explodinggrassblocks
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RESOURCES FOR POSES
Line of Action
JustSketch.Me
PoseManiacs
Human-Anatomy-For-Artist.com
MagicPoser
MIXAMO
Pose Archives
Bodies in Motion
Posemy.art
ReferenceAngle
CroquisCafe
(source)
Unsplash - photography, illustration, & art
Pixabay - same as unsplash
Pexels - stock photos and videos
Getty Images - photography & illustration
Veceezy - vectors and clipart
Gumroad - photoshop brushes (and more)
StockSnap.io - stock photos
Canva - needs login but has lots of templates
Library of Congress - historical posters and photos
NASA - you guessed it
Creative Commons - all kinds of stuff, homie
Even Adobe has some free images
There are so many ways to make moodboards, bookcovers, and icons without plagiarizing! As artists, authors, and other creatives, we need to be especially careful not to use someone else’s work and pass it off as our own.
Please add on if you know any more resources for free images <3
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.
happy birthday to the most special guy ever!!! :D
(and happy new years!)
hi :DDDDDDDDDD
hiyaa :DDDDDDDDDDDD
To all my American friends, the time is now.
Please, execute a BOMBARDMENT. Call your representatives!
did u guys know november 16 2020 was a monday
A redraw of that one scene from liverleaf
(click for better quality :D)
I had a lot of free time recently and i've seen a few of these floating around so I decided to try it out for myself! Even if I'm really late to the trend lol. I'm really happy with how I did some of the shading/rendering! The blood took a while to figure out but I think it looks alright ^-^
The original scene I drew:
And here are some close-ups of parts I’m particularly proud of :D
"Given your heavy workload, please take care of yourself. Don't stay in the dreamscape all the time...I've brought some specialties from other galaxies. Don't forget to enjoy them!
-Your sister, Robin"
I saw the letter Robin wrote for sunday and it got stuck inside my head
Sunday eating some of the pastries robin bought for him after she died, wondering what she had done to have been the one killed by Death :(
I love doing lineart sm, and I managed to finish this a lot quicker than I thought :D
The eyes I was conflicted about-originally the blue part was more prominent, but it's not very big on the model, so I ended up making it smaller.
hope you guys enjoy!
A little oc sketch I made :D
The design is still questionable it’s pretty new- but I wanted to try drawing something after so long without doing so, so it turned out pretty self indulgent and messy, hope y’all like it as well!
I finally figured out a satisfying way to shade hair :D
Hi :D
Welcome to my blog!
I will be posting fanart (mainly for the dsmp)
perchance
I’m a minor and I use she/her pronouns :D