Thread "[[Skullbie's MEGA THREAD]] Link/Tips to Everything: Poses, Guides, Anatomy, Fonts, Reference, Tutorials, etc." in forum "Tips and Tricks/Support *"

Posted at 9:03PM, Mar. 29, 2008

About:
This thread contains 100 or so links to valuable information on Art/Comic making.

[Disclaimer!] Some links may contain nudity, And may not be suitable for those under 18 years of age! Be advised! It is mainly Tasteful nudity, and the purpose of the thread is to be worksafe so-I will remove any links to sites the mods/admins/users deem to risky.

The links are great and I urge you to check them out. More are listed at http://shii.org/2ch/art.html(Read red text below!!) and I will continually be adding my own useful links and tips to this thread as time goes on. The overchan shii.org may contain 18+ content so minors don't venture outside the part where I linked!!! >:c Also the project wonderful ads on that site can be kinda gross-Be warned!!!)
Seriously I don't want to get in trouble..^^ Only help artists here~~

Bookmark this worksafe thread or the non-worksafe http://shii.org/2ch/art.html with Ctrl+D

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The usual fare:
http://www.itchstudios.com/psg/art_tut.htm
http://www.posemaniacs.com/pose/randomviewer.html
http://www.artnatomia.net/uk/artnatomy.html
http://www.eskeletons.org/
http://fineart.sk/
http://creative.gettyimages.com/source/home/home.aspx

Poses
http://www.sporting-heroes.net/Default.asp
http://www.thehaca.com/photos/photos.htm
http://www.asthangafriends.4t.com/Yoga_Poses.html

Forums
http://www.digitalwebbing.com/forums/
http://www.panelandpixel.com/forum/
http://conceptart.org/

Web Design
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/
http://www.dhtmlshock.com/
http://www.funky-chickens.com/
http://www.alistapart.com/topics/design/
http://glish.com/css/
http://forum.echoechoplus.com/
http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modListing.asp
http://www.mako4css.com/Tutorial.htm
http://www.csszengarden.com/

Fonts(Skull note: Remember never use anything to computerized for speech)
http://www.dafont.com/
http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/
http://www.blambot.com/
http://cooltext.com/Fonts-All

Photoshop(Skull note: If you use the GIMP most of these will work)
http://www.phong.com/
http://www.planetphotoshop.com/
http://www.teamphotoshop.com/
http://www.polykarbon.com/
http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modListing.asp
http://psworkshop.net/psworkshop/
http://www.lombergar.com/v6/free-photoshop-video-tutorials.html
http://www.good-tutorials.com/
http://www.purephotoshop.com/
http://www.photoshopcafe.com/
http://www.spoono.com/photoshop/
http://www.computerarts.co.uk/tutorials/2d/
http://www.eyesondesign.net/pshop/tuts.htm
http://www.screaming-art.com/tutorials.php
http://www.absolutecross.com/tutorials/photoshop/[/url ]
http://steeldolphin.com/tutorials_photoshop.php
http://www.newtutorials.com/
http://ultrashock.com/

Illustrator
http://www.creativemac.com/2003/12_dec/tutorials/illcs3d1031211.htm
http://docs.rinet.ru/Ill/
http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modListing.asp

Painter
http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modListing.asp
http://www.pixelalley.com/tutorials/painter7-tutorials.html

Backgrounds/Landscape:-Submitted and organized by Frostflowers!-
Urban decay
Rural ruin
Rundown town
Deathly decayed (cemeteries/gravestones)
Dead machinery ( machines - old cars and military equipment as well.)
Abandoned places

3D Modeling(Skull note: Master this if you wish to do dynamic poses in your art)
http://www.3dlinks.com/links.cfm?categoryid=13&subcategoryid=105
http://www.3dtotal.com/
http://www.learning-maya.com/modeling.php
http://www.3dtutorials.sk/
http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modListing.asp
http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/tutorials.html
http://cube.phlatt.net/home/spiraloid/tutorial/index.html

Pixel Art
http://www.zoggles.co.uk/asp/tutorials.asp?show=index
http://rhysd.syntesis.org/tutorial/
http://www.deviantart.com/view/2866522/
http://pixel.nascimpact.com/tutoriaux.php
http://www.spriteart.com/
http://www.speccy.org/remakesgraph/tutoriales/tuto.htm
http://pixel-zone.rpgdx.net/shtml/tutorials.shtml
http://www.drububu.com/tutorial/flashtival.html
http://www.drububu.com/tutorial/flashtival.html
http://www.barnettcollege.com/tutorial1.htm

Animation
http://www.idleworm.com/how/index.shtml
http://www.donbluth.com/academy.html
http://www.awn.com/tooninstitute/lessonplan/lesson.htm#top

Nudes Possible 18+, Be advised. Mostly tasteful nudity-But May contain pornography. You've been warned.
http://www.female-anatomy-for-artist.com/
http://www.photo.net/nudes/
http://www.agalleryofnudes.com/gon/portfolio.html
http://www.amis-angels.com/models.htm
http://www.fotostrip.dk/model1.htm
http://www.bigkugels.com/content/Koch-RiethDerAct/KRFemales/index.html
http://www.bigkugels.com/content/Koch-RiethDerAct/KRMales/index.html
http://www.studiojorgen.com/main.htm
http://www.creative-nude.net/cnpn.html
http://www.bobx.com/dark/

Textures
http://textures.forrest.cz/
http://www.mayang.com/textures/
http://qbranch.cottages.polycount.com/ref_links.shtml
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?p=1280135
http://www.mayang.com/textures
http://textures.forrest.cz/

Screentone:(Skull note: Coming soon!)

Webcomics:(Skull note: Help be adding your own links/tips!)
http://www.between-worlds.com/tutorials/comic_tutorial_dropdown.shtml
http://divine-star.deviantart.com/art/Step-by-Step-in-Comic-Making-22840359
http://www.onikimono.com/links/

————–Tutorials——————-
More will be added soon- Post in thread if you find one to submit-Your name will be added as credit next to it.

Painting clouds:
http://www.androidblues.com/cloudtut.html

Tutorials by Katie Lee De Sousa:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/34562471/
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/34563239/

Tutorial page by Natascha Roeoesli:
http://tascha.ch/?page_id=21

Tutorial page by Roberto Campus:
http://www.robertocampus.com/tutorials.cfm

Tutorials by Stephanie Pui-mun Law (all traditional):
http://www.shadowscapes.com/StepByStepFoxSpirits/wc.shtml
http://www.shadowscapes.com/StepByStep/dryad.shtml

Traditional painting demonstrations.
http://www.burdicklyon.com/demonstrations.htm
http://www.williamwhitaker.com/B_HTML_files/07_demo/INDEX.HTM

Some pretty good tutorials on Deviant art.
http://chaosshattered.deviantart.com/journal/6836628/

Time lapse of a comic strip being made:
http://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/2007/04/25/498854.html

——————Very Useful———————-

A library of hundreds of thousands of diverse pictures
http://www.photovault.com/

Many pictures of female hairstyles
http://womensbeautylife.com/gallery/

Figure drawing tutorial
http://www.deviantart.com/view/11939496/

Human anatomy drawing tutorial
http://www.deviantart.com/view/15014442/

Guide to drawing the "mongoloid" race
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/32046017/

Guide to drawing the "caucasoid" race
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/33220929/

Guide to drawing the "negroid" race
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/34877428/

Guide to drawing facial expressions
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/47118559/

Portrait drawing tutorial site
http://www.portrait-artist.org/

Some skeletal references
http://www.bio.psu.edu/people/faculty/strauss/anatomy/skel/skeletal.htm

Sources for Andrew Loomis's drawing books(For anybody who draws humans, view this)
http://acid.noobgrinder.com/Loomis/

Proportions and anatomy drawing tutorial
http://www.blazedent.com/tutorial_1_3.php

Basic color theory tutorial
http://www.deviantart.com/view/14617828/

Basic hand drawing tutorial
http://www.deviantart.com/view/23565813/

Basic guidelines and tips for drawing female hands
http://www.deviantart.com/view/32471237/

Basic foot tutorial
http://www.deviantart.com/view/38271036/

Tutorials From DrunkDuckers:-Picked out/posted by Crocty! Thanks pal! :3-
Silentkitty's rain effect tutorial
Winterman's inking tutorial
Fishfry's word balloon tutorial
Enkinda's word balloon tutorial
Luminous' line art tutorial
Enkinda's homepage HTML tutorial part one part two (HTML problems should probably go in Coding and templates, but, why not?)
Glenfx's inking tutorial
Enkinda's comic page HTML tutorial
Finalfantasyfreak_07's lineart, and I believe colouring tutorial
Cartoonproffesor's movement tutorial
iowabarbiedoll's inking tutorial
Mutation's magic effects tutorial
Kingv's water drawing tutorial
Ronson's word balloon tutorial
heymelby's video tutorial of how one of his comic's is made
Deviant Lnyx's inking tutorial
Mister spook's tutorial on how to prepare lineart for inking

Misc
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~zm5s-nkmr/index.html - A nice japanese site.
http://tutorialblog.org/gimp-tutorials/ - Tutorials for GIMP.
http://tascha.ch/?page_id=86 - Painting hair
http://www.furiae.com/index.php?view=gallery - Various painting tutorials
http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/contents.asp - TONS of fine art

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If you are a complete Newbie and have no idea where to start: Here's a suggested order. But it's no rule book-Find your own path too :3

The Rules of Art v1;
1. Study the following first;
-Anatomy(muscle structure, bone structure, construction of objects)
-Perspective(viewing angle, 1, 2 and 3 point perspectives)
-Composition(placement of objects, focal points, viewing angle, overall feel)

2. Study the following next;
-Contrast(emphasizing of opposites colors to create depth)
-Light/Shadow(how light creates shadows and highlights)
-Color Value(mood, atmosphere, how they affect a picture)

3. Study the following LAST;
-Creativity(concepts and imagination)
-Style(proper exaggeration of the above basics of art)

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End Note:
I've had these links/sites/contributed too for quite a while now- But was nervous to share because of the content of some: Even I haven't gotten through ALL of them!

If one of the links contains something you think is waaaaay to risky-Please PQ or post in the thread and I will remove it! Mods/Admins feel fit to remove too-(Don't ban meeee plz-! ;-; I only wish to help!)

Skullbie's Notes:
-You will learn 10x more on anatomy from studying artistic nudes than people in clothing.

-Just because the ads on the sites are gross/porn doesn't mean the site is-they just need some extra cash ^^

-As you can see from comments in the post I take the 18+ warning quite seriously, Please respect the disclaimers.

-I made this thread because I want artists here to learn and grow as fast as I am- I hope those of you that came to this thread or the Overchan have learned at least one thing! :) I plan to add more to this thread as time goes on! But you can help as well::

If you have a link/tip to submit please post in the thread or pq! Your name will be added as credit next to it. Make sure the links have high quality content!
(I reserve the right not to add your link or tip-But that usually wont happen)
If you have praise/suggestions/complaints or otherwise also pq me or post them in the thread.

What links this thread currently needs: Links on comic tutorials!!

Links were taken from the Overchan and submitted by Anonymous, /ic/, Users of DD, and Myself. If you are 18+ please click 'help us' on shii.org^^

Posted at 9:03PM, Mar. 29, 2008

Posted at 9:03PM, Mar. 29, 2008

-Just a note. The Over 18 links are fine since they have warnings ^^

Posted at 9:03PM, Mar. 29, 2008

I didn't see morguefile in there. I might have missed it though.

http://www.morguefile.com/

Posted at 10:03PM, Mar. 29, 2008

I didn't see morguefile in there. I might have missed it though.

http://www.morguefile.com/

Added under 'Reference.'
w00t you're the first contribution :)

Posted at 10:03PM, Mar. 29, 2008

I noticed you only mentioned the Gimp once… lol!

http://gimp.org/tutorials/

Posted at 10:03PM, Mar. 29, 2008

I dug through my bookmarks and found a couple more of varying usefulness. They're basically a couple lists which lead to more tutorials and info.

http://www.finearteducation.com/

http://www.gfxartist.com/features/tutorials

Posted at 4:03AM, Mar. 30, 2008

You should definitely add more facial expressions help.
Facial expressions make the comic more awesome.

Alas, I have no link to one. Never need one. :P
But, if I might make a suggestion; there are a few helpful tutorials in DD's tutorials section. You could link to some. :D

Nice post, Skull. Likely to get stickied.

Posted at 2:03AM, Mar. 31, 2008

Whoa! o.O Nice link-repository. This is really, really useful.

I scanned through your list, but couldn't see http://www.posemaniacs.com anywhere - and I've found that really useful.

Also, I didn't see much in the way of landscape/background reference, so I thought I'd dump mine here. They're mostly decayed/broken down buildings and machinery, because I'm kind of odd like that, but I've found them to be occasionally very useful, and some of the photographs are nothing short of gorgeous. Mind, they're Livejournal communities, so finding what you want is a matter of browsing extensively:

Urban decay
Rural ruin
Rundown town
Deathly decayed (cemeteries/gravestones)
Dead machinery (no houses, but truckloads of old, rusty machines - quite a few old cars and military equipment as well.)
Abandoned places

Posted at 10:03AM, Mar. 31, 2008

This should be stickied.

[edit] Saveloomis.org does not exist.

Posted at 12:03PM, Mar. 31, 2008

Whoa! o.O Nice link-repository. This is really, really useful.

I scanned through your list, but couldn't see http://www.posemaniacs.com anywhere - and I've found that really useful.

Urban decay
Rural ruin
Rundown town
Deathly decayed (cemeteries/gravestones)
Dead machinery (no houses, but truckloads of old, rusty machines - quite a few old cars and military equipment as well.)
Abandoned places

Woot! What a great links, It gives me the idea to actually name my links too. Pose maniacs if up there of course lol! It's under 'the usual'

@mattandcow
You can use photoshop tutorials ;) The only reason i didn't put them up there is because gimp tutorials are lacking in quality usually…even though i use gimp myself. lol!

@Crocty
Thanks for the suggestions! Yeah a sticky would be cool.

@teedomoonstrider
Thanks. :) Crap that's one of the most useful links…I'll find another.

Posted at 12:03PM, Mar. 31, 2008

Loomis' books were very, very useful. Old school, but covered a lot of the basics.

Again, great list!

Posted at 3:03PM, Mar. 31, 2008

*Sigh* If I had the time, then I'd write up some photoshop to gimp tutorial conversions… But I don't. Maybe when I get back…

Posted at 8:04AM, Apr. 1, 2008

Wow, thank you for this! I have no contributions to add since the only site I've paid much attention to in the past was posemaniacs.com - and I got that from FrostFlowers ^.^

Posted at 1:04PM, Apr. 1, 2008

OK, I dedicated myself to look through some tutorials that you could post…
(Maybe put the DD tutorials under a new section?)
Ozone's drawing-type tutorial
Silentkitty's rain effect tutorial
Winterman's inking tutorial
Fishfry's word balloon tutorial
Enkinda's word balloon tutorial
Luminous' line art tutorial
Enkinda's homepage HTML tutorial part one part two (HTML problems should probably go in Coding and templates, but, why not?)
Glenfx's inking tutorial
Enkinda's comic page HTML tutorial
Finalfantasyfreak_07's lineart, and I believe colouring tutorial
Cartoonproffesor's movement tutorial
iowabarbiedoll's inking tutorial
Mutation's magic effects tutorial
Kingv's water drawing tutorial
Ronson's word balloon tutorial
heymelby's video tutorial of how one of his comic's is made
Deviant Lnyx's inking tutorial
Mister spook's tutorial on how to prepare lineart for inking

Whew…Also, I mostly skimmed through these, so…If some of them aren't that helpful, I apologise.
I'll probably make a tutorial one time come to think of it…
Well anyway, there they are.

Posted at 4:04PM, Apr. 2, 2008

.Also, I mostly skimmed through these, so…If some of them aren't that helpful, I apologise.
I'll probably make a tutorial one time come to think of it…
Well anyway, there they are.

No no, if people visit this thread from outside DD I'm sure they'll find it useful-thanks a bunch! (Yeah you should make a tutorial too :3 )

Posted at 8:04AM, Apr. 3, 2008

No problem.
I had nothing better to do. :P

Posted at 7:04PM, Apr. 3, 2008

(Skull note: Remember never use anything to computerized for speech)

To elaborate on this, get a font that is sans serif. The serif is the 'tail' that appears on the ends of letters that give it a calligraphy effect. Comic book dialog is supposed to look organic so serif fonts are best reserved for letters, typewriters, and computers.

Posted at 4:04PM, Apr. 12, 2008

Haha, my tutorial is listed there! I wasn't expecting that x)

But actually the reason I'm posting is to say thanks for that massive post. I'm bookmarking this thread, because those links are going to be really useful ^^. So thanks!

Posted at 5:04PM, Apr. 15, 2008

Cool! Thanks for the sticky! ^^
Hopefully even more user links will be added now!

Posted at 4:05PM, May. 6, 2008

SXC

Stock Xchange, lots of free photos (large, too), with a pretty good search function.

And something I feel is invaluable to comics-makin':

Guide to Semiotics

nice slideshow on semiotic basics/advertising

Posted at 12:06PM, Jun. 10, 2008

informative podcast about comic strip making
webcomics weekly @ halfpixel.com

Posted at 2:07PM, Jul. 30, 2008

Skullbie!

http://divine-star.deviantart.com/art/Step-by-Step-in-Comic-Making-22840359
The above link doesn't work anymore.

Posted at 10:07PM, Jul. 30, 2008

Here's a great tutorial on creating speed lines that I found to be especially useful:

http://katycoope.blogspot.com/2008/05/creating-speedlines-on-photoshop-part-1.html

Posted at 4:08PM, Aug. 21, 2008

ImagineFX has some pretty nice tutorials.

It's a magazine from the UK and it costs around $100 to get a 12 month subscription here in the US. I'd say it's worth the penny. I'd wish they had something similar here so it wouldn't cost so much.

I decided to scan some of their tuts and post them here.