Your absolute essential reference material?

PHIllstead

Hey everyone!

Now that I've got some money from working, I'm looking to pick up some nice art books that I've been missing out on.

So I was curious to know what you consider absolutely essential reference material, your favorite reference book, or your favorite inspirational art books?

For me personally, I always find myself coming back to Michael Hampton's Figure Drawing: Design and Invention. I feel like its so necessary for me when I sculpt.

You can find it on amazon here: [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Figure-Drawing-Invention-Michael-Hampton/dp/0615272819"]Figure Drawing: Design and Invention: Michael Hampton: 9780615272818: Amazon.com: Books[/ame]

So what do you like to look at? If you can post amazon links to, that would be great too!

Gestalt

I'm not sure about 'essential' seeing as I just found out about it, but anatomy4sculptors seems like it'd be a useful site. http://anatomy4sculptors.com/

Envart

[ame="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dynamic-Wrinkles-Drapery-Solutions-Practical/dp/0823015874"]Dynamic Wrinkles and Drapery: Solutions for Drawing the Clothed Figure Practical Art Books: Amazon.co.uk: Burne Hogarth: Books[/ame]

This is a gold mine of info if you're at all interested in cloth sculpting.

iconoplast

Walrus wrote: »

Dynamic Wrinkles and Drapery: Solutions for Drawing the Clothed Figure Practical Art Books: Amazon.co.uk: Burne Hogarth: Books

This is a gold mine of info if you're at all interested in cloth sculpting.

That book looks interesting, but I can't unsee that the guy on the front cover is posed as a swastika.

ExcessiveZero

iconoplast wrote: »

That book looks interesting, but I can't unsee that the guy on the front cover is posed as a swastika.

Holy shit, Cannot unsee!

Anthony

I once remember finding a website that had really hi-res pictures on it, but i can't exactly remember the name of the site, but i do remember that it seemed to be aimed at Zbrush users, but i can't find the site anymore.

But there are loads out there besides. These are the most prominant:

3d.sk
humanan-atomy-for-artist.com
female-anatomy-for-artist.com
posespace.com this last one also apparently has dvd sets available (and one that has over 800 21 megapixel images, which is also available on amazon)

PHIllstead

Walrus wrote: »

Dynamic Wrinkles and Drapery: Solutions for Drawing the Clothed Figure Practical Art Books: Amazon.co.uk: Burne Hogarth: Books

This is a gold mine of info if you're at all interested in cloth sculpting.

A classic! Definitely gonna be picking it up.

Anthony wrote: »

I once remember finding a website that had really hi-res pictures on it, but i can't exactly remember the name of the site, but i do remember that it seemed to be aimed at Zbrush users, but i can't find the site anymore.

But there are loads out there besides. These are the most prominant:

3d.sk
humanan-atomy-for-artist.com
female-anatomy-for-artist.com
posespace.com this last one also apparently has dvd sets available (and one that has over 800 21 megapixel images, which is also available on amazon)

I did not know about posespace, seems like an awesome resource.

For my figure drawing how-tos and needs, I generally just refer to http://www.proko.com/ for some awesome videos on how to approach figure drawing, and then I use http://artists.pixelovely.com/ for my actual drawing needs, but it seems like posespace has some awesome high quality images.