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Little Art Reference things: Comprehensive Resource List for the Aspiring Artist V1.01

kastiakbc:

sixmilliondeadinternets:

A.K.A. “Pato is autistic and shows off his massive collection of saved links”

Have a seat, get a cup of coffee and sit through this. Hopefully you won’t regret it. This is mostly about illustration, by the way.

FREQUENTLY ASKED BULLSHIT

  • “WHICH TABLET SHOULD I BUY?”

Get the cheapest shit available. If you’re in America/Europe a Wacom Bamboowhatever apparently does the trick. If you’re anywhere else get the cheaper-end Genius ones because Wacom tablets are expensive in every place that’s not the first world. Getting a $600 tablet will not make you magically improve and it’s a goddamn waste of money. Too poor for tablets? Start with a damn pencil.

  • “POORFAG HERE, CAN’T AFFORD PHOTOSHOP/SAI, WHAT THE FUCK DO I DO?”

This is the Internet, pirate the shit out of them! Here’s a list of freeware programs you could use, because pirating is bad, mkay.

For general illustration:

  • GIMP - Non-shitty, open-source Photoshop Clone.
  • Paint.NET - If you are somehow too dumb for Photoshop clones here’s something easy to use.
  • Flowpaint - Even simpler.
  • Inkscape - Apparently good for things like vector art.
  • Artweaver - Get the free version which kind of sucks but otherwise decent.
  • Chibipaint - Sounds weeaboo as fuck The best thing out there for oekaki, or so they say.
  • Will add more as I find them.

For 3D modelling and such:

More links coming SOON! (Soon: Duke Nukem Forever).

  • “I’M TOO MUCH OF A FAILURE I WILL NEVER IMPROVE”

Spoilers: Improvement will take a long time, specially more if you’re self-taught. Improvement requires dedication and consistenct in your learning. Don’t expect to get great if you’ve just started, and don’t expect greatness in the first year or so either. Save the shit you draw so in the future you can notice that progress has indeed been made.

If you still think you’ll never improve just look at this and realize how wrong you are. Now, if you think you’ll instantly be as cool as that guy, look at this and realize that you still have a long way to go.

  • “I HAVE ARTIST’S BLOCK WHAT DO”

Artist’s Block is a very complicated thing but the underlying reason is either lack of creativity, acedia or just a towering pile of bullshit. The best way to treat it is to take up theoretical drawing (anatomy studies, for example) and treat it as a chore. If you need ideas look for the Ideas Generators section below.

NOW, ONTO THE ACTUAL LIST THING.

All links taken without permission but I’m sure nobody minds a bit of publicity.

BOOKS

This is actually more than enough to get you started when it comes to getting books. Saying that the amount of books here is FUCKING MASSIVE would be an understatement.

A PRACTICAL APPROACH TO GESTURE DRAWING

Simple practice method for the aimless artfag: Open any of the first two links, and choose a distinct category (For example, faces). Tell it to switch every 10 minutes if possible; else, get a timer. Fire it up and start drawing what you see. The idea is that you should stop after 10 minutes and move onto the next one, no matter how incomplete it is. Repeat until your art gets showcased in the Louvre.

COLOR THEORY AND MISCELLANEOUS COLORING FOR THE MASSES

ANATOMY AND GENERAL HUMAN BODY STUFF

PERSPECTIVE

GENERAL REFERENCES

LOOSE BUNCH OF VARIOUS CRAP

  • /ic/ Thread 1 - Collection of tutorial images.
  • /ic/ Thread 2 - Humongous thread with a crapload of links. A must-see.
  • Manga to Realistic (dA) - A Twelve-Part walkthrough that dips your toes into realistic illustrations aimed at people with a weeaboo background.

GENERAL ART WEBSITES AND TUTORIALS

ILLUSTRATION TECHNIQUES

TEXTURES, BRUSHES AND ALL THAT JAZZ

  • CG Textures - Massive collection of free textures. Also tutorials.

IDEA GENERATORS

ART COMMUNITIES

If you want me to add something, please notify me through my /ask. Be sure to check back often as I’ll be adding more things.

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goodstuffhappenedtoday: Oh, this? Just some teenage girls from Nigeria who invented a urine-powered generator. How’s this for an innovative startup: four Nigerian girls — the eldest of whom is just fifteen years old — have worked together to invent a generator that’s powered by urine. The group presented their creation at this year’s Maker Faire Africa, and it’s so freaking brilliant it makes me want travel back in time and punch 15-year-old me right in the solar plexus. The Next Web lays out how it works: Urine is put into an electrolytic cell, which cracks the urea into nitrogen, water, and hydrogen. The hydrogen goes into a water filter for purification, which then gets pushed into the gas cylinder. The gas cylinder pushes hydrogen into a cylinder of liquid borax, which is used to remove the moisture from the hydrogen gas. This purified hydrogen gas is pushed into the generator. 1 Liter of urine gives you 6 hours of electricity. Here’s hoping these girls can get the funding they need to take this idea to new heights. Even if they don’t, we’ve got a feeling they’re going places. Read more over at The Next Web.

goodstuffhappenedtoday:

Oh, this? Just some teenage girls from Nigeria who invented a urine-powered generator.

How’s this for an innovative startup: four Nigerian girls — the eldest of whom is just fifteen years old — have worked together to invent a generator that’s powered by urine. The group presented their creation at this year’s Maker Faire Africa, and it’s so freaking brilliant it makes me want travel back in time and punch 15-year-old me right in the solar plexus.

The Next Web lays out how it works:

  • Urine is put into an electrolytic cell, which cracks the urea into nitrogen, water, and hydrogen.
  • The hydrogen goes into a water filter for purification, which then gets pushed into the gas cylinder.
  • The gas cylinder pushes hydrogen into a cylinder of liquid borax, which is used to remove the moisture from the hydrogen gas.
  • This purified hydrogen gas is pushed into the generator.

  • 1 Liter of urine gives you 6 hours of electricity.

Here’s hoping these girls can get the funding they need to take this idea to new heights. Even if they don’t, we’ve got a feeling they’re going places.

Read more over at The Next Web.

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thedrawinghands:

Exercise 1 - Tone scale - Transcription

Welcome everyone to this series of training video on drawing.

We’ll start with basic exercises, increasing difficulties from time to time. Try not to overlook even the most simple ones, because they are absolutely essential!

Of course they relate to my approach to drawing,  so please refer to my drawing lessons as well. Keep in mind that other people could do the same things in a totally different way.  This is the way I do it.

This first exercise will help you improve your shading ability, as well as getting more confident with the pencil stroke.

We will use a single pencil to get the different shades. I recommend a B pencil or a 2B one; you can choose the brand you prefer the most. Avoid harder pencils, for now, because they would make it quite impossible to get deep blacks, and softer pencils (from 3B up) too. They’re good for very dark tones, but not on the purpose of this exercise.

Start drawing a rectangle (let’s say about 10 inches width per 1 inch height), and divide it into 10 equal squares. Feel free to use a ruler if you like. What we want to do, is a tone scale, as gradual as possible, going from white to black. On this purpose we will use the technique of cross-hatching.

So, how to start? First and foremost, don’t fill each square after another, because you could get to black too quickly, thus having the last two or three squares very similar each other.

You’d rather want to create a first layer of very light gray along the whole strip, leaving the first square untouched. Proceed then with the next steps, starting from the second square, then the third, and so on. Change the direction of the hatch on every pass, trying to maintain a constant pressure and a uniform distance between the various strokes.

It may happen that as soon as you get to the last square, you realize that two of them are too similar each other, or that the last one is not dark enough. It’s not a problem, because it’s very easy to add new passes to darken the boxes, starting from the one that seems most similar to the previous, or even increasing the contrast on all squares - always starting from the first ones. Do it until you are satisfied with the result. Finally, if you like, you can refine your work to make it look a bit better.

Once you have completed the exercise successfully, you can increase the difficulty by increasing the number of squares. This same exercise can also be performed with color pencils, watercolors or oil painting: indeed, it’s very good to get skilled on managing layers and transparencies.

You can also try to apply this technique along with the copy of real objects. The main idea is to work on all shades gradually, getting to black step by step, and, most important: always working on the whole drawing in one time.

Needless to say, repeat this exercise dozens of times. Do not settle for doing it once or two!  Increase the difficulty instead! Do it when you will be more experienced as well, it is a useful training also for professional artists.

Have a great time!

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eyecager: http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/ Yay! For those of you who don’t know Crimson Daggers is a community that pushes themselves to improve. And with a name like Amber Blade Jones..it was just my calling. But it’s a very cool community, very inspiring and motivating and very funny if you tune into Dave Rapoza’s and Dan Warren’s livestreams. Dan paints around 10 hours a day, and you can ask him questions any time while he’s streaming. They also have a crit hour everyday where you can submit your work and it will be critiqued by Dan and whoever is his guest at the time.  I’m going to be participating in the next Bloodsports and trying for February’s Golden Boy. Also they had http://adonihs.deviantart.com/ on Dave Rapoza’s stream yesterday talking about how he was able to write a movie and sell it and now his own producer for a line of movies with his creations.

eyecager:

http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/

Yay! For those of you who don’t know Crimson Daggers is a community that pushes themselves to improve. And with a name like Amber Blade Jones..it was just my calling. But it’s a very cool community, very inspiring and motivating and very funny if you tune into Dave Rapoza’s and Dan Warren’s livestreams. Dan paints around 10 hours a day, and you can ask him questions any time while he’s streaming. They also have a crit hour everyday where you can submit your work and it will be critiqued by Dan and whoever is his guest at the time.

 I’m going to be participating in the next Bloodsports and trying for February’s Golden Boy. Also they had http://adonihs.deviantart.com/ on Dave Rapoza’s stream yesterday talking about how he was able to write a movie and sell it and now his own producer for a line of movies with his creations.

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