Cathy's Doodles

A place where I post my doodles and inspirations. 20+

[doodlemancy]

hello fellow artists. google has fallen. pinterest/duckduckgo AI filters don't work. do not despair; here is a list i made of places to find reference images without having to sift through piles of worthless garbage. (for future editing convenience i am just linking my blog post on dreamwidth.)

✨ good places to find art reference that are not full of AI trash 🌈

[scribbly-blue-hearts]

Blue’s Feathers and Wings Compendium: Standard Wing Shapes

Wings Part 1 [Standard ]| Wings Part 2 [Atypical] | Feather Markings | Tail Feathers [Part 1] | Tail Feathers [Part2]

I have expanded the traditional 4 types; Highspeed, Elliptical, Low Aspect and High Aspect ratio, because they were very narrow and vague categories for the most part, adding High Energy, Thermal Soaring, Night Glider, and Passerine wings. I feel that these extra types make it easier to understand and visualize the differences and similarities between wing shapes.

I’ve renamed Low Aspect to Powered Soaring, and High Aspect to Dynamic Soaring for the purposes of the fact that names made it hard to understand purpose and were easily confusable. 

A lot of these wing types are also affected by tailfeather shape and size, and that will change their agility and energy expenditure as the tail also generates lift.

Disclaimer: This is in no way intended to be an academic dissertation or proposal, do not treat it as such. It is purely for art and writing references for others, to aid description and inspiration.

[art-res]

Cool series of tutorials on wings!

[ultrainfinitepit]

Added a few more color palettes. Feel free to use these colors, and tag me if you’d like.

[allisonperryart]

In case you missed it, here’s a #TutorialTuesday someone requested on Twitter to go with last week’s process video on how to create a perspective grid from a photo (from Tomomi Sato) which you can use for studies, drawings, paintings, etc. Hope this helps with drawing/painting in perspective!!

[fleabag-15]

i love this game so much

[laneichy]

Grumble grumble…

[camberdraws]

The ink bottle lying on your desk... begins to crawl away..???

[cathysdoodles]

I’m

[ivytea]

ascent of kettle-smoke dragon

[tofusilken]

[ID: illustration of a red teapot emitting a long, curling plume of steam shaped like a snakelike dragon. The dragon is glowing, translucent white with a round red eye and long whiskers and short legs. Behind it a rice paper screen window is open, hanging next to a calligraphy scroll and some tassels. The teapot sits on a table with two cups of tea, with running rabbit patterns around the rim, and a sheet of paper with writing. End ID]

[littleevil0ne1]

✨️Joana Indi and the Queen of Egypt ✨️

[vampmilf]

genuinely in fucking tears over this

best meow?

the french meow

the endless meow

the opera meow

the ghost meow

the chainsaw meow

the downhill meow

the senior meow

the doorbell meow

the earthquake meow

the concussion meow

Voting ended onJan 11, 2024

[cathysdoodles]

I love ghost meow

[kiraoji]

art cheats

hello i am here today to not lose track of the art cheats i have discovered over the years. what i call art cheat is actually a cool filter/coloring style/way to shade/etc. that singlehandedly makes art like 20 times better

80’s anime style

glitch effect

glow effects

adding colors to grayscale paintings

foreshortening ( coil )

foreshortening ( perspective )

clipping group (lines)

clipping group (colors)

dramatic lighting ( GOOD )

shading metal

lighting faces

that is all for today, do stay tuned as i am always hunting for cool shit like this

[etheringtonbrothers]

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[charliebowater]

Hand, Wrist and Forearm Exercises! 

Over the past couple of months I’ve mentioned here and there that I’ve been working on strengthening my hands and wrists in general. I figured I’d make a bit more of a comprehensive post for anyone else that might find it useful!

Towards the tail end of last year, I was getting a lot of pain in my drawing hand. I’ve never let it get as bad as developing carpel tunnel, but I was starting to show a few markers. Like a lot of us, I paid very little attention to the health of my hands for a long time. I feel like you can get away with it for many years. Once I hit my mid-twenties though - that shit really starts to catchup. There’s been a few instances where I just couldn’t draw any more and was completely freaking out internally: ‘holy shit I’m going to fuck up my hand’ etc. I had to take time off to recuperate. 

I draw a lot.  Not as much as some, but with my day job and freelance on the side I can easily wrack up 210 hours of drawing each month. Sometimes less, sometimes more. 

I wanted to find something I could do for my hands to combat the problem, rather than rest being the only option. It’s absolutely a given that you should still take plenty of breaks, make sure you’ve got an ergonomic set-up, do stretches etc. But I’d reached the point where those precautions weren’t really doing enough to prevent pain, and they felt like more of a temporary fix rather than a solution. 

Now, to the point. Exercises! I don’t really know why I’d never thought of weight exercises to help with the pain, I guess my natural inclination was always to just rest it instead. 

Last year I bought myself a 2KG weight and started doing these exercises. It really didn’t take very long to start noticing a difference. My wrist immediately felt relieved from all the stretches, and after a couple of weeks the pain really started to fade. I’ve gradually moved on to slightly heavier weights, and doing this (exactly what’s in the video!) has made the biggest difference to anything I’ve ever done in regards to wrist health. 

These exercises really feel like you’re actually doing something to fight the wear and tear on your hands, and I don’t know about you guys - but I want to be drawing until I’m an old lady! 

[charliebowater]

REBLOGGING BECAUSE YOU CAN NEVER HAVE TOO MANY REMINDERS!

Kind of overworked myself a little too much lately and went for a physiotherapist checkup. I managed to give myself a sprinkling of tennis AND golf elbow. It’s so me, I can’t choose one.

I figured I’d reblog my previous wrist exercises post because they are FUCKING MAGIC. When I do these - and keep them up - I don’t get any problems. I slack off for a little while (slaps self) and look what happens?!

I’m still working but taking it as easy I can, then I’ll be easing myself back into these exercises slowly (starting with fewer reps). My lovely phsyiotherapist also said these are the perfect stretches for tennis and golf elbow too :)

IN SUMMARY. TAKE CARE OF YOUR WRISTS.

(Also for the love of god I’m not a doctor. These are just my own experiences. Take care of yourselves. Don’t make any pre-existing problems worse by powering through with these exercises. See a professional!)

[cathysdoodles]

Only a few years late but here’s the winter counterpart to my autumn leafy dragon c: http://cathysdoodles.tumblr.com/post/102329849442/for-those-who-have-been-asking-my-maple-leaf . I probably won't be making a spring and summer one in case anyone is wondering. 

I’m hoping to post more going forward. Been a rough year for art due to ongoing issues but I’m starting to deal with them one by one so hopefully I’ll be picking up the pace soon!

[cathysdoodles]

Maple leaf dragon is probably one of my favorite things in the whole world. I just wanted to let you know! Thank you for your art. :o)

Ahhh this made my day! Thank you so much for the support!

[cathysdoodles]

Have you made any more dragons like the maple leaf dragon. They could be amazing seasonal representations

I haven’t yet! I have been planning to make a winter themed one soon c:

[drawingden]

[drawingden]

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*UPDATED VERSION SUMMER 2015*

Digital Painting and Drawing

Autodesk SketchBook Copic Edition - This is the limited edition of SketchBook Pro with 72 Copic colours to choose from

Krita - Krita offers CMYK support, HDR painting, perspective grids, dockers, filters, painting assistants, and many other great features

GIMP - GIMP is a well known free alternative to Photoshop with similar features 

Mischief Free Version - With six essential brushes, a basic palette of colors and an infinite vector canvas, Mischief-Free is perfect for hashing out ideas, life drawing, and endless doodles

MyPaint - MyPaint is a fast and easy open-source graphics application for digital painters, and comes with 39 different brushes

Verve Painter - Verve is a small painting application that uses fluid dynamics and brushes to push the paint around, though it is still in development.

Inkscape - Inkscape is an open-source professional quality vector graphics software with sophisticated drawing tools with capabilities comparable to Adobe Illustrator.

FireAlpaca - A similar program to Paint Tool Sai that offers features such as a snap feature which creates a variety of perspective overlays.

MediBang Paint - A free lightweight painting program for Windows, Mac Os and Android with cloud saving to allow users to easily switch between platforms.

SpeedyPainter - Basic painting program with a simple layout and features such as perspective grids and reference view mode

3D Modelling  

Google Sketchup - Drawing-based tool for architects, designers, builders, makers and engineers who design for the physical world. SketchUp Make is a free version and SketchUp Pro is a paid version with additional functionality.

Sculptris - A free, introductory digital sculpting tool, a great stepping stone for digital sculptors, created by the makers of Zbrush.

Blender - A powerful application with full-fledged professional tools, Blender has a wide community and resources to help you learn.

SculptGL - This handy modelling program works online in your browser and is compatible with wacom tablets

Animation

Synfig - Synfig Studio is a free and open-source 2D animation software, designed as powerful industrial-strength solution for creating film-quality animation using a vector and bitmap artwork.

EmoFuri - EmoFuri is a new animation software that helps artists easily animate photoshop illustrations in a 2D-3D style.It uses PSD files of character illustrations to animate them. 

Pencil2D - Pencil2D is an open-source animation/drawing software that lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation using both bitmap and vector graphics.

Live2D - This increasingly popular 2D-3D animation software is similar to Emofuri with sample models available to experiment with, and is also available in english.

Pixel Art

Piskel - An online pixel art app that lets you animate pixel art with a live preview of your work.

Piq - While it doesn’t have the best looking layout, this online tool has lots of interesting features including a colour-drift tool that’s great for making colour palettes.

Etc

Thisissand - An online fun and unique playground for creating colourful sandscapes, also comes in an app version

Flame Painter - A free demo of the full program, it allows you to try out the flame generator and change different brush settings and paint your own flame paintings

Silk - An online interactive generative art program that creates bright silk-like patterns, with options to change colours and rotational symmetry.

Bomomo - This interesting program has a group of dots that move around the screen in the pattern you choose, then paint the canvas according to when you click the screen.

Drawpile -  Drawpile is a software collaborative drawing program that allows multiple users to sketch on the same canvas simultaneously.

[cathysdoodles]

An extremely useful list!