Your absolute essential reference material?

PHIllstead · May 2014

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 · May 2014

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 · May 2014

[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 · May 2014

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 · May 2014

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 · May 2014

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 · May 2014

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.

Your absolute essential reference material?

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