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Saturday, June 1st, 2013

Character Design Page, a blog that I have mentioned in the past as a wonderful source of inspiration, has a Pinterest Page as well!

http://pinterest.com/characterdesigh/

The curator of the blog, Wagner, has done an amazing amount of work organizing more than 14,000 images into extremely useful reference categories for artists, such as: Heads, Hands, Teenagers, Children, etc.

And if you don’t follow the regular blog yet, be sure to check it out. It’s full of wonderful work, and especially great for those that are interested in animation and concept art. Wagner spotlights the work of 3 different artists each week. http://www.characterdesignpage.com

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    Mike Butkus on June 1, 2013 at 5:07 am

    Wow! Thank you !

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    Thomas Diem on June 1, 2013 at 5:10 am

    Do you realize you just blew the weekend for any number of people? Probably good for workplace productivity that you didn't post this on a weekday.

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    Kyle on June 1, 2013 at 1:27 pm

    pretty much what Thomas said. Also a huge thank you! I didn't want to do anything with else anyway.

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    jonathan on June 1, 2013 at 2:02 pm

    This is amazing. I live for this stuff. And there goes the weekend.

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    lyon on June 2, 2013 at 11:33 pm

    Brilliant find. Thanks for the share Dan.

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    Andrea Femerstrand on June 3, 2013 at 8:10 am

    Gosh what a goldmine.. Thank you so much for sharing!!

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    Dirk Steele on June 3, 2013 at 9:08 am

    Amazing – exactly what I needed! Bookmarked double quick. Thanks for sharing!

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    Gollorr on June 3, 2013 at 9:21 am

    This is awesome! The best source of references after google itself 😀

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    Soumitra Gokhale on June 4, 2013 at 7:34 am

    Thank you so much for this page. Seriously awesome repository of references. Bookmarked and treasured. 😀

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    Mark Duin on June 13, 2013 at 10:53 am

    If someone says it's rubbish you can always say they don't have the capability to see the inner painting, how to interpret abstract art. That's important for artist .

    Thanks
    Mark Duin

    Inspirational Speaker

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    Valerio Gramellini on June 17, 2013 at 8:47 pm

    Hi, thanks for sharing my Pinterest page. But I'm not Wagner but Valerio, unfortunately I have nothing to do with Character Design Page blog 🙂

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    K. LeCrone on June 24, 2013 at 4:22 am

    This is fantastic, thanks!