#Poser for drawing how to#
#Poser for drawing series#

If you want something more realistic, there are the Virtual Pose books, with photographs of actual models in a multitude of poses (image above, bottom right). This is a good site to bookmark and stop by to do a quick sketch every day, as well as a useful reference if you’re looking for a particular pose and don’t have the time or resources to set up your own manikin, virtual or otherwise. There is a featured pose of the day, a “ 30 Second Drawing” feature that gives you a sequence of poses that change every 30 seconds, sort of virtual croquis, a “ Negative Space Drawing” that gives you a figure in silhouette, and a “ Random Pose“, that you can click to advance to the next choice at your leisure. You can see all Poses, sort by Tags or Topics. The site is largely in Japanese, but there are some alternate words in English, particularly in the navigation at the top left or the pages, and the links under the poses that allow you to choose between opening them in the main window or as a pop-up. Most of them are 3-D spins that you can turn on an axis by dragging your mouse others are animated sequences that you can click and drag to cycle forward or backward, enabling you to look for a pose as close as possible to what you need. The figures, both male and female, are rendered with superficial musculature visible, which both helps in learning anatomy and neatly sidesteps any questions of propriety (image above, top).

#Poser for drawing series#

You’re still talking about $80 or so, inexpensive if you use it a lot, but a bit much for a casual user who just wants to sketch the figure in various poses once in a while, without hiring a model or going through tons of photographic reference looking for a particular pose.Įnter Pose Maniacs, a Japanese web site in which a series of images have been posted (and continue to be added to) of virtual figures in a number of positions. Poser has since developed into a consumer-level app for rendering figures in digital compositions, and is overkill for the original purpose as a virtual manikin, but eFrontier has come out with a less expensive version called Poser Figure Artist ( Amazon link) just for that purpose (image above, bottom, left). Several years ago, a computer program called Poser was created to act as a virtual artist’s manikin. You can even get them for drawing animals. Buck, that look more look actual human figures, male and female, and are articulated more fully. The basic wooden manikins never seem to move far enough, and the shapes are pretty rudimentary, but there are now more sophisticated versions, like these from Art S.

This site is here to serve.Most artists who are involved in inventing figures have seen, and probably used, manikins, posable wooden figures about the size of Barbie dolls, that can be used as stand-ins for live models or photographic reference. There’s nothing wrong with being indecisive or lazy. Or perhaps you are a seasoned veteran, but you can’t decide which pose to use or you are just lazy. Should you be relatively new to drawing anime and need some help with making sure things are in the right place, we’ll make sure those limbs are the right length. Regardless for why you are here, we got you. But if you like the site, why keep it to yourself? Maybe someone else could use a little help with figuring out their poses. This is an educational tool so there’s no need to give credit.

I go find the cool poses and then I sketch the reference frameworks myself to save you the trouble. The whole point of this site is to have easy to copy/reference frameworks for poses so you can get on with it. Girl/female and Boy/male sections should also be self explanatory.

Sitting anime poses are obviously characters sitting.Action anime poses are poses that are more dynamic in nature, so think odd camera angles or limbs in all kinds of random positions.Fighting anime poses will be poses that could incorporate props like swords, guns, or even pool noodles the only limitation is your imagination.Sexy anime poses will feature suggestive and/or NSFW poses.Cute anime poses will feature classic or “neutral” poses.This site is dedicated to the curation of every anime pose known to humanity and repackaging it in a user friendly format.

#Poser for drawing how to#

Welcome to Anime Reference Poses, the one stop shop for helping you decide what or how to draw your anime art.