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Lesson 1: “White Man Painted Black”?

Lesson 1.5: “Hair for Thought”- how visualizing affects your writing

Lesson 2: “That One Hairstyle? RETIRE IT!” Black Hair is an Art (pt.1)

Lesson 2.1: Addendum to Hair pt 1

Lesson 2: “It Takes HOW LONG?” Black Hair is an Art (pt.2)

Application! Ice’s Lazy Loc Wash Routine

Application! How to: Simplified Braid

Lesson 3: “Defying the Default”- Skin Tones and the Presence of Black Characters

Application! What are Black fans looking for in Commissions?

Lesson 4: “Do Black People Blush?” Bringing brown complexions to life

Lesson 5: “The Same Place As the Music” Lighting & Color

Lesson 6: “Let’s Have A Talk, First” Stereotypes, pt 1

Lesson 6: “Why’s she so rude?” (She’s Not)- Stereotypes, pt 2

Lesson 6: “Is He the Threat (Or Are You?)”- Stereotypes, pt 3

for all the artists out there, here are my favorite resources i use to learn!

Files

The Complete Famous Artist Course

Art Books and Resources

Art, Anatomy, and Color Books

PDF Files of Art Books

Internet Archive

YouTube

My YouTube Playlist of Tutorials

How to Draw Facial Features

Drawing and Art Advice

Drawing Lessons

Art Fundamentals

Anatomy of the Human Body

2D Animation

Perspective Drawing

Websites

Pinterest Board for Poses

Another Pinterest Board for Poses

Pinterest Boards for References

Reference Angle

AdorkaStock

Figurosity

Line of Action

Human Anatomy

Animal Photo References

Humanae - Angélica Dass

Fine Art - Jimmy Nelson

Character Design References

CDR's Twitter Account

iamagco's Twitter Account

taco1704's Twitter Account

takuya_kakikata's Twitter Account

EtheringtonBro's Twitter Account

Drawabox

Color Wheel

Color Palette Cinema

Free Images and Pictures

Free Stock Photos

FILMGRAB

Screen Musings

William Nguyen Light Reference Tool

SketchFab - 3D Skeleton Model

Animation References - sakugabooru

Animation References - Bodies in Motion

For artists who have problems with perspective (furniture etc.) in indoor scenes like me - there’s an online programm called roomsketcher where you can design a house/roon and snap pictures of it using different perspectives.

It’s got an almost endless range of furniture, doors, windows, stairs etc and is easy to use. In addition to that, you don’t have to install anything and if you create an account (which is free) you can save and return to your houses.

Examples (all done by me):

Here’s an example for how you can use it

✨USEFUL ART RESOURCES✨

I've been sharing some stuff I use on tt and ig so here's a compilation of it for y'all too

all except for two of these are totally free btw

happy arting 🤙🤙

edit: updated the video with even more resources

and added a transcript:

hexcolorpedia.com - A bunch of color palettes with hex-codes ready to use.

x6ud.github.io - References of various animal heads at all angles.

sketchfab.com - 3D models to use for art references or for modeling.

pattern.monster - Create and customize patterns to include in your textures or backgrounds.

referenceangle.com - Search for refs of people of different genders, ages and expressions at various angles.

vishopper.com/cut-out-people - High quality people references with a great search engine. You can search by number of people, genders, ages, activity, angles, and more.

color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel - Create color palettes using specific color harmony rules (it has some other useful features too).

texturefabrik.com - Huge collection of high quality textures you can add or overlay on your paintings or designs to add a bit of spice.

figurosity.com - Huge library of action pose models/references, includes a tool for gesture drawing.

unsplash.com - A ton of royalty free images you can use as references or for photo bashing/matte painting.

pureref.com - A very useful software that helps you organize your references while drawing. It always stays on top of your workspace and you can optimize it to your needs (it's a pay what you want download, you can put in zero and try it for free).

reshot.com - Really big library of free to use icons and vector illustrations.

help-me-draw.tumblr.com - Greatly organized library of references, tutorials, tips and tricks. Almost anything you can think of, it's in the tags.

creativemarket.com/free-goods - Four free design assets every week. You can get anything from fonts, textures, mockups, templates, brushes, and more (yes, it still works, contrary to popular belief).

coolors.co - Very quick and simple colour generator. It gives you a new palette every time you press space.

Magic Poser, Easy Pose, Poseit - Three mobile character posing apps. They give you a doll-like character to pose in any way you need it to for your reference.

screenmusings.org/movie - A great library of movie screenshots you can use for studies or reference.

open-foundry.com - A bunch of open-source free to use typefaces.

posemaniacs.com - A huge library of posed characters you can view at different angles and in various lighting scenarios.

colorhunt.co - Site with ready to use colour palettes. You can choose what type of colours you want.

pixabay.com - A huge library of free to use stock images. Great to use for references or photo bashing/matte painting.

patterninja.com - Great site that lets you make patterns by using their own clipart icons or you can upload your own images. Highly customizable.

quickposes.com - Great site for gesture drawing. Choose a type of poses you want and the interval and it'll spit out references for you. Keep in mind that there's nude models in there. There's also a regular library option where you can browse for ref pics.

eplans.com/search - If you need a consistent house plan for your comic or story, this site lets you choose a type of house you want by number of rooms etc. and gives you a floor plan to use as a reference.

posemy.art - Simple but effective 3D model poser with a huge animation/poses library to help you create pose references for your art.

flaticon.com - A huge library of free to use (with attribution) icons. Great tool that allows you to save time and make your design work look more professional.

artstation.com/artwork/GX3Ax1 - Full head reference greatly showing the planes of the face. You can turn it to any angle and adjust the lighting too.

wildlifereferencephotos.com - A continually expanding database of royalty free wildlife photos, in form of digital downloads, to use as a reference for your art.

line-of-action.com - Free online tool that offers timed photo sessions that allow you to practice sketching just like you would in a life-drawing class. You can choose between figure drawing, animals, faces, hands, or environments, and set duration from 30 seconds to 10 minutes per photo.

BONUS: The Sims 4 on Steam - If you're looking for an easy to use tool to design environments/buildings to reference in your drawings or comics, The Sims is a great tool to do just that. It's available on Steam for free (not sponsored lmao)

friday night tutorial time

this post is massive but i tried to cover both the conceptual and technical side, hopefully it’s somewhat coherent

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My zine on vending for the first time! I wish I hadn't waited so long to start and now hopefully others can start too!

people NEED to stop gatekeeping making music like ohhhh i don’t have an instrument ohhhhh i don’t know music theory ohhhhh i’m not gonna pay for some program. SHUT UP. take my hand.

you need NONE of that shit!!!!! there’s a website called beepbox.co. literally all you have to do is press things until it sounds a modicum of nice. it’s easy it’s free and it works on anything which has a browser because it’s a website.

if even ONE person starts making music bc of this post it will be worth it.

making bad music is just as important and okay as it is to write badly or draw badly or sing badly. you AREN’T BEHOLDEN TO MAKE GOOD MUSIC. making music is not utilitarian HAVE FUN. HAVE FUN!!!!!!!!!

Having troubles with facial angles in your drawing style?

Try a 3D sculpture of your art in your own style in a free program that is simple and very easy to use.

The program is called Sculptris and is a free off-shoot program from Zbrush, that program that you keep hearing about but either takes selling your kidneys or piracy to actually use. 

If you download it and sculpt out a facial model, you can have references for your own work for all of time. No more endlessly searching Google for reference materials or twisting/rotating/flipping a drawing to see if there are flaws. And you can easily edit it to create more facial types. This way, you can make character references for any and every face and facial angle that you can think of.

The program offers mirroring right from the start, so your faces will be perfectly symmetrical. You can turn off the symmetry for things like scars or otherwise. 

It takes a little time. For instance, I downloaded the program on Christmas and, in my spare time, this took a few days of getting familiar with the program (first day) and then sculpting for a few minutes each day, mostly due to my perfectionist nature. And this one isn’t even done. I still have to mold the mouth, ears, and other smaller aspects before I consider it done. However, I was so giddy over the possibilities that I wanted to share this with my fellow artists.

From now on, I have reference for a face in my own style and will be able to create things so much easier in the future.  I hope that this helps you guys and that you have fun with it. 

my color tips pdf is now available ! i had a lot of fun with this, i hope you enjoy ^^

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literally most things that people write off as just ‘textures’ to use in graphics are stolen & unsourced material created by artists or photographers NOT meant to be used as elements in projects without royalty payments. you can say ‘it’s just random tumblr posts they don’t care’ but you wouldn’t want someone to take your work and edit into their work so they can be praised for their beautiful style and creativity even if they just post it on social media w/o profit, would you?? so maybe if you browse pinterest or google images for pictures without finding the original source, you’re using images that you’re not allowed to use without realizing it.

you see it on here a lot especially in (i won’t link anything but i’m sure you know what i mean) those album track ‘aesthetics’ posts, au ‘aesthetic’ posts (you see these less in kpop, but where people use non-royalty free images to kinda craft a visual au), and even just rather typical graphics that have a lot of ‘texture’ elements. and texture packs too!! that’s often where the problem starts; people just collect images (often literal art), compile them in a folder w/o sources, then insist no one can repost those images w/o crediting the person who compiled them. what???

SO may i suggest some of my fave places you can get FREE, ROYALTY-FREE elements that are totally legal to use

creativemarket has 6 free high-quality resources (textures, brushes, fonts, etc), different every week! wow awesome i check it every week

search ‘freebie’ on behance. awesome stuff!!! lots of v nice templates textures and fonts

mockup zone freebies

unsplash: tons of very nice free photographs, not shitty stock photos

pexels: same idea. + they have an adobe plugin so you can get photos without closing your editor damn nice

pixelsquid is a super cool free program (again w a ps plugin that i love) with lottts of super cool hq 3d elements!

as to not make this too long: spoongraphics, lostandtaken (textures galore), pixeden, freebiesbug.