Shoulder Tips
Needed this for about twenty years
fujo:
SenshiStock’s gallery consists of millions of pictures that are free to use as reference.
General Drawing Poses
Sit and Kneel
Dramatic and Reaching Drawing Poses
Magic and Hogwarts Drawing Poses
Staff Weapon Pose Reference
Hammer, Axe and Bat Pose Reference
Sword Weapon Drawing Reference
Small Bladed Weapon Pose Reference
Gun Weapon Pose Reference
Bow and Arrow Archery Stock
Foreshortening and Perspective Poses
Dynamic Flying Falling Action Poses
Deafeated or Laying Drawing Poses
Magic Crystal
Magical Girl Wand Weapon
Transformations and Dance
Cards
Back Pose Reference
Pin Up Inspired Poses for Drawing
Performances Poses
Life in General Poses
Fights and Fighting Pose Reference
Leaning Poses
Classic Sailor Senshi Poses
Wings
Sailor Moon Villains
Pairs
Romance or Couples Pose Reference
All the Male Stock
Hanging Stock Drawing Reference
Three or More Groups
Instruments
Mirrors
Whip
Technobabble
More resources for poses and references and etc. :)
Disney’s 101 Dalmatians (1961)
euniko submitted:
interesting references
Some pretty interesting fighting poses to look at, for those interested in some references. :)
because it is the bane of my existence to see artists who don’t even TRY to get bird anatomy right, when they’ll gladly put forth the effort to learn mammalian anatomy
BIRDS ARE SO EASY TO DRAW
THERE ARE NOT MANY MOVING PARTS ON THEIR FACE
NOT LIKE US SQUISHY MAMMALS
still debating if I should make my own HOW TO DRAW WINGZ ref or just link to some good ones I’ve seen, since there are a plethora of both good and god-awful tutorials out there for wings already. I’ll probs make my own because other guides neglect to mention that GASP DIFFERENT BIRDS HAVE DIFFERENT SHAPED WINGS BECAUSE THEY FLY DIFFERENTLY
THIS IS AWESOME BUT JUST ONE NOTE
Almost all birds are capable of moving their upper beak, aka prokinesis, it’s just that parrots have the most obvious degree of it. prokinesis is the movement of the beak at the point at which it is hinged to the skull of the bird.
There’s like a million different types of kinesis to do with the beak/rhamphotheca/whatever but yeah, parrots aren’t the only ones :D
I can’t find any good pictures to demonstrate but yeah, it’s present in almost all birds. Loons and ducks are good birds to look at c:
Again, not mine. But omg this is so good aaaaaaaaaah
oh oh yes please this good
Just for future ref
Working with a mannikin frame from Figure Drawing For All It’s Worth by Andrew Loomis
OMFG
(Source: busket)
From: http://animalandlifedrawing.blogspot.com/ (Martin Wittig)
This shape-based method of anatomy and design is a great shorthand for gesture drawing as well. Get that motion down real quick with only a few lines, then render it out later.
Sometimes people ask me how I draw birds and I’ve mostly learned from looking at photos, watching videos, and staring REALLY INTENTLY at actual birds, but this style of tutorial is absolutely priceless. I don’t think learning from life is necessarily the best in every case or for every person, and this’ll help me tons. Reblogging cause I hope… those of you who’ve asked me about how I draw birds… will find this super useful ; ; In particular the different layers of feathers and the bone+muscle structure under those feathers, really once you figure those two things out you’ll have a good idea of how to birds
(Source: eyecager)
Inspiration Reference
simple reference tools make a great amount of difference.
Stare at this while scrolling up and down the page.
oh wwwoooaah
helpful
Happy Birthday Gene Kelly!
(23 August 1912 - 2 February 1996)
At 14, I discovered girls. At the time, dancing was the only way you could put your arm around the girl. Dancing was courtship. Only later did I discover that you dance joy. You dance love. You dance dreams.
(Source: gregorypecks)
Golgothassterror: art post
I just went back through over 900 liked posts and dug out all the art tutorials so i can keep track of them. I guess this might be helpful to some of you guys, so here you go.
Here we go then!
Freeware
Alchemy - this is a really fun program. You play around making abstract shapes until you start to see something in them, kind of like a Rorschach test. Then you use the shapes as a base to draw it from.
MyPaint - a pretty decent painting program that also has the benefit of working on Unix systems.
openCanvas 1.1 - I haven’t used openCanvas in years but it was a nice program with a pretty unique feel to it.
ArtRage - Only used this a couple of times donkey’s years ago just before I got oC, but I’ve heard good things about it.
The GIMP - In a similar vein to Photoshop, but free. I couldn’t get on with it when I tried it out a few years ago, but it’s pretty popular and is available on Unix systems and Macs.Sketchbook copic: a bit different program
Not-free-ware
Photoshop - Standard painting fare. Probably the most flexible program (particularly the latest versions) but not designed to act in a “natural” way. If you’ve used it for painting versus something like Painter you know what I mean. Who the fuck pays for it though? Google “Photoshop tumblr masterpost” and take your pick.
Paint Tool Sai - Far more affordable and definitely worth paying for if you can. The brushes are very decent (especially when they’ve been tweaked a little), the gui is simple and intuitive, and I dare you to find a program with which making smooth lineart is easier.
Corel Painter - My program of choice for most things. More tools than you could ever possibly use and pretty cheap on a student license, providing that you can prove you’re a student! It’s got a few bugs but if you want realism or a more natural feel than PS or SAI this is the program for you.Anatomy
anatomy and rotation of the head
Expressions
emotions and facial expressions
expressions from different angles (love this site)
Poses
Skin tones
paint some life into your skin tones
Colouring
gamut mask tool (very nice!)
5 easy ways to improve your colouring
fucking gradients, how do they work
achieving a painterly look in SAI
kuler (more colour schemes)
Brushes
a very nice setting for the sai acrylic brush
photoshop fur brushes (and tutorial)
Other peoples masterposts
love your fellow artist (anything from prompt generators to animation background here, very nice)
e-books
art e-books (mediafire download)
even more e-books (including human anatomy, animal anatomy, cartoons, animation, composition, design, scenery, perspective…)
Tutorials
a pretty extensive general art tutorial
tumblrs
criminallyincompetent (check out their #reference and #tutorial tags, they’re gold)
(Source: geromykyle)
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I really like this one! Nice turning points.
the second and fourth pics are making me laugh really hard
golden, I love when there are tutorials that are like “ok, enough bullshit- draw these shapes”
(Source: referensu)
Felt like scanning a few pages from my Graphic-Sha book ‘Drawing Yaoi’ (lmao)
There’s actually a couple more clothing references in here like for shoes and gloves if anyone cares to see them (｡◕‿◕｡)
I think the yaoi fandom needs a section on how to draw hands proportionately rather than a section devoted to clothing. However this is still very good for references <3
^Agreeing with the above, but this is why I personally think that graphic-sha are the only htdm books that’re actually worth buying, imho
pants pants pants
