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guys, guess what...

i feel insane i'm losing my MIND

i'll make another one for sammy later, i'm so tireeeeddddddddduuuuuuuugggghhhhhhhhhh

Very happy to finally post my third tutorial! Thank you so much for your overwhelming support of my last tutorial, I am so happy it was useful for you guys 🙇‍♀️. I feel like this topic was harder to explain so feel free to ask me some questions if you want!

Like last time, I really hope this helps some of you in your art path 🙌

#this is fully just a blog for posting art tutorials now oh well

knighthearts

i watched one (1) video on how to draw hands that changed my life forever. like. i can suddenly draw hands again

these were all drawn without reference btw. i can just. Understand Hands now (for the most part, im sure theres definitely inaccuracies). im a little baffled

knighthearts

for those of u asking for the vid!

awwww-cute

officialfuckedupwallposts

her shaped

#this is my hole.... it was made for me....

sketchcomplex

I stumbled upon a website that allows you to blend any colors evenly no matter how opposite on the spectrum they are.

sharing the knowledge

very helpful art resource

b09875654321-deactivated2020062

WHERE HAS THIS BEEN ALL MY LIFE???

asstrainmcfucktruck

SHRIEK

literallymechanical

🪄🕳

#tag yourself im stud wizard

asieybarbie

Long time no see Tumblr. Quick guide on coloring deeper skin tones

fatphobiabusters

"I wanted to draw a fat person in this, but I just didn't know how to draw them, so I made all of the characters thin. Drawing fat people is hard."

So you were born out of the womb knowing how to draw thin people and hands and detailed machinery and animals and everything else that you draw? You never had to learn how to draw something and practice it?

-Mod Worthy

appleheartedboy

Also, can I say, as a fat artist, another very similar excuse people put out for this sort of thing is "I'm sorry, it's just my art style :("

When no, that's not how that works. A lot of people who say that don't even know what an "art style" is. None of these people seem to realize that art style isn't /what/ you draw, how /how/ you draw it.

Literally ANY art style can do fat people, and black people, and disabled people. These folks just REFUUUSE to learn cause they simply just,,, hate those types of people and find them intrinsically unappealing.

fatphobiabusters

I would love to hear someone say "Sorry, I don't draw animals or buildings. It's just not my art style," because that is equivalent to claiming not drawing fat people is an artistic choice. "Sorry, I don't draw grass. It's my art style."

-Mod Worthy

fatphobiabusters

Some people have been responding to this post saying that there are indeed artists who don't draw animals or buildings, so I need to explain that artists who choose to not draw animals or buildings are not doing so because of an art style. They do so because they choose not to learn how to draw them or even try to. As already stated before, an art style is how you draw something, not what you draw. THAT is why the artists who claim not drawing fat people is part of their art style are ridiculous. Fat people can be included in every single art style out there.

The sole reason an artist doesn't draw fat people is because they choose not to, whether that be because they don't value fat people enough to learn how to draw us or because they hate how fat bodies look. There is not a single reason to not even just attempt to draw fat characters. Not even "There are no fat art references!" There are fat positive blogs with thousands upon thousands of photos of fat people that can be used as a starting point for learning how to draw fat bodies. I have seen multiple times on this website posts that link to a popular guide on how to draw fat rolls and skin folds. There are people who make reference photos of poses with fat bodies if you look. It's not as readily available as thin references, but it is not impossible to learn how to draw fat people. If it was, then there would not be thousands of drawings of fat people on this very blog.

Here is the popular guide on drawing fat and skin folds that is often passed around. The post has a link to free scans of the art guide.

Utilize fat positive blogs for references as well. Some popular artists who regularly draw fat people have given tips before on things that have helped them. I don't currently have a link to a specific post by her, but I know that @mayakern has posted in the past about drawing fat people and also has uploaded many speedpaints that show her process of drawing fat bodies.

Another known resource for fat body references is Fat Photo Ref. The website is password protected in order to help lessen the chances of the fat people featured on the website being sent or used for hate. The website includes a link to a Google form to request access to the photos.

AdorkaStock has many pose references for fat people as well, most of which are viewable without a password or payment as they are posted straight to their DeviantART gallery.

There is no legitimate excuse to not TRY to draw fat people. There is no valid reason to thin-ify canon fat characters, especially since most of the time those fat characters already exist in a visual medium, so they inherently are references for how to draw them! Fat people are not being annoying or whining by asking to not be erased from human culture, art, and society. I should not have had to see a post this week defending thin-ified art of Steven Universe characters on my dashboard in what is now two weeks before 2023. If people could make art of fat bodies 30,000 years ago without resources like the internet, books, and film, then anyone can.

If you do not draw fat people, that is a choice you are making. Eliminating body diversity is not an art style and it never will be.

-Mod Worthy

mayakern

i think my tutorials should be under my “art tips” tag but if not i also have a “tutorial” tag

but yeah i very much agree with this post. i rarely, if ever, draw backgrounds or machinery and that is very much a choice (because i don’t want to). and even me, a fat person and an artist, had to consciously teach myself how to draw fat bodies.

when i was young i ONLY drew skinny bodies because i was imitating the art i idolized (mostly anime/manga).

but when i got to college i started to be more conscious of my biases and also that not seeing bodies like mine in art was harmful to me. i started out just drawing myself and from there i just kept pushing and learning and teaching myself and i did that because i thought it was meaningful and worthwhile.

and even tho it felt revolutionary to me at the time, the things i was doing/making in college were bare minimum. but they were a first step and first steps are important. from there, i continued to teach myself slowly and steadily.

when i look back on this art now i’m like “wow these bodies are not even that fat and this felt so revolutionary to me??” but i guess seeing art of me + my wife helps to show off the difference

anyway one of the biggest shifts happened for me in 2018 when i got really frustrated with the limits of fat representation in my own work and i decided to push myself more. it wasn’t an easy or elegant process but it was worthwhile

i knew i wasn’t doing enough and i needed to do more. i wanted to draw double chins, stomachs, to draw softness and fat on thinner bodies too, to really put that human aspect of bodies in my work

even now i still have room to learn and grow. i know this is a lot but my point is that learning to draw anything takes time, effort, and a willingness to try. drawing fat bodies is as much about honing your skill as it is unlearning your antifat biases.

totallynotsilversora

I forgot I have to be active here so here’s my Twitter tutorial on how to draw folds I made a while back to help a friend!

kiwi

HEY THIS IS IMPORTANT whats your favorite place to find drawing references?

kiwi

so far we’ve got

senshi stock

croquis cafe

line-of-action.com

quickposes.com

posemaniacs

clip studio paint models

pexels.com

sketchdaily

eggazyoutatsu atarichan drawer

designdoll

if you have any more please reply!

nohara

Unsplash: All photos published on Unsplash can be used for free. You can use them for commercial and noncommercial purposes. You do not need to ask permission from or provide credit to the photographer or Unsplash, although it is appreciated when possible. More precisely, Unsplash grants you an irrevocable, nonexclusive copyright license to download, copy, modify, distribute, perform, and use photos from Unsplash for free, including for commercial purposes, without permission from or attributing the photographer or Unsplash. This license does not include the right to compile photos from Unsplash to replicate a similar or competing service.

Freeimages: You can use the images in digital format on websites, blog posts, social media, advertisements, film and television productions, web and mobile applications. In printed materials such as magazines, newspapers, books, brochures, flyers, product packaging for decorative use in your home, office or any public place or personal use. The rights granted to you by FreeImages.com are: Perpetual, meaning there is no expiration or end date on your rights to use the content. Non-exclusive, meaning that you do not have exclusive rights to use the content. FreeImages.com can license the same content to other customers. Unlimited, meaning you can use the content in an unlimited number of projects and in any media. For purposes of this agreement, “use” means to copy, reproduce, modify, edit, synchronize, perform, display, broadcast, publish, or otherwise make use of.

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Burst.Shopify: Burst is a free stock photo platform that is powered by Shopify. Their image library includes thousands of high-resolution, royalty-free images that were shot by their global community of photographers. You can use their pictures for just about anything — your website, blog or online store, school projects, Instagram ads, facebook posts, desktop backgrounds, client work and more. All of their photos are free for commercial use with no attribution required.

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Viintage: All images hosted by Viintage.com are considered to be public domain images, each image is presumed to be in the public domain. It may be distributed or copied as permitted by applicable law. Viintage.com assumes no ownership of the images and they may be downloaded and can be used free of charge for any purpose. They may be downloaded and used for commercial and personal use. Understand “public domain” as the permission to freely use an image without asking permission from the photographer or the illustrator. Thus, the creator of the work will not sue you for violating his/her copyrights. It is your responsibility to make sure, displaying the image does not violate any other law. Viintage.com assumes no responsibility for how or where you use the images found on the site.

Gratisography: You may use Gratisography pictures as you please for both personal and commercial projects. You can adapt and modify the images and get paid for work that incorporates the pictures. This includes advertising campaigns, adding your logo or text to an image, printed in any size print runs (e.g., book covers, magazines, posters, etc.), on your website, blog, or other digital mediums, and on merchandise as long as the picture itself is not the merchandise.

chiptunecreature

As someone who draws a lot of faeries, Faestock is godlike.

uselessarttips

A wonderful addition to the list!

sepdet

Unsplash. Another whopping huge free images site like pixabay: free for commercial and noncommercial use and remixing; just don’t sell the photos unmodified or add them to other photo-sharing sites.

Morguefile. Big old free photo archive from the dawn of the web. “We are a community-based free photo site, and all photos found in the Morguefile archive are free for you to download and re-use in your work, be it commercial or not. The photos have been contributed by a wide range of creatives from around the world, ranging from amateur photo hobbyists to professionals.”

Open Access at the Met. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York: “Whether you’re an artist or a designer, an educator or a student, a professional or a hobbyist, you now have more than 406,000 images of artworks from The Met collection to use, share, and remix—without restriction.”

Smithsonian Open Access. Download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images […] from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.

Limited use, if you’re doing a Science and need control panels/rockets/futuristic an image search with qualifier site: nasa.gov You have to double-check a photo’s caption it’s really a NASA photo, but photos which were taken by NASA spacecraft and astronauts are public domain, since they’re funded by taxpayer dollars. (This also goes for images of animals archived at the USFWS Digital Library, i.e the US Fish and Wildlife Service, or rocks and landscapes on USGS websites.

soft-lily

Okay updating and consolidating lots of info here; as well as adding links for ease of access. Adding a brief description for some too; as is the case that not all of them have descriptions above. (Warning that some of these links contain nude refs, I will try to mark where possible which ones have more prominent ones.)

Posing Sites and Apps:

Adorkastock. Stock photos for pose refs. DeviantArt gallery started in 2007.

FreePhotoMuscle.com. (translated page link click here) Japanese stock photo pose site that includes buff people, but in funny poses and costumes.

CroquoisCafe. (NSFW, nude model poses warning) A stock photo pose site. You should be aware this org has been linked as pro-Trump. I leave it to y’all to decide if you want to use the resources or not. I highly encourage not financially supporting them and trying to support the individual models if you can.

Line of Action. Fantastic site that includes posing refs, community discussions from other artists, figure study, anatomy, etc. So much stuff in here.

PoseSpace. Extensive library of poses. Some free resources others are paid. I’ve not fully evaluated both, but you should be able to use this all mostly free and get great use out of it.

SketchDaily. This one is one of the better ones out there. You can time yourself, search by pose, clothing options, body type, perspective, etc. All real models.

JustSketch.me. A pose app for any device. Has apps for most devices and a webapp. Customize and pose models/props/scenes.

Quickposes. Pose site that gives you timed challenges to become more proficient at poses.

POSEMANIACS. Ref site with anatomical poses. All the ref pics are of 3D models with only the bones and muscles. Can be helpful for seeing how muscles behave in certain poses. limited to two body types tho.

MagicPoser. A wonderful app that’s great on mobile. Lets you choose size of models, number of them, style, etc. Significant features are use of snap point with the physics engine, adjustable lighting, multiple perspective, 360 angle, articulated hand posing.

Clip Studio Paint Modeler. Free 3d tool that works with Clip Studio Paint. You can import your own data or other models you find online. Not quite an alternative to Blender, but the integration with CSP is very nice.

Egg a Zyoutatsu Atarichan Drawer. (requires enabling flash player or downloading and using standalone flashplayer) Drawing tool for pose practice. The developer is working on an html5 version.

DesignDoll. One of the best pose tool apps out there. You can customize so many things. They also have an extensive collection of ready made poses here. You can use the free or pay once for life and have the poses integrated into the client as well as the ability to export your obj to other programs like blender or smt.

Stock Photo Sites:

Unsplash. Giant free stock image site.

freeimages.com. Another stock photo site, less features than some others.

StockSnap.io. Stock photos with a creative commons CC0 license, which essentially means you can use the photos however you want and don’t have to attribute to them. (though its nice if you do attribute)

Burst.Shopify. Tons of royalty free high quality images. Similar licensing to StockSnap.

pixabay. I feel like most people know about this one, but it features entirely free CC0 licensed Photos, Videos, and Music. No attribution required, but still nice to support a giant site with all this content.

Viintage. Big collection of public domain vintage photos.

Gratisography. For commercial or personal use. They specialize in odd, quirky, wild stock photos.

pexels. Great free stock photos and videos. Only a few stipulations of what they don’t allow, but their license info can be found here.

Faestock. An artist and model with a huge amount of fantasy and fae and other types of photos available. Their terms for use are here.

MorgueFile. Old stock photo archive that’s been around a long time.

Museum and Institution Open Access sites:

USA National Gallery of Art. Over 50k works available for download.

New York Metropolitan Museum open access. 490k works to browse. Even codes for Animal Crossing New Horizons patterns.

The Smithsonian Institution open access. Probably one of the largest open access collections available online. Around 3.9 million items available to view.

Many More. This article from Apollo magazine has an extensive list of open access museums and institutions from around the world. A brief list of places includes: Art Institute of Chicago, Belvedere, Vienna , Birmingham Museums Trust , Cleveland Art Museum , Harvard Art Museums , J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles , Kunstmuseum Basel , Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles County Museum of Art , Mauritshuis, The Hague , Minneapolis Institute of Art , Munch Museet, Norway , Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington , Národní galerie Praha , Nationalmuseet Danmark , Nationalmuseum, Stockholm , New York Public Library , Paris Musées , Pinakotheken, Munich, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen , Wellcome Collection, London , Yale University .

kiwi

wow its been a while since ive seen this post, im so glad more useful info has been added!

swagpaws

fat bodies, fat anatomy, and how body fat tends to work should be taught as standardly as skinny anatomy and how muscles work in art courses. fat bodies are not an outlier. fat bodies are not a minority and theyre not abnormal or wrong. fat bodies are normal and they belong in art teaching spaces as commonly as other anatomy, because fat bodies ARE normal anatomy. people have diverse bodies and there will never be a single body type that encompasses the "normal body type"

tldr; fat anatomy should be taught as a staple in art courses just like any other anatomy. this is fact <3

swagpaws

ive gathered various links to refs so that people who see this can actually access helpful info on how to draw fat people. first and foremost though, using references will always be the biggest help :)

Scans of Morpho: Fat and Folds by Michel Lauricella

Links for obtaining Morpho: Fat and Folds yourself

How to draw fat bodies by @strawberrylind

Tips on drawing big people by @gubbins-turtledove

Fat bodies tutorial by @wxrmandfxzzies (deactivated)

Dropbox link of fat body refs

(please reblog this version instead)

jonsibn

take it.

cybzilla

artist friends please accept this link to my scans of morpho: fat and skin folds by michel lauricella- also if you find it as helpful as I do please consider buying a copy for yourself!