Knight's sketchbook

[darktiste]

If you want to practice foreshorten you could take a serie of Burst shot using a camera that as this function.Basically all you would have to do is set a delay or ask someone to be a model or you they take the picture and you model.The idea would be that you go from a profile to a foreshorten position will the burst shot are being taken.This way you get a slow collection of reference that goes more and more into foreshorten.

An other option if you want to study foreshorten would be to buy high quality 360 angel model of real people and simply change the camera position to get different degree of foreshorten.(Require 3d model software+model)

Or maybe you can exchange service to someone for them to be your model and you draw them live you just gotta get creative with what ever resource you have.

The problem with tracing is that it only as good as the reference will there is more flexiblity to obtain what ever pose you require if you have the option to take photo of someone.So i think it always easier and cheaper to just take your own photo and everyone pretty much as a phone so there is no real excuse not to try to find someone to be your model.You can probably even do the modelling yourself using delay and putting the camera in portrait mode where it invert the camera toward the user so this way you can see yourself and adjust to your need.

Good luck and i hope you found my advise useful.