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TrueRef by Abbey Esparza @trueref.bsky.social · 3d

TrueRef Draw This! 009 🤍✨

October's Draw This! challenge is underway. We provide a free reference, you draw it to enter! More info below.

There are two winners: One staff pick & one random pick. Winners get a free 1 month subscription to TrueRef!

Use #TrueRefDT009 to enter! Deadline: Oct. 31

art pose reference of a woman with long nails perched up high.

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TrueRef by Abbey Esparza @trueref.bsky.social · 3h

TrueRef: Real references for real artists. 💕

art references of a woman with pink hair crouching.

art references of a woman with pink hair sitting.

art references of a woman with pink hair sitting while looking bored.

art references of a woman with pink hair making a sad face.

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TrueRef by Abbey Esparza @trueref.bsky.social · 3h

Grab our whole library and help support us with TrueRef+! For $15 you get:

- Two new packs monthly
- 18,000+ diverse pose references
- A new nifty Members Hub

Don't love a membership? We have single packs too!

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TrueRef: Real references for real artists

TrueRef is here to serve up monthly figure references for illustrators and photo editors—always free from retouching and never AI-generated.

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TrueRef by Abbey Esparza @trueref.bsky.social · 3h

TrueRef: Real references for real artists. 💕

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 9h

Too good of a pose not to mess with contest or otherwise.

A drawing in digital graphite based on the pose photo in the quoted post. A thin and lithe human in a deep crouch, up on their toes, legs splayed out and their long arms crossed in front of their body. The long fingers of each hand in in curving black claws. Their hair is short and smoothed down close to their head. Their expression is intent and aggressive, looking out from heavily shadowed eyes. From the sides of their head are sprouting two forms somewhat like horns, but also like bent pieces of jagged metal. And several more such forms are rising from their back. Partly to look cool and partly because they were fun to draw. This whole dangerous-seeming figure is perched on top of the head of a sculpture, or possibly a church gargoyle depicting a fierce, horned animal or monster of some kind.

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TrueRef by Abbey Esparza @trueref.bsky.social · 10h

god no. I don't even pay for whatever spotify actually costs lol

TrueRef by Abbey Esparza @trueref.bsky.social · 12h

The last 4 I joined were scams but this one feels legit.

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TrueRef by Abbey Esparza @trueref.bsky.social · 12h

Found Usage Fees LLC, make millions.

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TrueRef by Abbey Esparza @trueref.bsky.social · 12h

It includes our bandwidth bill, which is a big one. Then every transition has a flat usage fee. Then the base subscription for Shopify, and the two apps the power our membership.

It all just adds up lol

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TrueRef by Abbey Esparza @trueref.bsky.social · 12h

I want “Usage Fees” engraved in my tombstone when I die.

TrueRef by Abbey Esparza @trueref.bsky.social · 12h

Just took psychic damage from my Shopify bill jumping to $400 lmao. 💀😭

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Veena Beena 🔞 @veenabeenaart.bsky.social · 20h

WIP thumbnails 11 and 12 for our class key art! another 9+ hour day, needs refinement but i survived. the first one gets weirder the longer u look at the details. the investigator's pose was from @trueref.bsky.social and im proud of it!
#art #beginnerartist #sketch #wip #ttrpg #indiettrpg

50s noir style lovecraftian investigator where everything is just a little off

barista with a hidden staff making coffee for two soldiers in power armor

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TrueRef by Abbey Esparza @trueref.bsky.social · 1d

Is this for the draw this! challenge?

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Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · 1d

ive been working on several rather big pieces or projects and its a good problem to have but it does mean that my little pea brain is not feeling progress even when i put multiple hours a day in

so here's a quick little win for me, a study to warm up for the week #art 🦢
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a digital painting of a woman crouched on a white box, in front of a white studio background. she is posed in such a way that she is looking at the viewer directly, though her head is tilted forward. she is wearing sporty black underwear but is otherwise nude, with light highlighting her shoulders and hair, and long, sharp, prosthetic claws on her fingers.

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TrueRef by Abbey Esparza @trueref.bsky.social · 1d

I had never heard of the Hayes code before. Lmao. Wild.

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Vaahtokaapeli @vaahtokaapeli.bsky.social · 1d

#creatober2025
Day 6 Seer
Reference from @trueref.bsky.social

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TrueRef by Abbey Esparza @trueref.bsky.social · 2d

Don't miss our new ghost reference pack with new TrueRef model @whimzweekly.bsky.social ! 🖤👻

multiple references photos of a young ghost girl compsited together

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TrueRef by Abbey Esparza @trueref.bsky.social · 2d

the not being able to pace obsessively whenever I want for 12 hours is what's getting to me lol

TrueRef by Abbey Esparza @trueref.bsky.social · 2d

Nope! When I travel I ditch all food preferences so I can make sure and eat local cuisine super easily haha

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TrueRef by Abbey Esparza @trueref.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve also never been on a plane ride longer than 3 hours. So I’m periodically panicking about that, which is fun.

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TrueRef by Abbey Esparza @trueref.bsky.social · 2d

I’ll be doing a trip to Auckland, New Zealand soon and I’m looking for good food recommendations!

Fancy, non-fancy, I’ll take whatever.

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DonTron9000 @dontron9000.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks to @trueref.bsky.social for giving me the little nudge to draw last night. Saw some poses that screamed Leo and needed to doodle them out.

#rottmnt #rottmntleo #tcest (for filter)

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TrueRef by Abbey Esparza @trueref.bsky.social · 2d

She's 15% off for just one more day! Or you can grab our whole spoOoOoky library with TrueRef+! For $15 you get:

- Two new packs monthly
- 18,000+ diverse pose references
- A new nifty Members Hub

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Haunted Creatures I: Whimsy

Haunted Creatures I is a reference pack centered on ghostly, creature-like poses full of raw emotion and eerie intensity. The set captures a wide range of expressions and movements from wide-mouthed s...

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TrueRef by Abbey Esparza @trueref.bsky.social · 2d

Don't miss our new ghost reference pack with new TrueRef model @whimzweekly.bsky.social ! 🖤👻

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James @jamesldraws.bsky.social · 2d

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Congrats to @pringl-draws.bsky.social this DTIYS was a lot of fun.

Ref/model: @trueref.bsky.social

#pringl3kdtyis #daemon #demon #dtiys #pastel #occult #pinup #monstergirl

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TrueRef by Abbey Esparza @trueref.bsky.social · 3d

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