Hey Soloman, you have a really nice finish to your work.

May I ask how long you've been "arting" and are you a pro? 

Good sketching!! 

kazky:

bout time you got your daily sketches together solomon, really nice stuff, there were some i missed in the daily thread (too many pages) I love your figure studies, where are you getting your references from? I want to have a go, but i only know posemaniacs. Lovely work

Hey Kaz, 

Thanks for the compliments. to answer your question I have a few books in my collection that I use.

This is nice becuase you can compare the poses on a page and choose them to fit your needs. Generally I use these books to go through my figure studies when a live model isn't handy (or my girlfriend doesn't want to pose nude at the moment)

The Posefiles have a ton of images but the lighting isn't as good and male figures aren't used as much.
The Chartwell book doesn't have as many images but the lighting and variety is a little better.

Alex Tooth- I'm not really a pro yet, but I have had a few art commissions and had some comic book art published a few years back.
I've been doing art since I could pick up a pencil. Lately I've been focusing on my art with more intensity.

Lukas-thanks. I like drawing hands all the time, a good exercise to revisit often.

I'll post the books for people's reference

Here's Posefile 

Thank you so much for that solomon, i have a pose book, but the poses are very static, and not really poses you would use every day, more like superhero flying & stuff, like you say too, the main problem is lighting, they are all so highly lit that you can't see where muscles shadow & highlight etc, i shall look into those ones you've shown me. Really appreciate that, sometimes it's much better for someone to advice you who's using something successfully, than buying 'blind'.

Love the latest daily sketch! very detailed.

You're welcome, I like to help out other people with this stuff.

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