ART HELP

Hey all! Proud to announce that a project I've designed/wrote/storyboarded/directed at Make is finally ramping up to release. Check out the trailer!

Drawing for beginners MASTERPOST: My favorite websites with FREE Art lessons 

ArtGraphica.net (learn to paint,draw & sketch)

ArtyFactory.com (art lessons)

artists.pixelovely.com (lessons & tips)

ctrlpaint.com (digital painting)

DrawSpace.com (from basic to advance)

Draw23.com (video tutorials)

LearningAnatomy.tumblr.com (anatomy)

PaintDrawPaint.com  (learn drawing basics)

TomsClassNotes.com

Developing a character is about making them seem more like a real person, and real people are flawed. Real people make mistakes. They repeat mistakes. They do things other people don't agree with. Real people are more than just 'good' or 'bad' and character development is about showing all of those other aspects of them.

Their interests and hobbies. The song that gets stuck in their head. The fact that their vacuum broke 3 months ago and they haven't gotten it fixed yet. All of those details help build out the character and develop them more.

1) Disillusionment arc - a naïve character is enamored by an ideal world which is revealed to them, by the climax of the story, to be ugly and corrupt

Examples: Nick from The Great Gatsby, Javert from Les Miserables, Galinda from Wicked (on Broadway), Eiji from Banana Fish

2) Fall arc - character starts off in a negative place, and they’re offered a glimpse of what life could be like in the light but they ultimately reject it to stay in the dark - this rejection of the light is often to remain in a comfortable negative belief or delusion that’s often borne from trauma

Examples: Teddy from Shutter Island, Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights, Sasuke from Naruto (most of shippuden until the ending deux ex machina), Ellie from The Last of Us 2, Walter White from Breaking Bad, Ash Lynx from Banana Fish

3) Corruption arc - character starts knowing and believing in the “right path”, and as the story progresses, they stray from that path when their resolve is tested. They’re offered opportunities to return to the light but ultimately choose darkness - this rejection of the light is often out of anger, a need for revenge, or a hunger for power

Examples: Anakin from Star Wars (Episodes I-III), Voldemort from Harry Potter, Sasuke from Naruto (pre-Shippuden), Eren from Shingeki no Kyojin (tho there’s still potential for a plot twist)

While a negative change arc can paint a character as evil, this is often not their intent, and similar to what OP said, character arcs are meant to show backstory so that motivation in the current story is believable irrespective of how moral that motivation is. These types of arcs are usually tragedies, and often meant to be cautionary tales, but also the realistic outcomes and consequences of abuse, oppression, trauma, etc. In some cases, this technique is used in longer series to show a character’s descent into darkness before a redemption arc later on in their chronological story.

If you want to read stories where the character improves (often, but not always morally; it’s a discovery plot at its heart) then you’ll want to look at positive change arcs. These include redemption arcs.

If you’re looking for a story where the character changes the world around them (often a positive moral lesson, but this is not always the case, and may be a moral that the protagonist carries) then you’ll want to look at flat character arcs, aka “Testing Plot”.

Anger:

Grinding teeth

Narrowing eyes

Yelling

A burning feeling in the chest

Heavy breathing

Unjustified or justified accusations towards other characters

Jerky movements

Glaring

Violence

Stomping

Face reddening

Snapping at people

Sadness:

Lack of motivation

Messy appearance

Quiet

Slow movements

Crying

Inability to sleep

Frowning

Red eyes

Isolating oneself

Fatigue

Not concentrating

Character Ideas:

Character creation masterpost

Character Alignment Chart

More character alignment descriptions

Muslim Character questions

Characters with magical powers

Building a new character advice

How to create a character for an online or tabletop RPG (also a good guide on creating characters in general)

Royalty/nobility TV Tropes page

Basic character profile

OC masterpost

Random character generators - (1), (2), (3), (4)

D&D Character Building Tool

Character Design Ideas:

How clothing affects a character’s personality

Character Design Inspiration blog

Concept art, fan art, cool art to be inspired by

Character design references and inspiration

Sources for POC character design ideas and models

Create your own character model using HeroForge

For horned characters

Body and hair types guide

Random outfit generator

Naming Help:

Amazing site with an endless amount of naming resources

General advice on avoiding naming appropriation

Hispanic Surnames

Gothic Victorian names

Huge master list for character things in general

Masterlist of names of all types - including but not limited to ancient/old world names, Celtic, African, Northern European, Southern and Central American Native names, Japanese, Chinese, Mongolian, Polynesian, and more

Another name masterlist

How to pick a character name guide

Yet another names masterlist

Creating Background/backstory:

Character Sheet/Development Sheet

Another character development list

In-depth character personality, motivations and traits sheet

320 talents and passions for characters

On writing likes and dislikes that aren’t frivolous

Why you should write non-human characters non-conforming to the gender binary

Stereotypes, tropes, and archetypes

Random backstory generator

Assassin and thief character tropes to avoid

Character Interactions and putting your character into your world/story:

Comparing character height/height references

Characters who are scientists and writing about them doing science

Describing what different voices sound like

Describing skin tones

Writing friendship interactions that are platonic

Why having one character knock their friend unconscious to prevent them from doing something is a bad idea

Advice on shipping OCs with canon characters and what to avoid doing

Sweet Polly Oliver and Sweet on Polly Oliver situations (think of Disney’s Mulan for an example)

How to write multiple viewpoints/juggling a main cast of more than 4 to 6 characters

How to make readers care about your morally gray hero/anti-hero

On platonic OC and canon character relationships

How to avoid Godmodding in RPs

When it’s cheap to kill off a character

Writing dialogue

Things you shouldn’t do to canon characters

Avoiding purple prose in writing and RPs

Slang resources

Dialogue tips

Websites to chart your story/plot/character relationships

100 words for facial expressions

100 words to describe someone’s body

240 Words to Describe Someone’s Tone/Voice

A list of body language words

Build a character

Character Design

Character development

Cheat sheet for writing emotions

Feelings chart

Feelings word list

Heroes to Villain, A Guide

How not to kill off the parents

Resources for describing characters

Resources for describing physical things

Words to describe body type and shape

Words to describe facial expressions

Words to describe someone’s voice

Words for Skin Tone | How to Describe Skin Color

Writer’s Guide to Mary Sues and How to Murder Them

If you’re coming to this list from a reblog, please click through to the original post as it may be updated with more content!

Please note I haven’t read everything on this list, so I can’t speak to all it contains/ accuracy, ya dig?

Writing a Blind or Visually Impaired Character by @mimzy-writing-online​

Resources For Writing Deaf, Mute, or Blind Characters by @thecaffeinebookwarrior​

Writing Sign Language F.A.Q by @concerningwolves​

Words for Skin Tone | How to Describe Skin Color by @writingwithcolor​

Words to Describe Hair by @writingwithcolor​

So You Want Your OC to be Jewish by @bailey-writes​

-

Body Language Cheat Sheet for Writers from @theinformationdump​

Cheat Sheet for Writing Emotion by @thewriterswitch​

How to Write a Realistic Argument by @she-who-fights-and-writes​

How to write softness by @oriorwriter​

Writing villains / villains motivations by @the-modern-typewriter​

Personality traits/flaws by @rivalwrites​

Writing Consent - written for The Witcher fandom but the advice is actually general, by @hailhailsatan​

How to Write Characters in Realistic Polyamorous Relationships - by @simplyoriginalcharacters​

How to Write OCs With Trauma

Writing Enemies to Lovers by @pianowritesstuff​

How to write a kiss

-

Resources For Writing Sketchy Topics by @wordsnstuff​

Resources for Writing Injuries by @wordsnstuff​

Writing Advice - On Arrow Wounds by @salt-and-a-dash-of-pepper​

Fainting and Losing Your Consciousness for Writers by @artistsfuneral​

What it Feels Like to be Punched in the Face by @burn-brighter-than-fire​

Symptoms of dying that aren’t coughing up blood

MC going “no pain medication, I don’t want to cloud my mind” is ableist (and possibly nonsense) 

-

Sword Fighting for Fic Writers by @clockadile

Archery info by @mikiri

Video going over “homoerotic potential” of armour - if one character helps another with their armour, what parts are sexy/have kiss potential? (video)

Plate armour is noisy (video)

Horse info 101 by @thecomfortofoldstorries

Fantasy Guide to Employment: Household of a Castle by @inky-duchess

On servant liveries by @sartorialadventure

Info on medieval castles, handedness and weaponry 

About blacksmiths by @rederiswrites , @cycas​ & @ilsa-fireswan

Tips & Info from Bartenders by @floramaisel , @luimnigh & @thecomfortofoldstorries

Useful Geographical Descriptors for Writers by @octoswan​

-

Thoughts on werewolf instincts

Emotionally influenced magical talents that give all developing relationships that Good Urban Fantasy Flavour by @laurasimonsdaughter​

-

Words you can use in place of “said,’ and an argument for using it

Deleting the words feel/felt/feeling from your writing by @theliteraryarchitect​

Narrative Anchors: How to hold your readers’ attention, wherever you take them by @michaelbjorkwrites​

Tips for writing two characters with the same pronouns together

Dialogue Punctuation by @whatagrump​

Categories of Plot Twists by @your-fluffy-murder-writer​

-

How to swear in latin

French Youngster Slang by @frenchy-french​

Translators: tumblrs that have offered to help translate phrases etc list by @therogueheart​

Common Language in fantasy by @thequantumwritings​

-

on poetry

-

Prompts & Tropes, Oh my! by me

-

Writing with ADHD (by a writer w/ adhd) by @heywriters

Writing advice: write badly! Just write by various users

Writing advice from my uni teachers by @thewritingumbrellas 

Tips for writing/getting back into it by @thewalkingnerdx​

Writing advice from Chuck Palahniuk

Thoughts on writing from Joan Didion & rupi kaur

Posting and Formatting:

Writing a Summary by @rjeddystone​

Making your paragraph breaks screen-reader-friendly by @therogueheart​ , video on the same by @ao3commentoftheday​

Tips for writers posting on Tumblr & AO3 by a few of us

Further tips re: posting on AO3 by @jenroses​

Fun formatting things you can do on AO3! by @rosemoonweaver​

Content Warnings & Tagging on Tumblr by @hailhailsatan​

Notes on Fandom, Fanfic & Fanart as well as a bit about tagging on Tumblr by @inber​ & @limerental​

Don’t talk down your writing by @insomniac-arrest​

How to block Anon Hate on Tumblr by @geraltrogerericduhautebellegarde

- -

If you have rec’s please send them my way!

- -

Click here to download the brushset!

!! ART TUTORIAL !!

This is my first real attempt at doing a walkthrough for one of my landscapes, I’d really appreciate some feedback!

it is pretty much my workflow process, there’s always something slightly big to change during render I should have solved earlier!

Absent: preoccupied 

Agonized: as if in pain or tormented

Alluring: attractive, in the sense of arousing desire

Appealing: attractive, in the sense of encouraging goodwill and/or interest

Beatific: blissful

Black: angry or sad, or hostile

Bleak: hopeless

Blinking: surprise, or lack of concern

Blithe: carefree, lighthearted, or heedlessly indifferent

Brooding: anxious and gloomy

Bug eyed: frightened or surprised

Chagrined: humiliated or disappointed

Cheeky: cocky, insolent

Cheerless: sad

Choleric: hot-tempered, irate

Darkly: with depressed or malevolent feelings

Deadpan: expressionless, to conceal emotion or heighten humor

Despondent: depressed or discouraged

Doleful: sad or afflicted

Dour: stern or obstinate

Dreamy: distracted by daydreaming or fantasizing

Ecstatic: delighted or entranced

Faint: cowardly, weak, or barely perceptible

Fixed: concentrated or immobile

Gazing: staring intently

Glancing: staring briefly as if curious but evasive

Glazed: expressionless due to fatigue or confusion

Grim: fatalistic or pessimistic

Grave: serious, expressing emotion due to loss or sadness

Haunted: frightened, worried, or guilty

Hopeless: depressed by a lack of encouragement or optimism

Hostile: aggressively angry, intimidating, or resistant

Hunted: tense as if worried about pursuit

Jeering: insulting or mocking

Languid: lazy or weak

Leering: sexually suggestive

Mild: easygoing

Mischievous: annoyingly or maliciously playful

Pained: affected with discomfort or pain

Peering: with curiosity or suspicion

Peeved: annoyed

Pleading: seeking apology or assistance

Quizzical: questioning or confused

Radiant: bright, happy

Sanguine: bloodthirsty, confident

Sardonic: mocking

Sour: unpleasant

Sullen: resentful

Vacant: blank or stupid looking

Wan: pale, sickly

Wary: cautious or cunning

Wide eyed: frightened or surprised

Withering: devastating

Wrathful: indignant or vengeful