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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.

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reference and concept

Also all the reference and concepts from before the final design

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Wee forgot to put my finished stuff from character design here

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Some stuff for our first project in character design

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Made a little bug guy for class

Hes a little ugly but that's okay cause I love him unconditionally

Here's him next to the prototype I made to test the idea

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Trying desperately to learn how to draw animals for an upcoming assignment

Used my dog for most of them and came incredibly close to shaving him so I can actually see the shapes

But he stays nice and fluffy for now...

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GUEST SPEAKER

Todd Ramsay was a guest speaker in our class recently to summarize his life.

After spending a year working in the oil fields he started putting more effort into pursuing his passion in art, taking 2 years of fine arts in kelowna before moving to vancouver to spend time learning about classical animation.

He spent some time bouncing around between different jobs (and got married yay)

before getting into a skiing accident and shattered his drawing hand which forced him to take a medical leave from his director job. He spent this forced vacation time reteaching himself how to draw with his left (nondominant) hand.

He went back to director jobs for a while once he was healed, up until having his daughter (also yay) which helped him decide that his work schedule needed to change and he switched to picking up gig work and moved things back to kelowna.

Knowing about his recent work atomic cartoons gave a 3 year partnership, and after awhile of working on things like Snack Time he started Yeti Farm and they started working on things like Max and Ruby, Deep Space 69, the Hotel Transylvania series and more.