Wehrli takes everyday scenes of disorder and rearranges them into neat rows, sorted by different attributes such as color, size, shape, and type, etc.
THUNDERTHIGHS
Now that we’ve demonstrated that I am wildly liberal and politically angry, back to our regularly scheduled artwork. Thank you for bearing the brunt of my art block.
This is an amalgamation of two things: my need to see body diversity in art, and my recently discovered love for poster making. I never understood why ‘thunder thighs’ was an insult. It sounds powerful to me. Reminiscent of an almighty, unstoppable ruckus in the clouds, a veritable fucking rock show of giants, Bikini Kill on amps the size of mountains.
Thunder thighs, huh? I can dig it.
print available here: society6
“Top 10 Dead Giveaways of Amateur Artwork”
Haha so I’m cleaning out some crap I have in my room, and part of that includes my files from college. Most of it is worthless but there are a handful of really helpful things that I would be lost without!
…This isn’t one of them, but it sure is interesting!
This is from a book one of my teachers photocopied for us, which is a list of the “10 giveaways of amateur art” according to this writer (within comics, but a lot of it applies to illustration).It’s interesting, I think, and something I felt I should pass along (also I needed a break from digging through my stuff like a gopher).
Note that this is transcribed - with my thoughts in double parenthesis ((..)) - and that I do not have a proper source:
creepin’ through a Tumblr and found HELPFUL HINTS
From: pachurz:
Some building block references my Life Drawing teacher drew up for us for our Figure Drawing class. Thought I would impart the wisdom.
The Fukang Pallasite. Pallasites are a type of iron meteorite, quite rare, made out of large olivine crystals in an iron-nickel matrix. Olivine is a a magnesium iron silicate quite common in our planet’s subsurface, but which weathers fast when exposed to the surface. An anonymous finder recovered a 1003 kg specimen near Fukang, China in 2000. These extra-terrestrial gemstones mirror the stellar beauty of the cosmos. The Fukang Pallasite is a specimen that clearly out shines all meteorites of its class. See more photos here.
i love this fukang pallasite
gimme that
That’s one fukang nice looking pallasite.
this-will-straighten-those-curls:
DISCLAIMER: Boobies can vary in maany different shapes and sizes, both natural and fake boobies. The illustrations shown does not promise this goes for every single boobie out there. But it should cover most boobies. NOW GO DRAW BOOBIES<3
(well except the one about gravity - I am very sure about that one at least.)
my references: My own boobies, many life drawing studies, hentai and porn.
I need this so bad >_> Boobies are hard to draw. And I have a pair.
what, no jokes about the boob physics in anime?
Anime boob physics is terrifying. This, however, is a very good guide. xD
Watch me reblog this post about boobs with some very academic-sounding tags. /pokerface
NEED PLZ.
“A Beastly Family Ride” by spicysteweddemon
This is so beautiful, I love it. ;v;
I really like that the chillins are all beastly. Normally something that ignores big facts like Beast goin’ all peopely at the end would bug me but I much prefer Beast to Adam so YAYYYY ALL RIGHT BY ME
DON’T JOIN SHOPAXE
Or “How I Learned To Keep Worrying and Love Reading Fine Print”
This morning I received a very pleasant, complimentary note from a group on deviantART supporting a site called SHOPAXE, which is supposed to be something like deviantART but more professional. I was asked if I would be interested in joining their site, most particularly posting my portfolio there to help bolster numbers while they get off the ground. I’m always up for helping new sites get their running shoes on (I do web design partially for this exact reason) so I checked it out.
The first thing I noticed was how disorganized the front page seems to be, followed by the running ticker of things people have recently bought. So this is a commercial based site rather than a community based one, that’s fine. I read through their information, and found no mention of intellectual rights, commercial usage, etc, so I went looking for their Terms of Service. Like most sites, it’s at the veeeery bottom of the page, in the tiny tiny links along the footer.
Overall the terms seemed fairly normal (you must own copyright to everything you post, no theft or plagiarism, etc) until I got to the clause titled “Use of Information and Member Content.” This is what I was looking for.
And this, folks, is why I ALWAYS read the fine print.
I’m going to break this down.We reserve the right, and you authorize us, to the use and assignment of all of your information and Member Content regarding your use of our Website, Service, or Products in any manner consistent with our Privacy Policy.
SHOPAXE can tell people about how you use their website, according to the terms in their privacy policy. (I didn’t bother reading the policy, but I’m sure it’s worth a look given the rest of this clause.)All remarks, suggestions, ideas, graphics, Member Content, or other information communicated by you to us (collectively, “Submission”) is considered assigned to us and is as such considered our property.
If you upload something to SHOPAXE, they own it.
But wait, you say, doesn’t deviantART have a similar clause, for use in advertising, Daily Deviation selection, etc? Yes, yes they do. What deviantART’s terms lack, however, is the following.To the extent that such Submission contains copyrighted, either owned by you or licensed to you, you grant Shopaxe a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, world-wide license to use such Submission as we see fit, in any form whether on our Website or elsewhere. We will not be required to treat any Submission as confidential, and will not be liable for any ideas (including without limitation, product, service or advertising ideas) and will not incur any liability as a result of any similarities that may appear in our Service or other operations.
If you submit something to SHOPAXE, not only do they have the right to use the image however they want, but they can also copy the concept if they like it, and there is nothing you can do about it. That logo you created for a local company? It’s pretty cool, and they want to make something identical for their own use. Because of this clause, they are allowed. There is nothing you can do.Without limitation, we will have exclusive ownership of all present and future existing rights to the Submission of every kind and nature everywhere. We will be entitled to use the Submission for any commercial or other purpose whatsoever, without compensation to you or any other person sending the Submission. You acknowledge that you are responsible for whatever material you submit, and you, not us, have full responsibility for the message, including its legality, reliability, appropriateness, originality, and copyright.
Emphasis mine.
They can use your work, sell your work, do whatever they want with your work, and they neither have to compensate nor notify you that they’re doing it. Furthermore, you’re the one who maintains the legal responsibility of the piece, meaning if they put something into print that contains copyrighted material (eg: fanart, commercial fonts, etc) and get sued for it, the artist is the one responsible for handling the suit. The artist, who might not even know that their piece has been used commercially, will be the one to go to court over it.
This is why it’s so important to always, ALWAYS read the ToS on a new creative works site you’re joining.Reblogging with full text, as I feel this post raises some EXTREMELY important points for all artists who post their work on the web.
Most of us are conditioned to gloss over the ToS of the sites we join. Most of the time it’s pretty innocuous and just covers the company’s ass, and you know you’re pretty safe with big, well-known corporations like Google or Blizzard.
But not everyone is Google or Blizzard.
Some newer, lesser known companies, such as the above, may use the ToS to slip in clauses that doesn’t just protect them, but allows them to take advantage of their users. As the author pointed out, Deviant Art does have some sections in their ToS that allows them to use anything you submit for a very limited, specific set of purposes. Your rights as an artist, however, are still fairly well protected.
This company strips artists of their rights, but manages to leave them with legal responsibilities at the same time, and does so in an underhanded way. They know 99% of the people who sign up won’t bother to read the fine print. Even if they don’t exercise these clauses over you, the fact that they exist is pretty terrifying!
So please, before you post your artwork ANYWHERE on the web that’s not on your own personal hosting, read the Terms of Service!
e1n:
MAGICAL PHOTOSHOP FILTER THAT MAKES PERSPECTIVE GRIDS FOR YOU
Okay, maybe people know about this for awhile already, but I just discovered it last night when I was copy pasting something and instead of pressing Ctrl+V, I hit Ctrl+Alt+V.
Best things tend to happen by accident.
(Except maybe pregnancies, but even that’s arguable)
arty masterpost
(Sorry this is so long, tumblr won’t let me un-indent all the things without messing the hyperlinks up BLUH. So press J to skip.)
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.
Some of these were gutted from posts where the original was deleted and so can’t be linked to in the masterpost list - especially one by Tumblr user melkh who has since either deleted or changed their url, so props to them.
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.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)
good post, add it to your likes
Daily reference post that may stretch your dashboard: Perspective #YoungArtistProblem
There aren’t enough of these floating around on Tumblr, I think..so I found some on DeviantArt that seemed very helpful.
I’m going to give them a whirl myself once I finish my school work! (School gets in the way of art, GO FIGURE)
Here we go~!:
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http://www.deviantart.com/users/outgoing?http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studio
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Foreshortening references!
Let’s Draw Foreshortening apart of the Let’s Draw series by Kxhara.
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SO IN CONCLUSION,
seriously guys..go check out this gallery. The stock is incredible there.
INCREDIBLE.
Go see for yourself and see if you see anything you like!
ART HELP
Okay. I am in a rut. Like, a bad one.
So I need some help!
All I can really see in my drawings are their flaws, and I’m obviously not doing things correctly, so it’s hard for me to figure out what exactly is wrong and how to fix it.
So if anyone has some advice, that would be lovely! Mostly problem areas you might’ve noticed. Aside from color. Because I know very well I can’t color for shit.
If you need to peruse the eyesores I call art, there are tags here and here. Thank you for any help (or even looking, really).
Ending with a question mark so it can be answerable!
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Since i know i wouldn’t even have the patience to do this unless i made something fancy like this. I’m in an art slump and it’s time to get over it, and if you want, you can do this thing with me.
The point of this isn’t to make a fantastic piece of art every day, it’s to experiment in areas you are uncomfortable with and try out new things.
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Art reference masterposts: X X (trust me, that will be more than enough)
Great art reference tumblrs: X X X X X
Inspiration: Animeclay | fyeahmonochromeart | theartofanimation | conceptartworld | creativeuncut | fuckyeahillustrativeart
Other fun/helpful things for ideas/my favorites: color-palettes | strike a pose | pixel art tutorials | colorshipping | monster boy/girl generator | art reference wiki | links of inspiration and advice
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Phew! Anyway I hope this little project will help. You don’t have to do it for 30 days or anything, you dont even have to do it at all, I just hope it’ll give you a little inspiration to improve!
Lily, OUT.
EDIT: I made a group for it, you can submit images you do for this challenge here!
Prolly gonna do this next month!
