One of the most important steps to starting a project is having quality photo references. Here are 8 inexpensive royalty free bundles that are sure to meet all your reference needs without taking a hit to your wallet.

Art Model Poses - Sekaa

This female art model is great for practicing anatomy, gesture, structure, foreshortening, tone and proportions. 639 photos come with this pack.

Note: Photos are not censored.

Aerial Skies Pack

From low to high altitude, from dawn to dusk, this pack contains a wide variety of aerial skies.

High quality jpegs from uncompressed RAW at native camera resolution (4896x3264).

You can use it for any personal or commercial use. Ideal for matte painting, photo-bashing, 3d or just as a reference.

Ref Pack - Aircraft Details

These photos include a lot of tech details like weapons, engines and landing gears and could be very useful in doing any hard surface design.

The samples below provide a good idea of what's included.

Free to use in your paintings, photobash and matte paintings, personal and commercial works. Royalty free.

Includes 915 High Res Jpegs. Mostly 4288x2848.

America Resource Pack

A high quality, relatively inexpensive pack of 3000 reference photos taken in California should be useful for any environment concept artists, matte-painters, website designers and digital painters for personal or commercial use.

This pack includes -

• Yosemite National Park ( mossy trees and mountain and rock textures )
• San Francisco ( flowers, streets, architecture and people )
• Kings Canyon ( lakes and steams )
• Cleone Lake ( succulents, sand dunes wooden paths )
• Sinkyone Wilderness ( dead trees, barns and cliffs )
• Gold buff's Beach ( deer with antlers and pastures )
• Fern Canyon ( ferns, ginormous redwoods, fallen trees and described as a place with you would imagine dinosaurs would pop up anytime )
• Lake Tahoe ( ducks, lakes and rounded boulders )
• Olmsted Point ( mountain tops like cloud's rest and half dorm )
• Boydern Caves and tons of other places

Swiss Landscape Rescources

The LAKE 1 set includes 110 high resolution pictures (5000 pixels minimum), ideal to help with matte paintings, digital painting/concept, marketing content, etc.

Nepal Ancient Temple Images for 3D Game Concept

The Pashupatinath Temple is one of the ancient Hindu Temple located in Kathmandu Nepal. This Pack Contains 60 High Res images of the temple and its surroundings. This pack will help you create a stunning 3D/Game Environment.

Urban Decay Texture Pack

This is a urban decay pack comes with 556 non-tiling textures. It includes lots of dirt, grime, concrete, damaged plaster, etc. This is the perfect pack if you need to add texture to your concepts, or to add surface detail or create textures for your 3D environments.

The uncropped resolution is 6k*4k.

Japan Travel Photo Pack

This pack includes 700+ photos of Japan (4000x3000 px):

• Temples and shrines
• Statues
• Gardens & Nature
• Some props and interiors
• 18 century houses