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Monthly Archives: July 2012
basically 100 years from now facebook will just be an online graveyard for millions dead people omg
People will kill you over time, and how they’ll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like “be realistic.
Dylan Moran (via sarahxmay)
Daily reference post that will stretch your dashboard out a lot: Understanding Anatomy tutorial (introduction)
Take a gander at this incredibly helpful tutorial that’ll help you understand anatomy one step at a time~! It was created by this amazing artist on DeviantArt called Bittersweetdisease. These tutorials are honestly VERY different from any other anatomy tutorial I’ve ever seen online..and they’re truly helpful. Give it a try~!
There are actually 7 parts to this Understand Anatomy Series– SO IT JUST DOESN’T END HERE. It’s just the beginning!
Break out your pencil/pen and paper or your tablet pen and your tablet~!
Get ready to practice~! ;D
I will be posting the other parts too- but here are the links to them despite that~! (I hope I linked them correctly)
nevver: Draw Like You’ve Never Been Taught
did you ever realize that you could just get up right now and start walking somewhere far far away and never come home again
(◡‿◡✿): arty masterpost
(Sorry this is so long, tumblr won’t let me un-indent all the things without messing the hyperlinks up BLUH. So press J to skip.)
I just went back through over 900 liked posts and dug out all the art tutorials so i can keep track of them. I guess this might be helpful to some of you guys, so here you go.
Some of these were gutted from posts where the original was deleted and so can’t be linked to in the masterpost list – especially one by Tumblr user melkh who has since either deleted or changed their url, so props to them.
Here we go then!
Freeware
Alchemy– this is a really fun program. You play around making abstract shapes until you start to see something in them, kind of like a Rorschach test. Then you use the shapes as a base to draw it from.
MyPaint– a pretty decent painting program that also has the benefit of working on Unix systems.
openCanvas 1.1– I haven’t used openCanvas in years but it was a nice program with a pretty unique feel to it.
ArtRage– Only used this a couple of times donkey’s years ago just before I got oC, but I’ve heard good things about it.
The GIMP – In a similar vein to Photoshop, but free. I couldn’t get on with it when I tried it out a few years ago, but it’s pretty popular and is available on Unix systems and Macs.Not-free-ware
Photoshop– Standard painting fare. Probably the most flexible program (particularly the latest versions) but not designed to act in a “natural” way. If you’ve used it for painting versus something like Painter you know what I mean. Who the fuck pays for it though? Google “Photoshop tumblr masterpost” and take your pick.
Paint Tool Sai– Far more affordable and definitely worth paying for if you can. The brushes are very decent (especially when they’ve been tweaked a little), the gui is simple and intuitive, and I dare you to find a program with which making smooth lineart is easier.
Corel Painter– My program of choice for most things. More tools than you could ever possibly use and pretty cheap on a student license, providing that you can prove you’re a student! It’s got a few bugs but if you want realism or a more natural feel than PS or SAI this is the program for you.Anatomy
anatomy and rotation of the head
Expressions
emotions and facial expressions
expressions from different angles (love this site)
Poses
Skin tones
paint some life into your skin tones
Colouring
gamut mask tool(very nice!)
5 easy ways to improve your colouring
fucking gradients, how do they work
achieving a painterly look in SAI
kuler(more colour schemes)
Brushes
a very nice setting for the sai acrylic brush
photoshop fur brushes (and tutorial)
Other peoples masterposts
love your fellow artist (anything from prompt generators to animation background here, very nice)
e books
art e-books (mediafire download)
even more e-books(including human anatomy, animal anatomy, cartoons, animation, composition, design, scenery, perspective…)
Tutorials
a pretty extensive general art tutorial
tumblrs
criminallyincompetent (check out their #reference and #tutorial tags, they’re gold)
Thanks for featuring me. 😀 Lots of good references on this list!
best reference post I’ve found so far
Tutorials
- A quick guide to understanding Channel Mixer
- Curves Tutorial
- Tutorial on Typography: How to use Open Type feature in your text
- Make text your friend: Part I – Fonts
- Make text your friend: Part II – Techniques
- Typography
- How to cut things out in Photoshop
- Color Range
- How to do a silhouette effect
- Fast rounded corners in Photoshop
- GIF Tutorial: 1, 2, 3
- Photoshop Serigraphs
- Old photo effect
- Creating an abstract water color effect
- Colorful poster tutorial
- Colorful pastel typo tutorial
- Create a dramatic Western style movie poster
- Retro styled poster
- Create an intense movie poster
- Using negative space/Extending backgrounds
- Tutorial: Scratchy film lines
- Fanart Tutorial
- Variations, color effects, scrolling text
- Blending tutorial
- Multicolored stripes
- Cutting out circles
- How to add Google AdSense
- Tumblr theme tutorial
- Tutorial: Dotted outlines
- How to fill text with an image
- Tutorial: Light waves
- Textures/Brushes guide
- Tutorial: Torn paper
- How to use masks
- How to auto-cap DVDs (and other video files) in KMPlayer
angry-comics: radioactivemongoose: someone asked for a tutorial so here are some funky art tips from me!! yes FUCK YEAH MARK TIPS THAT ARE MAYBE USEFUL
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