My number one reference is porn, no joke. I've tried Posemaniacs and such. There's something so bizarrely stiff and inhuman about those 3D models that I don't find it particularly helpful. I don't particularly like stock photos either, because... well, photos. They're one-dimensional. If you want to re-position limbs you have to use your imagination because photos (even a series of photos) only provide so much information.
I dig porn as a reference because it's helpful to see the same body from all angles. Allllll the annnglllesss LOLOLOLOL WINK WINK
No but seriously, porn is so fake and totally lame that I find it easy to view it, uh, objectively? Is that the right word? Y'know, just mute the volume and draw. The only problem with porn is that... it's... inappropriate and awkward? Like, I can't be sitting in class with that shit all up on my PC screen, y'know. There's gotta be some kind of rule against that. But there probably isn't, now that I think about it. Art students, jeez, haha.
I wish there was a website out there that just has videos of naked people, like, stretching and puttering about a room. :'C
So the point of this journal IS - *drumroll* - WTF do you guys use to reference anatomy? Full-body stuff. Posemaniacs, anatomy books, stock photos, skin flicks (I can't be the ONLY person out there who does this) - OTHER? What is the other? Is there other? Please instill whatever wisdom and/or advice you can offer. And you know I am just straight-up curious as to what other people reference.













