thelondonmag:

1. Pick an emotion to be your character’s default emotion.This will help color your character’s voice and make them more of a complete, congruent human being than a list of traits.
2. Give them something you’re insecure about. This will be your character’s internal conflict. Avoid…

norisus:

I said that I’d show some tutorials I have saved up to someone, but decided that I’d just go ahead and post most of what I have stored away and create a sort of masterpost out of it. (I figure it’ll help me just as much since, as of now, they’re all pretty scattered between my Tumblr and bookmarks)

A lot of these are hosted on my personal Tumblr, but I don’t change my url so it’s pretty safe to bookmark them there (and not have to worry about the url changing) if you don’t wish to reblog them yourself for whatever reason.

Feline tutorials:

• Basic domesticated cat tutorial
• The domestic cat body
• Improving upon (lion) anatomy
• Realistic lion faces tips
• Big cat paw tips
• Canine vs. feline - paws and legs
• Beginner feline tutorial
• Guide to big cats
• Feline comparison
• Canine vs. feline - facial anatomy
• Canine vs. feline - chest anatomy
• Guide to little cats
• Big cat eyes (could work for other eyes)

Canine tutorials:

• Basic wolf anatomy
• Skeleton notes on wolf legs
• The wolf skeleton as a whole
• The wolf skull and teeth
• Wolf paw tips
• Basic canine poses
• Canine ears and chest
• Drawing realistic wolves
• Basic wolf tutorial
• Wolf paw tutorial
• Paw pad tips
• Wolf skeleton and muscles
• Wolf fur direction
• Canine vs. feline - paws and legs
• Canine vs. feline - facial anatomy
• Canine vs. feline - chest anatomy
• And this is just an excellent DA for wolf reference images

Avian tutorials:

• Bird wing anatomy applied on humanoids
• Bird wing tutorial (lots of underrated tips)
• Varying bird wing structure
• Basic owl anatomy
• Bird wing vs. bat wing vs. pterodactyl wing vs. human arm
• Bird wings and flight
• Various bird wings

Human(oid) tutorials:

• Hand tips and reference
• Simplifying human anatomy
• Feet and shoes tutorial
• Bird wing anatomy applied on humanoids
• A guide to movement: flexibility
• A male shoulder study
• Altalamatox face tutorial 
• Male legs reference
• The human hand
• Male vs. female waist
• Excellent expressions tut
• Understanding anatomy part 1 (follow desc. links for more)
• Painting skin
• Simplifying hands
• More simplified hands
• Pose tutorial
• Varying the female figure
• Profile proportions
• Expression tutorial
• Virtual lighting studio
• Breaking up the male torso
• Male torso anatomy in use
• Simplifying the human foot
• Various facial and body shapes reference
• Drawing the nose
• Female anatomy patterns
• Human mouths
• Breaking down the human nose
• How to draw the ear
• More hand(y) tips
• Neck and torso tut
• Jawline and kissing tip
• Yet another hands tutorial
• Male torso in motion
• The human head at various angles
• Variation of colour throughout the skin
• Excellent action and couple references
• Advice on eyes
• Feet reference drawings
• Nose shapes
• The human skull and face
• Facial features
• Portrait lighting cheat sheet
• Animating dialogue (mouth movement)
• A kissing tutorial
• The fist
• Various athletic builds
• Various types of hair
• Proportional height of different positions
• Expressions photo references
• The hand in motion
• Skintone palettes
• Semi-realistic eye tutorial
• Male muscle reference
• The human body in perspective
• The human head at various angles
• Painting a realistic eye
• Arm shape and muscles
• Animal feet on a human figure
• Hand poses
• The face in profile
• Skin tutorial
• Body type diversity
• Drawing hair
• Muscles in the neck and face
• A beginner’s guide to knees
• Another ladies tutorial
• Breakdown of lips
• Blocked out human faces
• Practice figure drawing (animals as well)
• A neat arm trick
• Excellent ear anatomy tutorial
• Fullbody proportions tutorial
• Over the shoulder poses
• Male torso photo reference
• Detailed arm muscle drawings
• Guide to human types

Dragon tutorials (and bat wings):

• Anatomy of the Western dragon
• Dragon wing tips
• Dragon wing tutorial
• Dragon anatomy
• Dragon tutorial

Equine tutorials:

• Basic horse (back) reference
• The equine skeleton
• Horse anatomy and pointers
• A good, large collection of horse stock references
• Skeleton of a horse and its rider
• Horse hooves

Cervine tutorials:

• Basic deer anatomy
• Deer skeleton drawing
• Deer skull reference
• Deer musculature
• Deer skeleton

Ursine tutorials:

• Fantastic bear anatomy/poses references
• Basic bear structure
• Bear anatomy tutorial

Miscellaneous animal tutorials:

• Sheep vs. goats

Background and objects tutorials:

• Griffsnuff background tut part 1 (second in desc.)
• Tree tutorial
• Realistic gems tut
• Water tutorial
• General water tutorial
• Drawing crystals
• Drawing bows
• Painting rocks

Clothing tutorials:

• Fabric tutorial
• Clothing folds part 1 (second in desc.)
• Drawing hoods
• Drawing jeans
• Hat on human figure reference
• Armor
• More hat on figure references
• Different shirt collars
• Colour palette turtles

General painting, drawing, and style tips:

• Altalamatox digital painting walkthrough
• Simple fur tutorial
• Realism painting tutorial (human subject)
• Excellent colour tutorial
• Painting a wolf (good fur painting visual)
• Photoshop brushes tut
• Basics of Photoshop tutorial
• Another digital painting tutorial
• Common digital painting mistakes
• Colour and light
• Soft cel-shading tutorial
• Various types of hair
• Colour tips and the mood it expresses
• Composition tips
• Lighting and colour tips
• Shadows
• Another composition tut
• Simple colouring via overlay
• From paper to digital
• Painting gold

Hope these help!

kalidraws:

In the past, I’ve gotten some questions about the business of illustration & about how taxes work. Filing taxes is a bummer, but it sucks even more when you have no idea what you’re doing. After progressing from Completely Clueless to Somewhat Experienced* during the past 5 years of doing my…

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emmugh:

The Secret Door could take you anywhere in the world. Only unlike completely randomised websites that drop you in the middle of the Australian outback, it’s likely to take you somewhere really, really cool.

#narnia google

it dropped me in a mexican restaurant in tokyo.  

this shit is so surreal

It dropped me in the Dolphin Cove at SeaWorld Orlando and I got so nostalgic I had to take a walk around ; x ;

I got an artist’s apartment, an antique shop, and an enormous cave. This is easily one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen on the internet.

I don’t know what this place is but that looks suspiciously like a dead animal on the bed.

It dropped me in an abandoned office building, one that was only recently abandoned… parts of it were falling apart and then I found out it must’ve been somewhere in China, I think? I found a window and outside was all these lovely unoccupied rolling hills and trees, I was all alone, but on the other side was a few more buildings and some construction going on. I looked around, went over a walkway, found a copy machine that looked perfectly usable though most of it looked a bit unsafe, but when I eventually got to the bottom floor I left through the front doors and there were tons of flowers, these large wooden pegs with text on them, and police tape. I hope nothing bad happened :(

It dropped me in the white house :I

This is pretty rad