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[coeykuhn]

[There are many ways to silence a bird.] – Inktober Day 4: All my inktobers this year are based around a story by @ShyCustis n me <3 Original inks and larger images will be posted to Patreon http://patreon.com/CoeyKuhn  

[shycustis]

✦ Right-Hand Path, collaboration with @coeykuhn ✦ Second in a pair of occult-y illustrations I’ve collaborated on with Coey ♥ I did the drawing, Coey painted, we both did touchup, as usual Matching Left-Hand Path piece is here

Prints available on our Etsy

[drawingden]

A helpful list of models for anatomy and other drawing references (x)

Key: (nsfw) Nudity | (£) Not Free

Female Models 

MariaAmanda - Fantasy and fairy themed stock, mostly full body

Faestock -  Expressions, portraits and poses, many with dresses

RobynRose - 360 angle lighting and pose sets, including expressions

Mirish - Futuristic and action inspired poses, all full body

MiraNox - Gothic inspired model including pin-up poses

ImperialStarlet - Poses with props including weapons 

PrincessRowena (£) - Various poses with a fuller figured model

Liancar-art - Fantasy and medieval inspired poses

Male Models

BODYSTOCKS (nsfw) - Basic semi-nude athletic torso references 

BirdsistersStock - Various everyday poses and portraits

Mousiestock - A small collection of back anatomy references 

Justmeina (nsfw) - Nude anatomy reference portraits

Null-Entity - Different poses based on scenarios 

Anyman82 - Military and vintage themed stock

Both/Other Models

SenshiStock - Huge collection of various action and everyday poses 

Pyjamacake - Standard poses good for character bases

PhelanDavison - Futuristic and high-tech gear with action poses 

Mjranum-stock (nsfw) - Classical nude portraits, and also action poses

Auroradreams - Many poses with dresses, and others such as children

MajesticStock - A large amount of poses with different body types

Animals

HOTNStock - Mammals including large felines and canines

LuDa-Stock - Equestrian and domestic animals 

FurLined - Large and domestic felines 

EternalOcean - Mostly wolves along with other various animals  

Landkeks - All kinds of animals from a zoo

EdgedFeather - Close-ups of a wide range of birds

Other

Burtn - Natural landscapes and scenery 

ProREF (£) - Urban and rural places such as abandoned buildings

Clz - Skulls and other bones

Please remember to follow the stock owners rules, happy drawing!

[tamakid]

couldn’t make a full tutorial but here are some tips on coloring faces, just some tips I use personally to help me paint 

[kiaraincolor]

A tip for blending when painting digitally: use a transition color! I quickly made this when my brother asked for art advice while I was working on a painting for my best friend. (I was watching a lot of makeup videos to pick out her gifts). 

[nsane]

“Alice in Wonderland, how do you get to Wonderland? Over the hill of underland, or just behind the tree? When clouds go rolling by, they roll away and leave the sky. Where is the land beyond the eye, that people can not see, where can it be? Where do stars go, where is the crescent moon? They must be somewhere in the sunny afternoon. Alice in Wonderland, where is the path to Wonderland? Over the hill or here or there, I wonder where.

–If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary-wise; what it is it wouldn’t be, and what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?

But I don’t want to go among mad people!

Oh, you can’t help that. Almost everyone one is mad here. Ha…ha ha ha ha ha! You may have noticed that I’m not all there myself…hahaha…”

[nsane]

“Houses at Night” - Todd Hido

[themadknightuniverse]

Okay, so here is a tutorial for drawing faces

I learned mostly by myself and then I had some anatomy lessons last year. And I have to say anatomy helps A LOT in drawing faces and bodies, because you think about what’s under the skin, where the bone goes, where you can see it, the muscles and so on. So if you feel like you don’t understand what you’re drawing (like, you can’t manage to draw an arm correctly oriented, the curve of the shoulder) learning anatomy (even a bit) is really helpfull.

 I’ll use some references pics for those explanations, as @astrobookwormsinger asked me to explain how I get the facial details. And it goes by looking attentively at everything. Observation is a great way to learn how things works, and, like anatomy, will give you the keys to “how to draw realistically” and make your drawing look accurate if you redraw someone.

I made some pages to explain how I work when I do a precise drawing. Please note all this is about realistic drawing, so some advices are not necerally valid for other kind of styles.

Basically, the technique I really suggest is tracing lines. See what passes where. I use this for basically anything, people, animals or architecture. It works very well and you can very quickly place everything in the space of your sheet. 

Then, I tried to point out the importance of the differences between faces. to make a face look like the person you draw, you have to see what makes them unique, what are the distinguishing features. Here I take only one pic to explain what I see, don’t forget that an eye may look very different from the angle we see it or the light. Here I tried to point out the lines, some volumes. I know some by looking at them in movies a lot too, and that’s help if you want to draw them without reference. It’s all about picking what makes them look like the way they do. Here I only speak about the face lines and the eyes, but the same has to be done for the nose, the mouth, the shape of the jaw, where the hairline is, how big are the cheekbones, the eyebrow arch, …

And here are some tips for realistic looking eyes I apply for nearly every drawing I do.

And as a final tips, I will say : PRACTICE. It’s like the number one rule here. The more you practice, the best you’ll get. Try not to let too much time between your drawing session. The best is to draw everyday, even if it’s not a complete drawing or very precise. Just sketching is very good. You may have some bad drawing days, but don’t give up!

I hope this helped! I only speak about what I know, how I work, so some other people may have other tips, or probably have more complete advices. Also, I’m sorry for all the mistakes in texts, I’m not a native english speaker. I tried to correct as much as I could! 

For anatomy, I highly recommand to watch Sinix Design videos on youtube. He explains it VERY WELL.

the painting on the last image is from a painting called “Jeanne” by William Bouguereau 1888.

[video-games-girls-play-to]

Devil may cry animation weapons and vehicles (from devil may cry graphic arts book)

[blackyjunkgallery]

Who would you say some of your biggest artistic influences are? And is there anyone who's work your currently excited about?

Hi, It’s a huge question, i change my influences every month hehe.But right now, i rediscover Tezuka’s work, i also love new animation series from Disney and Cartoon Network (Adventure time and Gravity falls for example). Tayou Matsumoto also very inspired me.And here’s a bunch of artiste i lovehttp://www.777run.com/menu.htmhttp://hannakdraws.tumblr.com/http://stenopee.blogspot.fr/http://sambosma.blogspot.fr/http://www.reyyy.com/http://radiomaru.tumblr.com/http://odysseus-tonic.blogspot.fr/http://hervoyoann.blogspot.fr/http://mikkelsommer.blogspot.com/http://airfortress.tumblr.com/http://dilrajmann.tumblr.com/http://seangordonmurphy.com/http://charleshuettner.tumblr.com/there’s a lot more, but internet is full of talented guys, it depressed me haha. 

[docgold13]

a confluence of two of my most favorite things… Star Wars and illustration by Paul Pope

[games-frontier]

Source

[ungoliantschilde]

[ungoliantschilde]

the Buck Rogers Portfolio, by Frank Frazetta.

this set of prints reproduced the best work that Frank Frazetta did in his career (IMHO, anyways). these were originally used as cover artwork for the Famous Funnies Buck Rogers comics from the 1950s.

what sets them apart from his later paintings is that Fritz combined his strongest talent (sketching in pen and ink), with his uses of watercolors. the drawings maintain their excellent composition and detail, while also having a colorful pallet added afterwards to accentuate what was already there. Fritz was one of the best finishers/inkers of his era - check out his work with Al Williamson at some point - so by allowing his talents to shine, these prints really show his skills.

[pizza-party]

LOVE these! So many favorites! All of them influences!

[sulhya]

Overwatch fanarts I drew online with my super cool friend Blacky ! Enjoy !

[followtheleaderwebcomic]

[jonasgoonface]

swish

[jonasgoonface]

new guillaume comic dropped on @slipshine and it obviously ruled. I wanted to draw the characters real real bad :p  peep this guy’s work if you haven’t yet cause holy shit what an inspiration @blackyjunkgallery

[magdalina-dianova]

I guess my art is in the ‘pink on a yellow background’ phase now ☀️🐤

Anyway, I finally managed to create something fully coloured on my iPad, from start to finish! yay! 

I’m really starting to enjoy drawing in Procreate tho. In a way it’s not super comfortable because of some small technical restrictions, like the lack of clipping layers and colour history. Or having to open the colour palette every time I need to change colours. 

But on the other hand it feels really liberating. Like I don’t feel that strong urge to make everything perfect, maybe exactly because of these issues. I don’t want to go through all the trouble sometimes and I accept that things will just be messier because I’m lazy. I love that <3 It’s amazing how different your art can be if you just switch tools. It completely changes the way you approach things.  I shared some WIP videos of this drawing in my Instagram stories, so if you’re interested in seeing more of these things feel free to follow me there:)