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[molabuddy]

i feel like these poses each give a slightly different character to eachother. even when the only real change is the way the hands are posed to sit on the hips.. has anyone noticed this

[kashuan]

yes!! one of my favorite art instruction books touches on this

[accessible-art]

Description Writing Resources - Rebloggable Version

Writing image descriptions can be challenging, but you don’t have to do it alone! Here is a huge compilation of resources, tips, and reading for image descriptions and accessibility. If the number of links is overwhelming, I suggest reading the first link! It compiles a lot of the information and tips from the rest of the resources here. The 2 links after that (Cooper Hewitt Guidelines and Medium’s How to Write an Image Description) are very helpful too!

Writing Image Descriptions

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How to write an image description: a fundamental guide

A comprehensive post on how to write image descriptions (IDs). Many of the resources here are also linked in this post. This was written primarily with Tumblr in mind, but the information applies to any image description.

Cooper Hewitt Guidelines for Image Description 

A great resource, mostly for describing art. Also includes good information on the distinction between alt text and long descriptions, giving guidelines for both.

Medium’s How to Write an Image Description

A guide for image descriptions using object, action, and context as a basic format.

Diagram Center Guidelines for Image Description 

A great comprehensive understanding of what is important when writing a description and has different sections for help describing all sorts of things like photos, art, comics, diagrams, charts, math, chemistry, and more! A longer read, but it has a lot of specific.

Perkins School for the Blind how to write alt text and image descriptions 

Another great resource! Concise and helpful, shorter than Diagram Center’s articles. 

SiteImprove’s Alt Text Best Practices 

Focuses on Alt text not long image descriptions.

Last Call Media- Accessible Comics

A great guide on describing comics!

How Do I Write Good Image Descriptions by KelperCryptids

A tumblr post with more tips on writing image descriptions.

General Guide for Image Descriptions by can-i-make-image-descriptions and additions by AccessibleAesthetics

More tips, guidelines, and information about image descriptions.

BrownAndTrans’ Guide to Image Descriptions

Information and tips about image descriptions.

Anistarrose’s Online Accessibility Masterpost

Focuses on image descriptions including common questions, guidelines, tips, tools, readings, and other helpful links regarding image descriptions and accessibility. 

Tips for describing art

Guidelines to how much detail should be added to descriptions of art.

Tips for describing comics

Some more tips for describing comics.

Image description templates

tailored largely for replies and screenshots from social media. 

Description Tools

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Online image to text converter

An image(/PDF) to text converter, helpful for transcribing images with a lot of text.

Online case converter

Good for converting lots of text in all caps for plain text transcriptions.

Meme image descriptions Google Doc

A compilation of image descriptions for common meme templates.

Accessible tumblr blogs list

List of blogs that post with image descriptions, organized based on the content of each blog (fandom, misc art, etc).

Another list of blogs that post visually described content.

Not sorted, but still helpful!

WebAim.org

A whole website about web accessibility! Includes articles, resources, accessibility training, and more. 

People’s Accessibility Discord Server

In this server, you can request for someone to write an ID, look over an ID you have written, or answer any questions you may have. If you need help, here’s the right place for it!

If a link is broken or if it contains misinformation/mistakes, please let us know so we can fix it. 

Thank you, and happy describing!

[ursiday]

[nocturnemo0n]

Sulvain and Raziol, my sweet little guys. I dont own merch of them so I guess the closest thing is Tomodachi Life.

[kunaigirl]

Me: "Damn people are REALLY BAD at knowing when to tag their eyestrain art/images...either that or they just don't care about photosenitive epileptic people like me. I feel really sad now." Person: "But Allison, what if they just don't know or understand what qualifies as eyestrain and what doesn't?" Me: "You know what? That could be a factor...While it is always better to be safe rather than sorry (so YES people should always tag eyestrain even if they're unsure if it "counts" or not) maybe you've got a point?"

Anyways! HERE'S YOUR HANDY GUIDE TO WHAT CAN COUNT AS EYESTRAIN! I'm pulling this straight from the Artfight rules page about what needs to be labeled and filtered as eyestrain because it's VERY helpful and VERY accurate! I also know not everybody has an AF account and might not always have access to this handy guide, and this is an important resource; That's why I'm sharing it here! (under the cut)

PLEASE TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY!!! THIS IS ABOUT THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF OTHERS!!!

Full eyestrain AF page link

"But Allison! How were you able to screenshot that example if you're so sensitive to eyestrain?"

I dimmed the HELL out of my computer screen and looked away while taking the screenshot and did the same when putting it into this post, that's how lol. BUT YEAH ANYWAYS!!! Once again:

PLEASE TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY!!! THIS IS ABOUT THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF OTHERS!!!

[rightdownright]

by the way this is medical. this could save somebody from a migraine all the way to a seizure. this has always been serious. treat this seriously.

[faustique]

there's a special place in my heart for people who made an effort to be my friend regardless of how quiet or distant i can get at times

[fallout-lou-begas]

do you have any advice on character design?

watch The Sopranos

[fallout-lou-begas]

i actually wanted to elaborate on this and say that i think it’s a really bad habit of a lot of artists, influenced by current media casting practices, to unconsciously or consciously make every single character they create super pretty, like everyone is just hot in that very boring, homogenous way, and this also comes as a result of people using actors and celebrities as character references or faceclaims and AI facial generation programs like Artbreeder being trained on people who are generally very pretty-looking. it results in alienating, uncanny worlds and drawings completely devoid of people who just look like regular people. it results worlds populated by mannequins fresh off the CW. I feel like whether a character is attractive or not should actually matter, be part of their character, because that kind of thing absolutely affects the way you move through the world and the way the world treats you.

so i wanted to throw in some suggestions that, whenever I’m trying to find a character reference or otherwise draw very interesting-looking yet regular-looking people, which i usually have to do for bit characters in @ikroah​ or something, I tend to look for references in the following places. these are far from the only reliable way to get inspiration, this is just a non-exhaustive list of places i’ve looked before for visual inspiration when needing to create a character, whether starring characters or background ones:

pre-2000s television (The Sopranos and Twin Peaks especially having incredible character design)

extras in comedy sketch shows

esports players

real photos (not staged stock photos) of line cooks

70s baseball players

athletes from more obscure olympic sports like the javelin toss or greco-roman wrestling, especially if you’re looking for a specific body type

ska, jazz, and blues musicians

firefighters

improv troupes

for teenagers, searching “high school english class project” on youtube and sorting by Upload Date

state senators, small-town mayors, and generally obscure local government positions like comptroller or treasurer (yes i know politicians can be bad sometimes but smaller elections especially don’t really depend on looks)

people who walk by your window (if you live in a city like I do)

and again these are just, in my opinion, deep and easy wells to dive in if you want to get a good idea of what regular people look like. these suggestions aren’t the limits on where you can possibly find inspiration for character design

[roganaut]

Fellini’s movies have remarkably interesting and unique looking actors

[fallout-lou-begas]

Yes!!! There’s an entire book called Fellini’s Faces that’s nothing but portraits of his actors that’s phenomenal for this kind of thing, though it’s fairly rare to get a hold of today.

[sartorialadventure]

(Since I know a lot of writers/artists follow me for costume/character design ideas!)

[halondrus]

Draw him alive and well. Ok now draw him playing sudoku

[halondrus]

Now draw him struggling at sudoku in a manner that is no longer endearing and is now embarassing

[nova814]

Raziol presenciando la magia de Vivi ✨🦋

[ace-artemis-fanartist]

Novae comic boys!

I can't believe I've been following this comic since 2017. Crazy!

[prismantis]

Friends and countrymen, I am suddenly saddled with a comical amount of bills to pay before end of month because of random stupid chance. I am opening:

Prismantis's Slooooooow Commissions!

Estimated delivery time 3-9 months so I can get through my current backlog first. Deadlines are allowed if you need something faster.

Please review my prices (which include other types of commissions, like sketches and flats and scenes), the Terms of Service, and send a completed commission form to [email protected] if you're interested!!

You can also DM me here and I'll answer any questions. If you've heard of a friend who is interested in ordering art, let them know too! Please reblog, thank you! ✨

[harajuno]

"How can you trust a machine?" "That's why I trust you."

[vinceaddams]

"Stained glass" faille jacket by Freda Blackwood, 1970's or early 80's, via Kerry Taylor Auctions.

[vinceaddams]

There's more of them!!

[carmahnart]

Hey y’all I have an announcement! My web app that I’ve been working on, Afro Index, is now live! It’s a visual reference library of Black hairstyles, for artist, animators, writers, and anyone who wants to learn more about them!

Check it out at afroindex.org! 💛✨

Afro Index – Black Hairstyle Reference Library

A reference library for Black hairstyles with accurate naming, structured filtering, and curated reference images.

[transparensie]

[anyrava]

Saw my recent rock tutorial blow up a bit, wanted to also share this mountain painting tutorial I‘ve made!

You can find more tutorials on my Ko-Fi Shop if you've found this helpful and would like to support me in making more! 🫶🍃

[miyuliart]

I collected my art tips on hands over the years. It ended up being 54 pages of notes I took and some guides I tried to create for myself. Maybe some of these can be useful to others as well. You can buy the pdf here or join my Patreon to get it for free.