criminallyincompetent:

This is my 3000th post, and rather than have it go by without a passing glance, I will instead use it to help YOU, MY LOVELY FOLLOWERS, by giving you references for and tutorials on how to draw a whole lotta dicks.

TUTORIAL 1
TUTORIAL 2
DRAWN REFERENCE SHEET 1
DRAWN REFERENCE SHEET 2
LIVE REFERENCE SHEET (on the various states of erection)

All of this is obviously very NSFW, so take a quick glance around to see if anyone’s within peeping distance of your monitor before popping these babies open.

And, of course, ENJOY.~

sixmilliondeadinternets:

A.K.A. “Pato is autistic and shows off his massive collection of saved links”

Have a seat, get a cup of coffee and sit through this. Hopefully you won’t regret it. This is mostly about illustration, by the way.

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FREQUENTLY ASKED BULLSHIT

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• “WHICH TABLET SHOULD I BUY?”

Get the cheapest shit available. If you’re in America/Europe a Wacom Bamboowhatever apparently does the trick. If you’re anywhere else get the cheaper-end Genius ones because Wacom tablets are expensive in every place that’s not the first world. Getting a $600 tablet will not make you magically improve and it’s a goddamn waste of money. Too poor for tablets? Start with a damn pencil.

• “POORFAG HERE, CAN’T AFFORD PHOTOSHOP/SAI, WHAT THE FUCK DO I DO?”

This is the Internet, pirate the shit out of them! Here’s a list of freeware programs you could use, because pirating is bad, mkay.

For general illustration:

• GIMP - Non-shitty, open-source Photoshop Clone.
• Paint.NET - If you are somehow too dumb for Photoshop clones here’s something easy to use.
• Flowpaint - Even simpler.
• Inkscape - Apparently good for things like vector art.
• Artweaver - Get the free version which kind of sucks but otherwise decent.
• Chibipaint - Sounds weeaboo as fuck The best thing out there for oekaki, or so they say.
• Will add more as I find them.

For 3D modelling and such:

• Sculptris - 3D sculpting for dummies

More links coming SOON! (Soon: Duke Nukem Forever).

• “I’M TOO MUCH OF A FAILURE I WILL NEVER IMPROVE”

Spoilers: Improvement will take a long time, specially more if you’re self-taught. Improvement requires dedication and consistenct in your learning. Don’t expect to get great if you’ve just started, and don’t expect greatness in the first year or so either. Save the shit you draw so in the future you can notice that progress has indeed been made.

If you still think you’ll never improve just look at this and realize how wrong you are. Now, if you think you’ll instantly be as cool as that guy, look at this and realize that you still have a long way to go.

• “I HAVE ARTIST’S BLOCK WHAT DO”

Artist’s Block is a very complicated thing but the underlying reason is either lack of creativity, acedia or just a towering pile of bullshit. The best way to treat it is to take up theoretical drawing (anatomy studies, for example) and treat it as a chore. If you need ideas look for the Ideas Generators section below.

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NOW, ONTO THE ACTUAL LIST THING.

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All links taken without permission but I’m sure nobody minds a bit of publicity.

BOOKS

• /ic/’s Recopilation - A 4.2GB books torrent. FUCKING GET IT. (The torrent description also has a list for more books, check those out too)
• Another comprehensive torrent - This one is over 5GB. It’s literally considered the Holy Grail and you should also get this if you can.
• Conceptart’s Recopilation - More art books.
• Why can’t I, hold all these books? - ~75 more books yo.
• LOOMIS LOOMIS LOOMIS LOOMIS
• The New Drawing on The Right Side of the Brain - A must have in artsyfartsyfaggy circles. It’s also in the torrents.
• Burne Hogarth’s Dynamic Anatomy - Pretty sure it’s in the torrents but I know somebody will ask for it separately.
• Eliot Goldfinger’s Human Anatomy For Artists - Another well-known book about anatomy.
• MORE BOOKS JESUS CHRIST WHERE ARE THEY COMING FROM 
• OKAY THESE ARE THE LAST BOOKS I’LL LINK I SWEAR

This is actually more than enough to get you started when it comes to getting books. Saying that the amount of books here is FUCKING MASSIVE would be an understatement.

A PRACTICAL APPROACH TO GESTURE DRAWING

• The Drawing Script - Selects from a database random images of animals, people, scenery, faces, etc.
• Figure & Gesture Drawing Tool - Read above.
• Posemaniacs - Poses IN ASTONISHING 3D MOFOS. Apparently criticized for not showing correct muscle movement, but otherwise okay for static stuff.
• Keep this in mind while gesture drawing.

Simple practice method for the aimless artfag: Open any of the first two links, and choose a distinct category (For example, faces). Tell it to switch every 10 minutes if possible; else, get a timer. Fire it up and start drawing what you see. The idea is that you should stop after 10 minutes and move onto the next one, no matter how incomplete it is. Repeat until your art gets showcased in the Louvre.

COLOR THEORY AND MISCELLANEOUS COLORING FOR THE MASSES

• Mandatory Conceptart.com link about Color Theory - These guys are so awesome I can’t even begin to explain.
• The Dimensions of Colour - Light, shade, and COLORS explained in a non-horrible yet convoluted way.
• Light and Color by Itchy Animation - Perhaps not as convoluted as the one above. Still decent. 
• How I see color - Not mine, obviously. A quite lengthy dA tutorial in Flash.
• Example dA way on coloring - Needs some knowledge about Photoshop.
• Coloring Tutorial@dA - Read above, this one is much more comprehensive and pretty.
• Color is Value - Handy as a tips reference, not much else really.
• Celshading for weeaboos by weeaboos - COMIC SAAAAAAAANS
• And yet another Coloring Tutorial! 
• Color Scheme picker - If you’re too dumb to pick colors this does the job.

ANATOMY AND GENERAL HUMAN BODY STUFF

• Drawing the Head - Ron Lemen at (obviously!) Conceptart.com.
• HANDS HANDS HANDS at Posemaniac - FUCKING HANDS HOW DO THEY WORK
• Dragon Paint Art Tutorials: Human Body - A quick, yet extremely incomplete nosedive into drawing the body.
• The Big Guide into Drawing the Body - A technical kick in the balls, yet comprehensive enough.
• Basic pose and construction in Figure Drawing - Conceptualizes the shape of the body from stickfigures to 3D shapes and then holy dongs it’s a human body.
• Kitten-chan’s Body Tutorial - Don’t let the name fool you.
• Understanding Anatomy - The “Anatomy for Dummies” of deviantArt. Must see.
• I’ve got to Hand it to you - Great hand tutorial based on the concept of drawing organic figures out of 3D shapes.
• Muscles!
• How do I drawed hair lol - Hardly complete or good, but decent as a quick guide.

PERSPECTIVE

• Why can’t I hold all these Conceptart.com threads - Great to test waters in the wonders of perspective.
• Perspective and Composition - dA tutorials, dA tutorials errywhere.
• Perspective by Sashas - THE TUTORIALS WILL NEVER STOP THE TUTORIALS WILL NEVER STOP

GENERAL REFERENCES

• /hr/@4chan - High resolution images. We’re all grownups here, so you shouldn’t worry about tits.
  
• Photo Reference for Comic Artists - Self-explanatory.
• Senshistock@dA - A deviantArt account just for the sake of uploading references for the glorious proletariat.
• Tasastock@dA - Pretty much the same as above.
• Metlys@dA - Ditto.
• Tursiart@dA - Ditto, more oriented at medieval stuff.
• /ic/’s reference collection - Recopilaception.
• Artsyposes - POSES POSES POSES
• Lackadaisy’s Expressions - Cats or no cats, this is extremely handy.
• Lockstock@dA - Nude references and shit.
• Nude pics errwhere

LOOSE BUNCH OF VARIOUS CRAP

• /ic/ Thread 1 - Collection of tutorial images.
• /ic/ Thread 2 - Humongous thread with a crapload of links. A must-see.
• Manga to Realistic (dA) - A Twelve-Part walkthrough that dips your toes into realistic illustrations aimed at people with a weeaboo background.

GENERAL ART WEBSITES AND TUTORIALS

• /ic/’s Resource Site - To be honest most of the stuff in here was taken from this place, but there’s also a pile full of more useful things there so check it out too.
• Iconnucrit’s Resources - Down at the time of this writing, but decent from what I remember.
• How to Draw 123 - Too much information doesn’t hurt I guess.
• Oh Conceptart you card - So many tutorials!
• Improvement Center @ dA - Gallery of things that will help you… well, improve.
• Tutorial House @ dA - Read above.
• Stanislav Prokopenko’s Tutorials - Guy’s an instructor or something. 

ILLUSTRATION TECHNIQUES

• The Penciling Tutorial - A quite famous tutorial on “how do I penciled lol”
• Lineart by Sashas - This guy is bloody famous or something.
• How to Speedpaint - I don’t quite agree with this but it seems to work for others.

TEXTURES, BRUSHES AND ALL THAT JAZZ

• CG Textures - Massive collection of free textures. Also tutorials.

IDEA GENERATORS

• /r/sketchdaily@Reddit - A new idea to draw everyday.
• Just go here and pick one of the links.

ART COMMUNITIES

• Conceptart.com - These guys are fucking sweet.
• DeviantArt - Well, think about it. It is an art community after all.

crisontumblr:

So I was traipsing through files and things that I have on my computer and came across this list of 100 themes. I think it’s from DeviantART; these sorts of things were/are popular there. Anyway. Figure that maybe I could try and do these as an exercise. Maybe not daily, but…y’know. Definitely do them in chronological order, just straight off my head with little editing or worrying how it is, and post each to Tumblr. This way I get some writing done and you all get readings.

And then maybe when it’s all done I can thoroughly edit them and put them into a book or something, but that’s a far-reaching goal. Right now I just need the writing exercise. I’ve been liking what I’ve been putting out lately (fic included) but at the same time I don’t feel like I’m really being… I dunno. I feel a little stuck. :\

Anyway. The list!

1. Introduction
2. Love
3. Light
4. Dark
5. Seeking Solace
6. Break Away
7. Heaven
8. Innocence
9. Drive
10. Breathe Again
11. Memory
12. Insanity
13. Misfortune
14. Smile
15. Silence
16. Questioning
17. Blood
18. Rainbow
19. Gray
20. Fortitude
21. Vacation
22. Mother Nature
23. Cat
24. No Time
25. Trouble Lurking
26. Tears
27. Foreign
28. Sorrow
29. Happiness
30. Under the Rain
31. Flowers
32. Night
33. Expectations
34. Stars
35. Hold My Hand
36. Precious Treasure
37. Eyes
38. Abandoned
39. Dreams
40. Rated
41. Teamwork
42. Standing Still
43. Dying
44. Two Roads
45. Illusion
46. Family
47. Creation
48. Childhood
49. Stripes
50. Breaking the Rules
51. Sport
52. Deep in Thought
53. Keeping a Secret
54. Tower
55. Waiting
56. Danger Ahead
57. Sacrifice
58. Kick in the Head
59. No Way Out
60. Rejection
61. Fairy Tale
62. Magic
63. Do Not Disturb
64. Multitasking
65. Horror
66. Traps
67. Playing the Melody
68. Hero
69. Annoyance
70. 67%
71. Obsession
72. Mischief Managed
73. I Can’t
74. Are You Challenging Me?
75. Mirror
76. Broken Pieces
77. Test
78. Drink
79. Starvation
80. Words
81. Pen and Paper
82. Can You Hear Me?
83. Heal
84. Out Cold
85. Spiral
86. Seeing Red
87. Food
88. Pain
89. Through the Fire
90. Triangle
91. Drowning
92. All That I Have
93. Give Up
94. Last Hope
95. Advertisement
96. In the Storm
97. Safety First
98. Puzzle
99. Solitude
100. Relaxation