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Disclaimer: Some of the links referenced on this page might contain nudity, and even though nude models for figure drawing are supposed to be common/everyday poses I've seen on some of these sites photos with explicit poses, also some of the artists draw nude people so these aren't safe to view at work or if you are underage you should consider going back home on the menu above.

About

This a personal page where I can place all my art related stuff so I can reference easily later, it contains my influence map, a complete list of all of my favourite artists, and my art resources: my favourite/plan to read books, favourite artists on youtube, a bunch of sites for figure drawing and other references and my recent interest which is pixel art.

Though it isn't much I've included all links which I mainly use. I'll try to check for dead links and update it if I have new resources, so I hope it'll be useful for more aspiring artists other than me °˖✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧˖°

Also if you have some art resources that you want to share contact me so I can check if I ended up using it I'll add to the page (just cause I'm always looking for new resources, specially videos of figure drawing sessions).

Influence Map

My influence map with everything that I like and try to make into my art so I can check it always and have it here as a backup. In case you don't know which a influence map is, the influence map was created by foxorian on DA and it's a image grid where you place everything that influences you as an artist. Template linked here so you can make one to yourself too.

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Favourite artists

Complete list of my favourite artists, which are all artists that either influences me or that I try to emulate their art style categorized by type of art or that I think of a inspiration more than an influence of their art style. I also provided a link to their social media (or their wikipedia page in case they don't have social media/the artist lived before Internet).

Traditional Artists:

Digital Artists:

Both digital/traditional:

Sculptors:

Inspo artists:

Colouring books and picture books artists:

  • Beatrix Potter: Website (The Tale of Petter Rabbit series)
  • Cicely Mary Barker: Website (Flower Faeries series)
  • Daria Song: Instagram (The Time Garden +others)
  • Helen Craig: Webpage (Angelina Ballerina series)
  • Jill Barklem: Website (The Brambly Hedge series)
  • Johanna Basford: Website (Secret Garden +others)
  • Martin Handford: Website (Where's Waldo? series)
  • Teresa Goodridge: Website (Creative Haven series +others)
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Drawing books

Books on my reading list: reading, on hold or to read, categorized by type, (hover on the images to check the book title). Mostly are on my plan to read so I'm not checked all of them by myself to see if they are good or not but I highly recommend starting of Loomis.

Animals:

Figure drawing:

Perspective:

Painting and colour:

Books for beginners:

Loomis' books:

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Learn to draw

All drawing courses that I could find that picked my interest and Youtube artists that also teach drawing that I follow.

Drawing courses:
  • CG Master Academy: a digital art school that offers term based courses in concept art, game art and vfx, it has instructors who are professional in the creative field ($$$$).
  • Ctrl Paint: for digital painting (free).
  • Love Life Drawing: figure drawing (free).
  • Marc Brunet: a digital art school for digital artists created by the artist of the same name, has an one time payment for the course ($$$$) with an option for upgrade for mentoring ($$$$$) or you can buy individual courses ($), has courses on digital painting, character design, sculpting anatomy, and more.
  • New Masters Academy: virtual art academy, self-paced with a subscription service ($$).
  • Proko: Stan Prokopenko's drawing course, self-paced with an one payment method, and you have access for the course forever (since you can also download the videos), it has guest instructors ($$).
  • RadioRunner's curriculum for the Solo Artist: literally what the title says, most of the stuff are free (I won't recommend using the Croquis Cafe site because they used to be free just to create their brand then changed to a paid only service).
  • Schoolism: a digital art school, it offers a bunch of courses in concept art, drawing, sculpting, animation and more (self paced), it offers a yearly subscription ($$), pay per course ($$) and live classes ($$$$).
  • Vilppu Academy: Glenn Vilppu's virtual art academy, it has weekly classes term based classes and a subscription service with access to video lectures and demos ($$$$$ for the courses | $ for the subscription).
  • Watercolors: claims to be the "the best and most comprehensive resource for watercolor painters on the Internet", I still don't know if all here is free (just saving it here for later lol).
  • Watts Atelier: the Atelier of arts that Proko studied, offers online courses in a subscription method and streaming term based classes in an one payment method (it has a physical atelier in the US) ($$~$$$).

*Note: I didn't use any of these courses yet, so the info is not from my personal experience lol and the price range is my own opinion.

Youtube channels:
  • Alphonso Dunn: solid content especially about figure drawing and fundamentals, but recently only posts short videos so check his older videos that have more content.
  • Bradwynn Jones: has some content about figure drawing and drawing of faces, but it isn't much active.
  • Drawing Tutorials Online: has a series where he shows the sketchbooks of his students, also has some tutorials but I mainly recommend for the sketchbook series.
  • Glenn Vilppu: Vilppu's channel, it doesn't have much stuff but it's cool just to look at him drawing.
  • Marc Brunet: channel of the course above, has mainly short art tips videos.
  • Modern Day James: has some drawing tutorials, he also has a discord channel that is a great art community (from what I see lurking some art reddits, I didn't join the channel).
  • New Master Academy: channel of the above course, has timed figure drawing sessions, tips and tutorials.
  • Proko: Proko's channel, as far as I know he has the same (free) videos as the one on his drawing course, it also has some demos/samples of his paid courses and more art related content.
  • Sinix Design: mostly tutorials about digital drawing.
  • Watts Atelier of the Arts: channel of the course above, has some tutorials and art tips.
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Drawing references

References for figure drawing (clothed and unclothed), anime, hair, animals and some other cool links that I could find.

Figure drawing:
  • Artist references: photo references for figure drawing with nude models, environment textures and 3D textures
  • Character designs: photo references for drawing including nude and clothed models.
  • Line of action: photo references of nude and clothed models, animals, face, hands and feet. You can also set a timer for a drawing session.
  • Posemaniacs: 3D "skinless" models of different poses.
  • Quickposes: photo references of nude and clothed models, animals, face, hands and feet. You can also set a timer for a drawing session.
  • Reference sketch daily: photo references of models, animals and others for timed and untimed drawing sessions.
Reference stock photos:
  • Jookpub stock: reference photos of clothed models.
  • Pexels: royalty free stock photos and videos.
  • Pixabay: royalty free stock photos and videos (it also has more royalty free stuff).
  • Senshi stock: reference photos of clothed models.
  • Sinned Angel stock: reference photos of clothed model.
Anime:
  • Anime Galleries: site with a gallery of anime illustrations, scans and screenshots (unfortunately not updated since 2014).
  • Anime Gallery: site with a gallery of anime and game illustrations (unfortunately not updated since 2009).
  • Creative Uncut: site featuring tons of video game concept art (it's online since 2003).
  • Settei Dreams: archive of animation production materials.
Other:
  • Animal Photo Art Reference: 3D models of animals skulls.
  • Art-res: tool that generate random pictures to use as art reference.
  • Artcyclopedia: online database of fine arts.
  • Artvee: database of public domain high res art, it includes a search function.
  • Comparing Heights: a tool where you compare heights for figure drawing, using silhouette's drawings, you chan choose up to 6 figures.
  • Hair finder: not a properly site for drawing reference but has great pictures of different hairstyles.
  • Height Weight Chart: what the title says, it has pictures ofd ifferent people with different weight and height.
  • Rawpixel's public domain collection: public domain artwork scanned and enchanced digitally.
  • Refern: a reference site where you can browse and save stuff in folders (much like Pinterest was before all that AI trash joined), but it has a subscription service and free users have limitations.
  • The Color of Art: Free Artist reference books.
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Other cool links

Some other sites which didn't fit in any of the other categories including sites for virtual portfolio and about pixel art.

Art sites:
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