Artists waste time finding specific visual references
Artists, fan creators, and roleplayers need references for particular characters, poses, body types, costume details, or angles, but suitable images can be sparse or hard to locate. Search results may include unwanted AI images, sexualized art, or images that do not show the detail they need. People work around this by digging through fan art, using pose sites, downloading 3D models, or taking their own photos.
For character artists, illustrators, and fan creators. Mentioned from Oct 2023 to Sep 2026 on Bluesky.
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37 different people described this problem in 37 separate discussions.
- Indie fit
- 4.0/10
- Pain
- 4.5/10
- Frequency
- 10.0/10
- Willingness to pay
- 1.6/10
- Momentum
- 5.6/10
- Who pays
- Professionals
- Competition
- Medium
- Build difficulty
- Medium
What people said
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The biggest pain is finding a character you like for a faceclaim or to even RP is but they are so obscure that their fanart consists entirely of AI images and if you filter those out, you get like two-three pieces of actual work to credit and use. This is why Koikatsu is helpful
It makes finding good, official references for costume props and heads SUCH a pain, especially when in a franchise like Star Fox there’s so little hi-res source material anyways
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