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rena_librarianI know that what you all probably want to hear about is how my new job is going, and I WILL post about it in the near future. In the meantime let me just say that it is going well and I like it, and if you want to know just exactly what it is that I'm selling (sorta, lol), here is the company's website. If you called the number and asked for me by name, you would, theoretically, be able to get a hold of me...I think, lol. But please don't. It might be kind of cool, but they probably wouldn't look too kindly on me taking personal calls of a non-emergency nature, especially as I am allowed to have my cell phone at work. (I asked. Ashley said so long as I wasn't ON it all day it was fine. And I've heard HER taking three or four personal calls a day, so their definition of "all the time" is pretty loose, lol. Though to be fair, she does keep the conversations well under five minutes.) I also have a work email address, but I'm not going to give that out. Also, the address listed is for the main office/tech support building, NOT the call center where I work.) The "Company" link is pretty cool, tells about how the place got started.
Anyway.
I was trying for a while there to find art reference pics--photos from which to draw pictures. I took eight years of art classes and that's how I learned my craft, with photos supplied from my teacher's vast collection. Well I've discovered that even with my anime, it looks better when I work from photos. (For example, this was based on a photo. Notice that the arms, hands, and positioning look RIGHT, lol.) Most of the time, I do without, though. However, a few days ago, Audries (the guy in this pic) was giving me fits--it took me fifty million redos to get his legs decent, and honestly I'm still not thrilled--it wasn't quite what I had in mind. Anyway, I tried searching for reference pics while I was drawing it. Google images was NO help, lol--it's great if you want, say, a specific character, but ref pics? Not so much. I poked around the stock photos on DA as well, but really, unless you're drawing medieval/fantasy art or nudes, you're probably NOT going to find what you need.
Well, I tried google images again tonight, looking for a pic of people holding hands. (Well, just the hands, really, the people were already drawn.) Anyway it was, once again, not really helping--until I noticed the watermark on one of the photos and clicked the link to the source site.
istockphoto.com
I knew SOMEWHERE out there, there had to be a free stock photo site that actually had helpful pics. I FINDED IT YAYZORZ!!! (I've saved about a million so far, lol...)
Anyway.
I was trying for a while there to find art reference pics--photos from which to draw pictures. I took eight years of art classes and that's how I learned my craft, with photos supplied from my teacher's vast collection. Well I've discovered that even with my anime, it looks better when I work from photos. (For example, this was based on a photo. Notice that the arms, hands, and positioning look RIGHT, lol.) Most of the time, I do without, though. However, a few days ago, Audries (the guy in this pic) was giving me fits--it took me fifty million redos to get his legs decent, and honestly I'm still not thrilled--it wasn't quite what I had in mind. Anyway, I tried searching for reference pics while I was drawing it. Google images was NO help, lol--it's great if you want, say, a specific character, but ref pics? Not so much. I poked around the stock photos on DA as well, but really, unless you're drawing medieval/fantasy art or nudes, you're probably NOT going to find what you need.
Well, I tried google images again tonight, looking for a pic of people holding hands. (Well, just the hands, really, the people were already drawn.) Anyway it was, once again, not really helping--until I noticed the watermark on one of the photos and clicked the link to the source site.
istockphoto.com
I knew SOMEWHERE out there, there had to be a free stock photo site that actually had helpful pics. I FINDED IT YAYZORZ!!! (I've saved about a million so far, lol...)
