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I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

If you've been in the /r/UnpopularLoreOlympus subreddit at all, you've surely noticed people posting edits for something called the Lore Olympus Redrawn project!

And if you haven't then you're about to be in for a treat in a couple hours, because for the past several weeks artists AND voice actors in the ULO community have been working their butts off to redraw the first few episodes of Lore Olympus! The list of credited artists is INSANELY huge and everyone involved should be proud of themselves for pulling this all together (•̀ᴗ•́)و

So if you have a little time today, please join them all in celebrating their work in a couple hours when the finished video drops!

I knew it was gonna be voice acted, but I had NO IDEA just how much more was done to bring the art and story to life. I'm not even gonna tell y'all because I think it's much better to go in blind, but I just wanna say that the people who contributed their art and voices to this should be damn proud of what they accomplished. This was truly something special to watch and I can honestly say it made me feel all those feelings I felt back when I read LO for the first time all over again, which I didn't even think was possible anymore. I knew what was going to happen, I know practically every line of dialogue from those opening episodes by heart and what every panel looks like, but seeing it redrawn and voice acted and given new life through the video editing had me in a chokehold and it really gave me a whole new appreciation for this community and what it represents for all of us. It serves as an amazing testament of why we all do what we do, from redesigning the characters to creating AU's to editing panels, and why it means so much to us.

Please go watch it, share it around, and leave your thanks for the artists, VA's, and organizer (Briar_Kore on Instagram!) who worked so so hard to not only contribute their skills and talents, but to elevate it to a whole other level in video format.

I haven't used Pillowfort in a LONG time, and I never really was a regular user per se, but they're seeking funds right now to help keep them alive! Even if I don't use these sites often, it should absolutely still be acknowledged how important it is to have sites like this that aren't controlled by massive corporations. So if you're a Pillowfort user or just want to help support a free Internet, please consider tossing them a dollar or two!

I think one of the largest issues I have with Lore Olympus is Rachel Smythes tendency to ignore her favourite characters wrong doings or to try 'justify' them with poorly executed retcons. In the latest chapter we get yet another "Zeus bad" retcon that somehow feels worse than the prior "Zeus bad" moments. Im not going to deny Zeus is a very VERY flawed person in LO, I am all for Hera divorcing him. But here she is trying to justify the Metis/Zeus plot point by saying "oh she was protecting her daughter all along by sleeping with someone who she met when he was underage!!!!" That feels really creepy? I dont think she really considers the implications of the things she writes and thats not a good thing. She cant even try argue "oh kronos time shenanigans make it ok" or whatever stupid logic she might use because she has established his time powers had run out from his fight with Ouranos at that point in the story.

Like lets take the catastrophe that was the Dio birth arc, she tries to retroactively justify Persephone being a terrible midwife who steals a baby without letting the father hold him by being like "oh actually he didnt care about the baby he chose to carry in his leg for about 10 years Persephone was in the right!!!" instead of having her ask to take custody or do anything other than demanding she be given the baby like a few minutes after Zeus finished giving birth.

Its not just Zeus either, she tries to justify Persephone invading Leuces home by being like "Oh Leuce never really got any texts shes delusional!!!!" ignoring the fact that Leuce thought the texts were valid enough to show to Persephone when mrs pink tyrant was being a home invader and neglecting the baby she just stole a couple of hours ago. Dio is treated like a purse dog and we get some off hand comment where Persephone blames the neglect (which was so bad the child got into TARTARUS) on the sitter she hired rather than being like "oh I should have made actual arrangements for Dio instead of giving myself a makeover". Theres also the way she tried to claim Thanatos was as much to blame for Hades' terrible parenting as Hades was by being like "well the abandoned child had an attitude can you blame Hades for not being a good dad?" Like yes. Yes we can blame Hades, he was an ADULT and Thanatos was a CHILD.

The story wants us to think Zeus is terrible and power-hungry when this proves him right in a way. If Metis, a fertility goddess, can't defeat Kronos on her own, how do they expect to defeat him without Hera's powers? Why would she keep it from Hera if they were powerful enough without Zeus to take him out?

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