dearbhla

comics, illustration, cats

[pocketss]

distressing things to say to your friends

[enchantedbook]

'Sunrise Water Nymphs' by Arthur Prince Spear, (1879 - 1959).

[tundrakatiebean]

I have come up with a better metaphor than “you can’t pour from an empty cup” for burnout. You can’t boil an empty kettle. Pouring from an empty cup just gets you nowhere. Trying to boil an empty kettle can ruin the kettle, the stove, and burn down your house if you keep trying it.

[tofupixel]

pixel studies

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[amylouioc]

Sétanta & the Hound 🐺🩸

This print is exclusive right now to my monthly postcard club! If you’re interested in art and learning more about Irish myths and folklore, consider checking it out here.

Sign up before end of July 2024 to get a print!

[alisonzai]

[littlestpersimmon]

Metamorphosis

[my-darling-boy]

So at work there is a soda delivery guy who comes in almost everyday to restock and though we’ve barely said a word to each other, we definitely Know Of each other. Well this morning I finally got a shift where I could sleep in but my dad was like Hey the cable guy is coming at 7 to replace the cable boxes and I was like alright whatever I’ll just sleep in but forgot there was a cable box in my room. So it’s 7 in the morning I vaguely hear my dad let the cable guy into my room to just swap the box and I wake up to see??? Soda Delivery Guy???? in my room???? Turns out his second job is working cable but wow here Soda Man is standing in my doorway and I’m wrapped up in a pink bunny blanket surrounded by stuffed animals like

[anarchist-art]

[warningengine]

[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.

[minim-calibre]

Some of these are also great for writing references if you are a person with a burning need to visualize things. (There are times when the fact that I ran out of art classes to take by the middle of my second year in high school and just did it as unofficial independent study during my free period is very, very, very obvious. This is probably one of those times. Look, I use my manikins for writing more often than I do for drawing, and I've used more than one of the above resources for writing, too.)

If you are a writer who has always wanted to improve when it comes to describing visuals...well, these can help with that, too.

[stevelieber]

I was talking shop with an artist in the studio today and I shared this page from Andrew Loomis, which might be the single most valuable page I've ever encountered in a how-to-draw book. I can't BEGIN to say how many hours this "hanging figures on the horizon" technique has saved me.

(EDIT: Over on another site, someone said they didn’t understand how to read this pic, so maybe adding a second pic and some explanation will help?)

Let’s say I want to draw “Joe” standing further back. I need to know where to place him so he looks like he's the same height, even though he's further away. If I get it wrong, he’ll look giant or tiny.

I can do that by making sure that the horizon cuts thru Joe AT THE SAME HEIGHT, no matter how close or far away he is. In the original picture, it cuts thru the original Joe at the waist.

So let’s look at three different Joes.

A: Wrong. Horizon goes thru his knees. In this context, he’s a giant.

B: Correct. Horizon goes thru his waist, just like the original Joe!

C: Wrong. Horizon goes thru his head. In this context, he’s tiny.

[stevelieber]

Reblogging because it's been 75 years and Loomis is still right.

[bethfuller]

STRICTLY BUSINESS !

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[dearbhlala]

I N B L O O M

a piece about chronic pain and blooming potential

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you can buy a riso print of this here (€40) or download the black and white art to colour in here (free/pay what you want)

[dearbhlala]

i'm back, have a heron

[dearbhlala]

The Spoiling of the Hunt

[dearbhlala]

sometimes i literally wanna cry because my cat’s paws are too soft???