[Question] Where do you search for the images you use in your illustrations?

In the mirror of course!  But seriously...

I like your captions. I'm trying to make something myself and need to find appropriate sexy images. Where do you search for the images you use in your illustrations? Do you have any advice for getting good results?

First off, thank you for the compliment!

I have several different search methods depending on what I am looking for, or why I am looking for it.

Normally when I am making a cap I am starting off with a basic idea of where I want the story to go, and some of the subjects preferences in mind.  So I may be looking for a blond school girl, or a brunette secretary, or a black haired mother.  In this case I generally start by using Google Images.  If it is to be an XXX story, I make sure the 'SafeSearch' is off (allowing porn images through), othrewise I leave it on Moderate.  They key is using the right search criteria.  I almost always start with 'Sexy Woman'.  This if nothing else, puts up a thumbnail gallery of a bunch of beautiful women.  I glance at a few and see if I can find something a little more specific to search for.  Maybe a peek at a girls stockings sends my mind off in that direction, or a particularly sexy set of lips get my engine rolling.  Once I have something more in mind, I replace'woman' as the search term and add any new criteria like 'stockings' or 'lips'.  The one thing I almost always keep in is "Sexy".  Oh, and I only search for 'Large' images.  I HATE finding the perfect image, only to find out that it is indeed only a thumbnail at 100x100 pixels.

Now if I am looking for someting a little dirtier I search for images at the porn site I have a membership to at the moment.  Sites I frequent are Brazzers, Naughty America, and DDF.  These all have a large selection of quality images per shoot.  I really like that because I may be looking for an image of a smiling happy woman, but many sites don't include the 'extra' shots and have the perfect pose I want, but only have her screaming out an 'O', or grimacing.  The last set at Brazzers I looked through had 911 images, and that was a single girl screwing a single man in a dorm room.  Beyond the number of images, these sites have proffesional photographers and models, so the photography generally looks good (this is especially true at DDF... their models look amazing).

If I don't have a membership to a pron site at the moment, I will look at several thumbnail gallery sites.  The two that I frequent are Persian Kitty and al4a.com. These sites have a large variety of images, and being thumbnail galleries they have several images in case I want to make a series.

That right there is 99% of my image searching.  I rarely get let down by using the above method.  Now a site that I keep in the back of my head as I've seen a lot of cappers that I respect use it is Model Mayhem.  These are purely clean images (maybe a little nude, or a little lewd, but PG13 or R at worst).  The nice thing about this is that you can really narrow down the model search including age, bust, hair color, eye color and many other search options.

A suggestion I have heard from other cappers is to keep images that look like they might be good for a cap.  I don't really do this myself, but I've seen cappers pull out an image that they've had for years, just watiing for the right story.

I really wish there was more to it that I could share.  A few things I keep in mind while searching for images is:

1)  Try not to be to specific to your search.  If you are searching for a big breasted redhead wearing green lipstick, blue fishnet stockings, sitting in a lazy boy recliner with a persian haired cat on her lap and a monocle in her eye... well good luck with that.  I find it difficult enough finding acceptable images of redheads. A big part of this is looking for an image BEFORE you write the story.  There is nothing more frustrating than spending HOURS searching for an image because you have already written the story, and NEED a particular image.

2) Don't let your search for the perfect image keep you from accepting an image that is good enough.  Perfection is God's work, not yours, and certainly not mine.  I have found images that were close to what I wanted, and went on to use them to great accolade.  So long as the story matches the image, you should be fine, and it is always fun to write the story to fit the image.

3)  Don't accept the first image you come across.  I'm not saying keep looking for the 'perfect' image, but it doesn't hurt to look a bit more.  Sometimes a new image will inspire you to a new path that will blow your socks off.