Reference general

>>2672241
This shit annoys the fuck out of me. If it existed before 1950 it has to just be fucking brown and gray.

Especially older designs such as >>2672454 The dyes they would have had were incredibly vibrant and strong. But for some fucking easy everything is sepia.

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>>2672503
The Tutors show had some pretty vibrant costumes if you're interested in that.

>>2672520
that red is incredibly beautiful in person.

I went to a dye factory? once in china that used considerably older techniques for their materials and holy shit were they amazing looking.

You see these shows and movies were royalty are wearing muted colors and everything around them looks like Quake. It doesn't take a genius to realize that the rich would be surrounded by the most expensive, vibrant, and rare pigments from far away lands.

Most of the materials, dyes, and pigments we have today just... don't compare for some reason. I'm not quite too sure why but it's like looking at an ink jet print of a piece of art vs a screen print done by someone who cares. I guess the pigments penetrate the material or something.

>>2672555
I would disagree with you about modern dyes, I don't think the vibrant colors we can have these days are any less vibrant than what could be achieved back in the day. We have a huge range of colors available to us, greater than any point in human history. I feel you might be idealizing a bit.

>>2672622
I think there is no contrast now, the bright colors everywhere hence they doesn't look so bright comparing to that dress on a dull background

>>2672631
Fair enough.

>>2672622
You're missing what I'm saying here.

Modern practices have been refined to be cheaper, easier, and mass produced. We do have some amazing tech but for the most part most of the clothing, textiles, and printing goods aren't close to the quality of something produced traditionally.

It's like looking at a printing of a painting compared to the actual painting. Light simply interacts differently with the pigments and canvas of a real painting. A screen printed painting has so much more vibrant colors than a professional level digital printer could create.

It's not a hard concept to understand. Usually tradition methods focus on quality alone while modern mass manufacturing is a balance of quality to cost.

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Are paintings allowed for reference?

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>>2672794
Technically anything can be reference, though I am personally leery of working too closely with other people's work as reference in final, sold works.

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>>2672794
So long as it's not an exact copy and you're using it as a jumping off point to make your own original work.

I like using edited photographs like this for color inspirations/reference.

does anyone have good landscape references? i am really lacking those, personally
thanks in advance if anyone has some

thanks to who posted all those landscape pics
youre a fantastic person/people

>>2669322
Did some painting practice on these arms. I used the top right two arms for reference. The arm on the left was done yesterday and the arm on the right was done today. The arm in the middle was just used to check colors and some program tools. I know the proportions are off. I just wanted to get these done quickly to practice my painting technique. Can somebody give me a critique on this?

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>>2675483
Forgot image

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anyone have refs of people interacting? there a certain body language people have when they are interacting that i cant seem to capture. preferably not fighting pics

heres a random ref i have to contribute

>>2675485
That is literally nothing.

>>2675527
watch movies and do screencap studies?

>>2675626
There is clearly something there.

>>2675527
This is a good website for candid photography.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/bigpicture

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>>2675818
this made my 9/11 anon

>>2675783
yeah some autistic attempts at color

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>>2672503
this movie had some good old timey colorful clothes. +kirsten dunst lookin hot as fuck.

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>>2675903

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>>2676010
she's a qt name?

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>>2676019
idk

>>2675485
learn to blend and make a form. I couldn't tell those were arms at first.

>>2672255
>see file name
> start laughing
> reverse image search to see what it really is
> its actually a female tusken raider from star wars
> george the mad man lucas
> actually put a metal burka in star wars
>made it so the women cant lift their arms
>top kek

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>>2678653
any more like this?

also, this place looks amazing
>>2679095

>>2680107
>>2680108
>>2680110
>>2680112
>Costumes/Outfits/Clothing Edition

>>2680114
Reference threads take requests too you know. The starting theme is just for more directional dumps if no one is asking for anything in particular.

>>2680136
okay, sorry

>>2675818
that's so cute

>>2681227
Is that the woman from the mummy movies?

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Two questions:

sometimes when you're drawing, clothes disguise where the body is. should you just draw the clothes in this situation? or just guess where the body is? what do you do?

and secondly:

can you gesture draw smaller things like someone's face? someone's hands?

>>2682587
Personally I do a rough sketch of the body first, to make sure I got the proportions right before laying clothes on top.

You can do gestures for anything,

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>>2675527
My favorite

>>2682481
this might literally be the ugliest face I have ever seen

>>2686055
>anon lives in a land of qt 10/10 grills

>>2686060
I just don't live with gooks

>>2686067
Ah, because pig faced man jawed honkeys is the epitome of beauty.

>>2686070
I wouldn't know, having myself never met your mother

New thread:
>>2686339

>>2686055
I shall buy you a mirror

>>2672525
Awwww

>>2672255
this costume is so bad ass looking

>>2672445
also quite bad ass

>>2687913
Little old ladies are the best

>>2685583
Pounding them witch drums