General Resources and references

Fightan Youtube · by **Waters** » Tue Jan 20, 2015 12:51 am

I thought it might be a good idea to have a thread like this.

Post some good resources, references, stores, videos, tips for general use.

https://mega.co.nz/#F!WBAlWbAY!OHlVpL_6vsusinFzniu4_g
A giant, huge pack of Art related books. A good 17 gigs worth of books, references, brushes, screentones and more. A really nice find and extremely helpful. This also contains some NSFW material, mostly artistic and mundane but hey, DL at your own risk. Also some books may be in japanese/moonspeak, good luck with that.

http://www.posemaniacs.com/
Helpful reference site of movable 3d models, helpful for anatomy reference and general use.

http://www.sketchdailies.com/
For me this is a great source of inspiration.

by **Caleb** » Tue Jan 20, 2015 6:25 am

Oh wow, these are really helpful! Thanks for sharing man.

As for me, I get a load of inspiration from this dude right here: https://www.youtube.com/user/Palivizumab

The rest of my inspiration and what I learn comes from books, so I can't really share it. An english book I have is Drawing Projects by Mick Maslen and Jack Southern. Haven't bothered seeing if MEGA has it, but if it does I can recommend it to anyone who wants to learn draw with a pencil, it has some pretty great challenges and inspirational examples and texts. I got it at Tate in London, but seeing the quality of this thing I can imagine it shouldn't be too hard to find in local art shops either. The rest of my books are in dutch, so I'm not gonna bother putting them here.

by **Phewz** » Tue Jan 20, 2015 11:46 am

all of the PDFs i was gonna post here are in that fuck-off huge folder (thanks for posting btw gonna definitely have a sift through) so i'm gonna youtube dump resources

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgDNDOKnArk
Covers and explains the concept of line confidence and gives exercises which help strengthen said line confidence.

https://www.youtube.com/user/Sycra
https://www.youtube.com/user/ProkoTV
two channels which cover various subjects regarding art and drawing, very solid resources for people looking to learn more about drawing

http://artists.pixelovely.com/practice- ... e-drawing/
provides reference poses and has the option to switch the reference images on a timer if you want to practice drawing faster
good for gesture studying

by **socks** » Tue Jan 20, 2015 1:16 pm

just my opinion, but if you need help with making lines more crisp and clean. Try some of the stuff this guy does https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGtGTA ... HrEKRgRUHQ

by **Kev** » Tue Jan 20, 2015 9:08 pm

any book you find in a bookstore on atelier drawing will help you immensely
http://www.amazon.com/Lessons-Classical ... 082300659X
http://www.amazon.com/Classical-Drawing ... er+drawing
are the ones i personally own

e: whoa, anyone with photoshop, mizu's big mega pack thing has some brushes in the rar that are dope
especially watercolor

Fightan Youtube · by **Waters** » Tue Jan 20, 2015 11:26 pm

A pack of Sai Brushes
http://www.mediafire.com/download/b9gz7 ... +Redux.rar

by **Senzo** » Sun Jan 25, 2015 5:49 pm

This one is a great book that covers everything about head and hands anatomy and teaches you every step to achieve real proportions. It has tons of illustrations. The writer was an american and art instructor. Every book of this man is worth checking, though.
http://www.alexhays.com/loomis/Andrew%20Loomis%20-%20Drawing%20the%20Head%20and%20Hands.pdf