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[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

[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)

[woodlandvampire]

I compiled this a while ago but I was just looking for references and found the file so...

Best places to find reference photos:

Body types, poses, and anatomy:

http://reference.sketchdaily.net/en

https://www.posemaniacs.com/

https://quickposes.com/en

https://www.characterdesigns.com/#home-section

https://www.adorkastock.com/sketch/

https://line-of-action.com/practice-tools/figure-drawing/

https://www.proko.com/browse/tools?af=242

Giant anatomy reference tutorials Pinterest board:

https://www.pinterest.com/deedee1232/body-reference/

General:

https://unsplash.com/

https://pixabay.com/

https://www.pexels.com/

https://stocksnap.io/

https://www.freeimages.com/

https://kaboompics.com/

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

https://morguefile.com/

https://www.flickr.com/

https://www.dreamstime.com/

https://pmp-art.com/

https://www.freepik.com/

https://photobash.co/

https://picjumbo.com/

https://burst.shopify.com/

https://magdeleine.co/

https://wordpress.org/openverse/

Historical:

https://nos.twnsnd.co/

[woodlandvampire]

I compiled this a while ago but I was just looking for references and found the file so...

Best places to find reference photos:

Body types, poses, and anatomy:

http://reference.sketchdaily.net/en

https://www.posemaniacs.com/

https://quickposes.com/en

https://www.characterdesigns.com/#home-section

https://www.adorkastock.com/sketch/

https://line-of-action.com/practice-tools/figure-drawing/

https://www.proko.com/browse/tools?af=242

Giant anatomy reference tutorials Pinterest board:

https://www.pinterest.com/deedee1232/body-reference/

General:

https://unsplash.com/

https://pixabay.com/

https://www.pexels.com/

https://stocksnap.io/

https://www.freeimages.com/

https://kaboompics.com/

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

https://morguefile.com/

https://www.flickr.com/

https://www.dreamstime.com/

https://pmp-art.com/

https://www.freepik.com/

https://photobash.co/

https://picjumbo.com/

https://burst.shopify.com/

https://magdeleine.co/

https://wordpress.org/openverse/

Historical:

https://nos.twnsnd.co/

[youdrawtoo-deactivated20230614]

Hey, everyone! I have for you a new mini art study tutorial. There will be a part two to this. So stay tuned to that.

LIKE THIS! : That is a more simplified breakdown of how to see the structure of the iris, pupil, and cornea. 

Are you looking for art references? I have a Pinterest account full of it. If you like to practice your drawing skills using references go and click the link here.

[amezure]

Support me on PATREON or Ko-fi 💕

[hometownrockstar]

some notes on drawing fat bodies in a stylized or cartoony art style! i tried to explain and illustrate things i keep in mind while drawing :)

[makabunni]

Spent a long time on this art resource/reference masterpost! Finally starting to edit to add more. This will be REGULARLY updated so it’s gonna get huge. If you have a request for resources for me to find OR have a resource you want me to add, just send me an ask :D

General Anatomy/Human stuff:

body quick tips

painting/drawing straight hair

how to draw eyes

arm squish/bend tip

chest/pecks with raised arms tip

long hair how to

male torso anatomy (back)

learn manga male anatomy (torso & arm)

male torso anatomy (front)

head and hair tips (scroll  a bit, it’s in one of the images!)

how to draw noses

ears tilty tip

arm tips

two tips for drawing women’s hair

drawing teeth

anatomy tips

random hair and mouth ref anime

leg muscle anatomy ref

arm muscles anatomy ref

knees reference

arm ref study

quick arm tut tip

how to draw arm

shoulders n sleeves

Poses:

umbrella poses

random female poses

random anatomy pose thing

chibi sleeping in hands pose

laying poses

elf (?) with staff poses

holding phone half bod

peeny wolf pose set

perspective pose sheet

anatomy poses 

crossed arms ref sheet

holding baby poses

Hands:

how to draw hands 1

hand refs & tutorial 2

hand tutorial 3

hand tutorial 4

36 hands

how to draw hands in 10 minutes

hands ref 2

hand gestures and simplifying the hand

arm & hand ref

500 hands

Diversity:

stop drawing natives red

wheelchair tutorial

drawing fat people

vitiligo notes for artists

darkskin palms

epicanthic folds

biracial characters

do’s and don’ts of thick lips

Animals/Creatures:

how to draw falcon beaks

canine studies (broken down into parts)

feline tiger ref

Insect wing venation

Musculature of a T-Rex

Pony bodies tutorial

Hyena Nose tutorial

horse reference

drawing horns

Flesh tutorial

bird tips

wing basics

making mythical creatures look realistic

pony heads tutorial 

dragon designing tutorial pt 3/3

pony wings tutorial

hedgie bodies

Furry/Anthro:

dogquest’s pixel tutorial

furry portrait tutorial

furry pants tutorial

how to draw paws/pawhands

fur direction reference

anthro tips

muzzle shapes

furry styles

anthro expressions

f2u chibi-ish furry base

furry / cartoon head tutorial

f2u furry base/pose w three different ears

drawing humans! for animal artists

Backgrounds:

how to draw debris

fire tutorial

night sky tutorial

materials study with notes

tree tutorial

water tutorial

tangents??

ocean painting

clouds tutorial

bubbles

painty background studies tips

peony tutorial

lakeside tutorial

quick flowers for the lazy

mistletoe vs holly

Perspective:

foreshortening coil technique

foreshortening tutorial

Webcomic:

medibang comic panel tutorial

how i make webcomics/webtoons

how to color comics

the art of lettering comics

comic/doujinshi paneling

in depth webcomic tutorial

Coloring:

The colorpicking problem

72 Color Combinations

How ViPOP uses color

Hair coloring tutorial by rosuuri

Gurochii moe quick eye tutorial

Anime eye tutorial

Mermaid tail tutorial

Grayscale to Color painting tutorial

chibi eye walkthrough

skin tone tutorial 1

curly hair tutorial

color palette

coloring tutorial

light, it gets everywhere

comfort color

skin coloring tutorial

holographic tutorial

dappled lighting effect

cute/bright coloring tutorial 

pattern trick

arcana character coloring tut

Expressions/ Meme / style:

small body language study

expressions reference

how to cute

Platonic cuddles meme

expression reference : nervous

flustered expression meme

drawing expressions tutorial/key

Pixel Art:

Pixel icon tutorial

Ice cream

Moving clouds tutorial

50x50 pixel doll tutorial

pixelin’s pixel process

pixel expression ref

pixel eye blinking tutorial

how to pixel liquids

Clothing / Accessories:

Shoes

Fancy color tip / ref

Chainmail

short reference

learn manga basic pleated skirt tutorial

learn manga basic frills

random clothing refs

chainmail brush

clothing ref masterpost

pinstripes tips

cloth texture tips

how to clothing folds

Misc:

Sketchfab 3d Models

Mikeymegamega on YT for anime/ecchi/etc

Gentei_sozai on twitter for chibi poses

S0zalsan on twitter for random poses

mecha basics

75 tutorials

Obvious art tips you might have forgotten

Mosaic effect

how to draw a cute chibi

fighting artblock

cute pikachu base

painting a face tutorial

volume commissions mini tutorial

arcana characters tutorial reference

notes from the “animators survival kit”

concept art tutorial

another art resource masterpost

MS paint tips and tricks

Reference table for drawing CONSISTENT faces

@hanari0716 on twitter for HELLA references

animation guide for beginners

Brushes:

Foliage brushes

cityscape brushes

ghibli brushes

clip studio paint assets

PS brush pack

[amikoroyaiart]

How’d you get good with anatomy?

Use references! Trace stock photos for practice, take photos of yourself if you are struggling with a pose.

It takes a lot of time but at some point you will get hang of it;)

But for realxnever be ashamed of using references. They exist for a reason!

[andromedaspark]

Also,

Those wooden pose dolls are bullshit. Buy posable real dolls off etsy for more realistic proportions + more body type options. (They're expensive, but worth it.)

Study old Renaissance paintings. Those bastards were floppy and twisty as hell. It'll help beat your brain with a stick when your poses get rigid. (Trust me. They will.)

If you have any sort of white spare clothing and a camera. Draw grids on the clothes in sharpie and wear them. Take photos of yourself in the pose you want. Self-reference + line/spacing guide. (You can use rubber surgical gloves + sharpie for hand reference, and if you have washable markers you can draw on your feet to get those gridded. Just wash after.)

Parchment/bakers paper on magazines, book covers, TV screens, anything. Cheap tracing paper.

There are tons of stock photo sites + anatomy sites.

A few good resources

Bluevertigo.com

A free site that lists websites by their use and specialties. A "Website Library" basically. They have royalty free stock photos, mockups, fonts, web design, UI development, an entire section for Free recourses, and 3D models.

It is under a bit of construction it looks like. So the other sister-site is Bluevertigo.com.ar but it's an Argentina based site so some text won't be English.

Free

Dimensions.com

Basic size guide for just about anything. From a sheet of paper to Rocket Raccoon. They have everything. Celebrities, generic humans, animals, plants, objects, furniture, fixtures, buildings, layouts, transport equipment, sports equipment, digital scale shit like avatars and banners, and fictional characters.

Free

AdorkaStock on Deviant Art

Good pose image gallery + divided into pose type categories But there isn't too much size/color diversity. There's skinny, lanky, average, chubby and bulky. Which is good but there aren't many extremes if that's what you're looking for. It represents men and women alike, of almost all body types.

Free

Zygotebody.com

A 3D medical approach to anatomy. Hard to navigate + pay wall, but overall good for body horror drawings or skeletal study.

Free to an extent. Tools are under paywall, only basic abilities, but still good range with Free.

Pinterest

Basic image collection site. If you don't know Pinterest, go check it out.

Free

Line-of-action.com

Timed drawing practice for any age/gender/clothed/nude human, any animal type + animal skeletal structures, any gender face + facial expression, any 'gender' hands/feet, Scenes + Environments (scenes and environments Under Paywall)

+ 360 view of gallery (3 models, 2 women (Rose: Ethnic woman slim body type - 7 photos) (Olga: White woman chubby body type - 6 photos) 1 man (Javani: Black man moderately muscular body type - 7 photos) all in underwear (not nude) all standing

+ blog posts and resources on anatomy learning

Paywall. Limited free use.

Reference.sketchdaily.net

Timed drawing practice- full body, body parts, animals, structures, vegetation.

Free as far as I can tell.

Fineart.sk

Other site links for resources, image gallery (441 photos overall on site)

Free as far as I can tell.

Getbodysmart.com

Visual Medical Body System Learning.

Mildly interactive, simple button photo scrolls. Condensed text for easy reading. Simple graphics, no fancy colors or textures.

Free as far as I can tell

Anatomyzone.com

200+ video anatomy guides (including NeuroAnatomy)

Very medical, very visual, video based + occasional 3D models

Free as far as I can tell

Innerbody.com

Blog on health+body including Telehealth, At-Home Health products and At-Home testing. Mostly vitamins, hearing aids, STD tests and DNA tests

Anatomy resources both visual and text

Very medical. Free as far as I can tell.

Teachmeanatomy.info

Anatomy lessons (medical based)

377 lessons divided by category (25 of which are 3D models)

App - "textbooks, 3D models, over 1700 quiz questions" Compatible with both IOS and Android (IPhone + Android: Google play and App store)

Free as far as I can tell

Figureanatomy.com

3D model app

Poses, lighting features, lock feature, AR feature

Paywall + only IOS (IPhone/IPad) compatible

[amikoroyaiart]

Thanks for adding all these awesome resources!

[drawingden]

How to Draw Hands by zephy.fr

Support the artist and follow them on instagram!

[caffstrink]

in light of recent events, id like to make it clear i do not support NFTs, nor do i authorize ANY of my artworks to be sold as NFTs or any blockchain/crypto related technologies, so if you ever find my art being sold as a NFT please report it or contact me linking to it so i can try to take it down.

[ierotits]

Change our official name to Aotearoa

the māori party has created a petition to change the official name of the country from new zealand to aotearoa. this is an incredibly important step in the verbal decolonisation of our whenua, of taking away the colonial name which was forced on us and giving us back the traditional te reo māori name which has important cultural meaning.

anyone can sign the petition, its not just limited to people in aotearoa!! please sign and share, we need to show parliament that there is a real interest in returning our country to tangata whenua!!!

[almost-casey]

teach me?? how to draw?? the action of kissing????

Step 1. yearn

[atissi]

thanks op for letting me add on to this post!

have fun drawing kisses now!!!!!!

more detailed tutorial by another person: x

[queensweeties]

Looking for Something? (Mobile)

Anatomy:

Arms

Breasts

Body Types

Feet

Female

Hands

Heads -Ears -Expressions -Eyes -Facial -Hair -Mouths and Lips -Noses -Tears

Humans

Legs

Male

Muscles

Pelvis

Proportions

Shoulders

Torso

Animals:

Anatomy

Antlers

Beaks

Behaviour

Ears

Facial

Feathers

Fur

Hooves

Horns

Insects

Legs

Paws

Talons

Teeth

Wings

Backgrounds:

Cityscape

Indoors

Organic

Perspective

Quick BGs

Simplistic

Brushes:

Photoshop

Paint tool SAI

Design:

Buildings

Character Design

Clothing

Environments

Folds

Heights

Maps

Names

Sketching

Skin Tones

Drawing and Colouring:

Canvas Size

Colour Palettes

Colour Theory

Comics

Composition

Lighting

Lineart

Painting

Quick Tricks

Shading

Traditional

Fantasy:

Armor

Archery

Horns

Mythical Animals

Mythology

Power Ups

Weapons

Wings

For the Artist:

Copyright

File Types

Exercises

Portfolio

Reminders

Tablets

Tips and Advice

Tools

Languages:

ASL

Ancient

French

German

Grammar

Italian

Japanese

Korean

Morse

Spanish

Misc:

Animation

Commissions

Cosplay

Crafts

Life

Master Lists

Psychological

Resources

School

Writing

Nature:

Blood

Clouds

Fire

Flowers

Grass

Landscapes

Lightning

Metal

Plants

Rocks

Space

Trees

Water

Wood

Poses:

Angles

Animals

Draw Your X

Humans

Movement

Multiple Persons

Programs:

Clip Studio Paint

Krita

Paint Tool SAI

Photoshop

Etc

World Building:

Buildings

Culture

History

Historical Clothing

Video

Links

[ocdevelopmentstuff]

Found it!

[the-racoon-in-your-back-garden]

Y e. Sssss

[keycrash]

apparently ppl don’t know about waifu2x??? despite its… concerning name it’s literally the most convenient website i’ve ever come across as an artist

it allows you to resize artwork without it becoming pixellated. this is a MASSIVE help if you, for example, make lineart too small or something. it works best with things that 1. have no textures 2. have smooth lines 3. have cel shading, but it still works really damn well for things that don’t fit that profile

here’s an example:

normal size

2x in paint

2x in waifu2x

so like, there’s that. go wild

[jake-clark]

Original:

Photoshop scaled:

Waifu2x scaled:

It’s legit!! Tell your friends!

[information-hunter-sky]

waifu2x-multi is the newer version. It allows for rescaling multiple pictures at a time and to scale them up to 10x the original size. 

[lilybugmusings]

Is there a website to look up models or people  to draw, with gender, ethnicity, and age filters. (if possible)?

 For example if a wanted to make a cartoon character realistic and use a real person for reference or to edit the photo to look like them?

I’ve been just googling  white 20s male, black female 40s etc. (can’t find any good references for kids either)  and been sifting through the results.

[art-res]

https://generated.photos/?ref=producthunt

https://generated.photos/faces

This site probably has what you’re looking for!

Look at what you can sort by!

[waluigi-the-stripper]

Reblog to save an artist’s life

[genuinehumanboy]

you can only reblog this today

[salty-french-fry]

Golden rule of thumb for art kids: reblogging Bob Ross will bless you latest work