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Comic Artist's Photo Reference - People & Poses: Book/CD Set with 1000+ Color Images (Comic Artists Reference)x$15.65
  (20 reviews)
Best Price: $24.99 $15.65
The ultimate reference for comic artists, this unique book/CD set is packed with photos of men and women in basic and dramatic superhero poses uniquely tailored to the comic artist’s needs. Comic Artist’s Photo Reference: -Delivers over 500 color images of beautiful women and muscled men in the poses comic artists need -Features six step-by-step demonstrations by well-known artists, so readers can learn firsthand from the pros -Comes with a CD-ROM of over 500 additional photos for added inspiration With this reference, comic artists of all skill levels can draw from a diverse group of models in a hundreds of poses--any time they want!
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Customer Reviews
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very handy for the professional
By A1AZYPERY87CKE on 2006-07-05
I already own Buddy Scalera's Pose reference DVDs and was delighted to see he'd come out with a book. I am a professional storyboard artist and find the figure and light/shadow reference in this book to be extremely helpful. While it may be geared more to the comic book artist (fighting and swordplay poses); nevertheless, I think it is worth owning. It comes with a DVD with more material. For a modest price, I think it's a terrific source for anyone drawing the human figure.
Useful Artist's Reference
By ANEDXRFDZDL18 on 2006-07-30
People and Poses is an excellent drawing reference for those interested in drawing human figure in action poses. This Impact title is chock full of spectacular photos of the human figure and contains a small amount of drawing instruction towards the end. I particularly like the 'couple's photos,' and the pictures depicting wounded/injured poses.
Overall, a great resource sure to please those interested in improving their art. 5 stars
Disappointed
By A3MJ9PKRVF86DC on 2007-10-21
I'm surprised by all the positive reviews that this book/CD has been given. I bought it based on the feedback from other buyers and I was pretty disappointed.
The lighting of most of the models is pretty good but the angle of too many of the photos is either straight-on or shot from above. This causes the models to look squatty and distorted. The choices for female models was pretty poor. I'm sure they are very beautiful in real life but their body types are not suited for this type of photography. I also discovered that there are photos featured in the book that are not included on the CD or website link. I was also disappointed to discover that the photos are not high resolution. They are only 72 dpi and not very good quality.
There are very few books like this on the market and something like this is a nice alternative to the expense and time associated with shooting your own photos. Unfortunately, this book will not be the alternative I was looking for. Hopefully Scalera will release a future edition that will address these problems.
Perfect for the animator or comic artist
By A3BC6FSEJ0HINK on 2006-12-26
GREAT GREAT GREAT!!!! I bought this book before it was widely released and brought it to one of my animation classes at school. All the other students liked it so much, they wanted a copy as well; but because at that time it was difficult to find, I had to watch my back to make sure nobody snatched my copy when I wasn't looking! This book is packed with lively and dramatic poses from fabulous perspectives! It's perfect for the animator, illustator, and comic book artist, helping the artist achive those hard-to-draw angles. I highly recommend this book!
With poor models, this isn't very useful
By A3377EAG9VJBRN on 2007-06-03
The biggest disappointment about this book is the models. They have decent physiques, but for them to be included in a book of reference photos, I expect much better. The 2 men are better than 2 women (that's right- only four models!) but I wouldn't give any of them a thumbs up. For example, one model is a 4'10", forty-year-old asian woman with practically no curves and a bit of a ponch; this is the exact opposite of the "comic-book" heroinne! I found every photo with her unusable, unless I wanted to drastically reinvent her appearance, in which case I probably wouldn't be using a photographic reference in the first place. And really, the other models are okay, but not that much better. The poses selected are alright, sometimes even pretty cool, but they don't seem to have enough of them, or enough angles. I realize no photo reference book is going to be comprehensive, but this falls way short. There is not nearly enough useful stuff in here for me to recommend it at even a fraction of it's price.
- People and poses has great models, needs more poses
By A2AX5V9EPMX7FC on 2007-05-14
Bought the book because I have trouble finding models (or roping my friends into modeling). I was impressed by the crisp color photos, and the male models he picked to do the book (the females are o.k.) On the down side, he photographs only one pose per angle, and the lighting never changes. There are sections on capes, swords, smoking, fighting (the female fight scene is laughable), and very few street clothes pictures.
- Great Work!!!
By A121F1MF0UM22F on 2007-07-10
This is a great book for artists in search of different poses to draw or paint from. The photography is good and allows adequate understanding of muscle and form. I also like that the figures are clothed. With children around and "non-artists" I like using a book that I don't have to feel like hiding everytime someone comes in the room. Do more of these books and I'll buy them. Great for "at home" gesture studies as well, and coupled with George Bridgeman or Hogarth (or any other anatomy book) it gives you some great models to learn from and study.
- Exellent Poses
By A1ATZT2SEGBUJA on 2007-03-18
I got this book to help not only with concept art work, but also with sculptural poses, and it's great! Realistic dynamism (tm) is what I call it.
If you don't find a pose that fits exactly what you're looking for, make sure you check out the accompanying CD. There are a lot of additional, excellent poses in there.
The only reason I don't give it 5 out of 5 is because that'd mean it's perfect, and nothing is perfect.
- Best photo reference for comic artists!
By AP8DZN57BGWL2 on 2007-08-15
This is fantastic photo reference for the comic artist (me)! These are nice sharp color photos. I don't agree that the shorter female model isn't good (she's not 40, she's 34!). She's got great fighting poses and expressions. I can take the shadows and apply them to taller characters as needed.
The male models are clearly bodybuilders. Their fighting pics are great. The women aren't super-muscular, but they are attractive and they have great poses and expressions.
The CD is excellent too. More photos beyond what is in the book, and a lot of cool/funny extra pictures, movies, etc.
Poses include: facial expressions, standing, sitting, lifting, cape, street clothes, swords, guns, fighting, wounded, scared, flying. Also romance, fighting, smoking, drinking, loading gun.
If I had to name things I wish were different... The capes are good, and I really like the shots of the models in regular clothes, but there could be more costumes. Still, for the excellent Amazon price, and so many photos plus poses that are tailor made for comics--I am a very happy customer.
- Very Average Reference - Google Images is Better and FREE
By A3LYISBDSX60CJ on 2008-08-04
I was very disappointed after purchasing this book. The content is average at best and the CD doesn't even contain ALL of the images found in the book which I thought was very misleading to the customer - you have to scan the images not on CD that you want - what a waste. You can do better by finding image references through Google Images and those are free. This book has some value, perhaps if one is just starting out, but hardly a top resource for anyone else. The "extremely positive" reviews here are no doubt either people who fall into this newbie category or friends of the author looking to help him out by placing positive reviews. Pass on this one or get it used / discounted somewhere. Not worth the full price that's printed on it. I was suckered.
- Ho-Hum
By A39BRUVOY2JUHV on 2008-08-29
I'll list the GOOD, then I'll list the Not-So-Good (aka. BAD).
The best two things about this book are:
1) A decent amount of images therein show the models in clothing (cloaks, some street clothing).
2) There's some decent reference of models holding weapons in "battle" poses.
That's it, really...
The *not* good (ie. BAD) things about the photograph are as follows:
1) The images are SMALL. Even the ones on the enclosed CD-ROM. Seems like the largest they get is around 700-800px on the longest side.
2) The camera's focal length causes the subjects to look distorted (ie. Huge hands close to the lens, tiny feet far away). For example:
http://is.gd/21M0
3) Only 4 models total. And two of them don't take their socks off. It may seem like a small thing, but not showing the feet is kind of huge. There's a lot of important detail in the tendons/bones/toes that is completely missing from half the images in this book.
4) The lighting creates strong shadows. This could be good or bad. Good because you get some nice play of light across muscles/tendons. Bad because sometimes parts of the model cast shadows on their face/etc, and obscures expressions and such.
All in all, it's OKAY. Frankly, I wouldn't buy it again. I'll keep it now that I have it, but my recommendation is to look elsewhere for a good reference book.
- Great character expressions
By A6B55YXSJL1Y2 on 2007-08-03
This book has many over a thousand photo's with great comic book perspectives, male and female.
Some of the lighting could have been better and the female models should have been more athletic and shapley.
- Great for preteen and teens artists, not just professionals!
By A3BCQNRD9MA8WG on 2007-08-17
I teach junior high students. This book would be perfect for all the kids in my school who love to draw. The poses show models doing things you would see in comics (flying, running, fighting, swords, capes, etc.). The models wear formfitting clothes but they are all clothed enough to be "decent." There is a page of photos showing a woman smoking, but since this is something a comic artist might need to draw, I don't see it as a problem. (Hopefully someday all kids will NEED a photo to know what smoking looks like!) There are several excellent step-by-step art lessons that teach real art concepts and could be used in the classroom. There's also a CD packaged with the book that has many more pictures on it. Students would enjoy browsing the CD or using Photoshop to combine multiple photos into something new that they could then draw from. Five stars and a recommendation to my school's librarian!
- Very good for basic references
By A2VP7SLUF10MNI on 2007-09-19
Really good if you are looking for fight scenes and positions to draw. Overall, its a good resource. The lighting is very good, and sometimes leans a little toward the dramatic side. If you use this along with, for example, a reference book on facial expressions, there are a lot of different images that you can create from these reference points. The disc is wonderful, especially since I do most of my work digitally and therefore like to work with my reference images in the computer.
- A great reference companion for comic book artists
By A1AL4X5C7G78H8 on 2007-10-05
As a beginning professional comic book artist, I've had a lot of trouble nailing certain poses that have to deal with obscure angles and foreshortening. This book has made things a lot easier, as there are a ton of very helpful photos and tutorials in it. The bonus CD is also a great addition.
A good comic book artist should always be prepared to know how to draw anything at any given time. One should also always draw what's right for the story and not take too many shortcuts. While this is hard to do, it it will help you grow as an artist and stand out in the competitive world of comics. And for the difficult aspects of human anatomy and poses, this book should serve as a great reference guide to artists of any level.
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