Gesture Drawing Tools - http://lovecastle.org/gestures/ - http://www.pixelovely.com/tools/gesture.html Idea Generators - http://3ch.redwhirlpool.com/3CH/ - http://www.lifeformz.com/cgi-bin/idea/idea.fcgi - http://www.randomphrase.com/ - http://www.magatsu.net/random-generators/ - http://al.chemy.org/ (visual generator) Other Art Communities - http://conceptart.org - http://icrit.org - http://deviantart.com - http://www.shiflettbrothers.com (sculpting) - http://drawchan.net (garbage) News - http://www.graphicartistsguild.org/ - http://artnews.com/home/ - http://www.awn.com/ Motivation - Portfolios - Artist Blogs - http://conceptart.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=41&daysprune=30&order=desc&sort=views (top CA.org sketchbooks - also Exclusive Sketchbooks) - http://www.labluna.blogspot.com/ - http://ldaustinart.blogspot.com/ - http://davidkassan.com/ Training & Tutorials - http://www.theillustrationboard.com/index.php?/topic/30-tips-and-tutorials/ - http://gnomonworkshop.com - http://theartdepartment.org/store - http://www.youtube.com/user/moatddtutorials - http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=schoolism&aq=f - http://drawspace.com - http://www.ctrlpaint.com/ - http://www.drawing-tutorials-online.com/ - http://www.iampeth.com/lessons.php (calligraphy) - http://www.itchstudios.com/psg/art_tut.htm - http://tenminutedrawing.blogspot.com/ - http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=116213 (perspective) - http://idrawgirls.com/ - http://www.youtube.com/user/FZDSCHOOL - http://www.vilppustore.com/index_rev1.htm - http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=94571 (free books) - http://www.dhfa.net/Artiststatement2.html (Reilly Method) - http://www.aniwaichulis.com/store/ Reference Images - http://www.artist-reference.com/ - http://3d.sk - http://www.photo-reference-for-comic-artists.com/ Finding Work - http://www.creativehotlist.com/ - http://linkedin.com - http://elance.com - http://www.furaffinity.net (commissions) Collaborative drawing tools - http://py-bot.com/apps/flockmod.swf - http://colorillo.com/ - http://www.iscribble.net/draw.html - http://www.manga-youkai.com/pchat - http://artgrounds.com/sketcher.do?action=applet&room=0 - http://w5.oroti.net/~ruhh/scratchpad/index.html Small art-related forums (or something, anyway that's how a fellow /ic/ user would classify them) - http://www.apedogs.com/index.php - http://satellitesoda.com/phpBB3/index.php - http://wecookart.com/forum/portal.php - http://forums.sijun.com/ Video game-oriented art forums - http://www.game-artist.net/forums/ - http://www.gameartisans.org/forums/index.php - http://boards.polycount.net/ - http://www.characterdesigns.com/forum Animation forums - They seem pretty slow and serious, so huh, don't shit them up. Peter Cheung posts in the first one, Don Bluth obviously in thesecond: http://www.pelleas.net/forum/index.php - Interesting thread on "Japanese animation theory": http://www.pelleas.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=238 - http://donbluthanimation.com/forum/index.php - http://www.animationforum.net/forum/ - A monthly animation contest, the winner is reviewed by a professional from a high-profile company. The review is always interesting, the best entries great, and the notation pretty harsh (that often surprises me, it's not dA is the least you can say). http://www.11secondclub.com/ Cinema screencaps (for reference) - http://framefilter.blogspot.com/ - http://www.leavemethewhite.com/index2.html - http://miseenscene101.blogspot.com/ - http://www.doctormacro.com/Galleries.htm - http://www.hitchcockwiki.com/wiki/1000_Frames_of_Hitchcock - http://cinemasquid.com/blu-ray/movies/screenshots An art tutorial wiki - http://artwiki.wikidot.com/ Overview on art basics - http://www.itchstudios.com/psg/art_tut.htm Free online art books - http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=131116 Select summaries of The Frank Reilly School of Art by Doug Higgins - http://www.dhfa.net/Artiststatement2.html Charles Hu Figure Drawing Lecture - http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=120175 Color Theory - http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=17837 Composition - http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=3275& Drawing the head by Ron Lemen - http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=84105 Color Zones of the face - http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2008/05/color-zones-of-face.html Temple of the Seven Golden Camels, a good blog site - http://sevencamels.blogspot.com/ Light and color - http://www.itchy-animation.co.uk/light.htm - http://www.huevaluechroma.com/index.php worthwhile books/resources sorted and ranked - http://www.icrit.org/resources.html A guide to inking - http://www.tomrichmond.com/blog/2006/08/21/inking-tutorial-part-i/ Art books (79 of them) - http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=b17efd65ab9baffcab1eab3e9fa335ca39e8887af6d865e3 Tons of photo refs of really cool realistics sculptures. Includes also some vids of Philippe sculpting some interesting stuff. http://philippefaraut.com/figure.html FREE Andrew LOOMIS PDFs - http://escapefromillustrationisland.com/2010/01/07/free-andrew-loomis-art-intstruction-downloads/ FREE cool brush (not sure if link still working) - http://www.pandemoniumart.net/brushes/ GESTURE tool of google with muscle/veins/organs/skeletal figures - http://bodybrowser.googlelabs.com/ (gesture tool with muscle figures) - http://www.posemaniacs.com/ useful links - http://escapefromillustrationisland.com/ - http://www.linesandcolors.com/ cool blog full of inspiriting artwork and painting - http://shankandmystify.tumblr.com/ - http://www.emptykingdom.com/main/featured/empty-kingdom-top-100/ - http://lacanciondelasirena.wordpress.com/ RSS bundle of 190+ artist still updating - http://www.google.com/reader/bundle/user%2F14858615244848955017%2Fbundle%2FBlogspot anime/manga related reference model and artworks - http://idol.sankakucomplex.com/ cool stuff - http://mrdoob.com/projects/harmony/#shaded - http://www.austinkleon.com/2011/03/30/how-to-steal-like-an-artist-and-9-other-things-nobody-told-me/ - http://www.austinkleon.com/2010/02/10/25-quotes-to-help-you-steal-like-an-artist/ - http://www.ted.com/talks/denis_dutton_a_darwinian_theory_of_beauty.html - http://philippefaraut.com/portrait.html - http://www.flickr.com/photos/fivesecfaces/sets/ - http://www.chipin.com (donation system) - http://dresdencodak.tumblr.com/ - http://artistshospital.deviantart.com/ Art podcasts - http://drawntoday.blogspot.com/ - http://www.wippodcast.com/ - http://visualartistpodcastnetwork.com/ Animation podcasts - http://www.speakingofanimation.com/ - http://reanimators.net/ - http://www.animationconversation.com/ - http://animationpodcast.com/ - http://animationstation.libsyn.com/ - http://splinedoctors.com/ - http://tooninanimation.net/wordpress/?cat=7 - http://www.awn.com/blogs/ffaf Just a bunch of old paintings - http://paintingdb.com/ Google art museums project (in works) - http://www.googleartproject.com/ FZD School Of Design - http://www.youtube.com/user/FZDSCHOOL Guide to removing white pixels (Using alpha channels in Photoshop) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6ThUBDpmiQ PiratePad link with FUCK TONS OF LINKS - http://piratepad.net/QkkhOzAvLj Matt Archambault's youtube page (really great little tidbits, he encourages you to buy his long-form tutorials, but you can extract what you need from his uploads) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJXQqN8geWs Creepy, schizophrenic, and fucking incredible. His older works are really just insane (spoken from a fellow /ic/ user) - http://gadgadget.fullmecha.com/ A little more CG/graphic design-related, but seems pretty informative - http://www.skillset.org |