#adorkastock

[adorkastock]

The way I figure it, y'all Ghoul fanartists are gonna need this un.

[vulcan-moon]

cringetober day 7: pinterest art base. i didn't want to use smth i couldnt source and wanted an excuse to draw the angel design again, so! some poses from @adorkastock

[jellymish-art]

Prompts time! Had a couple requests for Lady Sybil! And then I added Vimes! And then it got rather romantic <3

I like to think this is just after they get back home, after some sort of official to-do (I imagine the helmet with plumes and the wig are discarded somewhere in a corner XD)

@stuffbyshelby2 and @koncussionkat, thanks for the Sybil prompts!

Annnd references: - for drawing no. 1 by @adorkastock - for drawing no. 2 by The Pose Archives

[affinitystoryblog]

i saw @adorkastock post this beautiful reference for fairy folk and such and i knew i had to draw sinie with penelope!

i perhaps should have drawn sinie's long hair because she technically doesnt cut it until book 2, but oh well we can imagine this is any scenario instead of a first meeting haha

penelope closeup

original pose reference under the cut

[the9mm]

Doing an art trade with the N author of N.A. Soliel of her character Redd! She's the MC in the book Everdark. Oh yeah, and I used mirror refs from @adorkastock

[emeraldhazeidentity]

I'm so happy with how this came out!!

Drawn using one of these reference poses from @adorkastock

Dream belongs to @jokublog

[alyxinfact]

[clowntoclown-communication]

They're his protection squad :]

@adorkastock thanks for the reference, I really need to get better at using photo reference :]

[phoenixiancrystallist]

Month 12, day 30

Got some good shrike references for Shriek and scribbled a couple new poses :)

Forgot to mention last time but pose references are from the awesome @adorkastock

Shrike references are stolen from Duck Duck Go

[postitonasketchbook]

What’s a dnd character without a sad backstory

Pose: @adorkastock

[lucylyall]

Inktober 15: Dagger

Using a pose reference from @adorkastock

[adorkastock]

Just water things 🌊

[zoriwuff]

another sketch idk if i will finish but i am forcing myself to post anything i draw before i close the canvas. fursona booty!!

ty for the pose @adorkastock!!! i need to try new poses more often!

[soursavior]

Hello, here is an art I made that I'm proud of. I put it on my print store so I could order my own copy

[mitaukanoarts]

I am feeling very artistically in a werid place, so I drew some faves, including this horny ass Cassandra Cain and Stephanie Brown picture.

Also I used @adorkastock to hell for this one. They always post good stuff, I also took liberties with the pose.

[thechekhov]

I was trying to study buff anatomy, I was using pinterest, but then it started showing up some baka drawings and weird photoshopped photos and it makes me really uncomfortable. Do you know any site I could use to study that has at least an option to show only safe for work images?

Anon, I think I understand what you're asking but I just need to confirm one thing...

....bara?

Did you possibly mean bara drawings???

If you did indeed mean that you don't want to potentially be flipping through mildly sexual bara images and bad photoshop jobs wherein dudes give themselves too many abs to compensate for a lack of personality, then perhaps I might be able to help!

Keep in mind that if you want to study musculature and anatomy, you may need to put up with nudity no matter what. And no matter what way you spin it, many nude anatomy studies may be classified as 'nsfw' because unless you work in an art studio...... yes, it WILL be not safe for work, even if it's not sexual.

My first piece of advice - stop using Pinterest.

It's a good tool for collecting images, yes, but it will not be an adequate teacher for this sort of thing. It may also give you references which are not entirely realistic. Of course, un-realistic art and exaggeration in art are fine! But as a baseline to learn from, it isn't good.

Second - if you're looking for poses to reference for art, check out AdorkaStock, a long-time, famous photo-reference account that has thousands of human references for free!

Third... If you're looking specifically for BUFF references, it's going to be better to look for actors or famous people who you KNOW are well-muscled instead of searching for a random 'big buff guy' online.

For example, think of an actor you consider 'buff'. Search via google for candid photos of him - with safe search on. Chances are, you can get some references which are not uncomfortable for you.

Look, here's one of Jason Momoa!

For a beginner artist, this may be enough! You don't have to draw every single muscle bulging to give the idea to your viewers that a person is ripped. The proportions of his shoulders, the wideness of his arms, etc, is already enough, and it will go a LONG way to visually suggesting muscles than a rob liefield lookalike.

For anything more than that, you'll need to get comfortable with seeing people naked, or almost-naked, and simply seek out photos of athletes with the type of body you want to draw! Swimmers, triathletes, football players and rock climbers are all 'buff' but in different ways. Looking through photos of these athletes may give you a better idea of the variety that's out there.

And for any other anatomy lessons, I do recommend YouTube because there are many art teachers who offer their advice for free. For example this guy, who explains anatomical bone and muscle groups to help your illustration!