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.
🌿- Shoot me an email at [email protected] with a brief description of what you want, including descriptions/images references and commission type. I’m open to drawing mostly anything, let me know what you’re thinking of and we can talk about it!
(This includes any previous commission types you don’t see on the sheet!)
🌿- Here’s a link to a reference resource i made, to help you make easy references for your characters, please give it a read through before emailing (a clear reference will make the whole process much easier for me) !
🌿- for DND character sheets; I’ll need all the additional info to do so, so if that’s what you want, don’t forget to send me it!
🌿- I do payment up-front as an invoice and via Squareup, in Pounds Sterling (GDP) after receiving References and I begin work upon payment (commission price does not include Squareup fees).
🌿- Estimated finish time for pieces is about 2 weeks and i’ll send you the finished commission via email as an A4 piece in PNG format.
🌿- I’ll post up the finished work here on my blog unless you ask otherwise.
🌿- Here’s a waitlist for commissioners, so you can see what the line’s like!
I retain the right to refuse a commission, and this is not commercial work but strictly for private use, not for further profit or outside projects
“When learning to draw anything,” animators Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston observe, “it is important that the artist go to the source. Afterward he can make any use of his knowledge that he chooses, but in the beginning he must study the real object. Nothing matches the learning that comes from feeling an animal’s bones and muscles and joints, to discover how they are put together and how far they can move in any direction; it is always surprising.”
I get a lot of questions about how I choose colors, and what it really comes down to is: I just play around with the color scheme until I like what I see.
This is a little preview of my latest video which talks about which tools I use to modify the colors! The full video also includes some paint-overs of other people’s artwork ~ those are always so much fun to do ✨ Find it here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/tutorial-colors-98597276
Listen, I’m a control freak. I can only handle chaos if it’s contained within tightly confined boundaries. That’s why freehand selection is more than just a tool, it’s a lifestyle 😤
Full tutorial video on this workflow can be found here!
The coziest months of the year are almost over! I spent most of them sick on the couch, but that didn’t stop me from putting on comfy autumn sweaters. That’s something no virus will ever take from me 😤
Black Friday has arrived! There’s a 25% discount on my prints, so head on over to my shop to get some artwork for your walls! I just updated it with all of my most recent artwork, but you can find my older work on there too: inprnt.com/gallery/loish