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All of the tutorials, references, artwork, etc. featured here were not created by me. This is just an area for people to find anything related to helping others improve their art skills.
Please do not hesitate to submit or notify me of resources and tutorials for anything relating to art you can imagine will help people in their improvement of art. Since art is such a subjective and vague term, this can mean anything from writing to cosplay to cooking to even home construction.

art-res:

catghost2:

high quality expression references with varied facial types

Very useful! I love the range and how well lit these refs are. 

fucktonofanatomyreferences:

A coolio fuck-ton of female arm angle references.

Credit goes to melsrefs (on tumblr). You should flood Mel’s inbox with fanmail so s/he’ll make more of these epic references.

createandnarrate:

For writing characters grieving a loss. 

legacy-game:

Wandered into an article with 140 iconic cinematic shots, the comments complained there was no explanation to their composition. Decided to give it a run down and keep it to myself. 

The compositions are mostly self explanatory but I wanted to see what patterns I could find. That’s just how you learn stuffs. 

henyoki whispered: Could we see a close up of how you do tears? I do likey how they look :3

kiwi:

heres a gif

i dont do the same steps every time this is just an example

image

thundercluck-blog:

Hey friends!

It’s Meg for this week’s TUTOR TUESDAY! Today we take a little look at hopefully some exercises that will help with drawing horns! So go draw some peeps with horns, my dudes. If you have any recs send ‘em in here or my personal. Keep practicing, have fun, and I’ll see you next week!

thundercluck-blog:

Hey friends, it’s Meg!

A really late TUTOR TUESDAY on antlers which ARE NOT horns, so ya’ll can stop razzin’ me about not putting them on last weeks tutorial! If you have any tutorial recs send ‘em in here or my personal! Keep practicing, have fun, and I’ll see you next week!

art cheats

frostje:

frostje:

hello i am here today to not lose track of the art cheats i have discovered over the years. what i call art cheat is actually a cool filter/coloring style/way to shade/etc. that singlehandedly makes art like 20 times better

80’s anime style

glitch effect

glow effects

adding colors to grayscale paintings

foreshortening ( coil )

foreshortening ( perspective )

clipping group (lines)

clipping group (colors)

dramatic lighting ( GOOD )

shading metal

lighting faces

that is all for today, do stay tuned as i am always hunting for cool shit like this

guys stop reblogging this these are cheats the CIA will come for you

oliviapaigewrites:

THIS IS AN IMPORTANT ONE! Don’t ignore this in your writing!

grizandnorm:

Tuesday Tips - Handling Objects — To show a character handling an object, think of merging the hand and object into one simple shape. Think of how you would wrap your fingers around it and how you would use it. Function is key! Norm #100tuesdaytipsvol2 #grizandnorm #handlingobjects #arttips #arttutorial

TRYING TO COME UP WITH NAMES FOR MY FANTASY CHARACTERS

pitbullmabari:

brynprocrastinates:

my-dearest-one-my-darling-dear:

thedosian-cabbage:

howdoiputthisgeekily:

Tips:

a) pick a name, any name

b) let’s go with Kevin

c) fuck up a letter, preferably a vowel

- kevan

- kyvin

- kovon

- kevell

- kivoth

d) congratz u have a name

e) he might be called Tim but that might be short for something

- Timmos

- Timotheus

- Timiron (yeah just add “Ron” when in doubt)

- Tiroth

- Timarimos

Congratulations your Tim both has a cute nickname and a full name that sounds vaguely badass, or if not badass long-winded and unnecessary enough to be a Fantasy Name™.

Also try to make the syllables sound like their personality. A suave and socially smooth character could maybe not have any hard ‘r’ or ‘br’ or ‘tr’ in their names. Etc.

Saving for future reference and because of the glorious Monty python gif

This is really nice because you get interesting names WITHOUT making them ten syllables long and entire unpronounceable.

take old english names prior to the norman conquest. wulfric.

if you like, shorten them. atheldryth->audrey, theldry, eldry.

artisticjackal:

Canine nose tutorial I made for someone on DA, thought I’d post it here as well! Split it into multiple parts so it’ll be easier to watch here uwu