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I often forget that people would be interested in things like this, and a lot of the time I don't do illustrations that require this much prior planning to begin with so there's not much point but here's the mood board, reference board or whatever you want to call it that eventually led to the final Poison illustration!

It's difficult to do a breakdown of what went into what through text but thankfully I feel like it's all pretty self explanatory, most of these images just ended up solidifying the idea rather than being direct references

I'll try to post more of these whenever it makes sense to if people seem to care enough

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Winton Kidd

Awww yes, love this, such a cool thing to share! It's really just neat to see how other people reduce down the references they need for their process. I'm curious, do you have a sweet spot for how many reference images you like to have on any given project or is it just as many as it takes?

Gloss

I usually just add things until I feel like there's not really any point to gathering any more, like I mentioned there usually isn't this many but yeah I do tend to go by feel rather than counting. If I feel like there's a specific thing in my head that I want but don't have a super clear idea for yet, I'll go until the idea solidifies itself and if there's something that I think I'll probably need to directly reference to get right then I'll add until I'm confident that I've covered all my mental blind spots!

Winton Kidd

Covering the mental blind spots is an idea that makes a ton of sense to me, that's a great way of describing it!👌 Thanks for sharing so much of your process, love seeing all this stuff!

Anonymous

where do you find references like poses ect from the angles you want? i can never find stuff from low angles like fhat

Gloss

I just do really specific Google searches! like if you search something like "woman low camera angle" you'll get a lot of results, and from there you can make it even more specific by adding things at the end of the search, like "big boobs", "wearing sweater" etc.

Gloss

For art stuff I'd recommend using a booru like danbooru or sankaku, they have tons of tags for stuff like angles, viewpoints and such (although you'll have to manually filter out nsfw entries using tags I believe)