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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.

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my friend manny (creator of the mind’s eye webcomic, about which i’ve posted previously!) is doing a “draw this in your style” contest, which basically means i got an excuse to draw fanart and possibly win stickers (and, like, other prizes, but i really just care about the stickers and the thrill of being a hype man)

(my redraws on top, manny’s original art on bottom)

cephia!

sometimes you redraw something ten years later. sometimes you redraw something three days later. in any case, humans be redrawing art.

Elena & Elysia (alt. lineart)

Elena & Elysia

(2020 digital redraw of a sketchbook redraw I did last year of this 2009 drawing of Elena & Elysia. I still cannot believe I included that original drawing in a portfolio I showed my art teacher…)

clara sketch! getting back into digital art is hard!! referenced this (basically drew it on top of it bc i got so annoyed at being out of practice with digital art, oops)

I fixed my pen pressure and, ever the predictable bitch, drew Spring. It’s going to be a while before I’m back in the swing of using a functioning tablet but I’m super excited that I don’t have to buy a new one.

#sphgmss

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when I was fifteen, I made a timeline of my art from ages five to fifteen. I’m twenty-four now and I figured I should update it, even if only to prove that I peaked artistically years ago (and to motivate myself to get back into it!).

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being an art thief is serious business, especially when you steal a cursed painting and are blackmailed into stealing weird occult artifacts and performing blood sacrifices for the demon you unleashed!

@cardwrecks and I are doing this pinterest OC challenge and I’m having a blast with it! here’s the board this one was based on!

i’m getting better at drawing in ms paint, or maybe I just had more patience this time!! i’m embarrassed to admit how long i spent on that plaid.

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@cardwrecks and I did this OC challenge except we didn’t really pay attention to the rules or examples and we ended up kinda running off with our own idea of what an aesthetic board is! we ended up making three each so this here is just the first of a few more to come!! here’s the board this one is based on!

meet… well, she doesn’t have a name but rest assured, she’d be going by a screenname anyway. in a future where robots are highly integrated into society and people have strong opinions about this, meet your favorite preteen digital anarchist, who reprogrammed her robo-nanny so it only reports nice, pleasant things to her parents (who are almost always away on business trips). to hide her identity when she’s out helping the revolution, she wears hand-made holographic papier mache masks over her VR headset. when she’s not busy with burning it all to the ground, she likes to have her robo-nanny wear ironic t-shirts and make her lemonade. she likes to use vintage tech because it’s harder to track, and also because flip phones have room for cute charms.

first time drawing in ms paint in a long time (my 12-year-old tablet was acting up in any programs that tried to detect pen pressure) and… you know… not terrible.