The 5 Best Actually Free Websites for Drawing Poses
- Lily Regalia
- Jun 19, 2023
- 4 min read
Updated: Jun 28, 2023
Monday, June 19th, 2023
If you really want to keep up with your drawing skills, you have to train them like you would do with anything else: weightlifting, playing the accordion, getting 1st place in Mario Kart.
You get the picture. Regardless, drawing is difficult, and it is important to have resources to help you consistently improve.
In this short read, I will be going over some of the best resources online you can utilize as an artist that are completely, 100% free! Some other articles suggest websites that claim to be free and really have underlying subscriptions that you have to pay for to access.
Personally, I'm not about that, and I don't want to put you through that. Next!
Note: These websites are numbered but are not ranked from best to worst or vice versa.
This is a great website that I used during college as a requirement for a figure drawing class, and I have used it occasionally since. It offers timed practice that has many different customization options; for example, you can change the subject that you're drawing.
If you don't want to draw the human figure, you can choose to draw landscapes or animals. You can also change how many seconds or intervals you want to spend on each image; you can change how many images you want to draw from, among other things.
There is a challenge section as well as a random poses section that serves a different purpose if you prefer not to do the timed practice. This website is easy to navigate because there really isn't that much too it; needless to say, although it's short in terms of content, that doesn't mean it isn't an awesome resource.
This is very similar to suggestion #1, except you can change the view that you're looking from. This is very helpful especially when you have a specific subject in mind that you need a reference for, and you can't find that reference anywhere online.
There is also a vegetation section where you only draw plants, although there are not many images. I still think that it is nice to have options.
I would argue that this one is even easier to navigate than the first option because there is just one page or tab on the entire site.
Are you trying to improve drawing faces specifically? Line of Action has a feature where you can choose to study different facial expressions (ex. Anger, sadness, and surprise are some examples). Pick how long you want your intervals like the other websites on this list.
You can also choose to draw just hands and feet, respectively. I would argue that hands are some of the hardest aspects of anatomy to master in drawing because of veins, spacing of fingers, the numerous angles. These closeup photos will give you lots of practice so that you don't avoid drawing hands; believe me, I did.
If you are tired of drawing the same body type, try out this websites. The human body comes in many different shapes and sizes, and why wouldn't you want to explore that in your drawing? You may be doing yourself a disservice if you don't
I feel that this website has a lot more diverse models which includes ethnicity and gender-roles among others. If you'd rather see a more fluid selection, then perhaps this is for you!
What I also think is neat is that you can draw models together. Usually, a model is depicted just by themselves, but here you can choose to draw two or even three people at once. I've seen examples of hugging, fighting, talking, etc. There are many options in that area.
If you are looking for a unique site unlike many other figure drawing sites, this would be it. What separates this from so many other resources is the fact that you are focusing on just human muscles. The references are medical illustrations of sorts rather than actual photographs.
In other words, if you are really interested the accuracy of human anatomy and it doesn't bother you that there aren't shadows to draw, then this website is for you.
What's really neat is the fact that you can have a 360-degree view of your model because they're 3-D references; if you like a specific pose and want to see that pose from another angle, then you are in luck.
This is the type of software that almost always requires some sort of subscription to use, but not in this case; take advantage of it!
And that wraps up the list for "The 5 Best Actually Free Sites for Drawing Poses"!
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