# howiusereference skintober2020 tanguy zephyr buckdanny acompendiumofwitches comic oc magicalboytroubles mbt kikyou tapas tapastic bl

from 2014.
you can see my kiddo being blurry and cute.

Basically set up the lighting for this idea in that series, used a dif portrait photo for the face ref. And a multitude of shark, eel and octopus refs to crudely make those up in photoshop.

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Just in case someone is wondering what her design is based on - there's this gingerbread called "Elise"👀

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if I don't find exact representation for the pose or expression I want I merge on the canvas

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This is how I use reference for coloring Comicbooks Ink by Sébastien Philippe

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✨ A few examples from
(🧵thread)

Viduca, I century BCE Gaul

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! I try to create a mood board and to keep everything I could need during the painting in one place. is an amazing tool to organize photoreferences ✨

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I'm using Magic Poser app on my mobile phone, it helps me to do pose for the character. To do other things i need to work with photos 👍😊

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is interesting, because it varies a lot from piece to piece. Some pieces get some photobashed elements; others I just look at reference for pure inspiration/mood. I absorbed a lot of Roberto Ferri paintings for this particular series (1/2)

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I'm TERRIBLE at using references because I'm dumb and usually come up with idea while drawing and by the time I need refs they are too specific to be found. But this one time I actually DID use the light composition from Fabian Perez so I can pretend I know xD

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These are just some that I found easily, but I looked at a lot more! And thanks to my boyfriend for posing for me 😁💕

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Because I like the Hashtag and because it's important to show that it's normal to use references!
(Old picture as example because I often don't save my refs.)

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tag is awesome.

Here is my first model reference. Lately my best works has been with the use of reference.

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Not pictured: many more selfies and elephants

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Shoutout to for not only being a literal human goddess but also my beautiful muse! 😘😘😘

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A second for character commissions; for full illustrations I use photo ref whenever possible, but for commissions it's usually a combination of DazStudio and Blender (which are both free, guys!)

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I saw a video of a Koi fish keeper feeding koi... old art but the best example.

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still not the best at it, but — when I no longer know what’s going on

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Sometimes it's a mishmash of like nine reference pictures and sometimes it's just a single bad selfie 🤷🏼‍♂️:

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