Rotation Photos of Human Head
3yr
@aristotle
I want to practice sculpting heads, and I was hoping to find some good references of the same person from multiple angles. Do any of you have recommendations? Posespace seems to work okay, but seems geared more toward figurative work. I just wondered if there were some options that I was missing. In the past I have tried to use celebrities, since it is easy to find lots of photos of them, but something with all the photos gathered together, with photos from all angles would be great. Any thoughts?
It seems to me that there could be room for a crowd-sourced collection of free artist reference here (especially if we are just looking at portraits, since people would be more willing to put up their face online than nudes), but I don't know of anything like this. If 20 sculptors took photos of three friends each, we would have a nice start to a collection.
Hi Aristotle, I guess for now we can't beat taking your own reference photo's... I think Proko instructor @Andrew Joseph Keith has an ebook or was working on something that might cover this?
One thing missing from most ref packs is an above and below angle so we can judge depths.
Agreed online searches can be tricky from different cameras focus distortions and different lighting.
Maybe one day dreamy day with can have a super sculptor international convention and have a booth set up that all willing sculptors get photos done then release it as an amazingly snazzy book....then we can sculpt the sculptors....hmmm hey internet someone go kickstart this pleeez
One reasonable practice hack I've tried is buying a second hand 'hot toys' head. These are from highly detailed 12 inch figures and the portraits are great, this way you can study it all angles and super portable :)
