Comic Artist's Photo Reference Women And Girls [Paperback]

Buddy Scalera (Author), Amy Jeynes (Editor), Jamal Igle (Illustrator), Terry Moore (Illustrator), Josh Howard (Illustrator), JG Jones (Painter), Sarah T. Thomas (Collaborator), Pamela Paige (Collaborator), Chanel Wiggins (Collaborator), Vanessa Carroll (Collaborator)

Book Description

Series: Comic Artist's Photo Reference | Publication Date: May 14, 2008

Draw characters that leap off the page!

1000+ poses!

Whether a scene calls for your heroines to be sexy, scared or savage, Comic Artist's Photo Reference: Women and Girls will help them strike the right pose. With more than 1000 reference photos to choose from, you'll find the inspiration you need in to give your female characters attitude, believability and life.

• Four models in a range of ages.
  
  
• A wide variety of action, dramatic and casual poses, as well as facial expressions?from applying makeup and getting dressed to flying, shooting, punching and more!
  
  
• 600 additional high-quality images on the companion CD-ROM!
  
  
• Four step-by-step demonstrations show how top artists use photo references in the creation of cutting-edge comic book art.

Working from these photos is a great way for beginners to improve their art. For more advanced artists, this book is a handy reference for mastering every nuance of gesture and form. It's the next best thing to having real, live superheroines in your studio! (In some ways even better, because you can count on these models to be there when you need them!)

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

Draw characters that leap off the page! 1000+ Action Poses

Whether a scene calls for your character to perform incredible feats of strength, puts him in a shoot out with the bad guy or hurls him across the page, Comic Artist's Photo Reference: Men and Boys will help you draw the perfect pose. With more than 1000 high-quality photos to choose from, you'll find the inspiration you need to give your heroes, villains, studs, and other characters attitude and authenticity.

• Four models with a range of ages and body types
• A wide variety of poses, from talking on the phone to flourishing a cape, copping an attitude, running, jumping, and wielding weapons
• Specially lit poses for ultimate drama
• Hundreds of additional images and other bonus material included on the CD-ROM!

This book provides essential reference for mastering every nuance of gesture, form and facial expression. It's the next best thing to having real, life superheros in your studio.

Professional artists show you how they use photo references to create comic book art, including David Hahn, Rafael Kayanan, Mike Lilly, and Mark Smylie.

Written by Buddy Scalera

About the Author

Buddy Scalera is the author of IMPACT's top-selling Comic Artist's Photo Reference: People and Poses. He is a comic-book writer and publisher whose credits include issues in Marvel Comics' Agent X, Deadpool, Marvel Knights and X-Men series.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Impact; 1st edition (May 14, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 160061003X
• ISBN-13: 978-1600610035
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #58,977 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #50 in Books > Arts & Photography > Drawing > Cartooning
  • #52 in Books > Arts & Photography > Drawing > Figure Drawing

More About the Author

Buddy Scalera is a writer, editor, marketer, and photographer. He is best known for his photo reference books and CD-Roms.

For more info:
http://www.buddyscalera.com

Check out the Facebook Fan Page for Buddy's Photo Reference:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Photo-Reference-for-Comic-Artists/224221057835

These CD-ROMs and books are popular among professional and aspiring artists and remain strong sellers at Amazon, Barnes & Nobles, and Borders.

He's an active photographer with published work in books including Body Dump , Doll Fashionistas , and more. He also served as the Interactive Consultant on the book Artist's Digital Photo Reference - Landscapes.

He's written 150+ published articles on a range of topics including health, politics, government, multimedia, marketing, comic books, games, movies, television and much more.

Credits include The Suburban News, The Ridgewood News, Wizard Magazine, Comic Buyer's Guide, Comics Values Monthly, Collector's Advantage, Scarlet Street, Combo, Spin Magazine Online, Pharmaceutical Voice and others.

For over four years, Scalera also wrote and hosted "ComixVision," a cable-access television show that explained the comic book hobby to mainstream viewers.

At his previous job, Scalera was the original Online Editor for Wizard Entertainment. He was joined by Rus Wooton in developing Wizardworld.com, Wizardschool.com, Toyfare.com, Toywishes.com, and Inquestmag.com.

Scalera is also an active self-publisher. With his partner Darren Sanchez, After Hours Press released the graphic novels Necrotic and Celestial Alliance. He is also self-publishing "Visual Reference for Comic Artists," a series of multimedia art-reference CD-ROMs.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Clean references for an aspiring artists, May 19, 2008

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J. Moulton "jcmoulton2000" (Lakewood, Co United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Comic Artist's Photo Reference Women And Girls (Paperback)

I've always found it difficult to find decent pictures of women doing poses similar to those found in comics and action movies, most reference books contain soft poses, nudity, small pictures, and no real writing on how the photos are applicable to rendering in illustration. This book contains some very unique poses and features poses from being in pain, flying, jumping, running, sword fighting, punching, kicking, dressing, and lighting a smoke. The book features at least four to six different models with different body builds (though none are really out of shape like the Fantasy Reference) and ages.
The only thing that could be improved to make the book better is to have a spiral back like the Fantasy Reference to keep damage on the spine to a minimal. The pros of this book are that all the photos are in color, the cd is amazing and features over a thousand photos contained in the book (which can be printed from a computer to take up a whole sheet of paper), and the shadows and poses in the book are exceptional. I found it worth its price and would recommend it to any aspiring artist that needs help with drawing women and girls.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good Buy, June 5, 2008

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L. M. Cruz "Reference Book Junkie" (Tampa, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Comic Artist's Photo Reference Women And Girls (Paperback)

One of the best photo reference books I've come across. I have it all stickied with post-its already. The CD-Rom is also packed with some good refs. I would've liked to see some more "group" shots but I'm not disappointed in the least with this book. I'd recommend it to anyone who likes to have a nice collection of female references handy on their shelf.

I can't wait for the "Men and Boys" version coming out!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent reference, December 11, 2008

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Comic Artist's Photo Reference Women And Girls (Paperback)

a breath of fresh air to those of us who are tired of stagnant anatomy reference books. so few references have as many dynamic poses, in addition to costume and props. a great addition to any reference collection.