Hey guys and gals, I’ve noticed one interesting fact this morning. Although I deeply plunged into the lessons of Stan’s anatomy course, and mostly doing studies of isolated body parts, I’m still trying to maintain daily routine of drawing and shading one full body figure. To be honest, I’m still leaning more on the visual perception of the model in front of me, than on anatomy knowledge, while I’m doing this exercise (although, I’m trying to incorporate both approaches). There are lessons in anatomy course, which explains how fat will be stored on the human body. But it’s quite different to see drawing (even a good one) in compare to authentic photo of human body in motion, or action pose. And I have really hard time to find photos of… well… more luxurious models, on the web. I’m aware that is probably better to learn and study slimmer models, for the sake of understanding basic anatomy, body form and mannequinization. But, after a while, I wanted to upgrade that knowledge to different body types, and to add certain versatility to the subjects of my drawings. I can find some photo references of chubby models on the web, however they usually not so professionally captured, in high resolution, dynamic poses, and proper single source lightning, which is so important in the process of learning. There are some really really nice reference packages on Proko’s site, those included in Stan’s courses are enough for a while. There are also some great packages included in other figure drawing courses, however range of the body types are usually from skinny, to slim-normal-athletic. This issue could also be applied to the lack of different age group models. Yes, once we learn the basics, we can apply them on any figure drawing, strictly based on visual aspect. But age problematic is more of an anatomy issue. It’s not the problem to add wrinkles in the figure drawing, but posture (especially in motion) is different, depending on age of a model. I know that would be very hard to pull this off, especially in quite delicate cases of under 18 models. We live in awful times where even artistic nude photos could be easily abused. But, body type of  3 years old, 20 years and 70 years old, their anatomy, and performance of their motor actions, are quite different. Sorry for being too extensive with this issue. And sorry if I confused you with my awful Eastern European English. 😊 So, how and where do you find pro references of different body types? Any ideas? Can we expect atypical body type model packages from Proko? Cheers, Milan