Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog

Matthew Albanese’s photos of dramatic landscapes are gorgeous, but they are not what they first seem to be. These are meticulously hand-made models. For example, the caption on this striking tornado photo reveals: “Tornado made of steel wool, cotton, ground parsley and moss.” This seems to me like matte painting taken to a new and strange (and pretty awesome) 3-dimensional space.

Just under a year ago I posted a link to Pose Maniacs, a collection of rotating 3D human models that you can use as reference for sketching or drawing. Though always easy to navigate, until this launch of their site in English, it was in Japanese only.

Previously: Pose Maniacs: Human Model Resource