and other stuff.
Through its mystery, pitfalls, failures, struggles, and pains, life is beautiful, and those who realize this tend to notice the subtle beauties and gifts it hides from those who don’t.
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
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
anatomy and rotation of the head
Expressions
emotions and facial expressions
expressions from different angles (love this site)
Poses
Skin tones
paint some life into your skin tones
Colouring
gamut mask tool (very nice!)
5 easy ways to improve your colouring
fucking gradients, how do they work
achieving a painterly look in SAI
kuler (more colour schemes)
Brushes
a very nice setting for the sai acrylic brush
photoshop fur brushes (and tutorial)
Other peoples masterposts
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…)
Tutorials
a pretty extensive general art tutorial
tumblrs
criminallyincompetent (check out their #reference and #tutorial tags, they’re gold)
I am getting artrage and the copic sketchbook thing to see what i can do it them :D
Reblogging for my own ref, AWWW YEEAAAH
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Any art requests? Submit a reference!!
FINALLY!
Giveaway time! Thank you all for 1000+ followers, I appreciate it so much!
As promised, here is the 1,000+ follower giveaway: a fangirl feels emergency kit.
- Owl Plushie: to squeeze the HELL out of when you’re overcome with feels
- Friendship mug: to remember that you have friends that share your feels
- Robot mustache man necklace: a little buddy to keep you company
- Strength candle: CITRUS SCENTED! To remind you to BE STRONG through your feel overload
- Frog hot&cold gel thingy: FOR YOUR OUCHIES AND BOOBOOS caused by fandom life
- Hot cocoa: …to fill your damn mug
- Kleenex: you know what this is for
- Audiology black earphones: to drown out the world during these times of crisis
Adooorable
Now there are, of course, some rules!
- You do not have to be following me to win, but if there are changes made to the giveaway that you aren’t made aware of (such as end date), you are responsible!
- Please tag your giveaway so that your followers can block it if they want to
- Do not reblog more than 3 times a day. No dash clogging, it’s rude! Likes also count as an entry.
- Make sure you are willing to give your address to me and if you must ask for parental permission, please do so
- Make sure your ask box is open. The winner will be notified in their ask box about the win.
- I will ship internationally, however if the winner is not in the United States or Canada, shipping may be delayed based on cost, but the winner will still receive the items (eventually)
The giveaway will conclude on Friday, June 8, 2012 (one month from now) at around 5pm Central Standard Time. I will be using a random number generator to determine who the winner is!A big thank you to Sarah for making the graphic for me!
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I WILL ALWAYS AND FOREVER REBLOG THIS.
Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill!
Holy crap, it’s been forever since I heard this.
Holy hell—it’s 7th grade all over again.
Reblog if you’re pro-choice.
Like if you’re pro-life.
tumblr was on mtv?
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i just realized that the moving pictures in harry potter are gifs
Holy hell—They are.
NOW TO FIND A WAY TO PRINT GIFS. WE CAN MAKE THIS DREAM COME TRUE.
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Pssshhh, I would love to, but, you see, there is this small inconvenience called being broke at this very moment.
