These should all be GenAI free but it can spread so please let me know if any of these are no good.
Animals
- Animal Headshot Finder: Animal skull rotate for headshots
- Animal Photo Reference Repository: Artists creating derivative or transformative works without Generative AI have blanket permission to reference these photos
- Butterfly Conservation: Butterfly and moth identification photos, and information about them in general
Fonts
- Aka Acid: Sweet Fonts to choose from. Fonts for personal and commercial use. Fonts divided by handwritten, "advertisements" (easy to read) and pixel
- DaFont: More fonts
- Fonts for a progressive future: Fonts for people fighting for a better future. Free for all non-commercial use
Poses
- Adorkastock: Providing Pose References by Artists, for Artists. Old poses that haven't been brought over can be found on the deviantArt account
- Null Entity: Deviant Art | Patreon
- Posemaniacs: Muscle focused 3D modeled poses by category, muscles refs, tutorials, hand psoes, face references. Can rotate the 3D models, changing the lighting, change how the muscles are shown too.
- Pose My Art: Work from preset 3D poses where you can then change the pose, body types (kinda), lighting, camera angle and other things
Reference Photo Packs
- Reference Pictures Free: Download reference packs for free. For Personal and commercial use
- True Ref: Real References for Real Artists
Stock photos
- Nappy: Beautiful stock photos of Black and Brown people, for free
- Pexels: "AI can't replace lived experiences. The best photos and videos come from real people capturing real life."
- Unsplash: Stock photos
- iStockPhoto: "No AI-generated content is accepted from contributors—only visuals you can trust." While their photo gallery is free from generative AI, they have an "AI Generator" button at the top of their website. I used to use this site a lot before they added that AI Generator button and then disregarded them for years. However, sometimes you can't find refs on other sites, and iStockphoto does have amazing references, and they do claim they are free from Generative AI, so it could be worse. (They are the last place I go to, but sometimes they have what I need.)
Misc
- THE RESEARCH LIBRARY at Animation Art Conservation: a conservation practice devoted to the ethical repair and scientific study of classic animation art
- Humanæ: Struggling with skin colours? A photographic work in progress by artist Angélica Dass, an unusually direct reflection on the color of the skin, attempting to document humanity's true colors rather than the untrue labels “white”, “red”, “black” and “yellow” associated with race
- Prompt Twist: Prompt and color scheme generator