When I first joined Tumblr, a now gone trend was to promote your friends & favorite bloggers regularly. Nowadays I see none of this, the practice rarely echoed in nostalgic posts. I have however, seen a lot of new users ask: how do you find good content? Following this, here is a list of blogs I follow who regularly post great content. If you’re mentioned here, thank you for your posts :)
I use Tumblr mostly for art, so my categories will be as following:
Curators: blogs dedicated to sharing art, or who mainly post art they did not make.
Artists: explicit. This category contains both original and derivative works.
Craftsmen: artists who work in traditional mediums other than illustration.
Curators
@nemfrog (vintage books, photography, illustrations) @yesterdaysprint (vintage newspaper clips) @eternal-jamie (historical and modern artwork) @y2klostandfound (design) @ceteradesunt (film caps) @animatejournal (animated film clips) @warmfuzzyphoto (vintage photography) @weirdlandtv (mostly vintage artwork from the entertainement industry) @vaguelyartistichorse (lots of types of art) @psshaw (shares a treasure trove of unknown Tumblr artists) @artsytoad (huge library of vintage fantasy art) @heavymetalmagazine (explicit) @saucerkommand (misc types of art) @through-a-historic-lens (historical photography) @sakugabooru (animation archive, more technical) @thesilicontribesman (ancient art of the british isles) @mangacapsaicin (manga caps with a focus on lesser known series or with strong art styles) @tychai-oikumene (ancient art) @40jours-desert (misc art) @70sscifiart (explicit)
Artists
@ametat-arts (digital painting, fantasy) @equietum (digital painting and concept art, prehistoric inspiration) @camelidae (animal art, watercolor) @mettaflix (original artwork, design) @grimmborg-in-the-bog (arts of ancient europe) @leonardkoscianski (painting, modern art) @jeluto (mid century inspiration, fanart) @ink-the-artist (original artwork, pencils) @ccasino (digital artist, both original and fanart) @oak-n (painter) @sunday-12-25 (multimedia artist) @melonkind (fantasy character art) @rickeytickey (digital character art, fanart) @foulserpent (original art and worldbuilding) @ratajota traditional and digital painter) @kojad (painter and animator) @holo-tape (digital painter) @plaest2k (tatoo artist, comic artist and digital artist) @plastiboo (digital artist, horror, some fanart)
@odddogs (funny looking shelter dogs) @carcassafterlives (information and footage on dead animals) @shrimptin (tintin caps...or else?) @uglybabybirds (explicit) @terranlifeform (animal photography) @cardiacsyoutubecomments (explicit) @incompletepuppets (explicit...ish) @ebugsdotjpeg (what if bugs bunny was there?) @trailcams (explicit) @theme-hunter (archive of tumblr themes)
That’s all for now, might add more - given the amount of people I follow it takes time to go through the list! Cheers and may you find new blogs to love. ✌
I just want to say thank you...you've reposted a few of my photos in the past year or so and it always brings more scifi art lovers to my page :) Gotta spread that space love! Cheers! - toad
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I haven’t done one of these in a while so here we go
also if you are not on here and I still follow you don’t feel bad I had to cut out a lot of people in order not to go over the link count so the links would work. So I decided to stick with blogs post mainly about stuff I’m interested and with certain aesthetics and not necessarily friend blogs because fall is like season of aesthetics
"Artus Scheiner para Under Command Of Magic por J. Š. Kubín (1920).jpg" "Artwork by Patrick Woodroffe, 1976.jpg" "artwork for M. Valdemar, originally from Weekly Shōnen Magazine, 1969.jpg" "artxman #collageart #collageartist #collagecollectiveco.jpg" "As crianças bebês com água.jpg" "Ashley Marie Witter.jpg" "Aswad - New Chapter of Dub.jpg" "artsytoad Karel Thole, Kull of Valusia (via Myriac).
#the moment i walk into a group chat it instantly dies... and after that i feel like a huge walking bottle of poison
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How the fuck you gonna have a blog called artsytoad and not have any pictures of toads?
Haha, there are a few here and there :DMy nickname is Toadfinger and since that was taken due to a lost first attempt at making an account, I settled into this one and it got bigger than I expected.I’ve neglected the page lately but I vow to add more hoppers when I come across them