The 1D Artists Community

Hi everyone! This is a blog made for all 1D artists (and aspiring) out there! It's basically a way to know eachother and learn new stuff! Here you can find tutorials, advices and tips for your drawings. Each month we will propose a different...

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websites:

Animation World Network

Animation Backgrounds

Animation Magazine

Animation & CGI

Animator Island

Anime News Network

Cartoon Brew

Character Design References

On Animation

Reference! Reference! (free database for animation)

11 Second Club (monthly character animation competition)

tumblr blogs:

animationart

animationforce

animationtidbits

aspiretoanimate

calartscharacteranimation

disney-moments-sketches (Allen Ostergar’s blog, animator at Walt Disney)

drawingforsuckas

fuckyeahconceptart

storyboardresources

theanimationarchive

theartofanimation

wannabeanimator

resources/tips:

Animation schools: 1 / 2 (Top 50 USA) / 3 (Top 100 international)

Which animation school is right for you? (Ringling vs. CalArts)

Don’t want to/ can’t afford art school? you’ve got other options.

Animation Mentor: The online animation school

Art school exercises!!

51 Great Animation exercises

20 things you can expect as a traditional (2D) animation student that they never tell you

A Survivor’s Guide to Life Inside an Animation Studio

Animation basics: The art of timing and spacing

Animation Notes From Ollie Johnston

Animated chart of the basic principles of animation

10 Second tip: Always Anticipate

book: Animation: Learn How to Draw Animated Cartoons by Preston Blair

book: A System for Planning and Timing Animation by Glen Keane

book: Timing for animation by Harold Whitaker and John Halas

book: Gesture Drawing for animation by Walt Stanchfield

Basic 3D Animation Terminology

Digital pencil test!!

Keys to Emotion in Animation

Lessons from Disney’s Zootopia

Model Sheets central

The importance of Acting in Animation by Segio Pablos

Printable exposure/dope sheet

Phoneme Chart

Recommended reading for animation students and enthusiasts

The 5 Types of Animation

The Know-How of Cartooning 

The Unofficial Truth about The Animation Industry

Why Disney Sends Its Animators To Life Drawing Classes

Walk/Run Cycles reference

What is Pixar looking for in Animators? (scroll down)

Portfolio Advice for The Disney Animation Internship

What is Rigging?

3D Rigging Terminology

3D Modeling Terminology

tutorials:

Animation for Beginners: Where do I start

Animation Physics (Video tutorials on physics for animation artists)

Animation tutorial part. 1 AKA “the secret of animation”

Appealing Poses in Animation

Background & Movement in TV

Blinking tips

Breakdown tutorial (middle frame between to keys)

Drawing & Composition for visual storytelling

Drawing for Animation

Drawing a Likeness

Animation fundamentals + tutorials

Filmmaking: Composition and Framing

Getting Shape Change

How to animate using photoshop

How to animate Characters in Perspective

How to Animate Head Turns

How to Draw Gesture

OpeenToonz tutorials masterpost

Overlapping Action and Drag

Portfolio tips / Making A Successful Portfolio

Lyp Sync tutorial

Line of action

Basics of good cartooning 1-12 by Sherm Cohen

Squash & Stretch tutorial

Squash and Stretch 2

Storyboarding tutorials by Sherm Cohen

The Illusion of Life: 12 Principles of Animation

Tilt, Flow & Rhythm

Underlying Structure When Animating Expressions

TVPaint tutorial: Uploading and Coloring Scanned Animation

supplies (traditional animation):

10 Essential Art Supplies for the Traditional Animator

How to Use a Light Table for Animation

Making a Simple Animation Lightbox

Peg bars, Animation Disk & Desk

softwares:

free

Blender (3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline: modeling, rigging, animation,etc)

Emofuri (animate using .psd files)

Google Sketchup (

Live2D ( animation/drawing software

OpenToonz (Studio Ghibli’s open source animation software)

Pencil2D (create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics)

Renderman (Pixar’s free 3D rendering software)

Sculptris (Free digital sculpting tool by the makers of Zbrush

SculptGL (Online modelling program)

Synfig (2d animation using a vector and bitmap artwork)

paid

Zbrush (digital sculpting sw by Pixologic)

Mudbox (digital sculpting sw by Autodesk)

Cinema 4D (digital sculpting sw by Maxon)

TVPaint  (2d animation)

animation studios:

Aardman (Bristol, UK)

Blue Sky Studios (Greenwich, USA)

Dreamworks (Glendale, USA)

Fox Animation (USA)

Imagination Studios/CN (Burbank, USA)

Industrial Light & Magic (San Francisco, USA)

Laika (Hillsboro, USA)

Luma Pictures (USA / Melbourne, Australia)

Nickelodeon Animation (Burbank, USA)

Pixar (Emeryville, CA)

Rise FX (Berlin, Germany)

Studio Ghibli (Tokyo, Japan)

Sony Picture Imageworks (Vancouver, Canada)

Sony Pictures Animation (Culver City, CA)

Walt Disney Animation (Burbank, CA)

Weta Digital (Wellington, New Zealand)

inspiration: worth watching short films

Coda by and maps and plans

Contre Temps by the Contre Temps Team

Duet by Glen Keane

DOG ENVY by Olivia Huynh

Fallin Floyd by  il Luster

French Roast

Gravity by Ailin Liu

In Between by Gobelins

Jinxy Jenkins and Lucky Lou by Michael Bidinger and Michelle Kwon

My Big Brother by Jason Rayner

Night Light by Qing Han

Nephtali by Glen Keane

Nocturne by Kari Casady

Historia de un Oso by Gabriel Osorio

Home Sweet Home  by home sweet home the film

One Bright Dot by  Clément Morin

Stickboy by Giant Ant

SOAR by Alyce Tzue

Tsunami by The Animation Workshop

Thought of You by Ryan Woodward

Vagabond by  The Animation Workshop

5 Gobelins Shorts That Pay Tribute To Women Animation Pioneers

[foervraengd]

Okay so I followed this video about foreshortening and…

Sycra. I love you so much for making this video.

[gorubesshu]

YOU GOTTA BE FUCKING SHITTING ME

[humblegoat]

guys

GUYS

SHIT

SHIT GUYS

[chandeloor]

are you shitting me right now

years of me avoiding foreshortening aND IT WAS THIS EASY??

[thesylversmyth]

reblogging againg because holy cow, this HELPS

[meitantei-lavi]

I’ll just have to watch this soon

[artbymoga-deactivated20200516]

I SERIOUSLY REBLOG THIS EVERTIME IT’S ON MY DASH! IT’S SO HELPFUL!!

[drawingden]

Trans-luminescence - Subsurface scattering by Studio-daVinci-Dijon

[1d-artists-community]

Hey ! This is a great blog! I wanted to ask what type of account we need to make in PayPal if we want to sell our art online ? Should it be an individual or business ? Thank you !

I made mine when i still didn’t sell my art, so I think it’s an individual account?If you don’t have a VAT number and you are not a professional I think the individual one will be ok.

- Akisdoodles

[1d-artists-community]

Heyyyyyyy there! I'm not sure if you guys seen a fanart I'm looking for but do you have any idea if anyone saw a fanart of 1D Crossover to a show called Miraculous Ladybug and I believe it was a Larry (Harry was dressed in a Ladybug costume while Louis is Cat Noir or vice versa) fan art. I swear I seen it instagram but I don't know who the artist is. If you guys seen or know the artist can you let me know asap?

Pretty sure you mean this drawing:

http://veramalanova.tumblr.com/post/132042185799/love-this-crossover-so-much-%D1%85%D0%B4%D0%B4

by the very amazing @veramalanova :)

xx

[ilorelei]

So i posted this on my instagram ( https://www.instagram.com/demotria/ ) and a lot of people liked it so i thought id post it here ^^ Im in no way a professional but this is just my method of shading and my style. You dont need to copy this style %100 for it to turn out nice! Experiment until you find something YOU like

[birdysources]

photoshop cs6 

version: extended

for: windows

♡ please like or reblog if you download, thanks!  ♡

P H O T O S H O P   C S 6   E X  T E N D E D

- After downloading and extract, open the folder named ‘docs’ and click in ‘PhotoshopCS6Extended’ and wait the program open.

*NOTE* 

- If it appears one window click in “yes” or “okay”.

[gingercatsneeze]

1. Ah Fai was a chief animator for McDull’s animated features. He’s super cool. Ultimate senpai. 

2. Previous post on breakdowns right here 

Some thoughts on acceleration and force

I presented this in the order of how I slowly understood the trick of delivering force - first an abstract concept of impact taught by Ah Fai, then a more complicated discovery on the acceleration pattern, last back to a more abstract concept of breakdowns. 

Like I’ve previously stressed, 2D animation is everything but one single approach. There’s no one rule that rules them all, but interchangeable ideas with math, or physics, or music, etc. There’s no “perfect” animation either, but what is perceived as organic and dynamic. E.g., using the Fibonacci numbers to animate didn’t bring me a perfect animation! On the other hand, a tiny change in the pattern could already make the feeling of force so much more powerful. 

Not so much of a tutorial than a personal experience. I hope you find this interesting hahaha 

[1d-artists-community]

I really want to practice art but i always get discouraged by how (really) bad my drawings turn out, does that mean that it just isn't for me? :/

No one is born able to draw, everyone struggles with art and practice at first, but the artists who don’t give up and keep drawing are the ones who become great.

[qualitytutorials]

[qualitytutorials]

qualitytutorials:

The BASICS: Using References by; Shattered-Earth

Admins Notes// What is said in “What about the rest of the picture” is very accurate, please take it into consideration.

I am also including these notes on gestures/references, their proportions aren’t perfect, but the message rings clear-copying what you see in a photo isn’t the best way to reference as you will learn very little, especially when compared to what you will learn following the featured tutorial above.

Reblogging to get this in circulation again, I strongly feel as if this is one of the most important guides out there, beginning artists could find a lot of value in this (I know I could’ve)

[t-n-r]

[pixiv] [part 2]

[latesummersolstice]

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[supersatanson]

Now that’s a kickass tutorial on how to develop your hair technique!

[grimphantom2]

This is good tutorial

[1d-artists-community]

um... Hi, I just found this blog and I wanted to thank you guys for doing this thing, it's really useful and I feel like I've already learnt a lot just scrolling down around so now I'd like to ask this because I've been struggling (my english is not the best, btw): Any advice in how to create a signature that people will remember? I had one, but I discovered that there's some famous japanese artist that signs like that, now I'm lost. It's like the third time this happens :( thank you.

Hello! Ros speaking here :) i’m glad that you find the blog useful! :D

anyway for a signature-searching, i think you can just find something unique (which means if someone already use it then search one that people didn’t associate it with other artists yet), or you can still use it but change some part so it looks totally dffferent and more you. I think when you use same signature  everytime you do a drawing, at the end people will associate your signature with your drawing and with you :)

[eliciaforever-deactivated201906]

Why do artists refuse to use references why why why.

It’s not a contest to see who can get by without them. It’s not cheating to look at a thing in order to know what the thing looks like.

You don’t get stronger or better by pretending. Nobody is impressed by the awkward whatever-it-is you just drew. Use references.

[wolveswithhats]

I don’t think a lot of people know that it’s not cheating. I recall seeing so many piece of art called out because they referenced a pose, someone recognized it, and then proceeded to shame them for it. There’s this belief, both by creators and the audience, that artists should just be able to translate the ideas from their head to paper, and if they don’t, it’s plagiarism, or not true originality (spoiler alert: there’s no such thing).

I myself didn’t start using references until very recently, because even I was under the impression that it was frowned upon. And that belief has seriously crippled and stalled my ability to improve as an artist.

[priderising]

As a restarting artist, I can confirm. I just never knew. I thought you were just supposed to know how to draw the body correctly and if you didn’t you had no talent.

[reapergrellsutcliff]

(( I am going to say this again, loud and clear for everyone:

USING REFERENCES FOR ART IS NOT ‘CHEATING’!!!

If you can draw/paint without references, great!  But if you need to use them, and feel that your art can be bettered by using references, please, use them!  This is one of the biggest tips I can give to artists, is USE REFERENCES! 

Anyone who would dare to attack someone for using references after ‘recognizing a pose’ is a dipshit, who doesn’t know a thing about art.

Do you know who else used references for their art?

Norman Rockwell

Alphonse Mucha

Gustav Klimt

Toulouse Lautrec

Vincent Van Gogh

Paul Gauguin

Edgar Degas

Gil Elvgren

Frida Kahlo

Pablo Picasso

Disney Studios

And thousands of others!  So, artists! Go forth, and use references!!! ))

[armellin]

What do you think artists do when they ask someone to stand infron of them for 6 hours and then they draw this person. Do they cheat? Or when they place a still life and then paint it, cheating again? LOL

[euclase]

#literally one of the biggest fears I have #is for some douchefuck to dig out my reference #and point at it and say that I’m not a real artist #I don’t want you to dig out my references to prove that I didn’t make up a realistic picture out of fucking thin air #that’s not how art works #but especially on this site it happens CONSTANTLY #it’s so fucking scary #when people who’ve never touched a pen in their lives think they’re qualified to judge you #and ‘reveal’ how you’ve ‘scammed’ people

Soooo. I made this post originally on my personal blog (I’m eliciaforever), and it was nothing more than a little rant about a specific incident that I deleted after five minutes. But before I could delete it, it took the hell off on me, and now it has all these notes. And LOTS OF AMAZING INPUT.

And I just wanted to add in response to the above tags in particular, that shaming people for using references is something that happens to so many of us SO OFTEN. It doesn’t matter how skilled you are. People think art is supposed to be magical or whatever, and anything else is a crime. The reality of course is that art is a thousand times more deliberate than a lot of people think it is.

So yeah. Good info to pass along. Use references, kids. <3

[lindblut]

Reblogging because I think it’s important especially for young artists to gain the confidence to use references.

Seriously, references are esssential! Use them!

[rosketch]

reblog this for my young / aspiring artists followers, you might need to see this! <3

[1d-artists-community]

eeh... I love drawing and I've been doing fine, I guess, but my sister keeps making me the favour to remind me of how feminine Harry looks when I draw him. And bc of this I started noticing that they never look like themselves enough. Which makes me feel so so bad and sad and frustrated. Any tips? Sometimes I have this jealously crisis for other artists and it just makes things worse. Thank you guys for the blog, it really helps a lot. xx

Hi love! 

Mica talking here (Pass-the-pencil). As you might’ve noticed looking at my art, I tend to draw everyone very androgynously, and people pointed that out in the past multiple times. At school people would ask me: “but is that a guy or a girl?” and I was like “ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ whatever you want it to be!” Cause I had my own interpretation and I didn’t mind that others interpreted it in another way, cause those drawings were ofter for me. Ok so, I slowly started to accept that and feel comfortable with my art. The line between whats “feminine” and “masculine” is usually very blurred cause there isn’t a single person that looks like the other. But since there are certain ‘aspects’ that people see as such, I could maybe tell you that sharp jaws usually make people look more masculine, or the lack of eyelashes (although I always give them pretty defined lashes and i love them). Then also, you can watch the shape you’re giving their bodies. More masculine bodies tend to have a V shape, narrow hips and broad shoulders. While feminine, thin bodies, sometimes have an hourglass shape, and are usually curvier. But OF COURSE all bodies are different. You have different heights and weights and shapes and that’s the pretty thing isn’t it? <3

So, to sum up, I’d say that the first step is feeling good about the way you draw, cause it’s unique and whatever your sister says, it’s her opinion. If you want to make more accurate drawings of the boys, use reference pictures, make a sketch first, some guidelines, etc. I’m sure there are some tutorials on this blog explaining how some artists draw the boys/their characteristics, to make it look like them! Use that too :)

xx

[enijoiart]

[1d-artists-community]

do you guys even use this anymore? :(

Uhm, we are all really busy and it’s hard to keep this blog running, we do our best..

- Aki

[grizandnorm]

Tuesday Tips - Some pointers about gesture drawing. #norm #grizandnorm #gesturedrawing #tuesdaytips