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acinonyxjubatusrex4 karma

User of refsheet.net here, if I may add my 2 cents!

What appealed to me about Refsheet over Toyhouse and similar websites is that Refsheet combines text, reference image, and supplemental images all on one single page. A direct image link, e.g. imgur, doesn't afford the opportunity to include supplemental text. A standard gallery website (e.g. linking to a DeviantArt submission) encourages artists to just look at the image itself and ignore the description box entirely (in my experience, at least - when confronting artists who missed details, I have been told they simply saved the ref image to their hard drive and referred to it out of context, ignoring the text entirely.) Toyhouse provides all 3, but you are served the text first and need to click to a separate tab to see the images, which are all jumbled together. Refsheet presents everything neatly in one location, the text is the first thing the viewer sees and they have to manually scroll down to get to the images, and auxiliary pictures can be provided in the same place without aggravating the artist. The site's also free to use, easy to customize, and the ability to create a shortlink for your character is quite hands.

In short: it may not be for everyone, but for those of us who are particular about their characters being depicted accurately, it's a godsend.

acinonyxjubatusrex2 karma

User of refsheet.net here, if I may add my 2 cents!

What appealed to me about Refsheet over Toyhouse and similar websites is that Refsheet combines text, reference image, and supplemental images all on one single page. A direct image link, e.g. imgur, doesn't afford the opportunity to include supplemental text. A standard gallery website (e.g. linking to a DeviantArt submission) encourages artists to just look at the image itself and ignore the description box entirely (in my experience, at least - when confronting artists who missed details, I have been told they simply saved the ref image to their hard drive and referred to it out of context, ignoring the text entirely.) Toyhouse provides all 3, but you are served the text first and need to click to a separate tab to see the images, which are all jumbled together. Refsheet presents everything neatly in one location, the text is the first thing the viewer sees and they have to manually scroll down to get to the images, and auxiliary pictures can be provided in the same place without aggravating the artist. The site's also free to use, easy to customize, and the ability to create a shortlink for your character is quite hands.

In short: it may not be for everyone, but for those of us who are particular about their characters being depicted accurately, it's a godsend.