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[yeeblesart]

posting for dicecloud reasons lmao

[linipik]

Exercises for all the homies who want to have a long career drawing.

The true problem with being an artist and drawing all day (as I wanted my whole life) is that human backs are not designed to hold that position, so it is very common for artists and designers to have really stiff shoulder blades, creating a chain of muscle strain towards the arm AND the back… and a lot of pain.

These are some physical exercises for artists and honestly anyone who works at a desk.

(all credit to my physiotherapist)

[zillyblog]

Can confirm these are great strengthening exercises for most people!

Friendly reminder though that if at any point something stings/burns or you feel your muscles tightening up into a spasm, please stop! Your nerves could be really irritated if you’re in poor condition, and that pain is your body saying “hey, you’re making things worse!”.

If this happens, dial it back. Do it just a few times a day. Maybe each rep is only a few to start with. Maybe lower your arms only halfway down before resting. Your goal is to push yourself a bit out of your comfort zone (mild aching and soreness is fine), but not to the point of triggering the pain > spasm > injury > pain loop. For reference, after years of ignoring my pain–I had to do little baby slides with my hands up the wall just once, twice a day, for a few weeks. Sometimes your issue isn’t weak muscles, it’s tight muscles, and stretching or nerve gliding is actually what you need. (Slow, gentle movements will help your muscles relax too!)

When in doubt, try and see an occupational therapist specifically! They can help in identifying what’s weak muscle, tight muscle, nerve compression, etc. and those all require a bit different treatment.

[marat]

i know we joke about cis artists having the weirdest sense of anatomy, but also even when the anatomy is fine, no one seems to want to draw women doing normal things

[marat]

Drawing challenge: draw your favorite male characters like this

[thatdemonbish]

this is exactly why i’m a huge fan of posemaniacs!

you get 3d model pose references with the option of having a male or female anatomy for each pose

they have a WIDE VARIETY of poses that you can search for using a TAG SYSTEM

(as you can see by the scroll bar in the second image there is Even More Tags)

you can select a pose you like for larger viewing and the convenience doesn’t stop!!!

you have full 360 viewing range of the pose plus zooming in and out

and what’s that? a TOOLBAR?? MENU?? THING??

Correct!

the eye button hold a very fun menu

negative space blacks out the background and fills the pose with a solid white silhouette

the “texture” refers to the skin situation of the model with the “color” and “grey” shown below

(i usually use color personally)

then there’s the option of different sized drawing grids(4 and 16 below)

idk wtf bounding box is about but it looks like this if it matters to you

“floor” toggles all shadows on the floor, “floor grid” you guessed it puts a like perspective guide grid on the floor that goes to forever, and “shadow” toggles ALL shading. there is NO lighting happening if you turn that off. NONE.

NEXT ITEM! that box thing with the line through it? flips the pose horizontally.

the little person symbol? lets you switch anatomies

camera icon? you can choose from a selection of preset camera angles PLUS an option for … idk what to call it but you can do this!

less flat right!! i’m sure there’s a word i just don’t know but this is maximum *that* so there is less *that* if you want it

the lightbulb gives you a menu like the camera one but it offers a selection of lighting styles with variable intensity

CHARMING!

and that’s not even everything this site provides!!!!!!! they have tutorials, instructional videos, lessons, all sorts of shit!!! (although they are vast majority if not all in japanese just a heads up)

AND ITS ALL FREE

DONT EVEN NEED TO SET UP AN ACCOUNT OR APPROVE OF COOKIES JUST GET IN DO YOUR THING GET OUT NO STRINGS ATTACHED

and if you don’t have ad blocker or are on mobile(like me) NOT TO WORRY

the ads are few and far between! ZERO video ads, NONE take over your screen or glitch you at all, they are of no concern i forget they’re there!

(this is not at all sponsored btw i’m just a genuine fan of this site and i’m happy to spread the good word unprompted)

[thatdisasterauthor]

Oh, they've really leveled up since I last poked around their site! Nice.

[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.

[shrubsparrow]

I made an art/anatomy tutorial about birds! I hope people will find it helpful!

[lemonsharks]

Always remember birds are dinosaurs

[termagax]

people have got to get less afraid of the double chin i mean it. draw a fat character with a fat neck it wont kill you

[yeeblesart]

o7 on it, OP

[gambeque]

masterpost of my favorite CSP brushes 🦖🦖 links below:

Jiwa pen

KaOs Brush

Obongbong’s Pen

Mameo Ink

Artemus Pencil

Wiggle Brush

[willowcrowned]

happy to announce that my latest bout of dreaming about tumblr induced in me the conviction that tumblr had just instituted a "pet" button that appeared below all pictures of an animal so that tumblr users could pet the animal. the most notable use of this was a post with a picture of a porcupine that had a thread of users below it saying 'ouch'

[willowcrowned]

be the change you want to see in the world

[midsummernight98]

ouch

[sanerontheinside]

ouch

[itsu-de-mo]

Ouch

[loki-says-bite-cruel-hands]

ouch

[pied-piper-goes-hunting]

Ouch

[willowcrowned]

ouch

[roseharder1385]

Ouch

[yeeblesart]

ouch

[yeeblesart]

honestly, my cat is like this too

[crafblr]

btw I’ve found these stretches from the WAK blog very helpful when knitting a lot:

Plus make sure to take breaks regularly - and stop if anything starts to hurt!

especially with gift knitting I know it can be tempting to push through it for a deadline, but it’s really not worth causing long term injury. (And anyone knit-worthy should be understanding of that, imho.) Stay well :)

[gingersnappish]

Also good for artists drawing with pencils/on a tablet/with a pen!

[magicratfingers]

My fellow art babes - this art tip fucks

[lolita-wardrobe]

A Timeline of Women’s Fashion from 1784-1970 (source: http://kottke.org/17/07/a-timeline-of-womens-fashion-from-1784-1970)

[awkwardmermaidhair]

My favorite part is seeing the dresses get more & more ridiculously poofy before there was a fabric crisis or something in the early 1800s & then getting even more Extra after

[monstrousgourmandizingcats]

I can’t enumerate all the ones I especially like but let’s just say this reinforces almost all of my relevant aesthetic biases.

[marzipanandminutiae]

(what happened in the early 1800s was everybody got Neoclassicism real bad)

[bigbenparlament]

[vintageeveryday]

Photos of the Mercedes-Benz SSK.

[bakapandy]

Can you please share some tips on face positions? And how to do poses?

I start drawing faces the same exact way every single time: a circle and the crosshair to indicate facial direction. Then I sketch out the emotion like SUPER messy and I clean everything up in my sketchy/lineart phase

As for poses...it really requires you to have an understanding of anatomy and how things go...I start off EXTREMELY gestural and sketch to get the flow of the pose down...and then just clean up and make adjustments from there. Also the complexity of the pose changes the level of detail I include in the sketch. But this is the general gist

I don't know how to explain it, but a lot of my anatomy is intuitive to me...bc I've spent years practicing and learning anatomy that a lot of it I can see in my mind's eye and I don't need exact guidelines anymore, like when I first started learning. The sketch is just to get the overall layout/silhouette down. Of course, my anatomy is not perfect, and if I need to do more complex poses, I use references.

[bakapandy]

How do you draw Shikidai and Temari?

[yeeblesart]

comfort art characters c: