Marwen Lab

Welcome to the Marwen Lab Tumblr page! Marwen Lab is a capstone program where 10-12th grade student artists develop independently driven artwork over the course of a school year. This Tumblr page is a collection of the resources gathered by these students. Marwen educates and inspires young people through the visual arts www.marwen.org

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This is Mitchell

I am pleased to announced that work on my short film is completely over. Thank you all for your support.

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Hip Tips

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all of my please and thank you’s

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kissus

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Since you guys know I’m really good at kisses.

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ever wanted to do some stuff? like, different stuff? tired of having to scroll through your huge ref tag? LOOK NO FURTHER!! Have a masterpost of LITERALLY EVERYTHING which took me 5 hours to make so reblog it

Art:

Painting tutorial

Female/male arms

Kneeling + Sitting ref

Dragon head view tutorial

SAI brushes 86786

Drawing expressions

Sai Brushes 1

NGE colour palette 1

100+ colour palletes

Avoiding same face

Face contours/highlighting 

free art MyPaint

Body anatomy help 1

How to shift images using blur in PS

Drawing clothe folding

How to draw ice

Colour palette 1

Colour palette 2

SAI brush settings 2

SAI/PS pixel brushes

Warm/Cool gray

Flower crown tutorial

Skin colour palette

Pink colour sheet

How to draw butts&thighs

The male torso

Drawing glowing stuff in SAI

Drawing horse/animal legs on humans

Drawing clouds

Muscular male with bow stock photos

Pastel colours

Drawing grass fields in SAI

Expressions&Legs

All about the human body

20+ colour palettes 

Colour conversion

Kissing ref

Creature design 

Colour meanings

Creating expression

Tutorial masterpost (100+)

Lineart

Canine

How to colour

Pose studies

Feline comparisons

How to draw penis

Leaf pressing

100+ anatomy references 

How to draw folds

SAI brushes 3

Sitting poses

Colour palette 4

Cloud painting

How to draw 3D rooms

Colour info

Colouring ref

Hair tutorial

Clothing ref

Bodies and poses

SAI brushes 5

Colour scheme designer

Folding ref

Heads&Angles 

Paint tool SAI masterpost

Drawing ref masterpost (10+)

Hair+Fur

How to draw faces

SAI brushes 4

Anatomy of mutant humans

What should I draw?

Free art software

pastel colour ref

Mass art ref

Soft SAI brushes

ways to draw stuff

SAI brush settings

baseball cap ref

Penis ref

Drawing human wings

Cool free art software

Huge art ref

Colour blender

2 SAI brushes

Photoshop for free 

Emotions vocab sheet

Degrees of emotion

HOW TO DRAW ANYTHING

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A mouth-watering fuck-ton of potentially useful links.

[kelpls]

YEAH lots of people asked about bodies and poses SO UMM THERE”S not much i can cover on full bodies idk every cahracter is different so there are noEAXCT proportions for anythign REALLY 

IF YOU”RE NOT SURE WHAT POSE TO DO jsut draw a random gesture line that fits the direction of movement and sometimes u end up with really ENERGETIC POSES!! I DUNNO THIS METHOD MIGHT NOT BE FOR EVEYRONE SOBS i dont reallly know 

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a public service announcement

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NOTE: this is no way the best or most common method of picking colour, it is simply what i’ve found very useful for my own personal use, and it works very well in my favour. i’m also not a native english speaker so there might show up some embarrassing spelling mistakes. if there’s any questions feel free to hit me up in my askbox!

SKIN TUTORIAL || HAND TUTORIAL || EYE TUTORIAL || NOSE TUTORIAL

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Body drawing review - translated version.

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feel free to hover a link for a short little description of the websites and programs c:

ART WEBSITES:

deviantart

wysp

artgrounds

iscribble

oekaki.nl

sketchswap

FREE ART PROGRAMS:

paint tool sai

autodesk sketchbook

openCanvas

firealpaca

seashore???? (i think its for mac only)

artrage

nekopaint

gimp

krita

ANATOMY?!?!

AYEE ANATOMY

MMM DAT HUMAN BODY

BOOBIES?

BUTTS?

DILLYWINGS? nsfw

VAGINAS nsfw

DAMN GURL DAT BODY SO FINE

MORE BOOBIES IN BRAS??!

 HIS HIPS DON’T LIE

HERS DON’T EITHER

hold me

I LIKE CAKE

MENS HOT BODS

DIFFERENT SHAPES AND SIZES YO

ARMS?

LEGS?

FACIAL STUFF?

EYES

NOSE

MORE EYES

MOUTHS

MORE FUCKIN EYES

EARS

FACES IN GENERAL

EMOTIONS

MORE EMOTIONS?

MORE NOSES

MORE EYES DAMMIT

ANOTHER MOUTH THINGY?

WOAHHHH

CLOTHING?

YEP

CLOTHES

FOLDS?

WHAT?

HI?

I LIKE CUTE CLOTHES

HOW TO COLOR

coloring is fun

you can have shitty line art

but the better you color

the more amazing the art is

i love coloring

mm colors

yummy

REFERENCES??

i like these

references are fun

THATS WHAT YOU GET FOR WAKING UP IN VEGAS

guava

HI

I’M GETTING TIRED OF FINDING LINKS BUT I’M SO EXCITED

WOOHOOOO I WANT SODA

REMEMBER NO MATTER WHAT IF YOUR YOUR ART IS SHIT ITS YOUR ART AND YOUR ART IS GR8 SO NEVER STOP ARTING <3

COLOR PALETTES!

PINKISH SKIN COLORS

BLUES

GREENS

ORANGES

YELLOWS

PALE SKIN COLORS

PURPLES

GREYS

BROWNS

DARK SKIN COLORS

TAN SKIN COLORS

WOOO

USE THIS THING TO GET YOUR OWN COLOR PALETTES

THANKS

[e1n]

I think regardless of style or personality, your character should run properly. Awkward run ruins everything.

Don’t believe me? Try running the wrong way, see how far that gets you.

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For clarity’s sake: the difference between right and wrong here is the arms. Your arms travel opposite your legs.

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It has been awhile since I posted something here.

A month had passed since Star Wars: The Force Awakens was released to the world. Audience reactions ranged from bliss to boredom. But I can count on this ad to have a greater emotional response than any plot twist.

When I was at the theater, this ad played before the previews started. I soon tweeted that it had very Gillian Wearing vibe. The fact that the pets were shot in a static angle and that they had Annoying Orange style lips made it one of the most intense series of images I’ve seen. This is coming from someone that admires David Lynch’s filmography.

For computer generated animals, they move with unnatural contortions.

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This is Mitchell, here’s an update on my project.

The first draft of my script is done, all it needs is some outside eyes and revisions.

I made a test video with Adobe Premier, with nothing but B roll and Steven Universe music. It wasn’t until today that reminded me of another piece of art, “Good Morning Mr. Orwell”, a 1984 (huehuehue) satellite broadcast made by Korean artist Nam June Paik. The part I’m referring to starts at 39:12

The star of the show is still missing in action. The person who I asked to make it is busy with life, which means no prop for a while.

That’s it for 2015, it’s not much but it’s small steps to a larger project.

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Progress shots. Mainly just planning at this point, but I’ll be moving forward to more finished stuff today.

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artists talking, artist voices, art talk

Follow this link to find a ton of videos of artists talking about their work. If you poke around on this artists website you’ll also find videos of people (curators, critics, etc) talking about artists’ works, artist interviews, quotes, etc. So check it out!

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Best Selection: School of the Art Institute of Chicago Open House 11-6-2015

Top: Kyungjin Kim, “”, Adela Goldbard

Middle: Jared Solomon, “”, “”

Bottom: Carolina Gonzalez, Stefanie Yan, Dalton Carter

Anyone who knows the names of artists left blank are free to edit them in.

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A journey through the mind of an artist

Dustin Yellin makes mesmerizing artwork that tells complex, myth-inspired stories. How did he develop his style? In this disarming talk, he shares the journey of an artist -- starting from age 8 -- and his idiosyncratic way of thinking and seeing. Follow the path that leads him up to his latest major work (or two).

TED Talk featuring artist Dustin Yellin

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Part 2 Hussein Chalayan Autumn Winter 2000

musical performance by Bulgarka Junior Quartet

Another good one!!