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Anonymous whispered,

auhh I feel like anatomy is one of my weakest points, but I’ll try to help and point out info if I can.

I think ultimately something that’ll help is practicing from reference. Gesture drawings are good to do!  But also closely observing the body and seeing the different curves, lines, and shapes.  Understanding lighting and shadows is important in this too.

On the subject of shapes, you can also build a person from the skeleton up, so to speak! Simplifying a figure with guidelines and shapes (like circles and stick-figures) and building on top of that can prove pretty helpful as well.  I always start people/faces with guidelines so I don’t end up with an eye where the mouth should be (unless I want it that way heh)

Also, to remember that the body is full of angles! What may seem like a straight line, might really have varying, softer lines that make it up.

ok here’s my usual links to cool people waaay smarter than me X 1 billion

Simplifying Human Anatomy

Vacant’s Anatomy Notes

Anatomy Art/Ref Blog (has some inner workings photos like muscles and organs, so if that irks you…just a heads up!)

Anonymous whispered,

oh it’s perfectly fine, if I can be of help, then I’m glad!!

The artist that got me focused on coloring has gotta be PK.  I didn’t know much about color theory or choice, but I started to brush up on it after reading her tutorial. So I very much recommend that if you haven’t seen it already! It’s got a lot of information that I use too.

If you’re starting out making color schemes or you’re like me and too lazy to give much thought to it sometimes, another thing you could do is just pick a color that you like a whole lot (and that’s close to a hue involved in your subject) and just experiment with other colors you like to see if they all work well together!

Here’s a few other links and tools that I think are pretty cool!  

Palette Tutorial

6 Color scheme tools

Notes on Color Combination

Color Selection Tutorial

ladybugs-insane-wonderland whispered,

I’m sorry, I don’t know too many full face tutorials! But I’ll try and compile a few things.

Alexds1 on deviantart does have a pretty nice face and expression information type dealie, which may be helpful in the case of basics and building around.

Face Tutorial

Expression tutorial

One of my faaavorite comic artists also made a huge, very well done tutorial on expressions that I’m still trying to learn from too! It’s super great.

June (awesome person) made a really nice, easy to understand tutorial on help with face profiles, so I think that’d be handy as well!

Also, here’s a little thing with a few do’s and don’ts.

Sorry, I couldn’t be more helpful.  If anything, just observe people’s faces that you think look nice or artists who you think do a good job on certain features!

If anyone knows any other good info/tutorials, please feel free to share!

Portfolio advice

Tutorial done done done done

Anonymous whispered,

I’ll probably have to look around a bit for a good hair tutorial ahaa I’m sorry. :c

However this cloth basics tutorial by janemere is amazing. It’s quite a lot of info to take in, but I recommend going over most if not everything that she covers. In the end though, learning to render that kinda stuff is just a whole lotta experimenting and messing around yourself!

byeolibichnan:

Since I never know where to find what I’m looking for in my favorites. I’ve decided to make a master post of things I use. This is juts a small list, I have yet to search more around. [This list will be updated whenever I find new things] Maybe this will come in handy for someone, who knows.
Brushes

| brushlovers | brusheezy | designfruit | deviantart | fracturedsanity | free-brushes | getbrushes | lovelytrash | photoshoproadmap | psbrushes |

Everything

Tumbr:  | ahjussis | flawlesspsds | fuckyeahresources | fyeahphotoshop | hearitactions | love-tutorials | lovephotoshop | pscs5 |
Other: | allphotoshop | coloured_skies | photoshopfreebies | resourcenation | resourcehunter | theresourceroundup2 |

Fonts

1001FreeFonts | abstractfonts | dafont | deviantart | creamundo | fontfreak | fontspace | searchfreefonts | whatfontis |

Textures

Tumblr:  | accio-glow | businessdrunk | byeolibichnan | callmebrandon | colorscandy | colouresource | damonelenaitalia | emmahyphenjane | emmelia | felineofavenueb | fuckbees | gaystiel | gemmaarterton | halcyongillan | imtheheroine | kimigasukidatta | lookbackseeforward | loseanhour | mirand-ah | neverlands- | newmeen | northerndawn | ohmygryffindor | planets-bend-between-us |   psdjunkie | psychadeliachild | purplebass | -redux | rosebein | slayground | stormwolves | strangeness | sweettasteofbitter | thorodinsons | truesouls | veronicaglory | wicked-fate | yellowlemon |
Other: | 99mockingbirds | 100x100textures | aubedesarts | deviantart | icontextures | midnight_road | photoshop-community | resources-with-ps | sublimartdust | texturedinsanity | textures_r_us | texturize |

Themes

| 1000scientists | 30dialogues | aerou | antigones | apenas-uma-garota-imperfeita | arreter-themes | asianluv | charlove | ciaosmos | cindie | confunded | destroyerthemes | distances | duckponds | eadch | emmelia | ettudis | fezzings | fiebre-themes | firsthorsemansthemes | forenkladthemes | gyuhyuns | haru-themes | hbks | incavothemes | ixora | jbam-themes | lmthemes | maraudersthemes | northerndawn | nunmuri | officerparker | qtthemespreviews | quinni | rthemes | rtylers | sirmerlin | stillafireinme | themesbyla | themesbypolinomial |  the-redwaterfall | thingsfromhtml | tofuthemes |

Tutorials

| acrisdesign | belleprintemps | big-tutorials | blueboxer | coloring_help | icon_tutorial | imarc |  good-tutorials | psdlearning | psd.fanextra | psd.tutsplus | simplypsd | tutorialized |

PSD

| absinthefee | beautiesfromhollywood | bellepsds | brilliant-psds| byeolibichnan | caps-coloring | captainpond | cherriepiepsds | coloringmania | coloringpeople | colorscandy | delacourting |deviantart | dirrtylady | drunkandcoloring | epid-psds | fyeahpsds |getonmytardispsds | iconcoloring | miekospsds | mycolorings | ohitsmagicpsd | paintmeapsd | psdelicious | psds | psdsandactions | psdvanity | recreatemepsd | rosepsds | stillafireinme | stormwolves | truesoulpsds | yeahphotoshop |

Screencaps

| disneycaps | capslock | homeofthenutty |

Stock Photos

| dreamstime | everystockphoto | freestockphotos | smoko-stock | stock-directory | stockvault | sxc |

*Other master posts:
→acciohedwig Resources Master Post
→miekos Resources Master Post
→my-photoshop-delimma  Resource Master Post
→neverlands- Texture Master Post
→quinnqueen Photoshop Master Post
→obseo Theme Recomendation Master Post

A FUCK SHIT STACK: Handy Art Link Megapost

101 Projects for Artists and Illustrators

Texture and Color Resources

Using Real Psychology in Your Writing

x-oskeleton:

Here you go, a complete tutorial for the thing you see in THIS post! :D

To clarify some things, I understand there might have been some confusion in my saying that it was done with “ink” pens. Indeed, some of these are gel pens, but are still standard pens, just in some unusual colors. I’m in Singapore right now and there are a lot of japanese stationery, which are quite fancy; but other than the opaque white pen, these are pretty basic. There is no photoshopping involved, just a lot of smearing and rubbing and messy fingers. ^___^

The original post was indeed done while I was bored in biology class in high school; as to why I did not get caught/stopped while drawing something so elaborate, let’s just say that all of my teachers have resigned themselves to the fact that I am a doodle machine who cannot be stopped. I get awesome grades, so they can’t complain. XD

Do send me pictures if you decide to try this out, I would really LOVE to see it! If you have any questions, please direct them to my ask box~

(The end result for this one isn’t quite as pretty as in the original post; I don’t exactly have a set of rules to draw this by, so I had to figure out how to do it again. It didn’t turn out quite the same. :<)

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