n.o.r.t.h

Do you design a lot of characters living in not-modern eras and you’re tired of combing through google for the perfect outfit references? Well I got good news for you kiddo, this website has you covered! Originally @modmad made a post about it, but her link stopped working and I managed to fix it, so here’s a new post. Basically, this is a costume rental website for plays and stage shows and what not, they have outfits for several different decades from medieval to the 1980s. LOOK AT THIS SELECTION:

OPEN ANY CATEGORY AND OH LORDY–

There’s a lot of really specific stuff in here, I design a lot of 1930s characters for my ask blog and with more chapters on the way for the game it belongs to I’m gonna be designing more, and this website is going to be an invaluable reference. I hope this can be useful to my other fellow artists as well! :)

So recently I came across a fellow artist who was struggling to find a free art program, and considering dropping the large amount of money for a Photoshop license. I know not everyone can afford such an expensive program, so I’ve compiled a list of programs with no cost to download and use.

Keep in mind all computers are different, so not all will work for everyone. Also, I’ve only ever used Windows, so for the most part, I’m not sure if everything will work for Mac. if in doubt check the website linked.

Photoshop CS2 - (Windows, not sure about Mac.)

FireAlpaca - (Windows and Mac)

Sketchbook Copic Edition - (Windows and Mac)

GIMP - (Windows) (Mac)

Paint tool SAI [cracked]  - (Windows) (Mac)

Paint tool SAI 2 beta - (tumblr post on said program)

iPaint - (Mac)

Paintbrush - (Mac)

Pencil - (Windows, Mac)

Paint.NET - (Windows)

Seashore [still in development, ver 0.5] - (Mac)

ChocoFlop - (Mac)

Inkscape - (Mac and Windows)

ArtRage [Demo] - (Mac and Windows)

OpenCanvas 1.1[must pay for 2.0] - (Windows, not sure about Mac.)

MyPaint - (Windows)

Krita - (Windows)

Vectorian [Supports Animation] - (Windows)

Pixia[Japanese, some English versions] - (Windows)

Asperite - (Windows)

Chasys Draw IES - (Windows)

SmoothDraw - (Windows)

TwistedBrush Open Studio - (Windows)

BOUNS - CTRL+Paint [Great for teaching all kinds of stuff, like how to use digital programs.]

it allows you to resize artwork without it becoming pixellated. this is a MASSIVE help if you, for example, make lineart too small or something. it works best with things that 1. have no textures 2. have smooth lines 3. have cel shading, but it still works really damn well for things that don’t fit that profile

here’s an example:

normal size

2x in paint

2x in waifu2x

Photoshop scaled:

Waifu2x scaled:

Since I’m having a hard time finding out what the names of rarepairs for Overwatch are, I decided to make a master-list of all the ship names I know. These aren’t official names by any means; just the ones that seem to yield the most results when you look for the ship. I’ll be updating this with any other ships I find, as well as anything that people add to it. If y’all would like me to add a ship, just send me the ship name and I’ll get it on here.

Quick note, though: Certain ship names are not unique to Overwatch. In these cases, I will note which ship name has the overlap, and what it overlaps with.

More under the cut, since this gets long. (I do repeat ships, but I want this to be organized so anyone else can search it by one hero.)

Since I’m having a hard time finding out what the names of rarepairs for Overwatch are, I decided to make a master-list of all the ship names I know. These aren’t official names by any means; just the ones that seem to yield the most results when you look for the ship. I’ll be updating this with any other ships I find, as well as anything that people add to it. If y’all would like me to add a ship, just send me the ship name and I’ll get it on here.

Quick note, though: Certain ship names are not unique to Overwatch. In these cases, I will note which ship name has the overlap, and what it overlaps with.

More under the cut, since this gets long. (I do repeat ships, but I want this to be organized so anyone else can search it by one hero.)

- Mafia

- Devimega

- MothNEETs (Can’t leave that one out!)

- Youkai (x 2 because of the upgrades)

- Knights

- Prince ( x 2 bc of white day )

- Fujio Rock ( x 2 bc of white day )

- Akuma Riders

- NEETland

- Musical/Nerds

- Age AU

- Steampunk

- Lucky Gods

- NEETs!!! on Ice   

- Spy NEETs

- Greek Gods

- Casino ( x 2 bc of Tabimatsu’s versions )

- Magical Girls

- Samurai

-  Super hero

- Magic/Wizards

- Christmas 

- Travelling

- Black Christmas

- Marching

- F6 (Are they like.. are they an AU?? eh idk)

- Parade

- Unused Brothers

- Teachers

- Delinquents 

- Sweets 

- Blonde Oso

- Vampires

- Preschoolers

- Dating Attire

- Sports day

- Slugs/ Gurges (??)

- Haunted House of Horror (Y’know that one with Nurse Oso)

- Diamond thieves 

- Kigurumi

-  Detective 

- Beach sextuplets

- Zombies

- Policemen 

- Children’s day

- RPG

- White festival

- Animal Matsu

- Stalkhome syndrome

- Prisoners

- Pilots

- Seifuku Oso (That’s probably part of the school AU but like??)

-  Fairytales

- Dragons

- Mad Scientist Choro (This is apart of a full AU, I think it’s just called by that??)

- Bionic 

- Mootsu (…It’s one of my favourites okay..)

-  Kings