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I'm so excited to announce Loish's Digital Art School! I've been working on this for a long time and I'm so glad I can finally share it with you all. This is for those of you who are looking for brushes, tutorials, and other super helpful learning content!

Loish's Digital Art School is a collection of resources for digital artists that includes video tutorials, brushes, palettes, challenges, and more. Most importantly, it’s free! I know how important it is to have access to helpful information, especially if you’re self-taught. To get access, just head on over to Loish.School ❤️

hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

Made a twitter thread of the brushes and textures I use!! Wanted to share them here too

Links for everything can be found here

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Unsplash -  photography, illustration, and art

Pixabay - same as unsplash

Pexels - stock photos and videos

Stockvault.net - stock photos

freepngimg - icons, pictures and clipart

Veceezy - vectors and clipart

Kissclipart and kissPNG - more vectors and clipart (often transparent!)

Getdrawings - simplistic images and drawing tutorials

Gumroad - photoshop brushes (and more)

Canva - needs login but has lots of templates

Library of Congress - historical posters and photos

NASA - you guessed it

Creative Commons - all kinds of stuff, homie

Even Adobe has some free images

There are so many ways to make moodboards, bookcovers, and icons without infringing copyright! As artists, authors, and other creatives, we need to be especially careful not to use someone else’s work and pass it off as our own. 

Please add on if you know any more sites for free images <3

New CSP Brushes on my Gumroad!

I made the textures by hand in my sketchbook. They're pay what you want with no minimum.

Enjoy!

I’m not crazy, y’all. Dragonball Supers animation is bad on a basic level.

Not sure if the Animation Director or the story-artist is more at fault but regardless, the product is bad and someone should have known better.

(scans from the book “Character Mentor” by Tom Bancroft)

🎨color study note

✨USEFUL ART RESOURCES✨

I've been sharing some stuff I use on tt and ig so here's a compilation of it for y'all too

all except for two of these are totally free btw

happy arting 🤙🤙

edit: updated the video with even more resources

and added a transcript:

hexcolorpedia.com - A bunch of color palettes with hex-codes ready to use.

x6ud.github.io - References of various animal heads at all angles.

sketchfab.com - 3D models to use for art references or for modeling.

pattern.monster - Create and customize patterns to include in your textures or backgrounds.

referenceangle.com - Search for refs of people of different genders, ages and expressions at various angles.

vishopper.com/cut-out-people - High quality people references with a great search engine. You can search by number of people, genders, ages, activity, angles, and more.

color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel - Create color palettes using specific color harmony rules (it has some other useful features too).

texturefabrik.com - Huge collection of high quality textures you can add or overlay on your paintings or designs to add a bit of spice.

figurosity.com - Huge library of action pose models/references, includes a tool for gesture drawing.

unsplash.com - A ton of royalty free images you can use as references or for photo bashing/matte painting.

pureref.com - A very useful software that helps you organize your references while drawing. It always stays on top of your workspace and you can optimize it to your needs (it's a pay what you want download, you can put in zero and try it for free).

reshot.com - Really big library of free to use icons and vector illustrations.

help-me-draw.tumblr.com - Greatly organized library of references, tutorials, tips and tricks. Almost anything you can think of, it's in the tags.

creativemarket.com/free-goods - Four free design assets every week. You can get anything from fonts, textures, mockups, templates, brushes, and more (yes, it still works, contrary to popular belief).

coolors.co - Very quick and simple colour generator. It gives you a new palette every time you press space.

Magic Poser, Easy Pose, Poseit - Three mobile character posing apps. They give you a doll-like character to pose in any way you need it to for your reference.

screenmusings.org/movie - A great library of movie screenshots you can use for studies or reference.

open-foundry.com - A bunch of open-source free to use typefaces.

posemaniacs.com - A huge library of posed characters you can view at different angles and in various lighting scenarios.

colorhunt.co - Site with ready to use colour palettes. You can choose what type of colours you want.

pixabay.com - A huge library of free to use stock images. Great to use for references or photo bashing/matte painting.

patterninja.com - Great site that lets you make patterns by using their own clipart icons or you can upload your own images. Highly customizable.

quickposes.com - Great site for gesture drawing. Choose a type of poses you want and the interval and it'll spit out references for you. Keep in mind that there's nude models in there. There's also a regular library option where you can browse for ref pics.

eplans.com/search - If you need a consistent house plan for your comic or story, this site lets you choose a type of house you want by number of rooms etc. and gives you a floor plan to use as a reference.

posemy.art - Simple but effective 3D model poser with a huge animation/poses library to help you create pose references for your art.

flaticon.com - A huge library of free to use (with attribution) icons. Great tool that allows you to save time and make your design work look more professional.

artstation.com/artwork/GX3Ax1 - Full head reference greatly showing the planes of the face. You can turn it to any angle and adjust the lighting too.

wildlifereferencephotos.com - A continually expanding database of royalty free wildlife photos, in form of digital downloads, to use as a reference for your art.

line-of-action.com - Free online tool that offers timed photo sessions that allow you to practice sketching just like you would in a life-drawing class. You can choose between figure drawing, animals, faces, hands, or environments, and set duration from 30 seconds to 10 minutes per photo.

BONUS: The Sims 4 on Steam - If you're looking for an easy to use tool to design environments/buildings to reference in your drawings or comics, The Sims is a great tool to do just that. It's available on Steam for free (not sponsored lmao)

pretty cool head lighting ref thing

ArtStation

FEMALE HEAD, LIGHT REFERENCE TOOL, William Nguyen

After the success of the first one, I decided to create another version of the lighting tool. So this is the Female simplified head version.