Refimages Blog

Guides, breakdowns and reference technique for figure drawing, anatomy, gesture and concept art — written for artists who draw from reference rather than trace it.

Most of what is published here is about how to use reference well: which angle actually answers the question you are stuck on, how to read anatomy from a photograph without copying its lighting, when a gesture study beats a careful construction, and how to build a personal library you will still be using in five years.

The posts below go into specific subjects — head construction, foreshortening, female and male anatomy, dynamic poses — with the reference that illustrates each point.