subscription. The virtual models allow you to pick a pose and then rotate the figure. You can also put different lighting on the models. You can get the images in colour or black and white, and also add grids or golden section lines automatically. When subscribed you have access to full 1024 pixel wide images.

Example nude pose (http://www.basement-picasso.co.uk/new/vm_pose.asp?posenumber=24&tab=studio&section=lifeModeller&link=Female%20Nude)

List of Nude poses (http://www.basement-picasso.co.uk/new/vm_summary.asp?tab=studio&section=lifeModeller&link=Female%20Nude&poseCategory=Female%20Nude)

Clothed poses (http://www.basement-picasso.co.uk/new/vm_summary.asp?tab=studio&section=lifeModeller&link=Female%20Clothed&poseCategory=Female%20Clothed)

Hope that is of interest.

cheers

Pete



Learn to Draw (http://www.basement-picasso.co.uk/new/learn_to_draw.asp?tab=school&section=blank&link=blank)

[Sphyzex_9]

I found these a while ago I thought they might be of some use here

http://i318.photobucket.com/albums/mm427/Sphyzex_9/LineUp-0034.jpg
http://i318.photobucket.com/albums/mm427/Sphyzex_9/POSTURE18-1.jpg
http://i318.photobucket.com/albums/mm427/Sphyzex_9/LineUp-0023.jpg
http://i318.photobucket.com/albums/mm427/Sphyzex_9/POSTURE18.jpg
http://i318.photobucket.com/albums/mm427/Sphyzex_9/Lineup-102.jpg
http://i318.photobucket.com/albums/mm427/Sphyzex_9/Lineup-103.jpg

[JessiBean]

Pretty nice collection of "pretty women" body shapes, though if you know where you found it and who made it, crediting them would be good -- I'm sure someone put alot of work into collecting all those images.

[Farvus]

Is it from here? http://fineart.sk/index.php?cat=2

[Jason Rainville]

Pretty nice collection of "pretty women" body shapes

Yeah... can we get any that are walkin' down the street?

[SoulBeaver]

http://www.bwgreyscale.com/

Basically a collection of photographer's sites along with some other 'fashion' and 'model' sites. Has a bunch of stuff; I like it :)

Also, too lazy to see if somebody already posted this link.

[Naomi Ningishzidda]

I love the human body

[Jacob Kobryn]

I agree... woops, I'm not old enough to post in this thread. :rolleyes:

[arne97]

Have not yet reviewed all posts but:

my favorite nude references are, in no particular order:
Eadweard Muybridge"s "The Human Figure in Motion" . It is the original and one of the best.
"Realistic Figure Drawing" by Sheppard
"Water Dance" by Schatz . BEST pics of underwater nudes!
"Illustrator's Reference Manual Nudes". Chartwell Books. Every shot from 8 angles.
"The Nude Figure" by Smith
"The Figure in Motion" by Easley
"Figure Drawing" by Goldstein
"Anatomy of Movement" by Calais-Germain. Excellent work with clear sketches.

And anything I can glean online , usually of nude athletes or dancers.

[arne97]

Question:

I'm a sculptor and there are few suggestions for reference head widths. Most interested in those of women.

Suggestions? Comments?

[Amir the night wolf]

God damn cool Thread !! i didnt know this was here in CA !!

Naomi thanX for the pictures and links :) I might draw you :D but the picture is not in good quality :( Oww well back to drawing :) keep it up guys :)

[George Abraham]

This site has some incredibly large free pic's. Just browse their free sections.

http://purelymag.com/index/

[panic_attack]

hey, great topic, thanks all.

just want to know, if someone maybe know, is there some pictures of falling people (poses)? dont know how to say it in english, like upside down poses. or even landing on the ground, but to feel that move. i hope you got it.

it will be great if it's nude, but doesnt have to.

[George Abraham]

I used a funny trick with a downloader tool a while ago and downloaded all the photo links on this page. More than enough erotic and tastefull art type nudes here.

http://www.kefk.net/fotografie/galerie/Website/Inhalt/index.asp

Here is another, a bit of a porn site but it's erotic art nude section is huge. The reason I am posting this one is because of the ease of navigation that is really helpfull.

http://photos.boobdex.com/?special=preview

[George Abraham]

Some of my favourite gif animations illustrating simple breast movement.

I wish I had an original high quality versions but they are good enough to catch the basics and also the most tastefull(Not to mention hypnotic, male DNA trick Hehehe!!)

A gif animator tool could be used to view them frame for frame or at a slower rate.

Z

[Eon]

Pretty nice collection of "pretty women" body shapes, though if you know where you found it and who made it, crediting them would be good -- I'm sure someone put alot of work into collecting all those images.

They're from a Japanese photographer called Akira Gomi. He also did a series of these with Asian models. Pretty damn useful for us artists.

[Elisabet Y.A.]

This is the most wonderful thread I have ever come across in my life :D

[Zergaloth]

http://www.naked-people.de/001.html

it's great. 24 people pictured with and without clothes.
i thought this was interesting...

[LORD M]

I like these photos, and the girl. On these kinda athletic girls you can see the muscles much better and the light-play helps as well, which is very good when trying to do studies.

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/9184/wenonabysitamae.jpg
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/6467/wenonaiiibysitamae.jpg
http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/3498/wenonaiibysitamae.jpg

[Naomi Ningishzidda]

NICE

makes me want to go to the gym :(

[LORD M]

NICE

makes me want to go to the gym :(

Sure does.

Oh and if anyone is intressted in more, go to deviantart and search for Wenona. :)

[Naomi Ningishzidda]

Alright

I found out something today. "Gym" bod models are not as appealing (to me) as "athlete bod" models

Gym bod guys look like they have tits and everything just doesn't look natural...

Anyways I was searching hardcore for a certain pose, happened upon two very different sites, one of mostly professional male models - a fair assortment of unusual stock images, and an amateur site with a delightful array of varied body types.

More guy references, please, people...QUALITY

http://justbeautifulmen.blogspot.com/

http://www.ipostnaked.com/user/category/amateur.php

[Hybrid_75]

I gotta say that athletic male reference is difficult to find, especially when you're a dude and it's not something you really want to look for :p. Cheers Naomi for posting that they are pretty good. Neutral poses have gotta be the hardest to find, in terms of free stuff. I just mention that because I've looked for neutral poses (multiple views of the same pose) for anatomical digital sculpts. having said that I havn't properly searched this thread, so the point may be moot.

[Naomi Ningishzidda]

Hybrid, good to see you

well I am looking for an arrogant looking pose, his head held high, a bit of a low perspective and hopefully with one arm raised, and no boob-pecs. I am almost sure i will have to build the anatomy to spec or take ref of myself.

I havn't exhausted sculptural reference though, there are some pretty good Greek statues with normal anatomy.

The blog I posted "Just Beautiful Men" can be either obnoxious or silly, depending on your mood at the moment. But I did find more than a dozen useful photos. And as well, it's pg-13

Most of this thread happens to be skinny female models and bodybuilders I think - it's been a while since I sifted through it. I try to keep up with it all as it goes along.

I'd like to find a good greek and roman statuary site, if the ARC doesn't have them all in one place someone could compile a list

[Naomi Ningishzidda]

i went through Davi's old posts and found that aside from the great vintage stuff at the top, this sketchgroup had the best quality stuff:

http://mchester.best.vwh.net/draw/calendar.html

thank god for gay men

[Hybrid_75]

i went through Davi's old posts and found that aside from the great vintage stuff at the top, this sketchgroup had the best quality stuff:

http://mchester.best.vwh.net/draw/calendar.html

thank god for gay men

Haha, indeed! that is a good site.

[George Abraham]

Hi

If like me you don't have access to live models, good video for some reason works better than snaps. If you can get hold of some HD Met-Art they are good without being degrading or vulgar. They often offer the best lighting for study. Just hit the pause and you have a pose, the plus side is you get to study motion, gravity, rythm etc..

I think the brain snaps to a 3d view in order to understand animation like this, when you hit the pause the effects or mindset linger for a while.

There are also some stereoscopic pics on the net, that is also a quick way to notice just how bad a 2D image is for study, looking for bulk shapes, perspective etc. Breasts is the obvious example, compare the feel and idea of a bulk 3d shape with the 2D outline mental mode a normal photograph puts you in. It sucks. Those are closer than they appear to be. :)

Here is some free high quality ones I have found. Click for larger original.
http://thumb.dumparump.com/176/Q7t5b0q.jpg (http://www.dumparump.com/view.php?id=Q7t5b0q)

http://thumb.dumparump.com/176/02RtNKh.jpg (http://www.dumparump.com/view.php?id=02RtNKh)

[Raoul Duke]

hey, great topic, thanks all.

just want to know, if someone maybe know, is there some pictures of falling people (poses)? dont know how to say it in english, like upside down poses. or even landing on the ground, but to feel that move. i hope you got it.

it will be great if it's nude, but doesnt have to.

I have been looking for the same thing. It's especially difficult for me because I'm looking for a tasteful birds eye view. but the closest I can do is improvise some raunch.:lifedrawing: I'm too proud to sink to that level though. I'm talking to you Naomi! (freakin perv)

[George Abraham]

Best is to freeze frame video's for motion capture poses, but I don't know of any nudies that will have falling, losing balance or strange behaviors. If you subscribe with 3d.sk or any of those, they are incredibly open to new suggestion. when I was with them quite a while back I suggested the skeleton and to use lighting here and there that put's more emphasis on form, a week or two later those stuffs have been put in there. I subscribed for a month back then and downloaded everything they had. Good luck trying that now, they are HUGE, and I never got the skeleton. Darn.

You will have to use normal footage and use your X-ray vision.

[Naomi Ningishzidda]

I have been looking for the same thing. It's especially difficult for me because I'm looking for a tasteful birds eye view. but the closest I can do is improvise some raunch.:lifedrawing: I'm too proud to sink to that level though. I'm talking to you Naomi! (freakin perv)

well if you are referring to my hentai I concur to the title

but if the process of using porno images I see nothing spectacular about it - most pornography just fails to amaze my vagina these days as opposed to a good quantum physics paper - yum :yum:

although I admit to te term "perv"

in visiting this thread I would like to relate I am taking a series of nude photos with clamp lamps for lighting for a big project I'm having problems finding female ref for, so if anyone has a need for a couple of photos of a certain pose I can attempt to provide them. I may even use my backyard for the project if I warn my neighbor or use the goth club solution of electric tape pasties and g string.

[George Abraham]

The best I found so far.

Dudes sharing what they have baught. Not to sure weather it's the most legal option but it's a good way for someone to see what femjoy has to offer or what their video footage are like. Maybe promotion will make up for it as I'm sure they would love to become an artist favorite as they too are trying desperately to try and make money while not having to become a smut factory as some of those models end up as.

http://www.forumophilia.com/topic89319.html

There is good studio like shoots, outdoor shoots; some have excellent movement poses and lighting etc. There's even one running with a soccer ball etc. You might have to do some digging for body types that have good anatomic definition but there are some.

Next up for me is digging HD sites for sport. Ice scating, gymnastics and boxing. I'm sure my mind can remove a little thread of clothing by now. From what I noticed in here, boxing has the best potential for getting the male stuff, fast.

[Phegaseus]

Oh GOD.... i'm happy being an artist LOL

[Dorkthrone]

The best I found so far.

Dudes sharing what they have baught. Not to sure weather it's the most legal option but it's a good way for someone to see what femjoy has to offer or what their video footage are like. Maybe promotion will make up for it as I'm sure they would love to become an artist favorite as they too are trying desperately to try and make money while not having to become a smut factory as some of those models end up as.

http://www.forumophilia.com/topic89319.html

There is good studio like shoots, outdoor shoots; some have excellent movement poses and lighting etc. There's even one running with a soccer ball etc. You might have to do some digging for body types that have good anatomic definition but there are some.

Next up for me is digging HD sites for sport. Ice scating, gymnastics and boxing. I'm sure my mind can remove a little thread of clothing by now. From what I noticed in here, boxing has the best potential for getting the male stuff, fast.

I'm not entirely sure that a site called Porn Forum would be the best idea for reference, but I've seen some Femjoy stuff and it's surprisingly good reference.

[George Abraham]

Yes, I'm afraid those get slotted in with the porn and I'm afraid those forums are hosting pirated material. You get sites that host the free low quality but still uber usable stuff for free. The supersized poster versions are not. You get free preview video clips too.

It's actually erotic art, there are a couple I would slot here.
Femjoy(More older woman or oft more fully formed volumed bodies)
Met-art(Most erotic teen-art, the formy woman are a tad on the short side)
Hegre art

The movement in their clips are usually good and they have little or none of that magazine shoot lighting setups with front reflectors and crap, mostly the lighting they use are natural lighting. Sometimes you even get shoots in an art setup or model-painter setup where the whole display is draped in monotone cloth.

I have a few of the clips and those are enough, I earned those for promoting them into the art world where they are most usefull where they might get more clients with a more professional attitude and one that might boost the morale of what they do a little to keep them from falling into the smutt pit, you will have to pay for yours. MWAHAHAHA!! Just joking. Piracy is bad. Give them some money to buy some, umm... jewelry.

I would have deleted my post but it's already quoted.
Mods.

[Angel Intheuk]

Porn, featuring predominantly girls, isn't the nicest thing for a hetero female to look at when following links for nude reference so I appreciated the male ones for a change. Thanks Naomi :)

I would like to contribute a fetish site I found [http://www.martinperreault.com/index2.html]- it's probably up on this thread but I've not had time to look. he does really dynamic photos and it's perfect for rendering rubber/robot skins etc, also useful to see how the human form is changed when wearing something tight.

Hope it's useful to someone :D

[mattbert]

Lots of outdoor nudes at this site, mainly free galleries from Femjoy, Met-Art, Hegre, etc.

http://www.naturegirls.com/natural-nude-girls

A few of my favorites:
http://www.naturegirls.com/galleries/femjoy/julia-kreuzberge/slides/001.shtml
http://www.naturegirls.com/galleries/met-art/presenting-nikol/slides/met-art_VIL_2_7.shtml
http://www.naturegirls.com/galleries/domai/sampler01/slides/zulfija-0188a.shtml

[Dorkthrone]

Angel, I don't think your link works.

The last link is alright, but I kinda wish there were more artistic pieces.

[George Abraham]

I went into a porn or adult store yesterday with the hopes of finding some of those old Perfect 10 mags that have good full body pictures If I remember correctly, but they didn't have.

I like working from hardcopy better, perhaps if I invest in a dual monitor setup.

Stuff that I did find was good nude male books one was called something black and the other was old photo collections from 17XX-18XX but they where expensive. They didn't have the same for female's, only the same old polish. But on my way out I did notice something... There is a fat fettish going on, there was a section of magazines that features fat woman.

Didn't buy any but I might pick up a copy or two later.. I doubt if there's anything out there that will beat fat nudie mags.. When it comes to studying lipo that is.

[Dorkthrone]

This site has probably already been mentioned, but the shots are just FANTASTIC:
http://www.san-francisco-nudes.com (http://www.san-francisco-nudes.com/perSession.htm)

[JordyLakiere]

http://www.nudistfun.com/archive/index.html

This site here has TONS of pictures, all nude. Seems like this is anatomical heaven.
Some B&W, most color pictures, there's almost litterally endless amounts here. People doing all kindsa stuff: from regular poses and movements to playing guitar, violin, shooting bow and arrow and stuff to name a few. Only downside is some or most of them aren't spectacular quality/resolution. :)

(Sorry if this post has already been posted!)

[RyanSC]

not sure if this was posted or not

http://characterdesigns.com/index.php?sitepage=photosets

[inmygucci]

http://www.vampress.net/bettie/nudes.html

i love this and use it all the time!!

[Dorkthrone]

not sure if this was posted or not

http://characterdesigns.com/index.php?sitepage=photosets

It probably has, but it's definitely worth looking at.

I'm not sure GirlTime is really an artistic site.

[Cranberry]

Thanks for the great links :) Should keep me busy for a while

[Arshes Nei]

Besides the ones that are linked on fineart.sk are there anymore ones with different ethnicity and body types? No offense, kinda tired of all the Whites and I know Blacks are 10% of the population but looks like only 1% of the thread? I know certain ethnic groups may be harder to find due to customs, laws but I'd really like to know if some have encountered some good ref sites that have them of different body types (males too!)

Thanks!

Oops forgot to add in this link I had a while back from a keyword search in Flickr. Found some nice interesting girls from Africa participating in the Dipo ceremony.

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=dipo+ceremony

[Sebastard]

A veritable goldmine, this thread. Thank you for the links as well as thanks to those who contributed personally with pictures of themselves. I'd return the favour but i'm a bit iffy about showing face :P. Plus, there are enough photos of athletic, young caucasian males out there.

[Loathsome]

This place needs a lot more males

[Dorkthrone]

This place needs a lot more males

CharacterDesigns just posted an excellent photoset of males.
http://characterdesigns.com/index.php?sitepage=photosets

It's number 36, i think.

[Imaginary]

Have a load of male ref but i dunno if should upload it, the gallery where i got em from got taken down and i don't think he'd do that if he wanted people to still take part of em. :|

Some of the links in the link below works, some useful ones.

http://telophase.livejournal.com/1062241.html

[KYHighlander]

I like these photos, and the girl. On these kinda athletic girls you can see the muscles much better and the light-play helps as well, which is very good when trying to do studies.

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/9184/wenonabysitamae.jpg
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/6467/wenonaiiibysitamae.jpg
http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/3498/wenonaiibysitamae.jpg

Now this is the type of photos I am looking for. got any urls where more of these can be looted?

KY

[KYHighlander]

Ok I found a fantastic one by following the artist that did the above photos.

http://lebeckerotica.com/

Lots of B&W, perfect for sketching.

[KYHighlander]

http://www.moreystudio.com/Public%20Site/Gallery-htdocs/gallery1.html

is a fantastic source I found tonight.

[vasherai]

Thank you everyone for posting reference!

[LORD M]

Now this is the type of photos I am looking for. got any urls where more of these can be looted?

KY

Go to deviantart.com and search for Wenona, there's LOADS of photos on her. :)

[surus]

Thanks to eeryone who posted Links!

Some othe I found at deviant:

(most of them are only accessible with an account 18+)

male:
http://felixdeon.deviantart.com/gallery/


female:
http://orphaned-luna.deviantart.com/gallery/#Artistic-nudes-stock
http://thist166.deviantart.com/gallery/
http://jaybird-stock.deviantart.com/gallery/
http://lina-tsu.deviantart.com/gallery/
http://erieye-stock.deviantart.com/gallery/
http://linderel.deviantart.com/gallery/#Nude-stock
http://chamberstock.deviantart.com/gallery/
http://lockstock.deviantart.com/gallery/
http://elladreams.deviantart.com/gallery/
http://skydancer-stock.deviantart.com/gallery/
http://mucicamacicastock.deviantart.com/gallery/
http://gracies-stock.deviantart.com/gallery/#Female-Nude
http://photoscot.deviantart.com/gallery/
http://almudena-stock.deviantart.com/gallery/
http://trickleicklestock.deviantart.com/gallery/
http://m0rbidmorgaine.deviantart.com/gallery/
http://mjranum-stock.deviantart.com/gallery/

[KingElvis]

http://floridacurves.blogspot.com/

Really interesting fitness site. Mostly females.
The poses tend to get boring over time, tho. But the anatomy is really nice.

[surus]

50ies female reference usable for gesture drawing:

http://uncleeddiestheorycorner.blogspot.com/2007/05/more-life-drawing-reference.html

Sport, females, details:
http://uncleeddiestheorycorner.blogspot.com/2007/04/my-favorite-artists-model-book.html

[surus]

male

http://karenswhimsy.com/male-figure-photography.shtm

female

http://karenswhimsy.com/female-figure-photography.shtm

[kyubisharingan]

www.babes.cc

^^^ Females :)

[surus]

krisCrash posted this great tool in a Spartan Camp Thread.

http://www.pixelovely.com/tools/gesture.html

It contains men, women, nude, clothed and even animals in a timeframe like posemaniacs. Use the 30 sec-frame and you'll get better in a faster way! I mean it!

[civichbca91]

krisCrash posted this great tool in a Spartan Camp Thread.

http://www.pixelovely.com/tools/gesture.html

It contains men, women, nude, clothed and even animals in a timeframe like posemaniacs. Use the 30 sec-frame and you'll get better in a faster way! I mean it!

Amazing! Thank for this find it is very helpful.

[Bicnarok]

this is an exellent site full of photos for resource.

http://www.photoforum.ru/photos.0.42.0.0.0.award.desc.a.0.0.0.0.0.0.1.en.ht ml

[ikuru]

Nice thread, although I see allot of erotic posing going on... Is there any T-pose material here that I missed? Thanks.

[ivan gregor]

www.posespace.com you can see turnaround of every pose(natural model)

[surus]

@ ikuru: What do you mean? (T-pose)

The 3d.sk Websites got updated and you can find some new free reference photos in high resolution for drawing, sculpting and so on. Direct links to the free sample subsites:

http://www.human-anatomy-for-artist.com/photos/freeSample

http://female-anatomy-for-artist.com/photos/freeSample

http://www.photo-reference-for-comic-artists.com/?id=15

http://www.3d.sk/photos/freeSample

http://www.environment-textures.com/?id=15

Here you'll find some skulls:
http://www.darkstormcreative.com/?p=296

And now: Have fun drawing some of them!

[surus]

Is the thread still alive?

http://gbeepastelart.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2011-01-22T06:23:00-08:00&max-results=7

has some figure drawing reference photographs.

[ikuru]

@ ikuru: What do you mean? (T-pose)



a t-pose is a person posing in a "T" arms streched out. :)