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sdalla: Wheew. Enjoy! —- FUN WITH PHOTOSHOP BRUSH SETTINGS is a...

Mon, 20 May 2013 01:08:50 -0400

Wheew. Enjoy!

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FUN WITH PHOTOSHOP BRUSH SETTINGS is a set of tutorials I’m making, because I realized there’s a lot I don’t know about brush settings :D. I’ve learned so much so far, I hope you guys find them useful as well!

Making more of these as we speak,
NEXT UP:
- Brush tip shape & Brush Pose (which was supposed to be part 1 but I finished this one first :D) STAY TUNED!

dalekrps: As someone who has a hard time writing strong female characters, here are a few tips and...

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 13:26:33 -0500

dalekrps:

As someone who has a hard time writing strong female characters, here are a few tips and articles I’d like to share about the matter. Hopefully, they help you guys and encourage to write more female characters.

How do I go about writing female characters?

How Not To Write Female Characters

Writing Female Characters

How To Write Empowering Female Characters

Why I Write “Strong Female Characters”

Red Flags for Female Characters Written By Men

Writing Good Female Characters From A Feminist Perspective

On Writing Strong (Female) Characters

Writing a Strong Female Character

The Female Character Flowchart

How do I write realistic characters?

Tips for Authors: Writing Realistic Characters

How to Create a Realistic Fiction Character

How to Write Realistic Characters

How to Develop a Realistic Character with 5 Tricks

Developing Realistic Characters

Some Secrets to Creating Believable Characters

How do I avoid writing a Mary Sue?

So You Want To: Avoid Writing A Mary Sue

The Official Mary Sue Manual

How to Avoid Making a Mary Sue

How to Avoid Writing a Mary Sue Fiction Character

Mary-Sue Litmus Test

Fanfiction Writing Tips: 5 Ways to Avoid the Dreaded “Mary Sue”

Who are some strong females I can read up on?

5 Real Princesses Too Badass for Disney Movies

Badass Women of History

Top 10 Badass Female Warriors

10 Badass Fighting Women From Around the World

Badass Women in History

7 Women of Hollywood History Who Never Gave A F*ck

Top 10 Badasses You Haven’t Heard Of

The 75 Greatest Women of All Time

Top 100 Women of History

The Ten Most Badass Women in American History

Who are some inspirational women of history?

50 Inspirational Women Who Changed The World

Top 100 women

100 Most Inspirational Women

35 amazing Canadian women

How about fictional female characters?

Top 80 Badass/Kick-Ass Female Movie Characters Of All Time

10 of the Most Powerful Female Characters in Literature

10 Badass Fictional Female Role Models

The Top 10 Most Badass Fictional Female Characters

Do you recommend a cast of female characters from a TV show or film?

Yes, I think Game of Thrones has a cast of good female characters.

A Guide To The Incredible Women On “Game Of Thrones”

Female Archetypes in Game of Thrones

Strong Female Characters Overcome Misogyny in “Game of Thrones”

Game of Thrones: Top 5 Sexiest Women

‘Game of Thrones’: Strong New Female Characters in the Upcoming Season

On ‘Game of Thrones,’ It’s the Women Who Rule

The Harry Potter books also have some strong female characters.

6 Most Awesome Women in the Harry Potter Books and Movies

Villains of OkCupid: Gee, I don't know how to research writing Characters of Color tastefully:

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 13:56:35 -0500

Villains of OkCupid: Gee, I don't know how to research writing Characters of Color tastefully::

missturdle:

So You Want to Write a Fantasy: Writing Female Characters

So You want to Write a Fantasy: Culture

SYWTWAF: Writing What you Don’t know

A list of adjectives to describe physical attributes, Or, As it turns out, I could go to Starbucks with half this list

Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack

Some primers

More Primers

RaceFail ‘09: Or where Deepad’s I didn’t dream of Dragons comes from, and why.

Writing characters of Color

Writing Outside your experience

Media Representations Wiki - stereotypes/tropes/culture/etc

On A:TLA’s whitewashing - All The World’s White, the Rest of Us merely live in it

The Face of the Other: Do Manga & Anime characters look “white”?

Describing Characters of Color pt 1 & Describing Characters of Color (pt 2)

I Didn’t Dream of Dragons

Shame

So You Want to: Avoid Unfortunate Implications

Transracial Writing for the Sincere

Why Writing Colorblind is Writing White

What a Girl Wants: Representation

An Equal Place at the Table

Avoiding LGBTQ Stereotypes

The Problem With Colorblindness (and the Rest of Racebending.com)

Making Movies for White People: A Tongue in Cheek critique of Minority Representation in the Media, or lack thereof

From Margin to Center: Writing Characters of Color via Racialicious

Writing Characters of Color - a helpful community!

Why my Protagonists aren’t white (even though I am.)

The Dangers of Telling a Single Story (a helpful Video)

The Lack of People of Color in Historical Fictions

How to Read and Respond to Literature of Color

The Advantages of being a White Writer (in getting published)

Writing Characters of Colour (Now With 10% Less White Liberal Anxiety!)

Fic and Skin Tone (discusses Nyota Uhura, otherwise relevant)

On Problematic Writing

Writing Race in YA fiction: Debunking Myths

Diversity Writers: How to Write People of Color

The Importance of Inclusionary Writing

Racialicious

Overcoming the Noble Savage and the Sexy Squaw: Native Steampunk

The Intersection of Race and Steampunk: Colonialism’s After-Effects & Other Stories, from a Steampunk of Colour’s Perspective

Beyond Victoriana: For EVERYTHING Steampunk/1800s/Industrial Revolution that isn’t just Victorian England and the archives Tales of the Urban Adventurer

Can I just watch A Game of Thrones in Peace? (A brown feminist fan rant).

Fantasy and Sci-Fi race Bingo

Invoking Strangely Colored people

Many Voices

AfroFuturism, SciFi, and the History of the Future

Some Open Thoughts on Race & Dsyutopia

When Will White People Stop Making Movies like Avatar?

Portraying POC in YA Fantasy: Are we There Yet?

Debunking White Fantasy

Racism in Fantasy

Magical Realism is Fantasy written in Spanish.

1.) It’s not hard to figure out what to do, there are plenty of resources.

People say you have to get it right, do your research, but … what else are you supposed to research? It’s not like people with more pigment in their skin have completely different personalities than those with less, any more than any individual. It’s frustrating when I can’t even figure out what the heck people are talking about.

Bam. Research step one done for you.

2.) Writing characters of color/minorities is a good thing.

I don’t like the notion that fantasy authors are under some kind of obligation to present ethnically diverse worlds. I’m English, and a fair sized part of English history consists of unwashed beardy white people in mead halls. If I’m inspired by my own history and cultural heritage, then that’s what I’m damn well going to write about. I’m not writing about some other culture just to appease the people who think there aren’t enough black characters in fantasy, or whatever. You want it, you write it. Nothing to do with me.

You’re wrong.

3.) Your all White Fantasy Land Didn’t Exist in Real Life:

…the rather medieval one has more diversity than real medieval Germany probably had […] In a world with medieval means of transport, it just doesn’t seem natural to me to mix dark-skinned people with blue-eyed blondes in one setting. I just try to give the people a colour that fits the place where they live.

You mean like the people from Africa and the Middle east who began to take over Southern Spain, as well as the Jews who were pretty well spread out throughout Europe, the Middle Easterners they would have met on the Crusades, and the incoming Mongol Hordes who spread to the very edges of Eastern Europe before the empire finally collapsed? Don’t forget that Turkey is right there, and the silk road would have gone from Song Dynasty China, through India, and ended in Turkey before moving further westwards into places like Germany. Also the attempts at the Franco-Mongol alliance would have been pretty interesting. (That’s about the 13th century - arguably smack dab in Middle Ages Europe and definite contact between France/Christian Europe and the Mongolian Empire.)

Unless you’re writing everything in the far reaches of Denmark or something, historically speaking, I call bullshit on people who have societies that are only all white ever, because it’s just inaccurate. Consider the relative closeness of Northern Africa to Spain, or Turkey to the rest of Europe, the conquests of Alexander the Great, the Crusades, Slavery existing in Europe, including England, the slave trade, imperialism, Pax Mongolica, The Silk Road, Jewish Diaspora, the Islamic Empire vs The Holy Roman Empire, Egypt, Algeria, China’s sailing across the world, The Maruyan/Gupta Empires of India, tea trades, Columbus sailing in hopes of finding China, etc, etc, etc.

4.) I mean I just don’t believe you anymore. It’s unrealistic. Seriously guys.

You’d think I’d just denied the holocaust or something. Get a grip. All I said was that I’m going to write about my own cultural experience and anyone who thinks I should do otherwise for the sake of political correctness can bugger off.

This isn’t even about being PC this is just not being wrong about everything.

good lord.

kryskreativedesigns: runesby: renach4n: lemon-butts: Casually...

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 03:56:50 -0500

kryskreativedesigns:

runesby:

renach4n:

lemon-butts:

Casually uses as the best reference ever.

Casually reblogs in case she ever decides to try drawing more

bueno.

Fuck. I need this for my stupid croquies. I suck at drawing hands

bunnyshadeow: anon asked me how do I draw different sized boobs...

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 04:00:47 -0500

bunnyshadeow:

anon asked me how do I draw different sized boobs so I whipped up a tutorial (I draw slow, sorry) I am not a good expert at boobies soo sorry x2! weh haha

basically flat = pointy-ish, as boobs size increase the lower half gets rounder, then the top half. boobies are floppy towards the sides due to gravity

shape/perspective of boobs

all the oppais!

even though I am still not really good at drawing boobs at all sigh… i hope you find this useful even for a bit hahaa……..;;

yummytomatoes: REBLOGGABLE VERSION BY REQUEST;IVE GOT A FEW ASKS ASKING THIS, EXPLAINS UNDER THE...

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 03:20:43 -0500

yummytomatoes:

REBLOGGABLE VERSION BY REQUEST;

IVE GOT A FEW ASKS ASKING THIS,
EXPLAINS UNDER THE CUUUTTT

Read More

siljamarsyla: by pump see the whole walkthrough here

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 04:22:23 -0500

siljamarsyla:

by pump

see the whole walkthrough here

Reaper's Den: Art References Tumblr Accounts!

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 04:22:10 -0500

Reaper's Den: Art References Tumblr Accounts!:

finaltrinity:

Some of these may be in the wrong category. Some may need to be in another category! Do tell me (through my ask box) if I need to change or add something! Have fun looking through these accounts!

HUMAN ANATOMY

http://anatomicalart.tumblr.com/

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Sun, 20 Jan 2013 04:21:58 -0500

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krad-eelav: Scott Eaton’s Bodies in Motion Reference...

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 04:21:11 -0500

krad-eelav:

Scott Eaton’s Bodies in Motion Reference Library

One of my all time favorite anatomy references is this handy dandy little webpage here. More than 750+ male and female photos in sequence? check. Outstanding b/w lighting on all of them? check. All SFW images but enough skin showing where the muscle placement is? check. Contortion, fencing, parkour and other poses included? checkity-check.

All of that for free? Aw yeah.

Go take a look around. ;D

[S] SHUT UP & JAM: Using Real Psychology in Your Writing

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 04:20:45 -0500

[S] SHUT UP & JAM: Using Real Psychology in Your Writing:

What Will Your Character Do When Disaster Strikes?
by Carolyn Kaufman, PsyD

Characterization and Conflict: Using Psychological Tests to Improve Your Writing
by Carolyn Kaufman, PsyD

Gathering Information from Characters: Types of Questions
by JJ Cooper

Using Body Language in…

deliciousboards: Okay we’ll start with this and then just...

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 04:19:48 -0500

deliciousboards:

Okay we’ll start with this and then just slowly go from here because I have A LOT TO SAY ABOUT JEANS/PANTS like literally I could do thirty of these talking about how pants are constructed and how you install the fly itself and how that effects the pants BUT I WON’T because that would take forever to draw instead I will leave you with this awesome link with step by step blog posts about how to sew a pair of jeans especially this post and this one with step by step pictures on how to install a fly which everyone should read

so please stop fucking drawing those stupid lines h o l y crap

travelingmadness: pugletto: prrb: How I pratice drawing...

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 04:19:25 -0500

travelingmadness:

pugletto:

prrb:

How I pratice drawing things, now in a tutorial form.
The shrimp photo I used is here
Show me your shrimps if you do this uvu

PS: lots of engrish because foreign

This is the best art advice ever and you should all listen to it because it’s basically what I’ve been telling people for years.

i was not expecting that to actually work

we are all made of stars: elixiroverdose: Golgothassterror: art posttutorialsforartists: I just...

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 04:19:06 -0500

we are all made of stars: elixiroverdose: Golgothassterror: art posttutorialsforartists: I just...:

elixiroverdose:

Golgothassterror: art post

tutorialsforartists:

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.

Here we go then!

Freeware

Alchemy -…