Kitty_Bitty222 Animations!

After seeing post like this 👇

And this gem 👇

As well as countless of others from the AI generator community. Just talking about how "inaccessible art" is, I decided why not show how wrong these guys are while also helping anyone who actually wants to learn.

Here is the first one ART TEACHERS! There are plenty online and in places like youtube.

📺Here is my list:

Proko (Free)

Marc Brunet (Free but he does have other classes for a cheap price. Use to work for Blizzard)

Aaron Rutten (free)

BoroCG (free)

Jesse J. Jones (free, talks about animating)

Jesus Conde (free)

Mohammed Agbadi (free, he gives some advice in some videos and talks about art)

Ross Draws (free, he does have other classes for a good price)

SamDoesArts (free, gives good advice and critiques)

Drawfee Show (free, they do give some good advice and great inspiration)

The Art of Aaron Blaise ( useful tips for digital art and animation. Was an animator for Disney)

Bobby Chiu ( useful tips and interviews with artist who are in the industry or making a living as artist)

Second part BOOKS, I have collected some books that have helped me and might help others.

📚Here is my list:

The "how to draw manga" series produced by Graphic-sha. These are for manga artist but they give great advice and information.

"Creating characters with personality" by Tom Bancroft. A great book that can help not just people who draw cartoons but also realistic ones. As it helps you with facial ques and how to make a character interesting.

"Albinus on anatomy" by Robert Beverly Hale and Terence Coyle. Great book to help someone learn basic anatomy.

"Artistic Anatomy" by Dr. Paul Richer and Robert Beverly Hale. A good book if you want to go further in-depth with anatomy.

"Directing the story" by Francis Glebas. A good book if you want to Story board or make comics.

"Animal Anatomy for Artists" by Eliot Goldfinger. A good book for if you want to draw animals or creatures.

"Constructive Anatomy: with almost 500 illustrations" by George B. Bridgman. A great book to help you block out shadows in your figures and see them in a more 3 diamantine way.

"Dynamic Anatomy: Revised and expand" by Burne Hogarth. A book that shows how to block out shapes and easily understand what you are looking out. When it comes to human subjects.

"An Atlas of animal anatomy for artist" by W. Ellenberger and H. Dittrich and H. Baum. This is another good one for people who want to draw animals or creatures.

Etherington Brothers, they make books and have a free blog with art tips.

As for Supplies, I recommend starting out cheap, buying Pencils and art paper at dollar tree or 5 below. For digital art, I recommend not starting with a screen art drawing tablet as they are more expensive.

For the Best art Tablet I recommend either Xp-pen, Bamboo or Huion. Some can range from about 40$ to the thousands.

💻As for art programs here is a list of Free to pay.

Clip Studio paint ( you can choose to pay once or sub and get updates)

Procreate ( pay once for $9.99)

Blender (for 3D modules/sculpting, ect Free)

PaintTool SAI (pay but has a 31 day free trail)

Krita (Free)

mypaint (free)

FireAlpaca (free)

Libresprite (free, for pixel art)

Those are the ones I can recall.

So do with this information as you will but as you can tell there are ways to learn how to become an artist, without breaking the bank. The only thing that might be stopping YOU from using any of these things, is YOU.

I have made time to learn to draw and many artist have too. Either in-between working two jobs or taking care of your family and a job or regular school and chores. YOU just have to take the time or use some time management, it really doesn't take long to practice for like an hour or less. YOU also don't have to do it every day, just once or three times a week is fine.

I am currently sterile by choice. Got the operation before 47th and the Republican Fascists got into office again so there's nothing the government can do about it.

I got to talking to my mom pre/post op, about possible signs she saw when I was an itty bitty bebe. Cause I'm a psycho student for life and like exploring mental things. but because of memory things with toddles and progressive information collection: I have no recollection of the time I was 0-5.

She tells me that when she was pregnant with my little sib, she had guided my hand to where they were kicking. And I -at their first kick- Just. Paled. Imagine little 3-year-old tot me. Pinkish white from playing in the summer sun. Going pale as a ghost. Paler than S-grade white rice. Paler than the moon.

The little shit of a sibling kicks a second time in the same spot, and mom says I bolted. Not just through the house, banging multiple doors on my way, but out the front door, across to the neighbor's dog, and she waddled out to see me just hugging that sweet hounddog in her little doghouse for my L I F E. She ended up laughing so hard with the hound's owner, she had morning sickness at 9pm.

Sure I couldn't hear at the time, and that combined with later viewings of The Mummy and ALIEN far too young, may have contributed to my anxiety of scarabs and carrying a fetus to term. But she had a good 27 years to accept that her youngest daughter wasn't going to be popping grandkids (though that never stopped her from lightly asking about them, I just reaffirmed her suspicion every time)

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

Yippee!!!!

So everyone I've been see for the final season of Arcane has been saying Jayce and Viktor are either:

A) Dead B) Tossed into a new peaceful reality C) Multiverse Therory Now all of these are absolutely fun to explore in their own rights, what changes, what doesn't, and all have a valid reasoning in both Watsonian and Doyalist perspectives. However, I propose that Jayce and Viktor are NOT dead or tossed into some disjointed reality.

They were both displaced in time.

Stick with me:

You do not need your Twitter.

Twitter is not the boost you think it is anymore.

I have seen at least 6 people I follow on BlueSky saying they have looked into their numbers and compared to Twitter? BSky gives them over double the exposure and follow through for outside links (probably because Twitter kills your tweet if you have links).

Twitter is testing a feature to allow other users to click a button attached to your posts to put your art into their Grok ai and make ai art with it without your permission automatically.

It is marking non-ai art as being made with Grok (probably to promote it).

You do not need Twitter.

Twitter needs you.

It sucks that the site has been made so hostile to ... well, everybody but rightwing nutjobs, basically. It sucks that it no longer serves your interests (entreprenurial or as a person who doesn't want to live in a fascist, capitalist hellscape) after all your hard work. It sucks that Elon Musk exists as an actual person with actual political and financial power, and not as some over-the-top villain from a cartoon.

Also you can buy my Ref folder here 

First music, then voice modifiers… Now this. Perfect.

If you type, write, draw, game, or generally use your hands a lot (especially if you’re prone to RSI or Carpal Tunnel!) try these stretches as both a preventative measure, and on the spot relief. Take care of yourself and your body, friends!

Start with hands up, fingers stretched out.  Stretch your thumb as far as you can over your palm. Hold and repeat 4 times.

Touch each finger to your thumb. Hold each for 30 seconds. Repeat on each hand 4 times.

Start with a fist. Open half way, hold for 2 seconds. Stretch fingers out, hold for 2 seconds. Repeat 4 times.

Start with one arm out, palm up. Pull your fingers back with your other hand. Hold for 10 seconds. Do the same with your other hand. Repeat 4 times