Ryika
Lazy Wannabe Artista
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So I've just downloaded 50gb of <adult> image galleries (with about equal amounts of men and women I think - equality!) that I now have to scour for useful poses to build a library that is suited to act as a repository so I can just sit down and do some gesture and pose drawing with random poses that I haven't seen 500 times already. A terrible faith, truly painful, and it made me think: Why do I even have to do this?
Why are there no good, large online libraries that already offer proper services? There are some smaller ones like Quickposes, and Sketchdaily, but their number of images is really limited, and after a few weeks, you've gone through all of them a few times already and it becomes boring. There's also Croquis Cafe which is probably the best resource there is at the moment, but I don't really like their particular style of presentation. (Some would also name posemaniacs I'm sure, but their poses are way too stiff - if you ask me, you should always draw from real models, not figures.)
So that made me think. The real reason for why the industry around posing sites isn't that developed is that not enough people are using them, and why are not enough people using them? Because Africa and similar places are not part of the developed world, obviously. If they were, and had to care less about daily survival, then they could spend part of their day sitting in front of a PC, surfing the internet like I do whenever I can, and that would mean that more of them would start drawing, and that would mean that more people would start using posing sites, which then means posing sites would have more budget to create their own images, and then I would not have to sort out 50gb of <adult> images just to build my own pose library.
The same is true for other online services of course, Twitter, Facebook, Steam... hell, even Civfanatics could benefit greatly from more African visitors I assume. Electronic devices are not produced in African Workshops either, so there's no conflict of interest there I think, unless the guys who own the clothing companies also own the computer companies for some reason. ...which I don't think is the case.
So that leaves me baffled. Why are online companies not doing their best to push the idea that we should do better when it comes to developing the third world? It seems like that's an issue that was popular a while ago, but has sort of been forgotten about in a world that is now all about the little first world problems (such as mine), and bathroom assignments, and gay pride, and whatnot - all important issues, sure, but it does not increase the market, it just gives them a greater part of the existing market, and is certainly nothing compared to the big issues we should solve, such as increasing the availability of online posing libraries by actively helping Africa and similar places to catch up with the first world.
So what am I missing? Why are global companies, especially those that operate mostly on the internet and are thus not forced to invest into new places, not trying to make us expand the market capacity of Africa?
Why are there no good, large online libraries that already offer proper services? There are some smaller ones like Quickposes, and Sketchdaily, but their number of images is really limited, and after a few weeks, you've gone through all of them a few times already and it becomes boring. There's also Croquis Cafe which is probably the best resource there is at the moment, but I don't really like their particular style of presentation. (Some would also name posemaniacs I'm sure, but their poses are way too stiff - if you ask me, you should always draw from real models, not figures.)
So that made me think. The real reason for why the industry around posing sites isn't that developed is that not enough people are using them, and why are not enough people using them? Because Africa and similar places are not part of the developed world, obviously. If they were, and had to care less about daily survival, then they could spend part of their day sitting in front of a PC, surfing the internet like I do whenever I can, and that would mean that more of them would start drawing, and that would mean that more people would start using posing sites, which then means posing sites would have more budget to create their own images, and then I would not have to sort out 50gb of <adult> images just to build my own pose library.
The same is true for other online services of course, Twitter, Facebook, Steam... hell, even Civfanatics could benefit greatly from more African visitors I assume. Electronic devices are not produced in African Workshops either, so there's no conflict of interest there I think, unless the guys who own the clothing companies also own the computer companies for some reason. ...which I don't think is the case.
So that leaves me baffled. Why are online companies not doing their best to push the idea that we should do better when it comes to developing the third world? It seems like that's an issue that was popular a while ago, but has sort of been forgotten about in a world that is now all about the little first world problems (such as mine), and bathroom assignments, and gay pride, and whatnot - all important issues, sure, but it does not increase the market, it just gives them a greater part of the existing market, and is certainly nothing compared to the big issues we should solve, such as increasing the availability of online posing libraries by actively helping Africa and similar places to catch up with the first world.
So what am I missing? Why are global companies, especially those that operate mostly on the internet and are thus not forced to invest into new places, not trying to make us expand the market capacity of Africa?