ANTI A/I ART SHARE
The last time I went browsing for references the only thing I saw was AI, so let's help some fellow artists out by sharing where you get your references.
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The last time I went browsing for references the only thing I saw was AI, so let's help some fellow artists out by sharing where you get your references.
Rules:
•❤️ + 🔃
•Complement others
•Share where you get your refs
Opt:
•Tag friends
And as always
Have fun! 💕
Comments
My name is Elena, I am a digital artist who loves to draw fantasy art!
I love your art style, especially the characters in the first piece!
i usually get my inspiration and references from pinterest, but i take a lot of photos of myself in poses i need x3 i really hope im not weird for doing that 🎷🐛
Same here! There are some really good references on pintrest! It's just too bad the ai has gotten so rough!
Your art is beautiful!! I love the colors so much and the details you add! 🥰
I vary a lot with my references. If I want to do studies, I'll use whatever is at hand, to be honest.
For backgrounds, I use bits of everything: google maps, photographs, other artists (I've stolen a ridiculous amount of buildings from Katsuhiro Otomo's work).
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I appreciate you sharing where you get your refs! (I can definitely see the inspiration in your work with katsuhiro otomo's!) Looking at works from experienced artists is a really good idea and I should do that more often!
To be fair, I should have been more specific, probably 😅 I often have trouble coming up with buildings, often, so I just steal those from Otomo, a lot of the time. I am starting to think that letting go of your favourites is a very helpful thing, nowadays
Sometimes I use 3D asset sites for tools, furniture, or weapons since they let you move them around freely 😅
I have like 2 or 3 go to buildings, and after i draw those, I go flip through the first volume of Akira. It wouldn't surprise me if those 2 or 3 are also from Akira, and I memorised them 😅
I take my ref mainly from Pinterest, but sometimes also in real life!
As always your work is gorgeous! Its so identifiable I love the colors you use as well! 🥰
Same here! I need to remember to take photos more often! 😊
I do take A LOT of my own reference pics, and I do still use Pinterest but carefully filter through things, I also found a lot of great reference packs on Deviant art for fairly cheap at times, or Patreon! particularly a ref creator called kingcholera!
That's awesome! I love that you take your own references that's cool! I honestly forget it's an option most times 😆
I appreciate you hopping in and sharing where you get your refs! The art you chose to show off are just so amazing! The first two are my faves 😍😍
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The colors in these pieces are beautiful! 🥰
I love the second one especially!
Thank you for sharing where your inspiration/references come from! 🥰
Ohh I've never heard of pexels! Thank you for the recommendation!!
Your work is always so incredible! I love the way you render and your linework is so solid! 🥰
What a good idea!!
I try to get refs from stock websites but thats not as helpful as it used to be. sometimes youtube vids of a place are good! it is very hard to get good refs now... but i have hope things will be better one day!
And i hope so too, it's honestly just so overwhelming at this point!
Thank you for joining, your art is always just so magical omg. I love the colors and the characters
I find a lot of my poses and inspiration from Pinterest, mainly portraits. I also use pre-made bases as poses and change things as I sketch it ☺️
Amazing work, Raz!
I love these pieces! I honestly can't pick a favorite! but I do really love that second one! 🥰
I take my own references and hope my unflattering photos will never see the light of day lmao
(And omg same - I never want anyone to see my reference photos. I make the dumbest faces when I'm concentrating on my hands!)
Reference photos are embarrassing but so necessary! My face is always just like : | in the background of mine
So happy to see you here 🫂
(So sorry for the late reply)
As always I'm the biggest fan of your work omg, (I gotta commission you once it's can figure out what I want, ong)
And same here! I get som embarrassed about taking my own references! 🫣
we can secretly be little gremlins taking reference photos in a dark corner together!!
When practicing faces or poses I also look for movie screenshots.
For lighting reference I used Blender once to set up my own lights exactly the way I wanted them.
Thanks for sharing, Arginnon!
These are beautiful pieces! I love the colors on the last two! 🥰
I wish to experiment with creating references in Blender in the future too.
I'm hoping that things will get easier for us artists soon! 💕
And here's some art, that I used no refs for (sometimes I just -go- when I put the pen on the tablet :D 🥰
Thank you for joining! Your work is always so incredible! You do great with the anatomy! 🥰
The best thing to do when taking your own photos is to make them into your assets to reuse. Helps a lot especially when making comics.
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Thank you for joining the share, and for the advice! 💕
It's a joy! 💜 Hope they help. ^^
I make sketches, try different approaches, therefore, a little in the style is different👀✨
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A lil bit of everything is perfect, I think it adds to your style! Your pieces are always so fluid!
Your work is always is gorgeous, I love the atmosphere on the second piece! 🥰
My name is Hannah and I’m a painter. Most of my references come from art history (Renaissance and Baroque art especially) and Pinterest ☺️
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Thank you for sharing, your work is so lovely, the colors are so pretty! 🥰
Thank you for the art share! It sucks that there so many a/i images nowadays...
I don't have any new work to share, so I share some old ones, from the time I could paint
Thank you for joining the share, Tusha! These pieces are beautiful I love the texture on them, and the tangled piece is beautiful!
Thank you for sharing how you get your references! 🥰
Taking screenshots from movies and YouTube is such a good idea!
These pieces look great! I love the ones with the backgrounds! 🥰
It has tons of photos and movie scenes—maybe you can draw some inspiration from it! 💕
I love @theposearchives.bsky.social as references, most of my artworks I use their poses, and they are so good!
And these are the ones that i'm most proud of!
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Thank you for participating, and sharing where you get your references! 🥰💕
(Dolls pose stiffly, so be aware of that if you use them!)
Thank you for sharing where you get your references! 💕
Your work is so incredibly dynamic!
I need to start referencing art from other more I think! There's just so many incredible people to learn things from! 💕
I personnally find my refs on Pinterest, with simple pictures of poses or even just jewelries that makes me think of a concept ! And if I'm searching for a precise pose or for nude refs, I go to SketchDaily.
My references mainly come from other artists, thru their illustrations, paintings and photographs of nature. Some part inspires me, and I take off with it.
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Your work is always so gorgeous! I love the atmosphere each piece has, and the colors are so rich and beautiful!
Thank you for sharing where/how you get your references! 🥰
These are such beautiful pieces! I love the last one especially! The pose looks great and the snake is so cute! 🥰
I usually get my references from pintrest but it's become so swamped with AI that it's almost impossible to use at this point, so I'm really excited to find some more places to use for references! 🥰
I used to get references and ideas from pinterest too, until the AI attacked. 💀 Now I take pictures everywhere I go and do research of real locations to create a visual library.
I'm going to have to do the same! It's so hard having to comb through pintrest for hours now.
Once in a while you can still find descent stuff on pinterest. Maybe there's a filter to sort the AI from the actual photos and handmade works? I know google has that where you put -ai in your search and it works.
Gotta make up for it and draw some fairies and bees pollinating some flowers! 🥰
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The internet can be such a cruel place lately, and AI is the most heartless thing ever >.<
Your art is SO special, and that needs to be celebrated, truly! Every time I look at them, I feel full of life... making my undead heart beat yet again 🥹🧡
And thank you again, you're always so sweet when you comment and I appreciate it so much! 🥰🥰
That will never stop real artists such as you, me (well, as a writer), and Kosshi from making true works 🥹🧡
And in that regard... we will also never stop commenting! 🤭
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There is also pose archives but I forever forget their BSKY tag.
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I find colour picking to be really hard honestly xD
That and stock images work too!
Gosh I just love this mushroom girly so much! Her colors scheme is so good, and she's so cute! 🥰
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I got my references for outfits from pinterest, and for poses from real photos from Google jeje
I love the colors and all the details in your work!
I usually combine many references for each piece, mostly from Pinterest + photo ref acct ( or photo stock) focusing for real people's photos for best result,
if it's just a small part of ref like the hand part, I just use mine lol.
Your work, especially these two pieces are incredible! I love the lighting on the second piece! 😍
Thank you for sharing where/how you get your references! 🥰
my references:
- i google it. clothes, characters, poses, etc. it's much harder these days, but there's a ublock origin filter that blocks all ai slop
- csp's 3d modeler helps w/ hands, poses, proportions and lighting
- animation stills for coloring and shading ideas
i hope it catches on 🙏
Ohh i didn't know there was a filter on Google that's good to know! I'll have to start using it more often!
Thank you for participating! I love the colors and the lighting effects in your work, Sky! They're always so dynamic and appealing! 🥰
let me share a resource that's helped me w searching, you'll need ublacklist for chrome/firefox to filter out all ai results. there might be a way to get it to work on pinterest too.
once you subscribe to the list via ublacklist, googling will be bearable again
I also use a lot of photos of people!
The colors on this pieces are beautiful I love how it's glowing! 🥰
I'm just really obsessed with Boueibu
Most of the time when I need references I’ll try to take a picture of myself, usually for an expression or hand gesture. When I need something specific I’ll usually google image search it ✨
You do great with your references! Your characters are always so full of life and expressive! 🥰
I your hair color is pretty btw! 💕
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Your art is lovely, these characters are so cute! And I adore your style so much! 🥰🥺
Same here! This has been a nice thread to find new ways to get references and see some amazing artists! 🥰
But I think... it is not really possible to filter them, non? I mean, most AI is not given the proper label in order to put it in your face or trick you >.<
At least our eyes will always be working 🤭
For refs I just search everywhere (Pinterest, image search, CSP models) and if everything fails I take my own pics. I keep forgetting about dedicated reference photographers 😅
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I forget about the accounts dedicated to references too! 😆
I get too swept up in the other sites and it totally slips my mind!
Your work is incredible by the way! The colors and linework are so crisp!! The way you draw characters is beautiful too 😍
And thank you so much. That is so kind of you to say 🥰
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I really need to get more adventurous with posing though, but even after all this time I'm too anxious to go beyond really basic stuff.
These poses look awesome BTW! Very fluid! And I love their character designs! 🥰
I believe you can bet the writers block!
My name is Logan and I'm a landscape artist! I get my references by going out into nature!
I don’t have one source for references. I search the internet to get pics of whatever I need but I may look at some stock photo galleries for more specific references. I can tell what is AI but I can understand it being difficult for some.
Your work is so gorgeous I love the colors so much. It's always such a joy to see!
I get that! I like to hop around for references as well! Thank you for sharing!
We pose our own references, using the 3D function of Clip Studio Paint. Originally Kosshi drew everything from mind, but he was not great at that... 🤭
The bodies of our cast are usually cartoony compared to those, though, so a lot of changes are always made 😊
It is always SO much fun to see drawings of Yonug honestly!... even if she is a brat. And that is coming from ME!! >.<
I used to be a real brat, not sure if you read my profile >.<
But even if I am always trying to be nice online, playing pranks is still one of the best things ever! I just do not do that here, since it can come across very differently 🫢
The main reason we do it like that, is because we have a very good view on the universe we herald, and reference that are EXACTLY as is in our mind take a long time to find 😮
I get my reference from a lot of things, Pinterest is great for vibes and ideas of poses.
For reference of anatomy, I usually pick photos or then I just pose myself.
Any other inspiration comes from other artists and just studying!!!!!
Also a lot of doodles and sketches
#artshare #wip
I´m gonna drop some Sketches that i´ve been working on, I usually try to post the reference and posses on the comments! so feel free to use them ☺️💛
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I can't wait to see where you'll go with them :0
And of course your art goes so hard as always, I'm always cheering you on 🥰🥰
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Your art is so pretty! I love the colors, they're so dreamy!
I appreciate you sharing how you get your references! 💕
Thank you!
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