Drawing References and Resources

This reference guide provides some useful information about drawing skin on your portraits. One of the unique things about this guide is the addition of "color zones" that explain how the skin tone color is spread across different parts of the anatomy.

This 26 page PDF contains a massive collection of cartoon features you can use on your cartoon drawings. The guide also includes animal cartoon features, three-quarter view cartoons, and portrait guides.

This drawing reference is designed to help you get a better understanding of the wolf anatomy. It also includes tips about drawing wolf paws at different angles and orientations.

This simple reference guide provides a good starting point for learning about the proportions and anatomy of the male face. IT comes with colored grids that illustrate the position of different facial features in relation to the entire face.

Although the human legs look the same on most people, there are many ways you can go about drawing legs in your drawings or paintings. This reference guide provides useful information about drawing different types of legs.

This tutorial explains the process of drawing a forest scene in perspective using a series of diagonal lines. You can also apply this technique to any of your other perspective drawings you might be working on.

This simple reference guide explains the proportions of the nose and mouth when drawing a portrait from the side view.

This reference guide is for anyone who wants to learn how to draw different hairstyles. It includes several styles you can add to your portrait drawings and even contains some tips about how to highlight different parts of the hair to create a unique effect.

This drawing reference guide will help you draw convincing anime eyes using a few useful tips. By learning how to draw the eyes, you'll be able to add character to your anime characters and give them a sense of dynamism.

This reference guide is a useful tool for any cartoon character currently in the process of creating their own characters. The guide provides a general outline of different body types that have been exaggerated for maximum effect.

This simple reference guide is for anyone who wants to learn about drawing braids. The process is fairly simple -- it only takes four steps and a few minutes of drawing time before you have a detailed braid you can use for any of your portraits.

This guide explains the various techniques and steps involved in drawing the human nose from the profile view. It teaches you how to establish proportion, outline shapes, and shade forms in order to make your nose drawings dynamic.

This drawing reference guide is for anyone who needs more practice drawing the ears. The image provides a detailed look at the contours, lighting, and overall shape of the ear.

A useful reference guide for anyone who wants to improve their lip drawings. Also, if you want to learn how to use the mouth to add emotion to your drawings, this reference guide will be of some help to you.

This unique reference guide shows some techniques you can use to create the appearance of water droplets on your drawings. You can use this on any of your digital paintings on Adobe Photoshop.

An excerpt from the book Painting Weathered Buildings in Pen, Ink & Watercolor. It contains useful tips about drawing in pen such as using contour lines, crosshatching, and parallel lines. This is a great guide for anyone thinking of learning about the main concepts of pen drawing.

Everything you need to know about drawing hair on male and females is included in this reference guide. The hairstyles range from bald to medium to long. This is an extremely useful guide for any portrait artist.

There aren't a lot of reference guides you can find about drawing fingernails. It's a nice surprise finding reference guides such as these because they often reveal new and interesting drawing techniques you may overlook by focusing on the anatomy of the hand as whole.

Fashion sketches are an important part of designing clothing for fashion. This comprehensive guide explains the various anatomy proportions, and lines of symmetry you have to pay attention to when creating fashion sketches.

Drawing the hands can be challenging for any artist. Luckily, there are several reference guides you can use to understand the anatomy and proportions of the hands. Reference guides such as this one will help you understand the details of the hands.

This reference guide contains a variety of hand gestures you can refer to when drawing. Whether you're trying to draw realistic hands or only want to understand the anatomy, this reference guide will be useful to you.

This reference guide provides a good starting point when it comes to understanding the anatomy of the human lips. By using this guide, you'll get a better idea of how to convey emotion using the lips and proportion them correctly.

This reference guide is all about drawing the feet and legs. It contains several sketches of feet at different angles and orientations that you may come across when drawing feet from a reference image.