I draw a lot of hentai/anime style stuff, so I usually check out Pinterest and Reddit. I wrote an article about 5 places you can find NSFW ref at hbeatsart.com/5-places
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Comments 12 Join the community to add your comment. Already a deviant? Log InId say I generally look in the same places as the others listed below.
Nhentai, pinterest, google search and of course good ol porn hub LOL.
Thank you for the article by the way!
i don't do NSFW
i guess some Doujinshi can be good for finding what you could be looking for those are easy enough to find on sites like Tsumino, NHentai or E-hentai, google image search also works for that and DA already has a tonne of NSFW art to inspire you
I'm often inspired by other people's NSFW art but I do worry about referancing too heavily. Even if I'm just emulating a pose I like I worry that I'm just ripping them off!
I look up photos on instagram also, that might be where I get most of my favorite poses.
And most of my NSFW pieces are pretty tame and are more about drawing beautiful bodies that just so happen to have their boobies or weiners out.
Some artist uses Posemaniacs www.posemaniacs.com
To create any pose you want, you can use Daz Studio and Aiko is a anime model.
www.daz3d.com/media/catalog/pr…
There are a lot of other models that look more realistic so they can be used for a better reference so you can do shading' lighting and shadows to look like you understand anatomy and lighting. It can also be used for cartoons that is not realistic.
Some things you just need to know like breast, because they can be hard without an imagination to turn metal into fleshy bags. With Genesis 8, you can control a lot more with the look. You can get Hexagon 2.5 and move the model into that program so you can make changes to the body, and then send it back to Daz Studio to save as a morph, and then save the model as your own version to pose her anyway you want. A lot of the basic models are free, and the programs are free. They hope you get more into 3D and but stuff that is not free. This is better than a lot of 3D programs, because it is easy to learn while a 3D program like Blender. You can do a lot with that, but when they made a movie showing what you can do with free 3D programs, a lot of the programs they used with Blender cost in the thousands, or paid people to do it for a lot of money.
If you were good with anatomy, you would never need references, but you might look at people as a reminder of what a pose looks like. Most people use references, because knowing every angle of every part of the body and joints, takes a lot to keep it active and keep everything you learned, because when you stop, it can be replaces with other memories. If you don't use it you lose it. So, some times is is better not learning anatomy, if you are not going to do much with it, and it sounds like you will.
Just word with each part of the body, like a foot and ankle, a ankle and shin or foot ankle and shin, then shin knee and thigh, thigh hip and abdomen, abdomen chest and shoulders. If you get to know all the parts and joints in every angle, then a 3D model will form in you mind so you can draw it in any pose you want. When anything starts to fade and you question anything, the model goes away. If you do a lot of anatomy, you can work with that model for more than 30 years. When you work on something for a long time you notice a lot of differences, and those differences can be options you decide to use. You set up the body type, you set the sex, and style, and you pick a pose, and it will be ready to become your art. It is a good feeling to have that model in your mind, and a big loss when it fades because you learned a lot of other things and stopped doing people. Before the model faded when I had 5 years of designing programs and websites, I created a kick pose, and the model faded away in 2 years because knowing materials for designs looked better in my art.
This is a remake after I was better with lighting, and I changed the position of her leg to make it look like she is going to fall on her butt with her toe caught in the camera strap. The non bikini version is her near a pool in the same position jumping into the pool with her left foot back to the original position to keep her balance.
This was not a model, from a reference, this was knowing anatomy enough to have a mental model to pose and change anyway I wanted. If there are mistakes, then it was something I didn't learn or forgot, because this was the last time I could imagine a model from all my experience in anatomy before it faded ans I could not trust what I know.
