Male nude art reference

[telophase]

I was looking around DeviantArt for some good nude or nearly-nude men in classical art poses for drawing reference as I'm putting together another project in my head (you'll see it when it's done), and bookmarked several people who have decent stock photos for that.

As this is DA, which thinks that artistic nudes are OMG SAVE THE CHIIIIIILDRUN, you'll need to be logged in to a DA account to see most of them. I tried not to bookmark ones that were mostly camwhoring, and to mark ones that understoo9d artists weren't interested in the model gazing at the camera, or even in the model at all, and interested in light, form, shape, and movement.

http://ahrum-stock.deviantart.com/
http://bodystocks.deviantart.com/
http://felixdeon.deviantart.com/
http://heavycoated.deviantart.com/
http://morf-stock.deviantart.com/
http://pubpusher-stock.deviantart.com/
http://stock4figureartists.deviantart.com/
http://veyga.deviantart.com/
http://watchstock.deviantart.com/

Also plz to be noting that ahrum-stock.deviantart.com/ has a small series of totally awesome sword poses (that one looks oddly Blade of the Immortal familiar) that I absolutely must remember.

Comments

[kutsuwamushi.livejournal.com]

Excellent! I'll be bookmarking these.

(Browsing stock on DeviantArt is so frustrating.)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

God, yes. Camwhore, camwhore, camwhore, camwhore, ok but cut his head off because he's embarrassed to pose nude, camwhore, good, camwhore, camwhore, two pictures of a semi-nude man and 300 pictures of semi-nude women in his gallery, camwhore...

[kutsuwamushi.livejournal.com]

And of course the women are usually very consciously posing for the camera, making the photos useless as reference for anything but cheesecake.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I hate that. And so many of them stare at the camera like they're in love with their own face. Faces are a dime a dozen, and I can get pictures of them everywhere - what I need is pictures of the rest of the body from a bunch of different angles. ahrum-stock above seems to understand that - he does have a lot of his head, but from different angles and with props, and it's all in addition to the rest of the poses.

[blissfish.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[onthehill]

Thanks for sharing these!

[croaky.livejournal.com]

Thanks for these, excellent stuff! :D

[azure-reverie.livejournal.com]

Awesome, I will check these out.

[matildarose.livejournal.com]

Ooo. Thank you muchly for this. <3

[herchuckness.livejournal.com]

Awesome, thanks for the links! *saves*

[rahima04.livejournal.com]

Thankyou!, i've just been trying to find some life drawing refs and these are perfect! :D

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Glad to be of service! :D

[lustylink.livejournal.com]

Just what I needed thanks for the links!