The beginning of this blog!
Here is Caramel :]
you all wont believe who i might meet later today
CHAT THEY DISCOVERED A NEW COAT TYPE IN CATS
IT’S CALLED “SALMIAK” OR “SALTY LICORICE” AND IT LOOKS LIKE THIS
things that would be dope to be
- the marble in spray paint
- boulder at the bottom of a lake
- the last leaf of autumn… take your sweet old time
- lightbulb filament
- grain of sand
- pillbug that just discovered an insane composter
- cumulonimbus cloud
in spirit i am a 7th grade boy
It is *ehem* hard isn’t it
I just want to remind everyone that is your civic duty to jailbreak your Nintendo consoles and pirate every Nintendo property until the heat death of the universe.
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.
Homie gonna share this
people are sharing this on insta again so here’s the version with the font i made 🥰💖
available as a postcard in my shop!
ID: star head creature holding a paw up.
text is spoken by them and reads, “THE ARTIST’S PLEDGE i swear i will make art for the primary purpose of having fun. i will value my play time just as much as the time i spend creatively, because one cannot exist without the other. i will listen to my body’s limits and also make time to let my mind rest. i will make art for my myself first, and for profit second. the art i make for myself is fulfilling to others and even if it wasn’t, i should still make it. only i can make the art i do.”
the picture is signed “cursedluver”. /End ID
“pasta only fills you up with empty calories” have you considered that it also fills me with love
love and warmth and happiness and most importantly pasta