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I am drowning in bills and debt ;_; I have cute watercolor art to offer 🫶🏻

#art sale #small business #artist support #artist help #art prints #hand painted #cute animals #cute painting #friend art

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My OC Delphine modeling the "pentakini" from Twitter. She's contemplating showing it off to her boyfriend. Lol. Attributions: Textured Wall

Starry BG

Mirror Frame

#artists on tumblr #my art #drawing #digital art #digital illustration #clip studio paint #photoshop #fantasy art #graphic art #original character #original character art #oc artwork #female original character #female oc #draw your oc wearing this #draw your oc in this #goth aesthetic #purple #demon oc #demon girl #netherian #hopebringer saga #artfulmagicart

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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.

#art resources #art references #useful websites #art help #not art

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USEFUL WEBSITES FOR WRITERS

Writing With Color: Helps with writing about culture, ethnicity, and religion. Overall, it gives advice on how to write about diversity.

Name Generator: As the name says, it helps you build names for your characters. Very useful if you cannot think of names for your characters!

KathySteinemann: The 'archive.pdf' section helps you with synonyms in case you struggle to find the right word for your sentences (also to avoid using redundant words).

Spwickstrom: Similar to the previous one, this one provides grammar tips. Extremely helpful when finding phrases, verbs, conjunctions, adjectives, and so on.

Servicescape: The perfect website if you're experiencing writer's block. It provides writing prompts. It helps you spark creativity when it comes to writing.

reblog to help other writers !!

#writing tips #writing resources #writing help #not art

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NOTE: one type of fold will rarely appear on its own - they interact with each other quite a bit! for example, spiral folds might define the outline of a pant leg, while the interior folds might be zig-zag folds.

i’m trying to re-learn how to draw clothing, so i made this little guide to the most common shapes of folds that appear. hope it helps someone else too!

#clothing folds #drawing clothes #art tutorial #not art

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source: https://twitter.com/hanari0716

#hand drawing tutorial #not art #reference post

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🏳️‍🌈 Severely disabled trans person in need of money for rent, bedding, necessities, & food after recovering from homelessness ♿

hello, i am a multiply disabled autistic trans person who was just homeless for 6 months straight. i am mstruggling with schizophrenia, PTSD, DID, hypermobile ehlers danlos syndrome, and arthritis0. i use a cane and wheelchair. i had to live in a hotel for 2 months almost exactly which ate through my f unds and sal es. i appreciate everything that has been done for me thus far, orders have resumed shipping now that people have aided with us getting a new printer

you can find these new pieces on our Ko-Fi shop, among others, even sharing this post does a lot for us. thank you, i really appreciate all of the support and kindness during this time in my life. you kept a disabled trans person housed for 6 months. we can't thank you enough!

#artist support #trans support #lgbtq support #mutual aid #please help #reblog this #donate if you can

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A little late to the party on the anniversary of this outfit, but oh well...

Some "Sonic Riders" fanart of Rouge the Bat.

BG Attribution: Freepik

#artists on tumblr #my art #illustration #drawing #digital art #sonic the hedgehog #sonic series #sth #sonic rouge #rouge fanart #sth fanart #sonic fanart #sonic the hedgehog fanart #sonic the hedgehog fandom #sth fandom #sonic fandom #artfulmagicart

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[POV: The buff chick at the bar is not amused by your pick-up lines.]

My OC Malice in the sparkly red version of the black dress going around Twitter.

#art on tumblr #artists on tumblr #illustration #original character art #draw your oc wearing this #oc #oc art #digital art #drawing #fantasy art #lady malice #muscular #demon woman #netherian #hopebringer saga #my art #artfulmagicart

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My collection of clothing references for writing. 

#clothing descriptions for writing #not art

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Super 90s Carpet Brushes are live and alive on you-know-where!

A little different from what I usually make, and I had a lot of fun! Seven stock-retro brushes and three pre-made backgrounds. You can customize the gradient, manipulate the particle gap & size, and even toggle the glow on and off.

Free forever, have fun, Clip Studio only, etc, you can throw me tips for snacks & my electricity bill if you want.

#brushes #art resources #clip studio paint

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Hey, if you’re broke like me and you can’t find good free resources on how to make/improve your art, I made a google drive of 22 different art books ranging from simple drawing books to specific mediums/subjects. I converted them all to PDFs because epub files suck lmao.

Here’s the link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-fyjLc8hKlP4KkLJix_R31bB8YHuKaUl?usp=sharing

The names are vague so google doesn’t snipe me on sight but the titles are in the PDF. There are some with ads and I’m not sure how that happened so sorry about that, you can just scroll past them. They’ve all been scanned and are virus free. Shoot me an ask if you have any problems.

#free resources #not art #drawing references #art books

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Random mansion generator

The Procgen Mansion Generator produces large three-dee dwellings to toy with your imagination, offering various architectural styles and other options. Each mansion even comes with floorplans:

https://boingboing.net/2019/07/12/random-mansion-generator.html

#world building #not art #art reference

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i told ya we’ve canceled discourse n we’ve moved on to homesteading skills

#reference for oc skills #not art

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I've always loved drawing people and especially portraits. Your art is so inspiring! Do you have any advice on drawing portraits with accurate proportion? What aspects are the most important in portraits, do you think? And what are good exercises? I'm sorry for bombarding you with so many questions! :3

Thank you! There’s one thing about drawing portraits that I don’t think I’ve ever touched on, and it’s the technique of constraining features.  Basically, it becomes easier and more intuitive to rotate the face in 3D space once your mind grasps exactly where the features are located and, furthermore, where they can’t be located.  

I use a weird double trapezoid shape that I’ve depicted below in red to keep track of facial feature placement every single time I draw a face.  It follows the top of the eyebrows, touches the corner of the eye, traces down to the corner of the lips, and finally ends at the bottom of the lips.  

The shape of the constraint will change depending on the person’s features, and it works for every angle of the head.  For me it really internalized where each part of the face was, as well as where it started and ended. It kinda helps moderate your drawings; i.e., you’ll stop drawing features that are wildly misplaced or off-sized.  I don’t literally draw this shape out every time I draw a face, but I see it in my mind’s eye 100% of the time.

If you’re still learning proportions, a good exercise is to grab pictures of people and trace this shape over them (either digitally or with a marker or something) to get an idea of what realistic constraints looks like.  Then go back to studying faces, and constantly check your drawing by tracing along the eyebrows and down to the bottom of the lips to make sure that things aren’t off (e.g., the constraint isn’t terribly asymmetric).  It takes a while to get used to, but it might help you get a good feel for portraiture.  

There’s one other unrelated thing I like to do with faces, and if you’ve seen a lot of my pics you’ve already picked up on it.  If you kinda add some shading to the area on the cheek just below the eye and down to the nose, I think it adds a decent amount of depth to a face.  Don’t go overboard of course but there’s another little tip that could be of use.

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space is time

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how to keep following people when a major social platform implodes

(...and you don't want to join 20 new websites)

First, get an RSS reader*:

Desktop: Feedbro (browser extension), QuiteRSS, Raven Reader

Android: Feeder

iOS/Mac: NetNewsWire

You'll be able to make a custom feed to follow blogs, webcomics, social media feeds, podcasts, news, and other stuff on the web all in one place. To follow something, find its "feed URL"-- often marked by an icon that looks like this ↓-- and paste it into your reader of choice as a new feed.

Some feed URLs for social media:

Twitter: Feedbro can use Twitter profile URLs as feed URLs. Otherwise, use nitter.net/username/rss (or other Nitter instance) (You can get a CSV file of all the accounts you follow using "Download a user's friends list" on Tweetbeaver)

Tumblr: Use username.tumblr.com/rss or username.tumblr.com/tagged/my%20art/rss to follow a blog's "my art" tag (as an example)

Cohost: Use username.cohost.org/rss/public (WIP feature)

Mastodon: Use instance.url/@­username.rss

Deviantart: Info here

Spacehey: Info here

Youtube: Go to a channel in a web browser, view page source, and use Ctrl-F/Command-F to find a link that starts with "https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id="

Instagram: Feedbro can use Instagram profile and hashtag URLs as feed URLs. Otherwise, Instagram doesn't have RSS feeds, and due to aggressive rate limiting on their part, it's not so simple to generate a feed URL.

Facebook: Feedbro can use public Facebook group/page URLs as feed URLs.

(If you know an artist who exclusively posts to Instagram, you may want to gently suggest that they crosspost elsewhere...)

Also see how to find the RSS feed URL for almost any site. Try using public RSS-Bridge instances or Happyou Final Scraper to generate feeds for sites that don't have them (Pillowfort, Patreon, etc).

*You can set up your subscriptions in one reader and import them into another by exporting an OPML file.