This journal entry is a bit out of the norm for me, but I just stumbled across one of the best ideas in a long time--something that provides a truly superior resource for all you pen and paper artists out there.

Check out the site [link] The photographers involved in this project do 24 shots of a nude model on a rotating platform, in a particular pose, each at a 15 degree rotation. They not only have the website, but apparently have a couple of books out, as well--I plan on looking them up, as I'd love them just for the photographic references!

I would've killed for something like this, when I was a kid, scrounging magazines with people in poses I wanted to draw...I was always desperate to find nudes, so I could see what the body looked like under clothes--and it was awfully hard to find them. (For some strange reason, my best friend's dad wouldn't let me have even one of his old Playboy magazines, even though he'd already read them. This baffled me--what could you do with a magazine after you'd read it once, unless you wanted to draw from it? Ah, the innocence of youth! )

At any rate--enjoy--I think you will! (I suspect stock artists will find this useful, also--for ideas! )

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One of my favorite entries, in my all-time favorite blog - Creating Passionate Users. Prepare to be challenged by it!