Because i'm weird.

Vik | they/them | 28 | attempting to be an artist | cosplay blog: @runebreakercosplay | Photography/Entomology blog: @carabusvik

[neonglowstick]

I made a warhammer oc for artfight because i'm currently very into 40k and started building a Krieg army. I am once again not immune to gas mask characters

Their name is Vojin, they're a combat engineer. I don't have much lore for them (yet),i mainly based this on my Krieg cosplay.

[neonglowstick]

my Artfight entries for this year :) pt.3

these are all my horror leaning entries. Be aware

All character owners are credited and linked to their Artfight profile or other socials (if they have any).

[Left] Two belongs to @chaotic-artist928 ; [Right] Konny belongs to plaguga

[Left] The Distorted belongs to Locknesswarr1or ; [Right] Kilyn belongs to @thatguypharaotix

[neonglowstick]

my Artfight entries for this year :) pt.2

All character owners are credited and linked to their Artfight profile or other socials (if they have any).

V belongs to @litterboo

[Left] Patch belongs to BlueShark_3 ; [Right] Raiden belongs to liidixzy

[neonglowstick]

my Artfight entries for this year :) pt.1

Starting off with eyestrain heavy entries, so be aware All character owners are credited and linked to their Artfight profile or other socials (if they have any).

[left] Kieran belongs to MrGary1034 ; [right] Neon belongs to copperthemage

[left]Sekerakh belongs to @macabrecabra ; [right] Warhead belongs to GEEKYMUFFIN

[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.

[tofupixel]

MapCrunch. Environment artists rejoice. Random locations, filter by indoor or outdoor, rural or urban, specific country. Great for realistic/authentic building ref.

[ghostpainters]

You're awsome OP

[neonglowstick]

Ok i know artfight is more than halfway done but i just found where people got these templates so i made one for my profile

Here's my artfight profile :)

Art Fight

An art gifting game

[ane-doodles]

ARTFIGHT!!

[hungwy]

holy shit all jobs are bad

[epsilonhybrid]

[neonglowstick]

I didn't post any art here in like 3 years because i rarely have time or energy for art anymore but i decided to join artfight this year because honestly fuck my job. I'm so sick of being miserable all the time, i wanna have some fun and do art again

Anyway i'm very excited for artfight :)

My username over there is NeonGlowstick if anyone wants to participate 👉👈

[sanatorium-industries]

Lighting Wizardry: A Quick Tutorial🧙🔮 Your model today:Eisenhorn (and sorry for my terrible English

[sodiumvaporss]

i do have to say that no matter how shitty any sort of media is or how shitty your own creations are. always remember

[gayvampyr]

i hate that every time i look for color studies and tips to improve my art and make it more dynamic and interesting all that comes up are rudimentary explanations of the color wheel that explain it to me like im in 1st grade and just now discovering my primary colors

[gayvampyr]

“red and green are opposites 🥰” cool now how do i paint a tree with pinks and blues without it looking like a child’s finger painting or incongruous blobs of rainbow vomit

[gayvampyr]

ok i can’t explain it very well but im looking for tips and techniques for rendering art like

with specifically the highlights and colors being hues that compliment each other, don’t distract from the scene, and make it more interesting/visually appealing

is it too much to ask

[moreclaypigeons]

gonna drop some sources I have saved on Pinterest! I don't know if these all link back to the original sources so apologies for that

cohesive but still contrasting

This kind of talks about color and composition

This is a bit about landscape specifically

Values & composition

Contrast in composition

Balance in colors & values

This one's more for palette building but I think it's useful and can be applied to the other ones

Cohesion within compositions/lighting

"Chromatic fringe" - I also see people using this with shading, they bring in a transition color that is a different hue than the base color or shadow, it makes it so that less vibrancy is lost and it doesn't get muddy!

This one specifically has a lot of process behind the style of painting you're looking for!

Also one of my favorite artists who makes bright and colorful art like this is Not Sorry Art on TikTok & YouTube, her website is here and it's<3 my fav. She has some videos where you can see her process

With the oranges painting you put as an example, I noticed they painted the lighter values more toward yellow - they also exaggerated the hues of the undertones of the photo, so I'm guessing they either did it in their head or bumped the saturation up to get a closer look! I really love these paintings you shared and I definitely share your desire to paint/draw like that :)

[gayvampyr]

thanks this is super helpful! /gen

[gallusrostromegalus]

If you'd like 2 Print books that I absolutely reccomend to every visual artist regardless of Media, Color and Light and Imaginative Realism by James Gurney are basically religious texts for artists, even the 3-D people because his understanding and explanation of how light and form work is that damn good.

If you're wondering about Mr. Gurney's chops:

James Gurney is the Dinotopia Guy (that link includes his Dinotopia books, prints and online classes too)

[rainycraze]

Reblogging to check this out later

[transfagrified-in-the-void]

Here is a free pdf of the players handbook

Here is a free pdf of xanathars guide to everything

Here is a free pdf to monsters manual

Here is a free pdf to tashas cauldron of everything

Here is a free pdf to dungeon master’s guide

Here is a free pdf to volo’s guide to monsters

Here is a free pdf of mordenkainen’s tomb of foes

For all your dnd purposes

[gumi-megpoidd]

Here’s a site that has literally every official (and most UA) dnd stuff

including the books and campaigns

and you can add homebrew

[transfagrified-in-the-void]

Hey rb this!!!

[ahamkaracature]

Guys don’t share this kinda thing people may use it to get access to the dnd source books for free instead of paying for them. This is extremely dangerous for the flawless company that wizards of the coast is.

[indomies]

pinterest is not a website that you can save photos from. if you want to look for pictures you can go to these websites

unsplash

pexels

pixabay

foodiesfeed (for food)

gratisography

freestocks.org

picography

stocksnap.io

kaboompics

you can find FREE stock photos there. some may need attribution/credit. please don’t save pictures from pinterest and use it for your edits/graphics. that goes to artworks in pinterest as well, they might be stolen arts so please do not save and repost them.

[theweirdwideweb]

[simkaye]

How to make shrinky dink keychains maybe, probably not, tbh I’d be surprised if you just have these tools laying around, but here’s how you’d do it if you did 🤠