Posing for Reference

One of the biggest challenges when using virtual models is to get them to look natural. This is true for both the artist whose finished product is rendered right out of DAZ Studio and for those who just use DAZ Studio for reference for their art. Whether you are using DAZ Studio for your finished art or just for reference, your work will suffer if you don’t follow good practices for posing your figure.

If you have ever attended a life drawing class and worked with a live human model, you should be familiar with the term gesture drawing. A gesture drawing is a quick, sometimes 30-second, drawing of a model. Gesture drawings are used to reduce the model down to just a few simple lines. The reducing of a pose to just a few simple lines is an important concept for getting believable poses. The most important of these lines is the action line.