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A helpful list of models for anatomy and other drawing references (x)

Key: (nsfw) Nudity | (£) Not Free

Female Models 

MariaAmanda - Fantasy and fairy themed stock, mostly full body

Faestock -  Expressions, portraits and poses, many with dresses

RobynRose - 360 angle lighting and pose sets, including expressions

Mirish - Futuristic and action inspired poses, all full body

MiraNox - Gothic inspired model including pin-up poses

ImperialStarlet - Poses with props including weapons 

PrincessRowena (£) - Various poses with a fuller figured model

Liancar-art - Fantasy and medieval inspired poses

Male Models

BODYSTOCKS (nsfw) - Basic semi-nude athletic torso references 

BirdsistersStock - Various everyday poses and portraits

Mousiestock - A small collection of back anatomy references 

Justmeina (nsfw) - Nude anatomy reference portraits

Null-Entity - Different poses based on scenarios 

Anyman82 - Military and vintage themed stock

Both/Other Models

SenshiStock - Huge collection of various action and everyday poses 

Pyjamacake - Standard poses good for character bases

PhelanDavison - Futuristic and high-tech gear with action poses 

Mjranum-stock (nsfw) - Classical nude portraits, and also action poses

Auroradreams - Many poses with dresses, and others such as children

MajesticStock - A large amount of poses with different body types

Animals

HOTNStock - Mammals including large felines and canines

LuDa-Stock - Equestrian and domestic animals 

FurLined - Large and domestic felines 

EternalOcean - Mostly wolves along with other various animals  

Landkeks - All kinds of animals from a zoo

EdgedFeather - Close-ups of a wide range of birds

Other

Burtn - Natural landscapes and scenery 

ProREF (£) - Urban and rural places such as abandoned buildings

Clz - Skulls and other bones

Hi anon!

Thanks a lot for your message! ♥

I’m ony a self taught medium level artist (at best), and my only portfolio are fanarts. 

First, a lot of companies that look for artists to draw their book covers couldn’t care less about the fact that you are self-taught. What matters for them is

your skills and the kind of work you can deliver

your reliability (answering emails, being on time with the schedule, etc…)

how much you charge

Second, I don’t think that having fan arts in your portfolio is a problem. I think it depends on the kind of fan art you do and what kind of publishing company you want to contact. I’m going to give you an example. If you draw let’s say Blade Runner and Tron fan art and that you contact a company that is specialized in Sci-Fi books, no problem. Same if you draw LOTR fan art and that you are contacting a company that publishes Heroic Fantasy stuff. What is important is that your portfolio shows your skills and that the artistic director thinks: “Wow! I love this person’s style! Exactly what I’m looking for!”

I think that in the end, it’s your technical level and your skills that will convince the company more than the subject of the art itself. You will also have to be able to work on a tight schedule, bring changes to your work constantly, etc. In one word: be professional.

If the people you contact are serious (and they will have to be serious because “small company” shouldn’t equate “unreliable company”) they will discuss with you beforehand everything they are expecting from you. For instance “I was impressed by your portfolio and your Alien and Prometheus fan art. I’m looking for an artist to draw a cover with an alien space ship, something very futuristic but also very organic. (blah blah blah) would you be interested? The ship would have to correspond to the book description and…”

I’m still scared I’m aiming too high.             

If you don’t try, you’ll never know. As I told you, you need to be sure about time management, reliability more than your technical level because very often artists tend not to have an accurate opinion on what they do. They often underestimate their skills, think they are not good enough, compare themselves to other artists even if they KNOW it’s bad. In short, the true level of an artist is often close to:

So something that I know can be an issue is accidental white washing for some characters in Camp Camp. I wanna help fix that! If you use paint tool sai, or any art program, this will be useful!

Step one: right click and copy a reference picture

Step two: go to your art program, file, paste

Step three: select the dropper tool and select the base colour of the skin

Step four: choose an area for the skin tone. Right click, and set the colour.

Congrats! You got the skin colour! If you want, you can designate a whole area for their colour palette for more than just skin by repeating this process.

(example)

<– canon / lower saturation –>

if you go in and guess on his colors you’re probably more likely to end up white washing him without realizing it  

Hey friends!

So… Some people requested me this, and I really don’t think it adds something different from the tons of awesome coloring tutorials on the internet, but it was fun to make :) I hope I can help some of you guys xD

Just because it’s Elsa I added a few more details on the final pic, but the main idea all here.

Sorry for any grammar mistake

Hm, some people have asked me a face tutorial, I tried to do my best since I very amateur and a not so didactic person

Some people have asked me for this tutorial too, I know that a few informations here are pretty obvious, but I just thought they were valid to include, and it can or cannot work for you, I just hope you find this helpful in someway :)

sorry for any grammar mistakes

Here it is, my long winded tutorial, complete with some step by step action. I see a lot of people talk about wanting to diversify their artwork but not knowing how. This is my help to you. You really should take the time to invest in learning diverse eye shapes as diverse artwork always makes you a better artist. And frankly I’m really tired of drawing tutorials that talk up character diversity but only have the stereotypical “one Asian eye”.

Thank you so much Anon! 

Well how I do line-art??? My line-art is pretty sketchy… But let’s try…

I use Paint Tool SAI always, it’s weird when I use other software… Well First I do the sketch…

These are brush settings for this drawing, I use a canvas 5000*5000

I have everything in different layers!

I do everything in black!, because first I add the flat colors, and then I change the line-art color!

When you select this option you can change the color of the layer.

So these are the settings of the layer!

Yey I finally finished it \o/

You find all of I say here in others thousand tutorials btw, and this happens for a reason :3 I swear I tried my best to explain what I do  I tried to put all what I have in mind while drawing

It’s got an almost endless range of furniture, doors, windows, stairs etc and is easy to use. In addition to that, you don’t have to install anything and if you create an account (which is free) you can save and return to your houses.

Examples (all done by me):

Here’s an example for how you can use it