Crowtatoes Tries to Draw Things

[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.

[erichibbeler]

A long time ago an anon asked my thoughts about drawing backgrounds, so I finally got around to putting this together. It’s more prop-centric, but it still represents my philosophy to backgrounds. 

I’ll try to do something more about drawing actual background spaces in the future! Please let me know what you think, if anything is unclear, or if you have suggestions for other tutorials you might find helpful!

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Prompt #1: Insects! Going to try to do my own form of Goretober.  I want to clean this up but I’ve worked on it for too long already at this point and I want to save some energy for tomorrow. Maybe once the month is over.

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A non-monster for once! Drew Dr. Flug Slys from the show Villainous.  He’s wearing a jacket and an aviator scarf because he’s at a plane show and actually enjoying himself.

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Here’s another deep sea monster. He filters nutrients from the water through all those flesh loops hanging from his face and is attached to the cave he lives in much like a barnacle.

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A monster I spent a bit more time on, this guy’s actually the creation of one of my characters.  Made of dust and broken dreams, hurrah!  He’s actually very nice as long as you aren’t someone he’s been ordered to kill.

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In case you’re wondering what else was on that page, there was a poorly drawn backhoe, a stern man with an eyeball arm, and these two:

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back at it again with the monsters, ayyy

a good undersea boy who just kinda slowly moves across the bottom of the ocean.  the light helps him attract new things to grow on his back and give him food.

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Here are some drawings from while I was away! 1.) Goblin Matriarch

2.) One of her grandsons.

3.) One of her daughters.

4.) Big ole bearpigwolfman.  

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Writing Prompts: Five Things

Five Things Prompt

Send me a message or an ask on Tumblr that includes:

1.) Five words, any random ones you want.

2.) A writing genre! If you want help figuring one out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_writing_genres

I’ll write up a short story or poem based on those five words that adheres to the given genre and post it here! 

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Aven Black Is Never Coming Back (Commish)

Atop a crumbling hill, amidst Gilnean fog,

there sits a lonely manor built of stone and sturdy log.

Old bones lie bent and broken, long covered up by dust,

but folks will say they still hear soft words,

amongst the rot and rust.

Those of senior years will oft tell young ones not to stray,

too close to yonder cliff or else they'll fall into the bay,

yet the words unspoken are a warning they all know,

“Do not approach the crumbling ruins,

buried beneath the snow.”

But one lad did not listen, a boy named Aven Black,

who made up with great courage all the smarts he seemed to lack,

and when he had been dared to go inspect the manor house,

said he, to them, “I'd like to bet,

that ghost is just a mouse.”

Turning to the doors that stood to bar him on his way,

Aven took out his pocketknife and flipped free the blade,

he jammed the lock wide open and thus forced his way inside,

driven on by curiosity,

and his own sense of pride.

As the doors swung open, he gazed upon the halls,

of a forgotten fortress once served by a hundred thralls,

but as the fabled ruler's house rots and decomposes,

greeters still sit, awaiting guests,

in th'form of a thousand roses.

Aven did not care a'whit, the beauty lost on him,

he tried to light his lantern for the room was very dim,

he was thus distracted as a vine crept across the floor,

and with a rush of thorns and blood,

young Aven was no more.

Atop a crumbling hill, amidst Gilnean fog,

there sits a lonely manor built of stone and sturdy log.

New bones lie bent and broken, beneath the crimson blooms,

now folks will say they can hear bright screams,

echo forth from the dusty rooms.

This was a commission from @thelucerni, written by myself.  The request was for a song that might have come out of Gilneas from the World of Warcraft universe and this was the result. Please do not re-post without credit!

( World of Warcraft is also Blizzard’s, not mine.)

[vihyura]

truly

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Jumping onto the bandwagon.

I had to dig for actual people faces, usually I don’t scan/record the ones I draw.  I tend to like my monsters better. >_>;

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Somehow a friend’s suggestion of ‘organ monster’ turned into this.

Organ...bouquet?  I dunno.  WARM-UP SKETCH.

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Silly drawing for Sunira Frostspine from Blinded Fate.

@femaleorcs

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HEY REMEMBER WHEN I MENTIONED A ‘DEATH BUNNY’?

well here you go nerds

( for @spooky-weird-dog‘s art trade with me )

[hee-blee-art]

reblog if your an artist who's down to do art trades with mutuals

I want some art pals to share with yo ┗(＾0＾)┓

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If anyone wants, I will try this!

THAT INCLUDES YOU, BRICK.