Scott Eaton’s Bodies in Motion Reference Library
One of my all time favorite anatomy references is this handy dandy little webpage here. More than 750+ male and female photos in sequence? check. Outstanding b/w lighting on all of them? check. All SFW images but enough skin showing where the muscle placement is? check. Contortion, fencing, parkour and other poses included? checkity-check.
All of that for free? Aw yeah.
Go take a look around. ;D
extremely yes
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Bunka Gakuen Costume Museum
There are many tutorials out in the wild that attempt to address the Photoshop “Save for Web” colour shift problem that many artists and web designers run into. However, a disproportionate number of these do so with half-baked workarounds that only “fix” the problem on content creator computers, while exacerbating the issue for their audience.
In this tutorial, I try to demonstrate how colour profiles affect image appearance on different browser types, and how best to make content look as good as it can on as many displays as possible from Photoshop. Don’t expect a comprehensive writeup about colour management - there are more authoritative treatises you can check out for that (start here: http://www.gballard.net/psd.html)
While I don’t proclaim to be an expert, I feel that I have done enough research and my own experiments to make the assessments I do on this tutorial. Regardless, I welcome any corrections from those of you who are more knowledgeable in the subject.
If you’ve ever had cause to throw furniture through windows because that painting you just spent a chunk of your life on looks all wrong when viewed on every other monitor display or browser, this might help.
Color profiles are a black art even among digital artists, it seems, but this is the most comprehensive thing I’ve seen explaining why colors shift and what to do about it.
The Human Figure: An Anatomy For Artists by David K. Rubins
The pages don’t come coloured, I borrowed my room mates book to scan in. I did some studies in paintchat awhile back hope to do more sometime.
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“Spiral One”
By Camereon
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Devil’s Bridge
Kromlauer Park is a gothic style, 200-acre country park in the municipality of Kromlau in the Görlitz Gablenzgasse district in Germany. An incredible attraction of the park is the Rakotzbrücke, more popularly known as Devil’s Bridge.
The impressive arch bridge was built around 1860. During its construction, other peculiar rock formations were built on the lake and in the park. Devil’s Bridge is no longer open to the public to ensure its preservation. A unique feature of the bridge is that its reflection on the water’s surface creates a flawless circle, regardless of which side is being viewed.
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The MET has got some wonderful, fully illustrated textbooks that are available online for free! (X)
DOWNLOAD
- Art of the Islamic World
- The Art of Africa
- The Art of Ancient Egypt
- The Art of the Ancient Near East
- The Art of Renaissance Europe
- The Art of South and Southeast Asia
- The Arts of Korea
- Auguste Rodin: The Burghers of Calais
- Greek Art from Prehistoric to Classical
- Islamic Art and Geometric Design: Activities for Learning
- A Masterwork of Byzantine Art — The Story of David and Goliath
- Medieval Art
- Nature Within Walls: The Chinese Garden Court at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Roman Art
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