hey look its a post of some art reference/tutorial blogs

my-chemical-nopants:

http://drawtosurvive.tumblr.com/

http://fyeahartisthelp.tumblr.com/

http://art-tutorials.tumblr.com/

http://fuckyeahreferences.tumblr.com/

http://artrefsforyou.tumblr.com/

http://artistdirectory.tumblr.com/

http://thecandyjar.tumblr.com/

http://artists-help.tumblr.com/

http://artist-refs.tumblr.com/

http://simonist.tumblr.com/

http://theprophetandtheliar.tumblr.com/

http://fyeaharttips.tumblr.com/

http://artiststoolbox.tumblr.com/

http://fuckyeaharttutorials.tumblr.com/

http://referencesforartists.tumblr.com/

Tagged: art reference blogsmasterpost-ishart reference

Tutorials And References

art-and-sterf:

Show all Tutorials

this shows all tutorials on this blog

The following links are to tutorials on specific subjects

• Lineart Tutorials
• Composition Tutorials
• Environments & background Tutorials
• Color Theory Tutorials
• Color application Tutorials
• Light/Values Tutorials
• Anatomy Tutorials
• Animal Tutorials
• Clothing Tutorials
• Weapon Tutorials
• Digital Art Tutorials
• Traditional Art Tutorials
• Traditional watercolor Tutorials

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Show all References

This shows all the References on this blog

The following links are to References on specific subjects

• Clothing References
• Weapon References
• Armor References
• Traditional painting References
• Anatomy References
• Animal References

The Following are Digital Art Program References or Tutorials sorted by Program

• Adobe Photoshop
• Paint Tool SAI
• Corel Painter
• GIMP
• Open Canvas

Tagged: art resourcesart referencetutorialart programstutorials

Introducing SimplyTextures

texturetumble:

Introducing SimplyTextures.com, a no-frills gallery of free high-res textures for your next creative project. You can use the textures in designs, illustrations, animation, scrapbooking, or anything else you see fit whether it be for personal use or commercial.

Here on the SimplyTextures Blog we’ll be showcasing artists and creatives that utilize textures successfully in their work. We’ll also be releasing exclusive free textures sets from time to time, along with contest, interviews and a few other surprises.

Make sure to get social with us and give SimplyTextures a follow on Twitter and Facebook.

Enjoy the textures!

Tagged: texturestextureSimplyTexturesart reference

Tutorials And References

amazinglyartisticadvice:

art-and-sterf:

Show all Tutorials

this shows all tutorials on this blog

The following links are to tutorials on specific subjects

• Lineart Tutorials
• Composition Tutorials
• Environments & background Tutorials
• Color Theory Tutorials
• Color application Tutorials
• Light/Values Tutorials
• Anatomy Tutorials
• Animal Tutorials
• Clothing Tutorials
• Weapon Tutorials
• Digital Art Tutorials
• Traditional Art Tutorials
• Traditional watercolor Tutorials

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Show all References

This shows all the References on this blog

The following links are to References on specific subjects

• Clothing References
• Weapon References
• Armor References
• Traditional painting References
• Anatomy References
• Animal References

The Following are Digital Art Program References or Tutorials sorted by Program

• Adobe Photoshop
• Paint Tool SAI
• Corel Painter
• GIMP
• Open Canvas

This is a good blog and I’d say you should follow them however I reblog a lot of their stuff… Alright follow them.

Tagged: tutorialtutorial masterpostart tutorialart programart reference

Source: art-and-sterf

Art Sites

the-art-post:

Photo References

http://www.artsyposes.com 

http://lovecastle.org/draw/

http://www.pixelovely.com/gesture/figuredrawing.php

http://www.referencereference.com/

http://characterdesigns.com/

http://www.biodigitalhuman.com

http://www.af.mil/photos/index.asp?galleryID=2

http://www.vectorsite.net/gfxpx.html

http://www.inetres.com/gp/military/cv/index.html

http://www.gracefulnudes.com/main

Instructional

http://www.ctrlpaint.com/

http://www.artbyfeng.com/tutorials.htm

http://www.3dtotal.com/index_tutorial.php

http://www.drawspace.com/

http://www.theartdepartment.org/program-info/free-demos

http://www.youtube.com/user/Sycra

http://www.youtube.com/sinixdesign

http://www.youtube.com/noahbradley/

Book Reviews

http://parkablogs.com/node/8

Helpful and Inspirational Threads

http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=81332

http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=190982

http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=174821

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=165931

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=152626

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=128631

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=161825

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=136370

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=194479

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=126999

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=224682

http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=230251

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=138102

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=78323

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=233791

Other

http://deadoftheday.blogspot.com/2009/07/perspiration-anatomy.html

http://www.redbubble.com/people/blythart/writing/2707929-did-famous-artists-use-photographs

http://www.allpaintings.org/

http://blog.ted.com/2011/09/23/doodlers-unite-sunni-brown-on-ted-com/

http://conteanimated.com/

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/art-history-timeline.html

http://anatomytools.com/products/

http://muddycolors.blogspot.com/

http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/

http://livlily.blogspot.com/

http://www.deadoftheday.blogspot.com/p/downloads.html

http://www.sketchtheatre.com/

http://theroundtablet.com/2011/06/27/photoshop-brushes-of-the-pros-for-free-skills-still-required/

http://www.steambotstudios.com

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jpmoore/this-is-how-you-advertise-for-an-art-school

This will continue to be updated. Please note, there are NSFW links included.

Tagged: art sitesart websitesart referenceart resourceart resources

HOLY FREE ART PROGRAMS BATMAN

giovannuzza:

I’ve had this list sitting around for a while (in case I ever want to try something new) and I thought I’d share it, because why the hell not, everybody loves free stuff. I’ve only used a couple, so for all I know these could be complete shit. BUT YOU NEVER KNOW, RIGHT?

*= available for both windows and mac os

GIMP * - Does a lot of the same stuff as Photoshop.

FireAlpaca * - Similar to Paint Tool Sai, so it’s a good alternative for Mac users.

Autodesk Sketchbook Copic Edition * - Simulates the look of copic markers.

MyPaint * - Basic stuff, nothing fancy.

Pinta * - Drawing program modeled after paint.NET.

Inkscape * - Vector/drawing program meant to be similar to Illustrator.

ArtRage * - Digital painting program; you can get the trimmed down version for free or buy the full version with more features.

Sumo Paint * - In-browser drawing app.

DAZ Studio * - Some sort of 3D model poser thing.

Pencil * - Software for animating.

SketchUp * - Tool for making 3D models. Looks handy for stuff like architectural drawings.

Blender * - Pretty popular 3D software.

escape motions * - Some browser apps, fun to fiddle with when you’re bored (the fluid fire simulation is pretty cool imo).

Twistedbrush (Pixarra) - Seems to be meant for replicating the look of traditional media.

Pixia/Phierha - A popular program in Japan, according to the website.

Krita - This was originally made for Linux and it looks like the developers haven’t ironed out all of the kinks in the Windows installer.

Artweaver - Another trimmed down free thing if you don’t want to buy the full program.

paint.NET - Pretty basic kit, probably good for simple stuff.

Project Dogwaffle - I’m not sure what this one is all about because I couldn’t stop laughing at the terrible website.

Speedy Painter - Lightweight digital painting program.

mtPaint - Originally made for pixel art; simple enough to run on older computers.

Chasys Draw IES - Supposed to be some sort of drawing+image editor thing.

PaintRibbon - Seems to be another plain old basic image editor.

DrawPlus - Looks like it’s made for graphic design and vector stuff.

SmoothDraw - I’m guessing this is a basic thing for people who don’t want to bother with complicated stuff.

Tagged: art programsart resourceart reference

Source: thorin-swaggershield

youngartist-city:

Miranda’s Art References

(I hope it’s alright I post this, I just found it on google. uwu)

http://fuckyeaharttutorials.tumblr.com/ - A great general resource. My references are all things that are useful for me, and are fairly simplistic and easy to follow but, there’s a lot more compiled over here

Tablet/Digital work
Sai Brushes

• 3 good painting brushes
• Pencils
• Flat brush, great blending
• 9 great brushes
• some background brushes, nice blending etc

Shading and Coloring

• Coloring
• Coloring, both Cell shading and watercolor
• Brush Work
• Shading

Layers and Linework

• Cleaning Lineart
• Layer Effects

Drawing in simple programs

• Drawing in MS paint
• Drawing in Doodle or Die

General Drawing
Nature

• Drawing forest interior

Clothing

• Clothing Folds and general drapery
• wrapping hands before a fight
• Different Shoes
• Baseball cap references
• Drawing Jackets, Shirts, and Pants
• Drawing Glasses
• different pant areas near crotches for different sexes

People

• Faces and Heads
• Semi-realistic eyes
• Head perspective w/ nose and jawline
• Head perspective from all angles
• Noses
• Braids
• Realistic Hair
• Hair tutorial, using the hairline to map out
• Shadows and Light on Face
• Ears
• Drawing profiles, cheek and nose/mouth plaes
• Profile Tutorial
• Drawing and shading lips

Expressions

• Different Body Language
• Facial Expressions
• Body Language

• Skintone and coloring
• Simple color palettes for different races, pakle to medium to dark for each
• flat coloring tutorial
• More in depth palettes for different skin color
• Painting Skin color, tips for both light and dark skin

Anatomy and drawing realistic humans

• Female Anatomy
• Shoulders
• Tips for Women
• Crossing arms over large boobs
• Understanding anatomy
• Different types of male bodies
• Gesture Drawing
• Drawing different body types

Hands and Arms

• Hands and fingers 
• Simple drawing fist from the side
• Correct fore and upper arm length trick
• Lots of different ways to draw hands
• Basic shapes in hands and fists

Legs and Feet

• correct hip shape 
• Quick leg cheat sheet (from the side)
• Drawing hips and legs, some w/ feet different sizes and perspectives
• Feet
• More feet and shoes
• another great feet guide, how they look from different angles
• Knees

Programs assisting in realistic drawing

• Drawing a face in different angles of lighting
• Time limit, choose specifics you want to draw, practice for figure drawing, females, males, heads, athletes for muscle practice, et
• Rotate different hand gestures, different angles, 20 differents hands, a foot, a male figure, and a head
• (Takes a long time to load) 9 different female facial expressions which can be viewed from 21 different angles

Color

• 6 Color Palette tools
• Interactive color harmony tool
• Color scheme designer
• Color Palette
• More Color Schemes
• Nature, Warm, Cool, and skin tones 

Idea generators

• #1
• #2

Character Creation

• Really in detail checklist and questions for creating a character
• Character aging (drawing)
• 12 Common Character Archetypes
• 10 Helpful Notes on Character Design
• Writing Character Bios
• World Building (There is character stuff in it)

30 Day Challenges

• animal, or animal/human hybrid challenge
• Color Palette challenge
• Art Improvement challenge
• 30 day monster girl challenge
• OTP challenge

Homestuck specific stuff- http://homestuckresources.tumblr.com/

• Drawing Karkat’s hair
• Drawing Dirk’s hair
• beta kid land color palettes 
• not the most useful, but trolls with their blood color as their hair color
• God tier ref sheet, some might be outdated
• God Tier Palettes

Fantasy Drawing

• Drawing wings on a humanoid character.
• Arm movement, also relating to wings 
• Mermaid anatomy
• different types of bird wings
• Martial arts/bending references

Fonts

• 18 Different Fonts
• Typography resource post

Other

• Making and printing an 8 page mini comic on 8.5 x 11 paper
• Wheel of Arting! If you’re at an art block, drag the wheel and do whatever the arrow lands on
• A list of art referrence accounts; containing human anatomy, fashion/clothing, animation, historical things, tips, tutorials, inspiration and the like.
• A list of tutorials, mostly on people and their features.

Tagged: SAISAI brushesshadingcoloringlayersline artlineworklineartMS Painttutorialart tutorialstutorialsart resourcesart resourceart referenceclothing foldsshoesclothingfacesheadsexpressionsskin toneskintonecoloring tutorialhandsarmslegsfeetmasterpost

Source: stormofthunder

tutorialsforartists:

Golgothassterror: art post

/There is edit in the free-ware -section 24/8/2012/

I just went back through over 900 liked posts and dug out all the art tutorials so i can keep track of them. I guess this might be helpful to some of you guys, so here you go.

Here we go then!

Freeware

Alchemy - this is a really fun program. You play around making abstract shapes until you start to see something in them, kind of like a Rorschach test. Then you use the shapes as a base to draw it from.
MyPaint - a pretty decent painting program that also has the benefit of working on Unix systems.
openCanvas 1.1 - I haven’t used openCanvas in years but it was a nice program with a pretty unique feel to it.
ArtRage - Only used this a couple of times donkey’s years ago just before I got oC, but I’ve heard good things about it.
The GIMP - In a similar vein to Photoshop, but free. I couldn’t get on with it when I tried it out a few years ago, but it’s pretty popular and is available on Unix systems and Macs.

Sketchbook copic: a bit different program

Easytoon: Easy tool to make black and white animations. (Download not tested - be careful if you choose to download! Here is another download option for the program) - TUTORIALS FOR THE PROGRAM

Not-free-ware

Photoshop - Standard painting fare. Probably the most flexible program (particularly the latest versions) but not designed to act in a “natural” way. If you’ve used it for painting versus something like Painter you know what I mean. Who the fuck pays for it though? Google “Photoshop tumblr masterpost” and take your pick.
Paint Tool Sai - Far more affordable and definitely worth paying for if you can. The brushes are very decent (especially when they’ve been tweaked a little), the gui is simple and intuitive, and I dare you to find a program with which making smooth lineart is easier.
Corel Painter - My program of choice for most things. More tools than you could ever possibly use and pretty cheap on a student license, providing that you can prove you’re a student! It’s got a few bugs but if you want realism or a more natural feel than PS or SAI this is the program for you.

Anatomy

heads from different angles

anatomy and rotation of the head

human anatomy for artists

speed drawing studies

nude references

hands

arm and wing movement

beer bellies

body types

noses

box and egg/run of the stroke

a trick for arm proportions

body diversity

anatomy of the waist

feet

hands and forearms

Expressions

emotions and facial expressions

expressions from different angles (love this site)

body language

Poses

figure drawing examples

posemaniacs

gesture drawing

flexiblity

hand poses

Skin tones

handy pallet

painting skin

paint some life into your skin tones

ethnic skintones

Colouring

gamut mask tool (very nice!)

colour does not have to suck

5 easy ways to improve your colouring

fucking gradients, how do they work

light and shadow

painting crystals

achieving a painterly look in SAI

painting forests

colour scheme designer

kuler (more colour schemes)

portrait lighting cheatsheet

Brushes

a very nice setting for the sai acrylic brush

photoshop fur brushes (and tutorial)

lots of photoshop brushes

Other peoples masterposts

handy art link megapost

art references

stock artists

cocks and how to draw them

love your fellow artist (anything from prompt generators to animation background here, very nice)

e-books

art e-books (mediafire download)

even more e-books (including human anatomy, animal anatomy, cartoons, animation, composition, design, scenery, perspective…)

Andrew Loomis’s books

the art of drawing

cutting edge anatomy

Tutorials

drawing 101

how to paint realistic hair

how to paint realistic eyes

conceptart.org tutorials

creature design

folds

glasses

a pretty extensive general art tutorial

tumblrs

fucking art, how does it work

wannabe animator

anatomical art

artist problems

criminallyincompetent (check out their #reference and #tutorial tags, they’re gold)

Tagged: masterpostart postart referenceart resourceresourceart resourcesart referencesart programsanatomyexpressionsposescoloringtutorialtutorialsbrushesphotoshopphotoshop brushessai brushesebooksmasterpostsart tumblrsart reference tumblrs

Source: geromykyle

Art Basics Meme

candyhere:

For Faces:
25 Essential Expressions
Consistency Exercise

Draw a _______ shaped face (for both genders):
Circle
Oval
Oblong
Square
Triangle/Pear
Diamond
Heart

REF: 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05

Draw a ______ nose:
Short
Long
Button
Pert
Pointy/Sharp
Thin
Flat
Wide
Crooked
Arched
Wide

Draw ______ lips:
Thin
Full
Top heavy
Bottom heavy
Wide
Short
Cupid bow

Draw _____ ears:
Rounded
Pointy
Small
Big
Attached
Free hanging/detached

Draw ______ eyes:
Prominent
Small
Round
Deep-set
Almond
Asian
Hooded

Draw ______ eyebrows:
Thick
Thin
Long
Short
High arch
Low arch/round
Flat/no arch
Droopy
Angled up

Draw a _____ shaped body (for both genders):
Hourglass/diamond
Triangle/pear/A-frame
Reverse triangle/reverse pear/V-frame
Apple/round/oval
Ruler/rectangle
Tall
Short
Skinny
Plump
Fat
Muscular

Draw the body (of both genders) facing:
the front
3/4 front
4/5 front
profile
3/4 back
4/5 back
the back

Draw in:
1st perspective
2nd perspective
3rd perspective (good luck with that)
Bird’s eye view
Worm’s eye view
Dutch angle

There should be more diversity in the people we draw, and if you’re stuck in an art block, you can always go back to the basics.
Credit to: Candeaumer.mangabullet.com

Tagged: art basics memeart referenceart basicsart resourceilikethis