February 2012
35 posts
radioactivemongoose:
art tip: not everyone has the same body type
which includes their face shape
how broad their shoulders are
the size of their neck
shoulders
hands/fingernails
bust shape
the length of their legs
in fact there are tons of variations of everything
adding belly fat to the same skeleton you use for all of your characters is not gonna work please stop doin that
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Tutorial: How to make GIFs
slowking:
Before anything, there are many different ways people make their gifs and there are also other programs people use sooooo yeah okay, here’s my way:
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bec-de-corbin:
slimmeroo:
there’s a lot of stuff on my dash right now about artists who talk down about their own work, call themselves trash, etc etc and how that affects other people who admire their work
I know it’s super tough to look at your art and feel cruddy that you’re not where you want to be. that sucks!! it’s okay to not be satisfied, but it’s also okay to take pride in your work,...
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an addendum to that post about drawing backgrounds
bec-de-corbin:
slimmeroo:
a background is only a background if it’s setting the stage for something else. (you could say “a foreground”, but using “foreground” to describe the subject of focus and “background” to describe all that shit what goes behind it seems like a very flat way to think about one’s drawings)
if the subject of your picture/panel/illustration is a “background”, it’s...
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Kurt Vonnegut's 8 rules for writing a short story →
Here are Vonnegut’s eight rules for writing a short story:
Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
Every sentence must do one of two things — reveal character or advance the action.
Start as close...
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Hundreds of Free Art E-Books
dredsina:
[Taken from a post by briggsy@ashtons on the ConceptArt.org forums. There are many more links in the original thread, but I abridged it in a sort of futile attempt at brevity.]
Archive.org has been around for years, but there has been a HUGE influx of new art titles in the last few months. To search, make sure you select “texts” in the second box. To download, click “FTP” and save to...
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More doodle tips from the sister
abhauen:
My sister put up some more stuff from her class! >u<)b
“The ring and index fingers vary by gender and sometimes sexual orientation. Men tend to have longer ring fingers, while women have longer index fingers, though sometimes they are the same size.”
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Tutorials →
caps-coloring:
a quick guide to understanding channel mixer
curves tutorial
tutorial on typography: how to use open type feature in your text
make text your friend: part i - fonts
make text your friend: part ii - techniques
typography
how to cut things out in photoshop
color range
how to do a silhouette effect
fast rounded corners in photoshop
GIF Tutorial: 1, 2, 3
photoshop...
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really nsfw tutorial collection below
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bec-de-corbin:
beeseverywhere replied to your post: How do you draw/color without lines? I’ve never been able to figure out that type of style.
AAAHHHHH THANK YOU
You’re welcome!
OH YEAH EXTRA TIPS
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January 2012
53 posts
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102 Resources for Fiction Writers →
casterlyrock:
thetatteredendsofautumn:
goddessofcheese:
vulpesinculta:
Are you still stuck for ideas for National Novel Writing Month? Or are you working on a novel at a more leisurely pace? Here are 102 resources on Character, Point of View, Dialogue, Plot, Conflict, Structure, Outlining, Setting, and World Building, plus some links to generate Ideas and Inspiration.
CHARACTER, POINT OF...
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notzilon:
Okay! Finally answering this, because I wanted to talk in-depth and needed some time to get my thoughts together! Hold on to your butts, because this is gonna stretch your dash worse than a traffic cone up a porn star’s vagina. PRESENTING:
Doctored, Strange Colors
or
How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Be The Bomb
This isn’t meant to be a coloring tutorial. This isn’t going to...
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"Pretty Art" and superficial appeal
pollums:
Okay prepare yourself for a long post anon ahahahah! Sorry!
I have this term that I’ve been throwing around for a few years to refer to a very specific tendency in art- I call it “Pretty Art”.
Pretty Art in its most simplest explanation is when an artist spends SO much effort on making the subject of their art “pretty” that the quality and progress of their work actually suffers.
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