The Bottom Line
The Virtual Pose series (1, 2, 3) combined book/CD-Rom sets providing a variety of poses for figure painting. The ability to rotate the figure on your computer gives a feeling of 3-D a book can’t.
Pros
- Variety of seated and standing poses
- Can rotate figure using CD-Rom
- Book for reference away from computer
Cons
- Pixelation on zoom photos in Version 1
- Most photos in Version 1 and 2 are black and white
Description
- Combined hardback book, 80 pages, and CD-Rom set.
- The zoom in Virtual Pose 2 is less pixelated than on Pose 1 and it has some colour photos.
- Virtual Pose 3 is the latest edition, and would be the one I'd get.
- Each pose is reproduced in book, from six angles. Photos are quite small -- six to a page.
- CD-Rom is stored in plastic sleeve on inside of back cover of book.
- Variety of seated, lying, and standing poses, male and female. Pose 1 has less models than Pose 2.
- Each includes music to play while viewing photos and four tutorials showing a figure sketch evolve.
- This product is, obviously, not suitable for people who have issues regarding nudity.
Guide Review - Virtual Pose Figure Reference
The great advantage of Virtual Pose is that you can use the CD-Rom to rotate the poses on your computer. This gives you a real sense for the three-dimensionality of a figure, which is lost somewhat in a photo in a book. Watch how muscles appear from different viewpoints, what ‘bits’ you can see from a particular angle, how the shadows change. There’s a variety of seated, lying, and standing poses, both a male and female. It’s as close many of us are going to get to a model (or may want to). When you’re away from your computer, you can use the book for reference. Virtual Pose 3 is the latest in the series, and would be my first choice among them.
