Does anybody know a website that has pictures of various human poses for referencing? The poses could be anything general, like standing, running, sitting, riding vehicles (motorcycle, bicycle), or hand poses for gripping gun, swords, tools, etc.

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www.female-anatomy-for-artist.com is a great site. It's the sister site to www.3d.sk so the quality is very good.

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You can get lots of source photos for free by visiting the various photography/art communities where members keep galleries.

Awesome links! Just what I was looking for. Thanks alot.

Attached Link: http://www.virtualpose.net/

There are also a series of books called 'Virtual Pose #' where '#' is 1, 2, etc. They come with a large number of reference photos and a CD. Their web site is at the link.

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You don't want to forget about books if you want a resource you plan to use a lot. Even my poorly-stocked local bookstores have quite a few artist reference books. If you're looking for specific themes, it might be a cheaper and eaiser-to-use alternative (and might even come in cheap versions at Amazon.com).

If you can find it:

The Illustrators Figure Reference Manual
ISBN: 0-7475-0008-8
Publisher: Bloomsbury 1987-1989

This site http://isbndb.com/ (theres no WWW in the url)
looks a place to start.

Shows a person in one pose, and photos taken from 21 different angles.

Just checked this book is avaliable at amazon from $20.

Message edited on: 07/16/2005 19:04

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Why not try a google search for modeling sites? You can always reference the poses that way. Also look for celebrity sites, or fan sites for celebrities. You can often find some nice poses that way. Then there is the old fashioned junk mail flyers that come to your door, or online catalogues for clothing.

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"Why not try a google search for modeling sites?"

That's what I've been doing so far to find the pose. However, it takes quite a bit of time trying to search for that right pose and the angle of the picture. I usually end up spending majority of time searching because I am kind of picky about this. That's why I was asking for the website that hosts reference pictures so I can quickly search by the index or titles.

And thanks to you all for helping me out, those links are very useful, and I'll be sure to look into those reference books also.