welcome to camp telophase

I'm looking on Amazon Japan for pose books, and the Google machine translation is awesome.

From a book on kimono and poses with people in and partly out of it:

Making a manga artist Pose collection Delusional pose collection SPROUT

Suzuya called the strongest bang of this century. The second popular series that Mr. appointed Mr. as a model.
For this time, we will
raise your new delusions on the theme of kimono, such as Yukata and Hakama! Of course, the figure of bare duck is exposed as well!

The pictures are nice, but I have so little call to draw people (or ducks) in and out of kimono that I can't justify ¥2500 for it.

aaagh I have been stalking this guy's military stock photos for months now, because I am too chicken to just email* and ask what he charges for his pack of 500 military stock photos. I haven't actually don anything with them yet, but they make my fingers itch to paint something using them.


*social anxiety YAY!

You can get the AutoDesk Sketchbook Copic Edition free: http://www.blendernation.com/2011/08/02/autodesk-sketchbook-copic-edition-free/ It's a limited version so it doesn't contain the full capabilities of Autodesk's Sketchbook (which I'm not familiar with so I can't tell you what they are, although I gather it doesn't contain the full range of brushes/tools), but it looks to be a decent program for sketching and simulating marker work. I've installed it, but won't get a chance to play with it until this weekend.

English version of the official page: http://copic.jp/en/sketchbook-ce.html

Awesome art reference via little_details: Photos of athletes, showcasing the vast range of different body types.

I am absolutely fascinated by how the sprinters have worked on developing their upper bodies in addition to their lower bodies, while the marathoners remain as slender as possible. I suspect that as a marathoner, you want as little mass weighing you down as possible*, but I don't know how adding muscle mass to the upper body would help sprinters. Anyone know?




*And I'm actually getting this thought from Top Gear, where I learned that to make your car go faster, you rip out as much as possible to get it as light as possible, leading the guys to rip out seats, doors they don't happen to be using, etc. when engaged in silly challenges. :D

Via nijibug: videos of the mangaka of Otoyomegatari (and Emma) creating her artwork. I haven't had a chance to look at them yet, as I'm snowed under at my Real Job [tm].