[funstealer]

Soma Faitanin Debut Collection - Look 5 Ph. Marina Langrishe

[guttedpulsars]

here is a master list of great art tools that can make your workflow easier! 👇 (consistently updating)

posemaniacs.com/en

if you want to learn human anatomy with the benefit of preset poses, this is for you! you can use it standalone, but as a bonus you can also import poses into the clip studio paint 3D models. (File -> Import -> 3D Pose (Posemaniacs)

line-of-action.com

great for gestures and observational sketches!

zvork.fr/vls/

browser based rig for lighting & shadows

MY FAVORITE BRUSHPACKS

truegrit texture supply - https://www.truegrittexturesupply.com

Photoshop & Procreate Textures and Brushes | True Grit Texture Supply

Game-Changing Brushes, Textures and Effects for Procreate, Photoshop, Illustrator, Clip Studio Paint and Affinity. Level up your digital art

thedawner procreate & csp packs - https://ko-fi.com/thedawner/

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ADDITIONAL TOOLS COMING!

[fishwife-hiwaaranit]

I genuinely feel like I’m going insane sometimes

[fishwife-hiwaaranit]

Some more of my thoughts and a sketch page of myself because I love me

[scwibbs]

Here's my guide to how I draw fat masc bodies! (please keep in mind that this is not an in depth tutorial. I only put the information that explains how my brain interprets it)

[saszor]

[ID in alt]

Tutorial on drawing characters/OCs who have some sort of facial paralysis. It doesn't cover all possible variants because I was using mirror as my main reference lawl

Keep in mind that this is an introductory drawing tutorial and has some generalizations in it, so not every “X is Z” statement will be true for Actual People 👍

Consider supporting me on ko-fi if you find this to be helpful.

[creatingblackcharacters]

Welcome!

I'm going to update this list as I post more. So make sure to check periodically!

Anon Office Hours: Wed 12:30pm - Friday 6:30pm. (EST)

PLEASE CAPITALIZE THE IDENTITY OF "BLACK" IN YOUR ASKS TO ME ☺️

"Your posts are too long"- Teacher's Note

Feedback Rules

FAQs!

Please take the time to review the one relevant to your questions! They are long- some longer than others- but they likely have a link contained within that can better guide your research!

📝Syllabus📝

Lesson 1: "White Man Painted Black"?

Lesson 1.5: "Hair for Thought"- how visualizing affects your writing

Lesson 2: “That One Hairstyle? RETIRE IT!” Black Hair is an Art (pt.1)

Lesson 2.1: Addendum to Hair pt 1

Lesson 2: "It Takes HOW LONG?" Black Hair is an Art (pt.2)

Application! Examples of Protective Hair Coverings

Application! Ice's Lazy Loc Wash Routine

Application! How to: Simplified Braid

Application! Daisy E's Simplified Hair Drawing

Lesson 3: "Defying the Default"- Skin Tones and the Presence of Black Characters

Application! What are Black fans looking for in Commissions?

Lesson 4: "Do Black People Blush?" Bringing brown complexions to life

Application! Humanæ- Resource for Skin Palettes!

Lesson 5: "The Same Place As the Music" Lighting & Color

Lesson 6: "Let's Have A Talk, First" Stereotypes, pt 1

Lesson 6: “Why’s she so rude?” (She’s Not)- Stereotypes, pt 2

Lesson 6: "Is He the Threat (Or Are You?)"- Stereotypes, pt 3

Application! How to Spot a Stereotype: An Example

Lesson 7: "That's the Black one!"- Imagery and "Black-Coded" Characters

Lesson 8: “Across cultures, darker people suffer most. Why?” Multiethnic and Multicultural Blackness

Lesson 9: “Romance Will Not Solve Racism”- Interracial/Biracial/Blended Black and White Relationships and Families

Lesson 10: “The Ambiguously Brown Character™”- The Attachment to Eurocentric Beauty Standards

Lesson 11: “No, That’s Not ‘How Color Works’.” - Whitewashing

Lesson 12: “The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth” - Violence, Violent Imagery & Black Horror

Lesson 13: “It’s Giving” AAVE, and the Denied Yet Undeniable Impact of Black Culture

Lesson 14: “On Human Dignity.”  Blackness, Gender & Sexuality

[witchrealms]

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[theoriginalsupermodels]

John Galliano - Spring 1998 RTW

[babezoi]

how to draw horses(for the discerning horse girl)

i spent two years working in barns to give you this information. use it wisely

view all 16 parts under the cut!

hopefully this guide will inspire you to draw the cowboys you've always dreamed of

[not-avril]

A small guide for people who struggle with this area

[may12324]

So I love how you draw everything traditionally then colour digitally! Would you ever do a tutorial on how you colour digitally? I always find my colours get shifted(?) when I try to colour traditional line art by putting it on like a multiply layer or something

Sure why not lets do it. Meg can be our guinea pig for this demonstration

So here are my original lines, scanned in at greyscale (or b/w). Vs the end result

The key is to get the white to be as white as possible without losing the lines. So i do the left technique on firealpaca, but you can also duplicate the og layer, setting the above lqyer to a low % of 'add' filter, and then merge down. And get a similar result. There a bunch of different ways to even out greys and increase contrast, these are just two options (dw about the lines being light, we can make em darker later).

I then edit the lines, changing any mistakes or messes done in the traditional sketch. Heres a side by side of the new lines vs the old lines. Its mostly fixing the face. Make sure the lines are completely devoid of colour- so set the saturation to low/ greyscale.

Here is the flats vs the flats with og lineart and the new lineart in the bottom two. The colours are all done in seperate layers that are under the linesrt layers (sometimes i have 1 layer set to multiply and 1 layer set to burn, or 2 layers to multiply and 1 to burn- depends on how dark or light my original pencil lines are and what effect i want).

This isnt the be all and end all. Just how i do my lines and then begin the colouring process. Good luck!

[ronycore]

RABBIT SEVEN BY MEGASCULPTURE

[campaignagainstcliche]

[brother-genitivi]

couples themed photoshoots and old romance films have such a Grip on me they're all so destian and it makes me unwell LIKE

LIIIIIIIIIKE

[brother-genitivi]

MORE

feel free to use these as refs!

[brother-genitivi]

even more!!

[mistahgrundy]

[goatjinku]

Avian, mammal, and reptile claw reference.

Apparent source.

[hayleyolivia]

I just had some...thoughts... about sticking animal heads on human shoulders. Bear with me.

I think the reason some anthros look really strange (I’m looking at you, Skyrim) is because animal skulls don’t attach to their spines the same way ours do. Our spines and skulls are very vertical, but many animals’ are closer to horizontal.

Some people solve this by giving the animal skulls a human skull shape on the back. But, to me it makes them look somehow bald(??) and just kinda weird in general. If, instead, you change their necks to curve so that the spine still connects where their four legged counterparts’ do, they no longer look yucky! (And also don’t need a hair-do!)

This seems especially applicable for animals like big cats, cows, and lizards — animals whose spines attach very horizontally to their heads.

Anyway, enjoy some more art I did while having these very specific thoughts.

[curlicuecal]

excellent anatomy post!!!

[modelsof-color]

Precious Lee by Lacey Lennon for i-D Magazine Summer , 2023