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Drawing Resource Masterlist

hello artists ♡ I spent a long while putting this google doc masterlist together, and I hope it can be useful to others. If you know of any good resources to add, feel free to send me an ask!

these are resources that have helped me along the way 🌱

⭐My giant Drawing Resource Masterlist⭐ ₊˚ ✧ ━━━━⊱⋆⊰━━━━ ✧ ₊˚ ⭐Art Books⭐

⭐My giant bulk art book collection⭐

The books I’d recommend the most in this collection ⭐Morpho Series ⭐Stonehouse’s Anatomy ⭐Color & Light ⭐The Art of Over the Garden Wall ⭐Kim Jung Gi Sketch Collection ⭐Art & Fear ⭐Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain ⭐Force ⭐Henry Hensche Color Study ⭐Anatomy for the Artist ⭐Anatomy for Sculptors

⭐Manga Materials⭐

₊˚ ✧ ━━━━⊱⋆⊰━━━━ ✧ ₊˚ Bonus! My art notes when I draw Be free in your mild, no walls define you ~

🌱Sketch🌱 Ugly sketches are normal. The sketch is just thinking on paper. - use a small marker/watercolor brush to build up form - construction over clean line-work - don't be afraid to do multiple sketches, variety helps get your hand loosen up and you'll be surprised what you come up with as you go along.

🖊️Linework🖊️ Confident lines come from confident strokes, not perfect accuracy. One line ≠ one stroke. It’s fine to try a line 5+ times. - turn your canvas as you draw - use more curve than you think, exaggeration looks livelier than accuracy - line-weight = thicker where shadows hit, thinner on lights - when lining, think of sculpting out the form - zoom in to do line-work - use reference on Procreate to have a zoomed out version  - border the outside

🌓Values🌓 - dark and lightest value on the main focal point

🎨Coloring🎨 - color like you're coloring a coloring book - intuitive drawing - values first, darkest and lightest values on the focal point - use moodboards for reference - detailing- check details and add watermark

🌈💡✨☀️Feeling stuck? ☀️✨💡🌈 You’re not blocked, you’re tired. - go for a walk, drink some tea or caffeine - look at pinterest moodboards - look at adopts on deviantArt and pinterest - find prompts and moodboards on pinterest - listen to my playlists - read/watch tutorials online - automatic drawing - reference studies (reference other artists and life drawing) - look through favorites on deviantArt, or in my inspiration folders - draw with a candle or dim light for cozy vibes - set a 5-minute timer to break perfection paralysis

💛 MINDSET SHIFTS EVERY ARTIST NEEDS 💛  “I don’t have to be original. I just have to be expressive.” “My style shows up naturally when I stop forcing it.” “Bad drawings are compost—everything grows from them.” “My art isn’t behind. It’s on its timeline.” “Every artist I admire has hated their art at some point.”

✏️ Anatomy & Posing Tips - gesture first, anatomy second - keep the spine fluid, not straight - think in bean shapes, not outlines - overlap lines = depth - push the pose 10% more than you think - mini mantra: “If the gesture is alive, the drawing is alive.”

Working on some reference sheets for artfight! Hope this year is a buncha fun C:

i drew my d&d character Tiel, a tiefling cleric who uses her shield to protect her while she's healing her party. I love her so muchhhhh <3

here's her description for when she is young, she eventually moves on to be a part of my BG3 campaign, and ends up quite alright C:

Tiel (Tea-eL), Battlefield Healer

Tiel carries a shield nearly as large as she is. She keeps it with her everywhere — not to strike, but to duck beneath as she runs toward fallen soldiers. The shield is her only defense while she kneels in the mud, hands glowing, trying to stitch life back into broken bodies.

Her efforts are often overlooked.

In this realm, tieflings are believed to be devil-spawn. Feared. Omened. Unholy. So when a small tiefling girl rushes forward to help, soldiers don’t see salvation — they see a demon. Some faint. Some recoil. Some pray.

She’s trying.

Tiel is leucistic, with pasty, chalk-soft pastel yellow skin — an uncommon trait among tieflings.

As a child, she was a foster placement. The orphanage didn’t want a tiefling around the other children — bad publicity. So they paid a wealthy, uppity family to take her in.

Her foster father adored her. Truly. Her foster mother was not cruel — just impatient, nitpicky, and distant in the way some mothers are. Tiel was fed, clothed, photographed. There are countless rich portraits of her in elaborate dresses, posed sweetly with farm animals. The problem is — and always has been — that she is utterly, viscerally terrified of chickens. Not mildly afraid. Not uncomfortable. Guttural, nauseating, paralyzing terror.

No one ever asked why.

As an adult, Tiel is quiet. Very quiet. Not eerie — just careful. She knows there’s something unstable inside her, something sharp-edged and trembling, and she is terrified of hurting anyone.

So she heals instead.

She works battlefields, caravans, adventuring parties — anyone who will pay for her magic. She refuses to carry weapons. She stays defenseless by choice.

When she was young, she watched a girl at school get stabbed by another child. Somehow, the blame fell on her. Tieflings are easy to blame. That lesson settled deep in her bones.

She does not fight. She does not strike back. She does not want blood on her hands.

She has a simple air about her — not rustic, not refined. Just… plain. Direct. Soft-spoken. She moves through the world like someone trying not to disturb it.

She will come out of all of this alright.