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Looking for a Drawing Reference Book

  • 24-11-2010 7:16pm
    #1
    desolate sun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 347 ✭✭


    Hi, I'm looking for a reference book containing pictures of animals, plants, trees, vehicles, everyday objects etc, purely as a reference for drawing.
    The pictures don't have to have great detail or shadow or anything like that.
    It's just purely to use as a reference for, e.g. drawing a cartoon lion - I need to know what a real lion looks like before I make it into a cartoon.

    Does such a magic book exist? Also if it was pocket size or small enough that would be even better.


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  • #2
    desolate sun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 347 ✭✭desolate sun


    Has anyone come across something like this?


  • #3
    ztoical
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,788 ✭✭✭ztoical


    You'd want something like Muybridge's Animals in Motion There isn't one book that would cover everything. There are several books like the Edweard Muybridge's series covering different areas and most artists would create their own swipe files were you would collect reference as you came across it and put it in file and write say flowers on it and put any further flower reference in that file and build up a reference library for yourself of hundreds of files. This can be done as a physical swipe file or as a digital swipe file.


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