Art References and Tutorials

A side blog for art references and tutorials and anything that may be helpful~ Main blog: @jinjinranran

[jinjinranran]

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[midwinterhunt]

hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

[bunbunshark]

Have used some of these though i might need more

[ohluccian]

Instagram l Tiktok l Patreon l Links 🌙

FREE Drawing poses (free to use as inspo or trace. You can tag me if you do use them!)

70. SET - Streching poses (there are 3 - and much- more for my patrons, for 3$!)

If you'd like to see more like these, join and support me on Patreon! You can find bases in HD and exclusive patron poses there ✨

[jinjinranran]

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[laboratoryrats]

“Thinking about compression from a side view”

Source: Anime Private School on Twitter

[jinjinranran]

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I’m accepting character art commissions on VGen ✨

OCs, fanart, couples, chibi & more!

Head to my VGen to claim your spot 🩷

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask!! 

[g5-iguazu-deactivated20240408]

back in the 00s a single dancing anime chibi gif would feed us for months on end

[kurenaiwataru]

Here’s the template. Go forth and recreate the dancing anime chibi gif. Revive the old ways.

[enbyhyena]

This fucking thing all over deviantART in the 00s-10s LMAO

[onemillionfurries]

The bases on this post are all JPEGs for some reason. That makes them hard to use properly. I will link to the originals and provide some additional ones, along with a tutorial on how to actually make them into a GIF.

I couldn't find the caramelldansen base in this post, but here is a version that should work just as well.

Here is the original lick icon base.

To save these and have them be usable, you have to click the "free download" button underneath the image.

Some other good bases:

Dance Icon

Caipirinha

Run Run Run

You can find many other bases like these through DeviantArt.

How to make them into a GIF:

Step 1. Edit the base however you like (I used MSPaint)

Step 2: Crop and save each frame individually as PNGs (Note for the lick base: It's best to crop them to include the black boarder. This makes the GIF 50x50, which is the standard DeviantArt icon size and can easily scale larger if need be.)

Step 3: Go to ezgif.com/maker and upload all your frames

Step 4: Set "delay time" to 10, then click "Make a GIF!"

Step 5: Right-click the result and save it. Congrats! You used a GIF base!

[magz]

ID: 1. A collection of early 2000s animation meme gifs and their still images. 2. screenshots of instructions to edit animation meme templates in ms paint and ezgif.com to result in a licking gif. End ID.

[circlejourneyart]

Palette generator for all your paletting needs

palette generator

[raitoskitchen]

somepony asked how i draw shoes & here is my thought process :)

[laboratoryrats]

“How to draw folds ✍🏻👕✨”

Source: asayris_art on Twitter and patreon

[neurodivergentmiitopian-alt]

also keeibg this

[almakrowan]

So I posted a silly doodle yesterday on twitter and now people think it was a tutorial. So I got upset and made an actual tutorial so noone says I halfassed the yesterday's one 😡😡😡

Here you go: ~How I draw braids~ 🩷🙏

[inopokai]

ART REFERENCES!!!!

MWRHEHE good artists don’t gatekeep so here are some links to reference websites, mainly for people + gesture drawing

line-of-action.com/practice-tools

adorkastock.com/sketch

jookpubstock.com

artprof.org/resources/reference-photo-collection/

reference.pictures/free/

trueref.io

all of these links have free reference photos, mainly poses, that i like to use for practice. i believe they are all ad-free, safe, and don’t use gen ai. trueref’s free references are sent via newsletters, but i signed up and they don’t spam.

happy drawing!

[albanenechi]

Drawing bases & pose references pt 123 🎃💖

5 extra creepy poses for patrons! 🫶

[dredsina]

What is it? The Gamut Mask is a great way to created harmonic color schemes. It simplifies your color choices and saves you lots of time and paint in achieving unified color palettes quickly and easily. Who made it? This Gamut Mask Tool was developed by me (Richard Robinson) and is provided to you free to use. The original concept of the Gamut Mask was developed by James Gurney (www.jamesgurney.com), artist and author of the fantastically illustrated Dinotopia books (www.dinotopia.com). How do I use it? Below are some samples of harmonic color schemes achieved by using the Gamut Mask. First I designed an image with a limited value study. Then I decided my most powerful color would be the orange in the foreground and I made a triangular mask with yellow orange as the dominant color, supported by a grayed red and a grayed green. I could have mixed intermediary colors located midway along the sides of the triangle, but I decided to keep it simple and mixed just three color strings of five values each. Then I removed all other colors from my palette so I wouldn’t be tempted to dip into them, and painted the first little study (just 2.5” wide). Satisfied with that, I made two more studies, and you can see what different color schemes were achieved by the different gamut masks. Each painting is harmonious, yet each has a slightly different mood.

[escentia]

James Gurney’s gamut masking is the most important bit of colour theory I’ve ever learnt. Here’s his original post for the curious.

I’ve been using this technique to generate more adventurous colour schemes, and made this nifty gamut masking tool for Clip Studio Paint! By applying transform to the mask on the top layer, you can easily pick out a limited palette, as demonstrated in the video above.

My gamut masking tool can be downloaded here.

[justpickupthatpen]

New link

[tsukiyono]

A long ass beginner level tutorial for all of you comic folks who want to start using sketchup for your backgrounds but don’t know how to get started.

http://www.genkigirl.com/finesometimesrain/?p=771

[speakeronthewall]

This is thorough, easy to follow, and funny as hell. If you don’t know where to start on Sketchup and want to use it for comics or illustration, READ THIS.

[eskiworks]

THANK YOU

[guttedpulsars]

here is a master list of great art tools that can make your workflow easier! 👇 (consistently updating)

posemaniacs.com/en

if you want to learn human anatomy with the benefit of preset poses, this is for you! you can use it standalone, but as a bonus you can also import poses into the clip studio paint 3D models. (File -> Import -> 3D Pose (Posemaniacs)

line-of-action.com

great for gestures and observational sketches!

zvork.fr/vls/

browser based rig for lighting & shadows

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