Art Tips And Inspiration

[bludragongal]

Here’s a little Art Tip about a very specific part of the body. Pop a squat and see how it looks on you.

[thecollectibles]

Rooms by Umishima Senbon

[chanceyknits]

every stitch, depicted and demonstrated

This database holds a ton of useful materials for embroidery! many different types of stitches in various difficulties, all incredibly useful!

[p1nb4ll]

some shots around the marble hornets abandoned hospital

[lesansnom]

I'm frustrated that there's no more young justice so I made my own one-shot :)

[freminetbathwater]

[oobbbear]

I’m working on designing rooms, got any advice? Your room designs are always so peak<33333

Don’t make the room too cramped with details, always have area(s) that are somewhat empty so the viewer won’t get overwhelmed

Now I’m thinking this is actually not much of a room design advice more of an general illustration one…

Here’s another one, find a reference image with the vibe you want your room to be and start replacing its furnitures and items with similar ones. You’ll end up with a nice reference board with a coherent theme then you just place all the items into your drawing and you’ll get a room resembling the vibe of the original reference but entirely different from it

(Yes I did that kitchen drawing from the previous image using this method entirely it worked wonders)

I hope this might help!!! I’m not the best when it comes to describing things so feel free to ask if anything doesn’t make sense!!!🫶

[sabertoothwalrus]

You probably get asked this a lot, but how do you draw hands? Even when I'm tracing, they look so weird 🙃

I could probably go on and on and on about hands, but here are some key points I compiled! I LOVE drawing hands, and I never hesitate to use my own as a reference

[belovedroach]

hear me out.....

Sander Bugs...... it's them but it's bugs..............

does anyone share my vision-

im not the best at drawing insects, so in case it's hard to tell: Virgil is a spider, Roman is a butterfly, Remus is a moth, Logan is an ant, Janus is a wasp and Patton is a bee.

(click the thingy if you'd like to indulge me in more details lmao)

Virgil, the spider: he already has spiders motifs. Also, spider webs can work as a metaphor for falling down an anxiety spiral (one step down a slippery slope and you're unable to get out).

Roman, the butterfly: the (mostly agreed upon) prettiest bug, for the prettiest boy in the party™. They're not overly romanticized in media for nothing lol. And of course, he's a "monarch butterfly".

Remus, the moth: "like moths to a flame" that represents self-destructive behaviour (unable to go against a desire that ultimately harms you, and could be your doom). Also, he shares the buttlerfly similarity with Roman. Plus he's a nuisance to your wardrobe

Logan, the ant: they're hard-working, resourceful and persevering. Those are pretty much words that easily describe Logan as well. And if anyone would be able to carry two times his own weight, it would be him (?)

Janus, the wasp: they can sting without dying, having more of a defense purpose. Acting as Thomas' self-preservation, he acts like a last line of defense. And the yellow and black color scheme suits him nicely.

Patton, the bee: hard-working too, but more centered in providing for others: he provides the others with affection and dinner (lol). He's sweet as honey. Their existence is helpful to the environment, and Patton's existence is helpful to my mental health /hj

i'd love to hear your own interpretations or even assign them different bugs !!! dont be shy

[redlipstickresurrected]

Naffy aka Naffy Illustration (Japanese, based Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan) - Stay Warm, Mixed Media

[byorkewkew]

So the pattern Its on A4 (210x297 mm) format paper cant really show rn how inward facing legs look, bc i have 1 such leg

the only explanation ill do is this for arms

[catchymemes]

[technofeudalism]

i think the near-extinction of people making fun, deep and/or unique interactive text-based browser games, projects and stories is catastrophic to the internet. i'm talking pre-itch.io era, nothing against it.

there are a lot of fun ones listed here and here but for the most part, they were made years ago and are now a dying breed. i get why. there's no money in it. factoring in the cost of web hosting and servers, it probably costs money. it's just sad that it's a dying art form.

anyway, here's some of my favorite browser-based interactive projects and games, if you're into that kind of thing. 90% of them are on the lists that i linked above.

A Better World - create an alternate history timeline

Alter Ego - abandonware birth-to-death life simulator game

Seedship - text-based game about colonizing a new planet

Sandboxels or ThisIsSand - free-falling sand physics games

Little Alchemy 2 - combine various elements to make new ones

Infinite Craft - kind of the same as Little Alchemy

ZenGM - simulate sports

Tamajoji - browser-based tamagotchi

IFDB - interactive fiction database (text adventure games)

Written Realms - more text adventure games with a user interface

The Cafe & Diner - mystery game

The New Campaign Trail - US presidential campaign game

Money Simulator - simulate financial decisions

Genesis - text-based adventure/fantasy game

Level 13 - text-based science fiction adventure game

Miniconomy - player driven economy game

Checkbox Olympics - games involving clicking checkboxes

BrantSteele.net - game show and Hunger Games simulators

Murder Games - fight to the death simulator by Orteil

Cookie Clicker - different but felt weird not including it. by Orteil.

if you're ever thinking about making a niche project that only a select number of individuals will be nerdy enough to enjoy, keep in mind i've been playing some of these games off and on for 20~ years (Alter Ego, for example). quite literally a lifetime of replayability.

[thecollectibles]

Pixel Art by SUN PIXELS

[thecollectibles]

The Collectibles: Best of 2024

[coffinvows]

gal

[etheringtonbrothers]

FORESHORTENING HANDS from my tutorials BOOKS, on KICKSTARTER in MARCH!

Lorenzo!

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

Pssst... something new is coming...

...this weekend!

Free, non-AI animal art references.

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

I’m really chuffed at how much y’all are excited for this.

The full catalogue won’t all be online when it launches in a few days, but it contains over 10,000 photos of at least 350 species and subspecies.