Supercharge your drawings with the power of photo reference! Almost every professional comic artist uses photo reference. Finding really good photo reference is crucial to capturing accurate lighting, foreshortening and body language in your drawings. Sure, you can surf the 'net or flip through catalogs to find a few poses . . . or consult generic photo reference books with static poses and flat lighting. But to draw a character consistently and convincingly over an entire issue or series, you need a serious reference library. In this book, you get over 1,100 awesome-quality, color photos—500+ in the book and 600+ on the CD-ROM—all created specifically for you, the professional or aspiring comic artist. Inside you'll find: Handsome, muscular men and gorgeous, fit women in dynamic poses Extreme angles, foreshortening and complex body mechanics Poses including jumping, kicking, punching, standing, ducking, lifting, flying, sitting, smoking, drinking, kissing, screaming, laughing, cowering, shooting, sword-fighting and more Superior lighting that creates dramatic, muscle-revealing shadows 7 fantastic art demos by professional comic artists Unless you have a team of superheroes willing to pose for you, Comic Artist's Photo Reference: People and Poses will be the most important tool in your photo reference library. Get started today drawing the pictures that will launch or advance your comic book career!

Supercharge your drawing with the power of photo reference! An essential foundational tool for any aspiring artist! To draw a character consistently and convincingly over an entire story or series, you need a serious reference library--all professionals use them. Inside, find more than 500 awesome-quality color photos depicting popular poses, props, outfits and activities for extraordinary and everyday comic characters--people pointing at heroes flying in the sky, lifting large objects, cowering in fear from impending doom and even doing battle in hand-to-hand combat. Lit with a superior two-source technique, these photos expose dramatic, muscle-revealing shadows and figure contours to add depth, realism and weight to every illustration. Use reference photos to: • Trick viewers into seeing 3-D places, people and things by leveraging art techniques like foreshortening, shading and perspective. • Breathe realism and action into drawings by referencing muscular models ranging in age, gender and ethnicity, brandishing guns, swords and knives while wearing everything from capes and street clothes to spandex shorts. • Explore the nuances of common facial expressions like pain, anger, fear, frustration, joy, shock, confusion and smug satisfaction. • Create dynamic poses including standing, sitting, flying, lifting, punching, kicking, smoking, screaming, drinking, laughing, sword-fighting, ducking...and more!

Draw characters that leap off the page! 1000+ poses! Whether a scene calls for your heroines to be sexy, scared or savage, Comic Artist's Photo Reference: Women and Girls will help them strike the right pose. With more than 1000 reference photos to choose from, you'll find the inspiration you need in to give your female characters attitude, believability and life. Four models in a range of ages. A wide variety of action, dramatic and casual poses, as well as facial expressions—from applying makeup and getting dressed to flying, shooting, punching and more! 600 additional high-quality images on the companion CD-ROM! Four step-by-step demonstrations show how top artists use photo references in the creation of cutting-edge comic book art. &break;Working from these photos is a great way for beginners to improve their art. For more advanced artists, this book is a handy reference for mastering every nuance of gesture and form. It's the next best thing to having real, live superheroines in your studio! (In some ways even better, because you can count on these models to be there when you need them!)

This drawing tutorial from best-selling author Christopher Hart shows artists how to draw exaggerated musculature of super-sized figures in action poses.

It presents more than 600 detailed color photos of live models, and represents a wide range of physiques, postures, and poses that can be incorporated in fantasy scenarios.

The Art of Drawing Poses for Beginners combines step-by-step pencil lessons and additional graphite portrait examples to demonstrate how to accurately render the human form in a variety of realistic poses.

At last–the first guide to drawing comics digitally! Artists! Gain incredible superpowers...with the help of your computer! The DC Comics Guide to Digitally Drawing Comics shows how to give up pencil, pen, and paper and start drawing dynamic, exciting comics art entirely with computer tools. Author Freddie E Williams is one of DC Comics' hottest artists and a leader in digital penciling and inking–and here, in clear, step-by-step directions, he guides readers through every part of the digital process, from turning on the computer to finishing a digital file of fully inked comic art, ready for print. Creating a template, sketching on the computer, penciling, and finally inking digitally are all covered in depth, along with bold, timesaving shortcuts created by Williams, tested by years of trial and error. Step into the digital age, streamline the drawing process, and leap over the limitations of mere physical drawing materials with The DC Guide to Digitally Drawing Comics.