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Title: The Useful Art Resource Thread
Post by: Shida on May 4, 2012 08:56 PM
Post links to useful tools and tutorials and useful images I guess !!
Not sure if we've had one of these before but if not then huzzah!


Virtual Lighting Studio
http://www.zvork.fr/vls/ (http://www.zvork.fr/vls/)  - If you don't mind the strangest gaze looking at you, this is good for facial lighting!

360 Degrees Female Photo Reference Tool
http://eyedrawthings.com/?page_id=3 (http://eyedrawthings.com/?page_id=3) - Pretty much an interactive turnaround for emotive faces
Title: Re: The Useful Art Resource Thread
Post by: ExistingViolation on May 4, 2012 09:18 PM


How to Draw from Casts: How Atelier style teachers teach their students how to learn from the Barque plates
http://www.cast-drawing.com/bargue.html (http://www.cast-drawing.com/bargue.html)

CTRL+Paint: The video bible on how to learn to paint digitally
http://www.ctrlpaint.com/ (http://www.ctrlpaint.com/)

Art board set up this Link Dump. Its full of download links for old artbooks in PDF format, tutorials and even more art tools.
https://sites.google.com/site/4chanic/training-tutorials (https://sites.google.com/site/4chanic/training-tutorials)
Title: Re: The Useful Art Resource Thread
Post by: Kooh on May 4, 2012 11:23 PM
Wow, the 360 Degrees Female Photo thing really helped me out. Thank you Shida.
Title: Re: The Useful Art Resource Thread
Post by: rtil on May 5, 2012 03:17 AM
life drawing tools
http://lovecastle.org/draw/ (http://lovecastle.org/draw/)
http://www.pixelovely.com/gesture/figuredrawing.php (http://www.pixelovely.com/gesture/figuredrawing.php)
Title: Re: The Useful Art Resource Thread
Post by: harrison2142 on May 5, 2012 04:23 AM
These should prove useful, since both coloring and full-body drawings are things I need a lot of help in.
Title: Re: The Useful Art Resource Thread
Post by: Philip K Dick on May 5, 2012 06:06 AM
Quote from: Shida on May  4, 2012 08:56 PM

Virtual Lighting Studio
http://www.zvork.fr/vls/ (http://www.zvork.fr/vls/)  - If you don't mind the strangest gaze looking at you, this is good for facial lighting!


this guy is going to kill me in my sleep
Title: Re: The Useful Art Resource Thread
Post by: Shida on May 5, 2012 07:54 AM
Quote from: ExistingViolation on May  4, 2012 09:18 PM
Art board set up this Link Dump. Its full of download links for old artbooks in PDF format, tutorials and even more art tools.
https://sites.google.com/site/4chanic/training-tutorials (https://sites.google.com/site/4chanic/training-tutorials)

This is an excellent way to procrastinate from my exams...also pretty much solid
although the zygote body thing is just creepy (just like virtual lighting studio)

some of my fav links from there are:
http://www.itchy-animation.co.uk/light.htm (http://www.itchy-animation.co.uk/light.htm) - Lighting and Colour (explained in a refreshingly scientific way)
http://www.huevaluechroma.com/index.php (http://www.huevaluechroma.com/index.php) - Colour
http://androidarts.com/art_tut.htm (http://androidarts.com/art_tut.htm) - Pretty much the basics of colour, light and tone for painting.
http://www.tomrichmond.com/blog/2006/08/21/inking-tutorial-part-i/ (http://www.tomrichmond.com/blog/2006/08/21/inking-tutorial-part-i/) - Inking (very useful for those with dip pens like me)
Title: Re: The Useful Art Resource Thread
Post by: sev on May 5, 2012 06:03 PM
http://www.mediafire.com/?jb5w47g14ovnk (http://www.mediafire.com/?jb5w47g14ovnk)
Title: Re: The Useful Art Resource Thread
Post by: harrison2142 on May 5, 2012 11:47 PM
Sweet lord, its the mother-load!

Thanks, Sev, I'll definitely be going through about 90% of those!
Title: Re: The Useful Art Resource Thread
Post by: sev on May 6, 2012 01:00 AM
i like to stockpile art resources

http://finaltrinity.tumblr.com/post/13163064364/art-references-tumblr-accounts (http://finaltrinity.tumblr.com/post/13163064364/art-references-tumblr-accounts)