ARE YOU FUCKIN SERIOUS I’VE SPENT SHIT TONS OF MONEY ON CALLIGRAPHY PENS FOR ART AND YOU’RE TELLING ME I CAN MAKE MY OWN FOR LESS THAN 4 FRIGGEN DOLLARS??? THIS IS BULLSHIT MY ENTIRE ART LIFE IS A LIE
Some tutorials that I’ve come across, organized both for my own viewing pleasure and to hopefully assist others as well. I update this list whenever I come across new, helpful pieces.
A lot of these are hosted on my personal Tumblr, but I don’t change my url so it’s pretty safe to bookmark them there (and not have to worry about the url changing) if you don’t wish to reblog them yourself for whatever reason.
Feline tutorials:
The domestic cat body
Improving upon (lion) anatomy
Realistic lion faces tips
Big cat paw tips
Canine vs. feline – paws and legs
Guide to big cats
Feline comparison
Canine vs. feline – facial anatomy
Canine vs. feline – chest anatomy
Guide to little cats
Big cat eyes (could work for other eyes)
Spot variation in big cats
Big cat studies
Feline feet
Extremely helpful big cat references
Domestic cat references
Canine tutorials:
Basic wolf anatomy
Skeleton notes on wolf legs
The wolf skeleton as a whole
The wolf skull and teeth
Wolf paw tips
Basic canine poses
Canine ears and chest
Drawing realistic wolves
Basic wolf tutorial
Wolf paw tutorial
Paw pad tips
Canine vs. feline – paws and legs
Canine vs. feline – facial anatomy
Canine vs. feline – chest anatomy
And this is just an excellent DA for wolf reference images
Fluid greyhound studies
Detailed canine nose tutorial
Avian tutorials:
Bird wing anatomy applied on humanoids
Bird wing tutorial (lots of underrated tips)
Varying bird wing structure
Basic owl anatomy
Bird wing vs. bat wing vs. pterodactyl wing vs. human arm
Bird wings and flight
Various bird wings
Eagle facts sheet
Bird muscular and skeletal anatomy
Some great photograph bird (wing) references
Dorsal anatomy of a bird wing
Winged people anatomy
Don’t forget the secondaries
Human(oid) tutorials:
Facial features:
Excellent expressions tut
Altalamatox face tutorial
Profile proportions
Expression tutorial
Virtual lighting studio
Various facial and body shapes reference
Drawing the nose
Human mouths
Breaking down the human nose
How to draw the ear
Jawline and kissing tip
The human head at various angles
Advice on eyes
Nose shapes
The human skull and face
Facial features
Portrait lighting cheat sheet
Animating dialogue (mouth movement)
A kissing tutorial
Expressions photo references
Semi-realistic eye tutorial
Painting a realistic eye
The face in profile
The human head at various angles
Muscles in the neck and face
Breakdown of lips
Blocked out human faces
Average feminine faces of the world
Expressive eye reference
Excellent ear anatomy tutorial
Constraining the face
The face at various angles
Human faces
Excellent teeth tutorial. Animalistic, but it works
Tips on teeth
Colours of the face
Photographic mouth/teeth reference
Stylized noses and ears
Neck, shoulders, arms, back, and torso:
A masculine shoulder study
Muscles in the neck and face
Neck and torso tut
Masculine torso anatomy in use
Arm shape and muscles
Breaking up the masculine torso
Feminine anatomy patterns
Masculine torso photo reference
Over the shoulder poses
Shoulder structure (masculine)
Masculine torso in motion
A neat arm trick
Detailed arm muscle drawings
Masculine muscle reference
Human back tips
Movement and muscles of the neck, torso, and arms
Simplifying a muscular masculine torso
Drawing boobs
Feminine vs masculine arms and shoulders
Making sure feminine people have room for organs and realistic boobs
Shoulders vs hips
Hands on hips poses
Muscles of the arms and shoulders (in motion)
Varied masculine and feminine torso references
Legs, hips, and feet:
Masculine vs. feminine waist
Feminine anatomy patterns
The human hips
Masculine legs reference
A beginner’s guide to knees
Feet and shoes tutorial
Simplifying the human foot
Feet reference drawings
Feet, ankles, and shoes
Shoulders vs hips
Bent legs yes and no’s (feminine)
Hands and feet from cone shapes
Hands:
Hand tips and reference
Simplifying hands
The human hand
More hand(y) tips
Yet another hands tutorial
The fist
The hand in motion
Hand and feet tips
Excellent hand and feet studies
How hands grip a sword
Hand poses
Boxing out the hand
Hello more hand refs
Hand angle references
Correct grip on a pistol
Various hand references (with object holding poses)
Simple hands, fingers, and nails
Hands and feet from cone shapes
Full body and poses:
Simplifying human anatomy
Understanding anatomy part 1 (follow desc. links for more)
A guide to movement: flexibility
Pose tutorial
Varying the feminine figure
Excellent action and couple references
Various athletic builds
Proportional height of different positions
The human body in perspective
Body type diversity
Another feminine body tutorial
Fullbody proportions tutorial
Guide to human types
Couple pose photo references
Practice figure drawing (animals as well)
How weight sits on different (feminine) bodies
Kneeling and sitting stock references
Constructing poses and the line of action
Varying your body types (feminine)
Large source of feminine anatomy references
Hair and skin:
Various types of hair
Drawing hair
Skintone palettes
Variation of colour throughout the skin
Painting skin
Skin tutorial
Skin undertones (masculine examples)
Drawing freckles
Drawing different types of hair
Other:
Bird wing anatomy applied on humanoids
Animal feet on a human figure
Various human bone studies
Interesting mythical creature skeletons with humanoid anatomy
Winged people anatomy
Dragon tutorials (and bat wings):
Anatomy of the Western dragon
Dragon wing tips
Dragon wing tutorial
Dragon anatomy
Dragon tutorial
Bat wing anatomy tutorial
Equine tutorials:
Basic horse (back) reference
The equine skeleton
A good, large collection of horse stock references
Skeleton of a horse and its rider
Horse hooves
Skeletal and fluid horse studies
Cervine tutorials:
Basic deer anatomy
Deer skeleton drawing
Deer musculature
Deer skeleton
Fluid deer studies
The Big Book of Drawing: deer
Reindeer noses
Ursine tutorials:
Fantastic bear anatomy/poses references
Basic bear structure
Bear anatomy tutorial
Miscellaneous animal tutorials:
Sheep vs. goats
Anteater studies
Chimp studies
Asian elephant skeletal drawing
Animating four legged creatures
Various animal studies from an animation aspect
Drawing rats
A tutorial on creature design
Snake mouths
Amazing teeth tutorial
Background and objects tutorials:
Griffsnuff background tut part 1 (second in desc.)
Tree tutorial
Realistic gems tut
Water tutorial
General water tutorial
Drawing crystals
Drawing bows
Painting rocks
Parts of a saber (other swords linked in desc.)
Analyzing key and contrast/time of day/etc
Corner-pin perspective distortion
Using three cubes to make a street view
Cloud tutorial
A beautiful flower tutorial
A simple but effective tree tutorial
Drawing mechanical objects
Multiple tree tutorials
Perspective tricks
Weapon and shield accessory tutorial
Background painting tips (blocks and angular objects)
Clothing tutorials:
Fabric tutorial
Clothing folds part 1 (second in desc.)
Drawing hoods
Drawing jeans
Hat on human figure reference
Armor
More hat on figure references
Different shirt collars
Collars, sport backs, vests, and pants
Draperies and costumes
Making colourful fabric patterns
Baseball cap reference
A ton of clothing references
A boatload of well-organized clothing refs
Feet and shoes tutorial
Dressing Rosalind Lutece (older female clothing)
Feet, ankles, and shoes
Hats and how to draw them
Clothing folds tutorial
Drawing clothing wrinkles
A breakdown of medieval armor
Drawing hoods
General painting, drawing, and style tips:
Altalamatox digital painting walkthrough
Simple fur tutorial
Realism painting tutorial (human subject)
Excellent colour tutorial
Painting a wolf (good fur painting visual)
Photoshop brushes tut
Basics of Photoshop tutorial
Another digital painting tutorial
Common digital painting mistakes
Colour and light
Soft cel-shading tutorial
Various types of hair
Colour tips and the mood it expresses
Composition tips
Lighting and colour tips
Shadows
Another composition tut
Simple colouring via overlay
From paper to digital
Painting gold
Colour palette turtles
Excellent fur painting tutorial
Skin painting tips
Colouring black and white pictures
Creating a colour palette with MS Paint
Obeying screen direction
Analyzing key and contrast/time of day/etc
The coil technique
Colour adjustment tips
Making flat colour pieces look gorgeous
Blending with hard brushes
Outlining in SAI
Uncommon information regarding colours
Compositional balance
Visual algorithms
Gesture over anatomy
Disney Chris Sanders’ style tips
Design, colour, and value
Decent art without lining or shading
Varied shots of the human figure
Cinematography of the Incredibles
Giving characters personality with poses and expressions
I said that I’d show some tutorials I have saved up to someone, but decided that I’d just go ahead and post most of what I have stored away and create a sort of masterpost out of it. (I figure it’ll help me just as much since, as of now, they’re all pretty scattered between my Tumblr and bookmarks)
A lot of these are hosted on my personal Tumblr, but I don’t change my url so it’s pretty safe to bookmark them there (and not have to worry about the url changing) if you don’t wish to reblog them yourself for whatever reason.
I like pretending I know many things when in reality I have a vague knowledge of a few things. notify me if one of these links is screwed up, anything important has to be added, etc
(Sorry this is so long, tumblr won’t let me un-indent all the things without messing the hyperlinks up BLUH. So press J to skip.)
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.
Some of these were gutted from posts where the original was deleted and so can’t be linked to in the masterpost list – especially one by Tumblr user melkh who has since either deleted or changed their url, so props to them.
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.
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.
All the basics you need to begin learning to draw and think visually like an artist from a starter level!
Note: Feel free to leave suggestions as there may still be topics left uncovered, since art is such a wide subject the list could go on for miles so I’ve chosen what I see as the most basic fundamentals
hello i am here today to not lose track of the art cheats i have discovered over the years. what i call art cheat is actually a cool filter/coloring style/way to shade/etc. that singlehandedly makes art like 20 times better
hello i am here today to not lose track of the art cheats i have discovered over the years. what i call art cheat is actually a cool filter/coloring style/way to shade/etc. that singlehandedly makes art like 20 times better
Spudfuzz on Deviantart made the original resource, which I modified to be a bit more realistic. She gave me permission to post this.
☛These swatches, like all art resources, should be used as a “jumping off point!” All colours are relative, and change with lighting conditions. As they are now, these swatches work best for adoptables, character lineups, and other art where local colour is important. ☚
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