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Reblogged fanart to the wrong blog oops lol

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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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before the art TikTok babies start screaming and crying and throwing their toys around about how “chicken scratch BAD!!”, that last post is my second sketch in my process which generally consists of three sketch stages:

extremely rough, zero detail. Gestural and figuring out composition

still quite rough, a little more detail, figuring out face, clothes, hair, etc

tight and clean, as much detail as the lineart will have, sometimes I don’t even do lineart and just use the sketch

The issue here is people don’t actually understand what “chicken scratch” means. It means not being confident in your sketch lines (or lineart, but I’m talking about sketching right now). It isn’t the same as a loose gestural sketch to work out a composition, or searching lines as you figure out where the lines should go. It’s the tiny little start-and-stop lines that make up what should be one single, continuous, fluid line. Common in beginners and people who just haven’t trained themselves to be confident in their lines yet. It is not inherently bad. But it also isn’t synonymous with “rough sketching”.

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OC sketches

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value studies

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