The Tapas Art Master Library

darthmongoose 2023-08-21 19:05:17 UTC #4

Love a good knowledge thread!

Okay, first up, Alexa Donne. Her writing advice is based on real experience as a published writer. Clear, actionable advice for novelists.

I will never stop shoving this HBomberguy analysis video of why RWBY didn't work in everyone's faces because it's so good. It really looks at how just copying from better stories without understanding why you're doing it or planning ahead properly or thinking through the logic of your world is a bad idea. It's inspirational, it's funny... I just love it!

Want art tutorials? Here, these ones are great. The videos on Colour theory in particular are excellent. Easy to understand, fun conversational tone, advice you can follow. Boom!

You want great analysis of great comics and what makes them tick? This channel is excellent for that. Sometimes even includes interviews with the creators of those comics.:

Mallory 2023-08-21 21:43:33 UTC #5

@darthmongoose Awwww yisss, Marco Bucci! I learned so much from him! Love that his videos focus in on one small thing and then explain it in detail.

I just found this youtube channel from David Finch:

I'm not the biggest fan of his art (just his visual choices, not really my jam) but I think his explanations for various concepts are very solid. I find other youtuve artists will often like, waffle about and basically do an impression of that "draw the rest of the f*cking owl" meme in their "tutorial" videos. They can't really put what they do in words (which is understandable, since you generally don't think in terms of words when you draw), so they just kinda make vague noises about vibes and hope their audience understands. Not David Finch. He really tries to explain what his videos are teaching on a conceptual level with a lot of examples. Like, take this video on making your action more fluid:

I knew a lot of the principles 'cause I stumbled my way into them, but it was neat to see it put into words and concrete concepts.

VibrantFox 2023-08-24 19:21:55 UTC #6

Tossing in these posts of compiled Griz and Norm drawing tutorials

and a direct link to their blog with all their "tuesday tips"

RedLenai 2023-08-28 21:36:40 UTC #7

Since I made a whole general art post the previous time, now I'm going to focus on Webcomics.

Beginner's Guide to Making a Webtoon! by sshooooe

Webtoon (All the details) by Treviño Art

In Spanish, but comes with English subtitles (It is also a playlist, there are 6 videos in total)

Morishita-Studio archive:

What is the Process of Writing a Webtoon?

5 Resources for Writing a Successful Comic Script

Sites Where you can Publish Webcomic Webtoons

How to Make a Webtoon : 5 Basic Tools for Beginners & Creating the Canva Size

Speed Up Your Comic Process by The Gentleman Panda

Random TikToks with tips for Webtoons

Be faster with lineart by rooususu

TheStarFishFace has lot of tips and tutorials for Webcomics

CronaJArt has some tutorials as well

SMorishita (Previously seen above) also has tips and tutorials on their TikTok be it for Clip Studio, Ibis Paint and other stuff

Panneling by MissMisery8

Twitter thread and Twitter thread 2. I've put them here since I don't know if Tweets are still visible for those without accounts.

Part 1

Part 2

3d resources

Acon3D
https://www.acon3d.com/

3D Webtoon Shop (EXPIRED)
http://3dwebtoonshop.com

SketchUp 3D Webtoon Shop (Free and Paid)
https://twitter.com/dosims

ButterflyEmpress 2023-09-01 02:29:54 UTC #8

Just to let you know the 3d webtoon shop link doesn't work
It takes me here https://aty.kr/sitePolicy/expired

RedLenai 2023-09-02 13:59:14 UTC #9

It seems the site no longer provides the service, however, in google search some of the files still appear and if you click on ▲ 다음글 you'll be able to see a previous/different model with downloads available (The logs are from 2018 so some of them may not work)

http://3dwebtoonshop.com/g5/bbs/board.php?bo_table=brpj7bsn6t&wr_id=22

It's a shame, the site was good last time I've visited. (By clicking the gray box, it'll take you to Aty's main page)
Seems they rebranded and are providing now other types of services.

RedLenai 2023-09-19 20:09:11 UTC #10

I come once again with more stuff

Tutorials

MangaKa

New software/tool to help artists. It can be used with commercial use be it for comic, manga, animation, illustrations and more.

Floor Plan Creator (Paid plans, but very accessible for what they are offering)

https://floorplancreator.net/

CSP Brushes (Or PSD brushes you can still import) and other aassets.

Clarification: Some brushes may be paid nowadays, I originally saw these when they were free

Porforever

Paid and unpaid brushes, gradients and more

Tools for Wordlbuilding and/or writing timelines/story lines

Fun section

Random color Generator

Another Random color Generator

Skin Color Wheel

Random Character Art Prompt Generator

Monthly Art Challenges [Ultimate List]
https://brushwarriors.com/monthly-art-challenges/

RedLenai 2023-09-24 02:13:21 UTC #11

It's me once again, found more stuff by revisiting my Tumblr's older posts.

More sites for drawing references? More sites for drawing references

Unsplash. Giant free stock image site.
freeimages.com. Another stock photo site, less features than some others.
StockSnap.io. Stock photos with a creative commons CC0 license, which essentially means you can use the photos however you want and don’t have to attribute to them. (though its nice if you do attribute)
Burst.Shopify. Tons of royalty free high quality images. Similar licensing to StockSnap.
pixabay. I feel like most people know about this one, but it features entirely free CC0 licensed Photos, Videos, and Music. No attribution required, but still nice to support a giant site with all this content.
Viintage. Big collection of public domain vintage photos.
Gratisography. For commercial or personal use. They specialize in odd, quirky, wild stock photos.
pexels. Great free stock photos and videos. Only a few stipulations of what they don’t allow, but their license info can be found here.
Faestock. An artist and model with a huge amount of fantasy and fae and other types of photos available. Their terms for use are here.
MorgueFile. Old stock photo archive that’s been around a long time.

Posing Sites and Apps:

Adorkastock. Stock photos for pose refs. DeviantArt gallery started in 2007.
FreePhotoMuscle.com. (translated page link click here) Japanese stock photo pose site that includes buff people, but in funny poses and costumes.
CroquoisCafe. (NSFW, nude model poses warning) A stock photo pose site. You should be aware this org has been linked as pro-Trump. I leave it to y’all to decide if you want to use the resources or not. I highly encourage not financially supporting them and trying to support the individual models if you can.
PoseSpace. Extensive library of poses. Some free resources others are paid. I’ve not fully evaluated both, but you should be able to use this all mostly free and get great use out of it.
SketchDaily. This one is one of the better ones out there. You can time yourself, search by pose, clothing options, body type, perspective, etc. All real models.
JustSketch.me. A pose app for any device. Has apps for most devices and a webapp. Customize and pose models/props/scenes.
Quickposes. Pose site that gives you timed challenges to become more proficient at poses.
POSEMANIACS. Ref site with anatomical poses. All the ref pics are of 3D models with only the bones and muscles. Can be helpful for seeing how muscles behave in certain poses. limited to two body types tho.
MagicPoser. A wonderful app that’s great on mobile. Lets you choose size of models, number of them, style, etc. Significant features are use of snap point with the physics engine, adjustable lighting, multiple perspective, 360 angle, articulated hand posing.
Clip Studio Paint Modeler. Free 3d tool that works with Clip Studio Paint. You can import your own data or other models you find online. Not quite an alternative to Blender, but the integration with CSP is very nice.
Egg a Zyoutatsu Atarichan Drawer. (requires enabling flash player or downloading and using standalone flashplayer) Drawing tool for pose practice. The developer is working on an html5 version.
DesignDoll. One of the best pose tool apps out there. You can customize so many things. They also have an extensive collection of ready made poses here. You can use the free or pay once for life and have the poses integrated into the client as well as the ability to export your obj to other programs like blender or smt.

Museum and Institution Open Access sites:

USA National Gallery of Art. Over 50k works available for download.
New York Metropolitan Museum open access. 490k works to browse. Even codes for Animal Crossing New Horizons patterns.
The Smithsonian Institution open access. Probably one of the largest open access collections available online. Around 3.9 million items available to view.
Many More. This article from Apollo magazine has an extensive list of open access museums and institutions from around the world. A brief list of places includes: Art Institute of Chicago, Belvedere, Vienna , Birmingham Museums Trust , Cleveland Art Museum , Harvard Art Museums , J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles , Kunstmuseum Basel , Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles County Museum of Art , Mauritshuis, The Hague , Minneapolis Institute of Art , Munch Museet, Norway , Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington , Národní galerie Praha , Nationalmuseet Danmark , Nationalmuseum, Stockholm , New York Public Library , Paris Musées , etc.

Handy lists for lazy writers

200 Words to Describe Light
Fighting Words - grouped by types of fight and severity of attack
100 observation verbs - grouped by attentiveness
Characteristics of the "Bad Guy" Antagonist
50 better says to say "looks/seems like"
Words to Describe Scent
220 Scents

Resources for describing a character’s habits, mannerisms and body language!

Extra for writers

Websites for writers/scriptwriters

Animation

Guide for commissions

Vtuber (Content creator) resources

morganicfoods 2023-09-24 03:09:28 UTC #12

YES i love this video. It delves into a lot of issues I frequently see in writing.
Same with Jay Exci's Doctor Who Series 11&12 video, very similar humour and argument style. It's five hours long but, it goes over a lot of storytelling advice that beginners+ can/should learn from, with examples for the good, bad, and inbetween. And the video also got me into Doctor Who XD

RedLenai 2023-10-20 16:13:54 UTC #13

Coming once again to bring even more resources I've found:

Bamblot - Lettering Tips

Movie- Screencaps.com - Movie caps galore!

TextureLabs - Free Textures And Tutorials For Design And Illustration!

Font Squirrel - Browse the commercial free fonts classified as comic.

BatanBatugan

Mini Tutorials

Jim Zub's Comic Script Critique

Steve Lieber's Portfolio Critique

How to run a comics Kickstarter: a guide you probably shouldn’t totally follow but should maybe consider?

Some Videos

"Storytelling for Comics" by David Mazzucchelli - FanFaire NYC 2020

Mike Magnola's Interview about the dynamic of Color in his comics in Minute 27

MANGA SENPAI [23] Screentone | How to make manga by Japanese manga-ka

Witch Hat Atelier: Visual Storytelling through manga panelling

Stop trying to FIND an art style

Perspective Drawing in Photoshop! Grids and Tips

Designing My Character | Easy Tips and Tricks from Experience

Is Your CHARACTER DESIGN SHEET SUCCESSFUL?

Another Seven Seas corner.

[English Version] Strategies of Moe Illustrations - For Working Creatively without talent
https://e-hentai.org/g/1925219/799c179170/

Lots of books in ENG-ESP of almost anything, some are +18

List of Drawing tutorials
https://hunmer.github.io/List-of-drawing-tutorials/#

Folder with Anatomy images
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B2-NZcMWYwHHaVBXa0tvZldReU0?usp=sharing

Ariel Olliveti's book "Superhero's Anatomy" (It's in Spanish tho)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ktXEDqekdTp-InFVKxe-tLEBotV7RKsi/view?usp=sharing

"The resurrectionist" the lost work of Dr. Spencer Black

Comics artbooks & sketchbooks
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11JXMreK24lfDzumB9wgNTEn60c3dot1P?usp=sharing

Introduction To Cartoon Character Design
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B2-NZcMWYwHHT1VpZnZDS1dwU2M?usp=sharing

Illustrate Color & Light I Ambient Light
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B2-NZcMWYwHHMlV0SkctRWVzX00?usp=sharing

Illustrate Color & Light II- Color
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B2-NZcMWYwHHOTNfM2IxM214S3M?usp=sharing

Illustrate Color & Light III Direct & Reflected Light
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B2-NZcMWYwHHYlMwZFB5enZKWDA?usp=sharing

New Masters Academy Drapery The Russian Approach with Iliya Mirochnik https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1U4cvQQCxVpgIieTjYAMSJ5COS99azVN_?usp=sharing

CGCUP – Creating Fantasy Characters - From Ideation to Final Art (2020) with Even Amundsen https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1GejichvzhsabfoW5ONgN9I7fgEQsogMO?usp=sharing

Schoolism - Painting with Light and Color with Dice Tsutsumi and Robert Kondo
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B2-NZcMWYwHHanhiemhBNTAtSFU?usp=sharing

Ambient Occlusion - Digital Painting Technique
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B2-NZcMWYwHHQjczeHV4bXd6TU0?usp=sharing

CGCookie - Painting with Ambient Occlusion
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B2-NZcMWYwHHN0NoOXJGNjRvVUk?usp=sharing

I'll see what else I can find some time later

RedLenai 2023-10-25 01:51:11 UTC #14

Posting again, but this time just to bring this Tumblr Post only since I consider its very important

New anti-AI tool from the team developing Glaze that looks to poison prompts and ruin data sets entirely.

The tool can go so far as to trick AI into generating things it didn't ask for. 50 "poisoned" images of dogs into a data set yield typical errors companies have been working to get rid of: weird proportions, extra limbs, etc. When they added 300 samples, it was drastic enough to make a data set that was trained to generate "dogs" into "cats" making the tool basically useless.

It's not out yet, but they're adding it to Glaze and they intend on making it open source.

Welcome to the age of the AI arms race.

RedLenai 2023-11-18 13:51:48 UTC #15

Thread by Sinmenon on Tumblr

I’m posting the links here because the link keeps on a loop with adfly

IF YOU DRAW OR DESIGN

Instead of PHOTOSHOP, try GIMP or PHOTOPEA
Instead of LIGHTROOM, try PAINT.DOT.NET
Instead of ILLUSTRATOR, try INKSCAPE
Instead of INDESIGN, try CANVA or SCRIBUS

IF YOU MAKE PICTURES MOVE

Instead of PREMIERE, try DAVINCI RESOLVE
Instead of ANIMATE/FLASH, try OPENTOONZ or BLENDER
Instead of AFTER EFFECTS, try BLENDER or FUSION

IF YOU BUILD WEBSITES OR SOFTWARE

Instead of DREAMWAVER, SPARK or XD, try WIX, WEEBLY, or WORDPRESS.COM or WORDPRESS.ORG

IF YOU DO STUFF THAT REQUIRES THESE OTHER PROGRAMS

Instead of AUDITION, try AUDACITY
Instead of ACROBAT PRO, try FOXIT READER or PDF ESCAPE
Instead of INCOPY, try LOVING YOURSELF AND USING LITERALLY ANYTHING ELSE (WHO USES THIS???)

IF YOU NEED STOCK PHOTOS OR FONTS

Instead of ADOBE STOCK, try PEXELS, UNSPLASH, or PIXABAY
Instead of ADOBE PHONTS, try GOOGLE FONTS or DAFONT

BONUS: If you need FREE MUSIC OR SOUND EFFECTS, try YOUTUBE AUDIO LIBRARY or SOUNDBIBLE

My bonuses:

IF YOU DRAW OR DESIGN

Instead of PHOTOSHOP, try FIREALPACA , SAI , SKETCHBOOK or KRITA (these latter two are great!)
Instead of LIGHTROOM, try PHOTOSCAPE

IF YOU MAKE PICTURES MOVE

Instead of PREMIERE, try SHOTCUT
Instead of ANIMATE/FLASH, try PENCIL2D ANIMATION, LIVE2D, OR E-MOTE

IF YOU NEED STOCK PHOTOS

Instead of ADOBE STOCK, try MORGUEFILE.COM

RedLenai 2023-11-30 14:01:05 UTC #16

Coming back with new resources, but this time regarding legal things.

This was from elleap's post on Tumblr

Many websites have those complaint forms you need to fill out to submit DMCA notice. Here are some of them:

Tumblr https://www.tumblr.com/dmca

DeviantArt https://help.deviantart.com/dmca

Instagram http://help.instagram.com/contact/372592039493026?helpref=faq_content

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/634636770043106?helpref=page_content

Twitter https://support.twitter.com/forms/dmca

VKontakte https://vk.com/dmca

Pinterest https://pinterest.com/about/copyright/dmca-pin/

Youtube https://www.youtube.com/copyright_complaint_form

Flickr https://ipr.yahoo.com/copyright?.lang=en-US

Google https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/dmca-notice

Usually links to those forms can be found on website’s Terms of Service pages. (search for copyright or DMCA)

Any content you’ve created, is copyrighted by you. You have full right to ask staff to delete repost. Your works deserve to be protected.

RedLenai 2024-03-19 16:49:07 UTC #17

Reviving this topic from time to time. I eventually stop finding so much stuff since I think I covered already a lot.

So, here are other recommendations for Tips / Tutorials and drawing stuff

Kawaii Sensei
https://www.youtube.com/@KawaiiSenseiDrawing/videos

DreamTrove

Laovaan

YuumeiArt

Cioccolatodorima

Jazza

Editing to add Katliente as well, she covers mostly tips for Streamers and TikTok. Besides commenting on other art related stuf
https://www.youtube.com/@katliente

RedLenai 2024-04-03 16:40:02 UTC #18

Finally with more resources.

Original post by midwinterhunt (Tumblr) Some may be repeated

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.

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.

RedLenai 2024-06-18 14:59:36 UTC #19

New tips for artists, TikTok edition

10 digital art tips in 1 minute by SkynixArt
https://www.tiktok.com/@skynixart/video/7134217451826466049

Lineart Hack by rooususu
https://www.tiktok.com/@rooususu/video/7104071939429305605

Flats and lineart at the same time by rooususu
https://www.tiktok.com/@rooususu/video/7122137232391048454

Art and Commission resources lists on mmtk's profile
https://www.tiktok.com/@_mmtk_

Art Tips, Resources, How to Draw's, and warm ups by artxstly
https://www.tiktok.com/@artxstly

To be honest, TikTok is full of several resources, tips, challenges and more under 1 minute or similar. So I recommend searching for stuff there as well.

EDIT: I found some resources on historical clothing.

National Clothing

Claire’s Historical Fashion Reference & Resources

jungaFY 2024-08-19 08:13:17 UTC #20

Thanks for all the great and fun links!
Here is another few useful ones that I like to use:
* https://gethexcolor.com/ - Hex color generator.
* https://myimgs.org/ - Free image hosting site.

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