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TIGER HEADS! To get the FREE MONTHLY How to THINK When You Draw digital MAGAZINE (including NEW tutorials, a YEAR before they appear online!) just send “Magazine, please!” to ThinkDraw@yahoo.com

Lorenzo!

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How I paint strawberries! 🍓

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vallaslin inspired brushes 🌿

47 pattern brushes inspired by vallaslin designs from all dragon age games + 9 stamp brushes (8 evanuris symbol stamps + 1 halla horns stamp) for clip studio paint!

keep in mind: these brushes are merely inspired by vallaslin designs and are intended to be used for patterns or borders. they are not designed as a 1:1 replication of the in-game tattoos!

> available for free on my ko-fi! <

(tips are appreciated <3)

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Has anyone ever considered making an audiobook for fanfiction? Has anyone ever made an audiobook for fanfiction??

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Oh my gosh. I just found this website that walks you though creating a believable society. It breaks each facet down into individual questions and makes it so simple! It seems really helpful for worldbuilding!

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the suffering never ends

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AI disturbance overlays for those who don't have Ibis paint premium. found them on tiktok

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I feel so honored to find my art on the ezio auditore tag banner

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Colonial Ezio Auditore

Nearly 35 hours spread out over like 7 months, I’ve finally completed this piece!! So, this is some costume design concept art for a fanfiction I’ve been working on where Ezio time travels to colonial America and gets to run around with Ratohnhaké:ton. I really wanted to emphasize his desire to blend in more naturally with his environment, whether it’s in the cities or the forests. I’m also currently working on a final design for his proper Assassin’s outfit.

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Can't afford art school?

After seeing post like this 👇

And this gem 👇

As well as countless of others from the AI generator community. Just talking about how "inaccessible art" is, I decided why not show how wrong these guys are while also helping anyone who actually wants to learn.

Here is the first one ART TEACHERS! There are plenty online and in places like youtube.

📺Here is my list:

Proko (Free)

Marc Brunet (Free but he does have other classes for a cheap price. Use to work for Blizzard)

Aaron Rutten (free)

BoroCG (free)

Jesse J. Jones (free, talks about animating)

Jesus Conde (free)

Mohammed Agbadi (free, he gives some advice in some videos and talks about art)

Ross Draws (free, he does have other classes for a good price)

SamDoesArts (free, gives good advice and critiques)

Drawfee Show (free, they do give some good advice and great inspiration)

The Art of Aaron Blaise ( useful tips for digital art and animation. Was an animator for Disney)

Bobby Chiu ( useful tips and interviews with artist who are in the industry or making a living as artist)

Second part BOOKS, I have collected some books that have helped me and might help others.

📚Here is my list:

The "how to draw manga" series produced by Graphic-sha. These are for manga artist but they give great advice and information.

"Creating characters with personality" by Tom Bancroft. A great book that can help not just people who draw cartoons but also realistic ones. As it helps you with facial ques and how to make a character interesting.

"Albinus on anatomy" by Robert Beverly Hale and Terence Coyle. Great book to help someone learn basic anatomy.

"Artistic Anatomy" by Dr. Paul Richer and Robert Beverly Hale. A good book if you want to go further in-depth with anatomy.

"Directing the story" by Francis Glebas. A good book if you want to Story board or make comics.

"Animal Anatomy for Artists" by Eliot Goldfinger. A good book for if you want to draw animals or creatures.

"Constructive Anatomy: with almost 500 illustrations" by George B. Bridgman. A great book to help you block out shadows in your figures and see them in a more 3 diamantine way.

"Dynamic Anatomy: Revised and expand" by Burne Hogarth. A book that shows how to block out shapes and easily understand what you are looking out. When it comes to human subjects.

"An Atlas of animal anatomy for artist" by W. Ellenberger and H. Dittrich and H. Baum. This is another good one for people who want to draw animals or creatures.

Etherington Brothers, they make books and have a free blog with art tips.

As for Supplies, I recommend starting out cheap, buying Pencils and art paper at dollar tree or 5 below. For digital art, I recommend not starting with a screen art drawing tablet as they are more expensive.

For the Best art Tablet I recommend either Xp-pen, Bamboo or Huion. Some can range from about 40$ to the thousands.

💻As for art programs here is a list of Free to pay.

Clip Studio paint ( you can choose to pay once or sub and get updates)

Procreate ( pay once for $9.99)

Blender (for 3D modules/sculpting, ect Free)

PaintTool SAI (pay but has a 31 day free trail)

Krita (Free)

mypaint (free)

FireAlpaca (free)

Libresprite (free, for pixel art)

Those are the ones I can recall.

So do with this information as you will but as you can tell there are ways to learn how to become an artist, without breaking the bank. The only thing that might be stopping YOU from using any of these things, is YOU.

I have made time to learn to draw and many artist have too. Either in-between working two jobs or taking care of your family and a job or regular school and chores. YOU just have to take the time or use some time management, it really doesn't take long to practice for like an hour or less. YOU also don't have to do it every day, just once or three times a week is fine.

Hope this was helpful and have a great day.

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Cosplay Guides for Dragon Age: The Veilguard companions are here!

Take a peek at the guide for Harding above, and see guides for all 7 companions here!

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I made an art/anatomy tutorial about birds! I hope people will find it helpful!

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Mid key wanna start featuring other artists here

Not just cool photos that I wanna redraw/study

I do see a lot of cool art on the daily so I think I might just queue it up and add a bit about why I love the art/artist

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To love yourself is to accept yourself.

Been wanting to redesign my poodle fursona for a while now, just wasn’t sure what I wanted to achieve. His previous design really didn’t vibe with me even though he was supposed to fulfill my own internal negative body views (just in the opposite direction). His whole thing was that he’s a skinny boy who just can never seem to gain weight, and he dreams of being a big fat boy. Which is just the plain opposite for me; I’m a big fat boy who can never lose weight no matter how hard I try. Well anyway, having him exist that way just made me feel worse about myself every time I looked at him, so I never drew him. But what’s the point of having a character if you don’t love drawing them?? So I decided to make him more like myself as I am, body type and all, and I feel better.

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RadenWA is honestly a hero for these

they're got even more than these, too!

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This isn’t news to me. I’ve known this for over a year which is why I deleted everything from my Twitter account and moved to Cara.app, and here. Cara.app (for anyone who doesn’t know yet) glazes and shades your artwork automatically, then you can download the uploaded piece and safely post it elsewhere without worrying about if it’s gonna get scraped. It will get scraped btw, but it’ll also poison and confuse the ai generator. Every piece of artwork that I post now has been glazed and shaded. I do still post to Twitter now but with the confidence that it’ll fuck up somebody’s day somehow

In case any of you here also use X/Twitter.