Artist Resources

Library of Congress - Pictures, music, videos, and some public domain media.

Historical Anatomies on The Web - Historical books on human anatomy and medicine.

Archive.org - Public Domain magazines, movies, videos, pictures, and much more.

The Met Collection - A museum’s storage space on your computer, statues, paintings, photographs, and textiles all throughout history. Anything noted as ‘Open Access’ is public domain.

Croquis Cafe - Image database of Life Drawing Models, requires membership.

Sketchdaily - Timed gesture drawing, live models both clothed and nude, and action poses.

Line of Action - Timed Figure drawing.

Google Arts & Culture - Several of the worlds biggest museums’ collections all in one place. Browse through galleries, collections, or wander through them digitally with google street view. Insanely high quality images of famous paintings, zoom into a Van Gogh down to the exact brush stroke.

Quickposes - Gesture drawing database, however images are for practice only, not free to use or make work from.