Leo's Big List Of Art Resources and Art Tips
yes, a new list

Hello, my fellow spritans.
As I know, not many of you draw, but I know some of you are drawing/painting or want to do it soon. This is the topic that is going to list almost everything art-related. I'm a weird person that spends most of the time on the web trying to find useful resources. I'm going to share all of the stuff I have carefully discovered in the deep parts of the webz. Nothing too hard to find, but eh whatever. I like to help you lazy people out there.

With that being said, enjoy.


RED means the link is broken.
BLUE means that it's online.

Blogs and other sites

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John K. Stuff - want to know more about cartoons? Want to learn how to draw cartoons the way they're supposed to be? Well, this blog is everything you need (not everything, but a big chunk of stuff is available here). Take his personal opinions with a grain of salt, though. http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com Or John K.'s tutorial blog. http://johnkcurriculum.blogspot.com Drawing Tutorials Online Blog http://www.drawing-tutorials-online-blog.com/ Escape From Illustration Island http://escapefromillustrationisland.com/ Bob Camp's blog - Full of useful stuff aswell. In the link, one of his posts about drawing. http://bobcampcartoonist.blogspot.com/2007/10/blog-post.html Learning to see - This link leads to a post talking about Loomis's method to draw a head, but there's other stuff in the blog as well. http://www.learning-to-see.co.uk/head-construction Stanislav Prokopenko's blog - Tutorials, man. TUTORIALS. http://www.stanprokopenko.com/blog/category/tutorials Tom Richmond's MAD Blog - A cartoonist for the mad magazine, has tutorials on caricatures http://www.tomrichmond.com/blog/category/tutorials/ Comicrazys - Not only they have tons of comic scans, but they also have the Famous Artists Cartoon Course. A must-have if you're into cartoons. http://comicrazys.com/category/famous-artists-cartoon-course/ Pete Emslie - Besides being an inspiration with his cartoony and appealing work, there's some notes he has on his blog. http://cartooncave.blogspot.com/search/label/tutorial Rad how to - Rad Sechrist's notes about drawing. His stuff is a bit too Disney-oriented (well, at least his cartoon stuff) so take it with a grain of salt if you're not into Disney that much. http://radhowto.blogspot.com Comic Tools - Tutorials and Interviews. For me, the most useful posts were the ones about anatomy. Check these in the sidebar. http://comictool.blogspot.com Michael Hampton's site - Full of images concerning his methods on drawing the human figure http://figuredrawing.info/index.php Austin Kleon - In the link, a post about some stuff that he learned out of art school http://www.austinkleon.com/2011/03/30/how-to-steal-like-an-artist-and-9-other-things-nobody-told-me Drawn - Blog focused on Illustration, animation, cartooning and comic art. http://blog.drawn.ca And the archives with older content http://drawn.ca/archive Temple of the Seven Golden Camels - Blog that has tons of notes, tutorials and other useful stuff about storyboards, animation, film making and drawing. http://sevencamels.blogspot.com/ Bob Flynn - Here, besides seeing his drawings (great stuff btw), there's a few notes and other stuff. And he draws his stuff in....FLASH! *GASP* http://bobjinx.blogspot.com Design Lessons - A blog I found a while ago that has some stuff on design and anatomy. http://designlesson.blogspot.com Analytical Figure Drawing - blog with notes about figure drawing http://analyticalfiguresp08.blogspot.com/ Paintovers by Greg Pro - Some paintovers he did for the critique section at ConceptArt.org http://www.gregpro-artist.com/?page_id=6 scrabble down the hallways yelling yahtzee - Art tumblr. Isn't a collection though, and in the link there's some stuff concerning the basics of gesture drawing. http://hospitalvespers.tumblr.com/post/8712840616/gesture-drawing-basics

Threads and other texts

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Mentler's Book of Bones thread on Conceptart.org - I learned so much just by looking at his drawings, let alone the text http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=26748 What is exactly a gesture drawing? http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=52023 Wetcanvas tutorials - there's many more if you look around http://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=cfc9ae048172ff5f85f489daaaeb0fd0&f=439 Hundreds of free E-books http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=131116 Ron Lemen's Tutorials on Conceptart.org http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=14119 http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=17837 http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=84105 Using photo reference correctly http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=123346 Yoitisi Island - The basics http://www.conceptart.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=146 Journey of an Absolute Rookie - You can see from start to finish the progress of a dude that wasn't drawing too well at the start but got so much better. Big inspiration to all of us. http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=870 Dpaint's Drawing from Life Survival Guide http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=178075 A Few Thoughts On Art And Creation http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1159848 A concise guide on how to get better at art http://rhineville.deviantart.com/journal/A-concise-guide-on-how-to-get-better-at-art-214181861 How to draw v1.3 http://spoonbard.deviantart.com/art/How-To-Draw-v1-3-40590655

Tutorials

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Bittersweetdisease's tutorials and other useful stuff http://bittersweetdisease.deviantart.com/gallery/4251501 Sherm Cohen's notes he wrote for the storyboard artists working in Spongebob http://shermcohen.deviantart.com/gallery/23661671 Arty Factory http://www.artyfactory.com/index.html Old (but good) tutorials made by Ron Lemen http://www.anticz.com/learn.htm itchy animation tutorials http://www.itchy-animation.co.uk/tutorials.html Creative Spotlite tutorials http://www.creativespotlite.com The Dimensions of Colour - Color theory http://www.huevaluechroma.com/index.php Cedarseed Tutorials - The drawings are pretty average IMO, but there's useful info in them http://cedarseed.com/fire/tutorials.html Alexds1's tutorials http://alexds1.deviantart.com/gallery/1604172 TL;DR - It's aimed at furry art (eeeeeeeeeeeew D: ), but good nonetheless. http://hippie.nu/~unicorn/tut/xhtml Larry's Toon Institute - Basic cartoon stuff. http://tooninstitute.awn.com/lesson_anim.html Freshdesigner.com tutorials http://www.freshdesigner.com/category/tutorials Khulsey.com Illustration Tutorials - Mostly about technical illustration http://www.khulsey.com/illustration-tutorials.html PSG Art Tutorial - A quick tutorial covering quite some stuff http://www.itchstudios.com/psg/art_tut.htm Toerning's dA gallery - A few tutorials are scattered around this gallery. http://toerning.deviantart.com/gallery Portrait-Artist.org - Tutorials about portrait drawing http://www.portrait-artist.org Thumb war - It's a site where Paul posts his art 'n such, but there's this page where he tells you about the importance of thumbnails and other art basics. http://www.autodestruct.com/thumbwar.htm

Collections, lists, libraries, whatever you want to call those

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Reference Library on dA http://reference-library.deviantart.com Art Resource Collection on Tumblr http://artresourcecollection.tumblr.com Fuck Yeah Art Tips on Tumblr http://fyeaharttips.tumblr.com Resources, References and Tutorials on Tumblr http://art-resources.tumblr.com Artistic Anatomy on Tumblr - anatomy stuff, may be NSFW so caution http://learninganatomy.tumblr.com Walkthrough-Rookie on dA http://walkthrough-rookie.deviantart.com/gallery/

Plates (mostly anatomical plates), and references

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	Artist anatomy.com http://artistanatomy.com/index.html Reference! Reference! http://www.referencereference.com 3D.sk - NSFW, references. http://www.3d.sk Photos of sculptures http://philippefaraut.com/figure.html [color=blue]101 - 101 photos of men (and women) at different ages from 1 to 101. http://www.onehundredone.dk

Videos

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Sycra http://www.youtube.com/user/Sycra ctrl+Paint - Digital Painting stuff. http://www.ctrlpaint.com iDRAWGiRLS - Tons upon tons of tutorials made by Xia Taptara. Try to grasp the principles that are present on his tutorials, they aren't just showing him drawing. http://idrawgirls.com 10 min. Drawing Techniques - Series of tutorials made by Mark Chong. Can't believe I didn't find this earlier. http://tenminutedrawing.blogspot.com Or his Youtube channel www.youtube.com/moatddtutorials Sheldon's Art Academy http://www.youtube.com/user/sheldonsartacademy Sinix http://www.youtube.com/user/sinixdesign Skip to the love http://www.youtube.com/user/skiptothelove Vilppu Store YT channel http://www.youtube.com/user/vilppustore Feng Zhu's tutorials http://www.youtube.com/user/FZDSCHOOL How to digital paint http://www.howtodigitalpaint.com/ ipaintgirls http://ipaintgirls.com

Tools

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Posemaniacs - The anatomy sucks, so use it with caution. It's best to learn anatomy first then using this. That way you can tell if something is bulls--t or not. www.posemaniacs.com Pixelovely's Gesture Drawing tool - NSFW, gesture drawing tool. http://www.pixelovely.com/gesture/figuredrawing.php Color Scheme Designer http://colorschemedesigner.com CrashDummyNL's Flash toys - With his two perspective toys being the most useful http://crashdummynl.deviantart.com/gallery/28219631 Gesture drawing tool - similar to Pixelovely. NSFW (but who cares ;D ) http://lovecastle.org/draw/ Seventh Sanctum - Tons of generators for everything http://www.seventhsanctum.com

Art Communities

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Conceptart.org - The most serious art community out there. If you want to seriously improve in your art, this is the perfect place that will help you to do this. http://conceptart.org DeviantArt - While it's the biggest art community, it won't help you so much. Seriously. It's filled with anime, even on places that there shouldn't have that. So yeah. http://www.deviantart.com SheezyArt - DeviantArt 2. http://www.sheezyart.com Shiflett Brothers - Community focused on sculpting http://www.shiflettbrothers.com CG Hub http://cghub.com Pixiv (don't bother with this if you dislike ANIMU ALL OVER THE SCREEN) http://www.pixiv.net We Cook Art http://wecookart.com/forum/portal.php Animation Forum http://www.animationforum.net/forum AniPages http://www.pelleas.net/forum/index.php 11 Second Club - Monthly animation contests http://www.11secondclub.com

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Suggest resources if you can.
However, if you're going to suggest books, for example. Don't give download links. Just try to find a link where one can buy it. Why? That way we won't get involved with illegal stuff. So yeah.

I'm going to add software and book recommendations when I feel like it.

Check regularly, I might add new stuff.

This is something I made last night, spent about three hours and forty minutes on it.

Please, tell me what to improve on. I'm pretty confident with this drawing, so I don't really think you'll have to say much. I spent hours working on the anatomy, so don't even bother with that.

you have got to be kidding me.........THE BG IS WHITE? WHAT THE HELL!

Patt try harder really

His ability is to blend in with the background. Right now he's in Heaven, that's why everything is white. That's why he is outlined in black.

OH! very beatiful my dear......member

tal you're a dumbass.

obviously he was joking.

a picture this fantastic must have taken him five hours.

Or 9 seconds.

I won't say anything because you know it's incredible. Great job.

man please....something that godly can only be drawn in 0.00010 seconds

If only I had questions to ask you.

Oh yes that would be amazing.

It can be other stuff related to drawing as well, such as an anatomy problem or even whatever problem you're having.
But not many people here actually draw so yeh

Me and you draw. I think thats about it actually. Well, there was that tmav guy, and the other one... the one that drew the spoon that looked like a bullet. But besides that, were about it. OH and that supermario guy (don't remember the name)

So I took an attempt at this Solid Art thing. This work of art took me about 2 hours, spent a lot of time working on the circles, to make them perfection.

damn patt, that's a master piece. best damn drawing I've ever seen.

The pink shirt symbolizes the love in which he is missing from his life. The woman he loved hadn't loved him back due to his abnormally large chin.

That's a shirt? Looks like a onesie or whatever babies wear

Then it's that.

Couldn't have done any better myself patt. YOU ARE A MASTER.

Woah Patt you're amazing me again. You sure got the principles right dude.

Anyone else doing what I said or it's just the great Patt?

I haven't started drawn animation yet, but I'll be getting there soon.

Get better in drawing as well.

You should always draw if you want to go and make hand drawn animation.

yeah I know, I'm gonna learn to draw soon, as soon as I'm finished with the movie and some other sprite projects.

So here's another one that I made like two years ago. It took me like 3 seconds, didn't really try too much on it.

I call it, MAGIC JESTERMAN.

This is pretty bad compared to your other masterpieces you posted up there.

You win points for the effort but it's bad.