referencesforartists:

As an artist, I’ve found difficulties finding references images of several things: Modern fashion, variation of facial features, and normal standing/walking poses.

A lot of reference images, especially ones I find for gesture drawing, focus on very… extreme poses, often unnatural or posed specifically for nude modeling. Also normal everyday clothing is often not focused on.

While gesture drawing a wide variety of poses is necessary to learn how the body moves, gesture drawing tools and books often neglect more normal poses.

well, here’s some blogs that are blogs focusing on taking pictures of normal, everyday people that I personally find useful for reference

• http://www.humansofnewyork.com/
• http://www.japanesestreets.com/
• http://www.flickr.com/groups/streets_in_color/pool/
• http://www.thesartorialist.com

any other street-based photography blog is good as well, if you have one, fanmail me and I’ll add it