really helpful technique ^ once you know how to divide by halves and thirds it makes drawing evenly spaced things in perspective waaay easier:
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really helpful technique ^ once you know how to divide by halves and thirds it makes drawing evenly spaced things in perspective waaay easier:

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So uhā¦.some dude apparently recreated Adobe Photoshop feature-for-feature, for FREE, and it runs in your browser.
Anyway, fuck Adobe, and enjoy!
Give credit to the 30-year-old who worked on this for free and offers this service for free!
just so yall know
art block is your brain telling you to do studies.
draw a still life. practice some poses. sketch some naked people. do a color study. try out a different technique on a basic shape.
art block doesnt stop you from drawing, it stops you from making your drawings look the way you want them to. and thats because you need to push your skills to the next level so you can preform at that standard
think of it as level grinding for your next work.
As a scientific illustrator- this is 100% true and going to review your basics will fix it every goddamn time.Ā Not only does it keep your skills sharp, when youāre not emotionally invested in the final product of a piece, you relax and your brain makes more/better art juice for you.Ā So, when you get back to that big/important piece?Ā Youāll know what to do and how to do it.
Nothing in nature blooms all year round.Ā Rest, and take care of yourself.
i want someone to put this into writerās blocks now
Writerās block means you need to relearn the whole alphabet. idiot.
For writers block- same thing. Do Studies.
Write a description of an object. write the weather today. Write a made up characterization of a random photo of an actor from the internet as to the character they are in that picture. Write a little story about your petās day. Write about spilling soup and make it super dramatic and tragic. Write about someoneās day being ruined and make it funny. Write a meetcute coffeeshop AU of two OCs youād never put together- maybe from different stories. Write them breaking up.
Write a bunch of short stuff meant for no audience ever and super duper self indulgent.
If you canāt write ā outline, even if youāll never write that story. Or you can write a poem. Or write a scene youāll never use. Write some dialogue with no descriptions or action lines. Read something of the author you want to sound like. Make a moodboard. Daydream about the story youād like to read. Think about your childhood. Watch a movie with the right vibes. Make a list of your favorite stories/characters and find what they have in common. Go for a walk. Wash your dishes. Watch a bad movie and think of what made it bad. Eat an apple and think about that experience. Go outside and listen to people talk. Call a friend and ask about their day. The worst you can do is force it upon yourself. Sometimes writing feels like milking stones, and maybe you really just have plant some grass and wait for a cow to show up.
there is an IMAGE in my HEAD and i cannot DRAW IT. hatred and rage.
You know whatās some crazy $hit?
This fabulous bitch
She makes a shit ton of poses (like 16,000 or some crazy nonsense). Ā I used this lovely lady to draw so much as a teen. Ā Whether it was some nerdy pose for my Mary Sue as fuck OCs
or for full on fight sequences
or for tragic deaths of my OCs in the arms of a totally OOC main protagonist. Ā
this bitch hooked me up. Ā
And with the wildest, craziest stuff that you could see in your head but had no way or resources to reasonably draw like
or this
or this
DUDE! Ā INASNE SHIT!! Ā So I was using her for a pose reference and decided, you know what, I owe this bitch some cash. Ā Lemme dole it out for her. Ā BUT then, I looked and saw she only has 286 fucking patrons!! Ā This chick gives out free shit and spends countless hours arranging these shoots and setting this stuff up. Ā
Iāll fork up the cash, SenshiStock. Ā Youāre worth it. Ā
Check out this amazing womanās stuff, and get knowledged: Ā https://www.deviantart.com/senshistock
I have been following her for years on deviantart.
Highly reccomend checking her out. Sheās the best. If I had any money to throw Iād throw it at her for providing such a big help in my life.
This hero doesnāt wear capes, she instead wears (and looks utterly flawless) in tank tops(?)
Interrupting my regular Star Wars BS to reblog this because @senshistock is amazing and beyond worth the follow and support!Ā I first started using her refs gosh I want to say back in maybe 2008, and Iām happy to be a supporter of her over on Patreon.Ā If youāre an artist please go find her stuff on all the platforms, you will not regret it!
Yessss, she is so awesome! Been following her for years. My favorite stock artist is jademacalla, who is, incidentally, in the last two images above. He has a lot of great angles, costumes, gear, etc! I love his hands, too.
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Just so everyone knows, she recently stopped using the name SenshiStock and switched to AdorkaStock! All her links and socials have switched to that. Also she has a TikTok of her doing the poses live, which is stupid useful because you can pause it at any point in the pose for just the right reference.
Literally just used a Adorkastock reference the other night, god bless them
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So uhā¦.some dude apparently recreated Adobe Photoshop feature-for-feature, for FREE, and it runs in your browser.
Anyway, fuck Adobe, and enjoy!
Give credit to the 30-year-old who did this shit for free and offers this remarkable thing for free!
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Fun fact: I wrote a random city generator in Unity because it felt like too much work to draw one myself
ayo i found 2 pages with head angles of humans and animals, could be useful to anyone reading this
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Holy FUCK, this is an amazing tool.
Reblogging for my artist fellows.
Reblog this!
Read more here:
"You are no longer licensed to use the software," Adobe told them.
Friendly reminder that GIMP does pretty much everything Photoshop does, and itās 100% free. Fuck DRM and the license culture, we have plenty of open source options available to us as a consumer.
Lightworks is a freeware video editor on par with Premiere
Blender is an excellent freeware 3D renderer,possibly better than After Effects
Lightzone to replace Lightroom
Inkscape to replace Illustratr
Audacity to replace Audition (I also received a free version of Pro Tools with my Scarlett Solo audio interface)
If Adobe is going to be greedy shitheads, then fuck āem. Donāt use their stuff. Freeware can be just as good, if not better, than Adobe CC.
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Reblog to save an artist.
oh jEEZ
I will keep saying this: GIMP sucks butts.
- Medibang Paint and Fire Alpaca for more cartoon style illustration
- Krita for painting
- Clip Studio Paint (not free, but often on sale and cheap even at full price) is better than PS for art and Iām about to cut adobe entirely. Even does some photo editing.
- Paint Tool SAI (again, not free but cheap) old but good, thereās a ton of hacked copies around too. Not hard to get for free.
- Open Tunez for animation.
Iām currently using Affinity Photo and itās a great Photoshop alternative. One time fee only and itās not really expensive, plus supports PSD formats. Free trial available too! Davinci Resolve for video editing is amazing as well! :)
Another great art program to include in the list is the completely free, no download, browser recreation of photoshop, Photopea! It has the potential/customizability to be as robust as a full copy of photoshop while also being perfectly accessible to anyone looking to just do some quick edits with no strings attached.
Also, heads up to anyone using it,
As of July 5th 2021, Audacity is now considered a potential spyware security risk,
so please approach it with caution and do some research on the situation as things progress.
being a self-taught artist with no formal training is having done art seriously since you were a young teenager and only finding out that youāre supposed to do warm up sketches every time youāre about to work on serious art when youāre fuckin twenty-five
someone: oh yeah, do this exercise during your warm ups! itāll help
me: my what
Whatās up I have an actual college degree in art and I was never ONCE taught to do warm ups.
when i was in undergrad, it was kind of mentioned in and offhand way that we should do warmups, but we were never shown what that meant. And, yāknow, we were young so it didnāt matter so much.Ā
Being older now and having an art job itāsā¦kind of essential.Ā
So: a quick primer for those of you who are likeĀ āok but how do i actually go about doing this warmup thing.āĀ
1) you may be tempted to doĀ āa warmup drawingā which is just a drawing that will take longer than it needed to and probably be frustrating and kind of bad because you didnāt warm up first. Itās tempting but always a trick your brain is playing on you! Do not trust!Ā
2) warmups will vary based on what feels good to you/what task youāre about to do/what motor skills you want to practice. That being said, some good standbys:
a) circles. Just a whole page of circles on whatever drawing surface youāre going to be using, whether thatās your tablet or your sketchbook or a drawing pad on an easel. For these circles you should make sure that youāre drawing from your shoulder and not your wrist. In fact, you want to be drawing from your shoulder rather than your wrist most of the time! forever! your wrist is delicate please preserve it!Ā
In order to ensure that youāre drawing from your shoulder, when youāre holding your pencil or whatever drawing tool youāre using, the only part of your hand that should be touching the drawing surface is part of the last two fingersāsome people prefer the finger tips, but I tend to favor the first knuckles. Either way, the fingers should really be ghosting over the surface, providing guidance rather than support.Ā
I usually start with big circles and then go to smaller circles and lines of ellipses, and then try to fit circles and ellipses inside other shapes iāve already drawn as a precision exercise, but i donāt do that unless iām feeling loose
b) spirals! i donāt always do spirals, but if iām stiff and the circles just arenāt cutting it, spirals are a good fall back. I start from the center and work outward, going both clockwise and counterclockwise until i feel comfortable with the whole range of motion. Some people really care about getting perfect spirals but for me itās all about making sure iām comfortable with how iām moving so who really even cares about how the spirals look. Not me!Ā
c) lines! straight lines! in parallel! i do a mix of vertical, horizontal, and diagonal. These are often more from the elbow than the shoulder, especially if Iām working on a smaller surface. For this exercise, I recommend holding the drawing tool perpendicular with the surface
d) connect the dots. This is a precision and accuracy exercise and takes two forms. The first is to draw two dots and then draw a straight line between them. The second is to draw three dots and draw the curve that connects them. This sounds a lot simpler than it is in practice. Take time to ghost over the line you plan to draw before actually committing to your line. (I donāt always remember where I picked up my warm up exercises, but Iām pretty sure I got this one from Scott Robertson. His how to draw and how to render books are very technical but also accessible and worth checking out)
e) cubes, spheres, cones, and cylinders. These help get your brain into a more volumetric space. I draw multiples of each, rotating the forms around, and Iāll often take the time to do some rough shading on at least a few of them
f) spidermans! This one is really good if youāre going to be storyboarding or working on dynamic poses. Just fill a page full of spidermans doing all sorts of acrobatics.Ā
g) beans. I donāt do beans too much anymore, but I know a lot of people like it so Iām mentioning it here. Fill an area with different size bean shapes without lifting your pencil off the paper.Ā
h) short medium and long line repetition. draw a short, medium, and long line on your page, and then draw directly on top of them 8 to 12 times, doing your best to exactly trace what youāve already drawing. Repeat with a wavy line. Iām bad at this one, which means I probably need to do it more.Ā
And there are lots more options too! Hit up youtube to see what other people recommend, put together your own go-to list, mix it up when youāre getting bored, etc.Ā
This is a long list, I know, but I usually donāt take more than 10 to 15 minutes to warm up, and I can warm up one handed while Iām drinking coffee, so, multitasking hurrah.Ā
Sometimes Iāll advance to a precision warmup and find that I havenāt loosened up enough yet; itās totally ok to go back to an earlier exercise! Also, all of this has the added benefit of kind of ritualistically getting you into the drawing mode so even if Iām not feeling it before I start, by the time Iāve gotten to the end Iām usually Ready For Drawinā. Brain hacks.Ā
so, yeah! thatās a lot of words, but! Warmups are important! Save your joints, take less advil, do better drawings!Ā
How on earth are you supposed to draw from a sholder? might as well tell me to draw from the foot. It makes no sense
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Hey i don't understand much about digital brushes but. Can these work with Photoshop?
Yes! There are some that are specifically listed as Photoshop/Clip Studio bundles which should work for Photoshop!
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Artist friends, let me just tell you a thing. FUCK Wacom. Fuck Wacom and their planned obsolescence, fuck Wacom and their broken drivers, fuck Wacom and their over-priced tablets. For years weāve dealt with them with no alternatives but let me tell you a thing.
I recently found out my Intuos 4ā²s Pen had broken and rather than spend Ā£60-89 for a new one I decided to get a new tablet. Now, I could get the new āIntuosā (which is just the re-branded Bamboo) and i was going to until I found this beast.
This is the HuionĀ H610, it has almost twice the drawing space of the low-end Intuos and double the pressure levels. The one and only negative is that the pen requires a battery.
Not only that, it is larger than my Intuos 4 which I paid £150 for back in the day. Know how much this cost? £55. The same as the basic Intuos.
I am in LOVE with this thing. Letās compare this with the lowest of the low end Wacom Intuos line.
Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Intuos Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Huion
Active Area:Ā Ā Ā 6 by 3.7 in Ā Ā Ā 10" x 6.25"
Pressure Levels:Ā 1024 Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā 2048
Hard Input Res:Ā 2540 LPI Ā Ā Ā 4000 LPI
Express Keys: Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā 4 Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā 8
Not to mention the Intuos is HIDEOUS with buttons that are in incredibly awkward places.
The fact that a £55 matches and exceeds the £150 Intuos 4 I bought years ago speaks worlds. And do you know what the very final nail in the coffin is?
THE DRIVERS. ACTUALLY. WORK.
Itās time Wacom had some real competition in the market, if youāre looking for a new tablet please consider a Huion over a Wacom. I used to be a Wacom fanboy too but now?
Here is the H610 on Amazon UK and Amazon US.
All I can find is good reviews on this thing and people doing the same thing I am doing, trying to convince people itās worth it. So⦠You have the information, use it as you will.
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Fck. I didnāt know they all did this. I thought I was getting a deal buying a Wacom but the driver refused to update after about a year and the pen died around the same time and replacing the pen was nearly as much as a whole new tablet so I bought a different brand. I ended up getting the Huion H610 shown above and it was definitely worth it. Other broke artists please save yourself the headache :/
Iām not an artist, but just a small correction for OP: itās actually almost 3x the space.Ā Each dimension is almost 2x as long, but the AREA is about 2.8x bigger.Ā So youāre underselling it by saying itās twice as big.
please get yourself a huon instead of a wacom
I bought a huionĀ a while back and itās pretty great.Ā
[Images: Photo of a Wacom tablet with an itty-bitty drawing space, and a Huion tablet with a large, roomy drawing space.]
Four years later, and the equivalent Huion seems to be the 640P. It apparently has 8192 levels of pressure sensitivity, and the stylus no longer requires a battery.
i got the Monoprice equivalent of a 22in Cintiq for ~500$ a few years ago, itās under $400 now on their site, and literally the only downside iāve seen is that it has no buttons, which i never used on the Intuos anyway. they use the same drivers as Huion, iirc, which have only been improving over the years.
also, Wacom sends data about everything you do to Google