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Comic Artist's Photo Reference - People & Poses: Book/CD Set with 1000+ Color Images
Supercharge your drawings with the power of photo reference!
Almost every professional comic artist uses photo reference. Finding really good photo reference is crucial to capturing accurate lighting, foreshortening and body language in your drawings. Sure, you can surf the 'net or flip through catalogs to find a few poses . . . or consult generic photo reference books with static poses and flat lighting. But to draw a character consistently and convincingly over an entire issue or series, you need a serious reference library.
You're holding in your hands over 1,100 awesome-quality, color photos?500+ in the book and 600+ on the CD-ROM?all created specifically for you, the professional or aspiring comic artist.
Inside you'll
Unless you have a team of superheroes willing to pose for you, Comic Artist's Photo People and Poses will be the most important tool in your photo reference library. Get started today drawing the pictures that will launch or advance your comic book career!
Almost every professional comic artist uses photo reference. Finding really good photo reference is crucial to capturing accurate lighting, foreshortening and body language in your drawings. Sure, you can surf the 'net or flip through catalogs to find a few poses . . . or consult generic photo reference books with static poses and flat lighting. But to draw a character consistently and convincingly over an entire issue or series, you need a serious reference library.
You're holding in your hands over 1,100 awesome-quality, color photos?500+ in the book and 600+ on the CD-ROM?all created specifically for you, the professional or aspiring comic artist.
Inside you'll
Unless you have a team of superheroes willing to pose for you, Comic Artist's Photo People and Poses will be the most important tool in your photo reference library. Get started today drawing the pictures that will launch or advance your comic book career!
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144 pages, Paperback
First published May 10, 2006
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June 15, 2011
Very useful drawing reference with a reasonable variety of poses. The book is organized around a handful of models of varying body types and each model will do a series of poses around a theme (fighting, injured etc.)
One drawback I've found is that the accompanying CD contains a few but not all of the poses in the paper book. So if you're playing with ideas for layout, etc, it can be frustrating to look through the images on CD (the interface is a little bit clunky), end up not finding the image and then have to scan it from the book.
But all in all, it's very useful. I have the men/boy and women/girls volumes as well and if there was ever an expanded issues with more poses I would buy it.
One drawback I've found is that the accompanying CD contains a few but not all of the poses in the paper book. So if you're playing with ideas for layout, etc, it can be frustrating to look through the images on CD (the interface is a little bit clunky), end up not finding the image and then have to scan it from the book.
But all in all, it's very useful. I have the men/boy and women/girls volumes as well and if there was ever an expanded issues with more poses I would buy it.
January 3, 2009
I would add another star but I can't draw well enough to use this yet!
January 8, 2009
Great book with a great cd with different poses. My husband uses this reference often in his artwork.
October 27, 2010
An awesome reference for artists looking to draw comics or pictures of people in dynamic poses.
August 14, 2012
Now this is a fantastic book but what i don't like is the way its laid out and how small the images are, but the fact they provide digital copies is fantastic. Not the best book in the world but it sure is helpful and not that bad!
April 13, 2016
Not only in the book but also a disc and website links for a number of poses without the expense of a live model. A must for every comic and live artist library.
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