I was going to paint these, and then I thought about how long that would take, so here are some models I took some time to put together instead for drawing reference for anyone interested. I tried to include a variety of body types so you could see how they change depending on the shapes and shoot various angles of some of the most common lighting scenarios. Also, I dunno, I feel like there's no shortage of lighting ref for faces but I RARELY seem to see full-body ones. Hopefully some of you interested can find this helpful o/ If you're interested in making your own, these are all made with Daz3D, which is free and just there to download. Outside of the middle model, and the two anime ones, the rest of these were just made in-program with available morphs for the original Genesis models. The middle one (the one that's super emaciated and shredded lol) is a custom morph, and the anime ones are Hiro 4 and Aiko 4 models that came as morphs for Michael 4 and Victoria 4 models, which I bought a long time ago. Anyway, here's this, o/ As far as setup, the models are just set to smooth-shaded in the viewport, and I just loaded in a distant light. It's super easy to make your own refs like this in Daz with what the program comes with by default if you wanted. Having models to interact with, and lighting to interact with really helped me learn a lot back when I was struggling with form-lighting and stuff years ago and getting really frustrated at how much time I was spending looking for very specific refs and not finding it : )
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