Ill be rebuilding and relaunching that soon but thats not what this post is about.

This post is about various places for finding human figure models to use in addition to the little manikin (that links to Michaels where they have a small manikin for 4.99 and two larger sizes, both for I think it was 9.99 I had to call because their website doesnt have prices) on your desk.

Dont be put off by the pixelated appearance of the animation detail isnt the point.

Online Pose Mannequin Full Human Body

This is another timed exercise with a full human body and, then, just the skeleton.

They go really fast this is an exercise where youre just supposed to draw what are called gesture lines.

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While I dont believe that there is a completely iron clad proportion drawing guide, the few that dont seem completely terrible tend to use number of heads as a measurement.

I liked the idea of it, being able to have a little human on hand for all my drawing needs.

Every time I go into a shop to see one in person I immediately remember why it was a terrible idea and I cant put it down fast enough.

They are kinda rubbish and makes you wonder why they are so widely adopted by artists Im no anatomy expert, but even I can see they are seriously pointless.

Up until this point Ive been using mirrorswebcamscameras, my own hands, image searches, tried a few programsapps (not to my likely), books and even forced my husband to stand in stupid ways while I take photos.

Plus there is only so much a normal person can achieve Not everyone can be a natural actor, playing child, martial arts, leaping, magic wielding, flying dancer I know I definitely cant, but not for lack of trying P But up until now Ive got by ok with all these other resources, yet I still felt a physically thing in front of me would vastly help.

I found a few fab static models statues that showed more anatomical detail.

They really do seem great, but posing was my goal so it was a no go.

Id never thought about a doll before as a drawing aid I found a great blog post about SFBT-3 here their SFBT-3 English website.

I checked every once in a while with no luck (though my wallet is happy about not spending 300 USD).

Update: I have actually been able to buy one after years see my new post the SFBT-3 In Depth Review ).

So a couple of months ago I finally started to look around a bit more for an alternative.

Difficult since now I was starting to look at toys and collectors figures, thats a whole other ball park.

I only found one that was simple, natural and not too action figure that would work best for drawing.

The more I read the more I realised that again, these seemed super hard to get hold of even though they are reasonably priced and sold at conventions that I probably would never have been able to go to on the other side of the world rather than online Darn I thought (.

Turns out that when I found that page, only 2 days later they were running a 24 hour competition for the chance to buy online with only less than 100 winners for the 16 Synthetic Human Test Body (a special edition).

I was reading comments on the page by collectors who had so much passion for the 16 figure, I thought Ill enter but didnt think Id win a chance to buy, given how many people would have chopped off an arm for one.

It finally arrived a couple of weeks ago and finally I have got around to blogging about it.

So Im very sorry to any collectors that see this blog, its gonna get used, sit on my desk, maybe get knocked about and utilized no glass case for this little fella.

At first I thought, omg thats a lot for a bit of plastic but having just bought a Wacom and thinking about the price of art equipment in general and the priece of just a static artist statue, it actually does put the price into a different perspective making it pretty reasonable.

Its even better given how difficult it seems to find figures like this Its not every day you can say I bought an action figure and claimed it as a business expense.

Its more robust than I thought it would be And even though I knew the height before I ordered it, it was taller than I expected.

It took me a while to get the hang of moving the parts, but the joints themselves feel robust but still easy to move.

The first thing I thought was, I wonder how realistic the structural proportions are compared to figure drawing guides.