The time has come, mark your calendars, cause our preorders are opening in the 27th of May!! More info will be posted soon, stay tuned!

i watched one (1) video on how to draw hands that changed my life forever. like. i can suddenly draw hands again

these were all drawn without reference btw. i can just. Understand Hands now (for the most part, im sure theres definitely inaccuracies). im a little baffled

for those of u asking for the vid!

GLAZE 2.0 IS OUT TODAY FOR DOWNLOAD! Go protect your art!

NEW: Glaze 2.0 (Apr 14) We are excited to announce the release of version 2.0 of Glaze. This new version significantly improved Glaze robustness against the newest AI models, and requires less time to glaze images. Most notably:

MORE IMAGE PACKS NOW ON PATREON

Do you want to see how muscle engagement varies when using bows of different weights? Or draw an archer running, seated, crouching or leaping? More image packs from my collaboration with @null-entity are now up on Patreon! P.S. give @null-entity a follow for more excellent image references

how do draw good

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.

They also have an animal one that I linked a whole back on the same site !

I hope every single person who puts nice comments in tags under reblogged art knows that you you guys are the backbone of society. Being an artist online sucks these days, but here on tumblr I still get compliments under artworks that I made years ago. I hope you know every WOW and heart emoji and heartfelt compliment and funny comment you left in the tags is part of the reason I kept drawing all these years, in spite of everything that was going on.

I've been screenshotting the nice tags I get for years, and at this point it would be literal thousands of lines if I still had my old files. I love u tumblr users <333333333

“Notes on skirts and pants”

Source: miyuli on twitter

GUYS

I get a lot of questions about how I choose colors, and what it really comes down to is: I just play around with the color scheme until I like what I see.

This is a little preview of my latest video which talks about which tools I use to modify the colors! The full video also includes some paint-overs of other people’s artwork ~ those are always so much fun to do ✨ Find it here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/tutorial-colors-98597276

Your ONLY CHANCE to get the The HOW TO THINK WHEN YOU DRAW BOOKS is coming on a SECRET DATE on KICKSTARTER NEXT MONTH!! And you have ONE FINAL OPPORTUNITY to join the SECRET LAUNCH MAILING LIST, which will open up ONE FINAL TIME for 48 hours THIS MONTH! STAY TUNED for the announcement!

Lorenzo!

Hello to our page artist @lyssartandstars !! Swipe to see their amazing work! 

Lyss says: I'm always staying busy busy busy and zines are a fun little treat during all the work I have to do! This will be the 18th zine I've been involved in (usually I mod), and I'm super excited to add it to my repertoire. Been a PJO fan since 2007, so I am incredibly honored to be a part of this project <3

fast rendering tutorial for when you dont want to put in any effort

I’m sorry, but this is funny.

LEGACIES: a Batgirl zine has come to a close. While it technically wrapped up in November, there were severe personal complications before the holidays that resulted in the late conclusion of this project, so I apologize immensely to anyone who might have been waiting on another round of leftovers that I had not already touched base with.

For those of you who I have not already spoken to via email this month: this is Kye's mother, and I am finalizing things on my daughter's behalf as she has not been fit for the responsibility. I apologize wholeheartedly for the delay and unfair communication issues this has resulted in.

With that, the project is a wrap. It has been a long one, for which we cannot apologize enough, or thank you for your patience and sticking with it, and ultimately supporting this project and its showcase of the Batgirls.

Please remember to give all the writers and artists involved love on the pieces they have posted, and the incredible work they put into this. It would not exist without them, and they worked hard not only through the project itself, but through several months of a difficult wrap-up process wherein they were forcibly left to wait without updates as well. Please send them your kind words on their pieces, as you have done through the project's email or direct messages throughout its run.

Thank you for your time, and for your support.

S.

Hey y'all! The contributors would like to give you all some full transparency.

First off, we apologize for the repeated stretches of radio silence. That was completely outside of our control.

Earlier in 2023, both mods Michi and Ari left the project (Ari in March, and Michi in April) due to a combination of personal reasons and utter frustration at the lack of communication between them and head mod Kye. Pings on discord, DMs, messages would go unanswered for weeks, and there was little that Michi and Ari could do for the zine, as the only thing left to do was ship items— a responsibility that fell to Kye. Both Ari and Michi offered multiple times to take over shipping, but were assured that Kye could handle it and would have help with mailing items out to customers.

June 12th, contributors received an update from Kye that 98% of orders had been shipped- minus 5 that were pending address changes- for a total of 230 shipped bundles. We were told that socials would be updated to reflect the status of shipping, but nothing was ever posted. Likewise, contributors were informed that their compensatory bundles would be packed and shipped the following weekend. That did not happen at that time. Between June 15, 2023 and September 12, 2023, no one was able to contact Kye.

Contributors set a deadline for Kye to respond before we shared this letter with all of you advising refunds. They showed up with one hour to spare, coming in with excuses and promises of maintaining communication and honesty. Leftover sales opened, contributors received their bundles, and we assumed everything would finish out without any other issues.

That was not the case.

Kye proceeded to disappear again, and we have not had any communication with them since October. We attempted to reach out multiple times both in the discord server and through DMs to try and get answers, to no avail.

This morning, we finally decided we were going to post the letter for full transparency. I had shared the google drive link in the server, about to post, when I got the notification that Kye's mother had shared the above post.

There's no way that was a coincidence.

Some contributors have finally started to receive their payouts, as this was a for-profit zine. Kye's mother sent all contributors an email with what their share would be and the finances breakdown. The Google sheet was only shared with contributors, but I have a copy downloaded myself if anyone wants to see numbers. I also have the digital PDF and bundles if anyone wants those, since sales were so touch and go. Please DM me and I'm happy to share. We were going to be giving them out for free with the original letter anyway.

We are so incredibly sorry for how this all went down. As a mod myself on numerous other projects, this is not how zines are supposed to go.

We appreciate all of the support we've received thus far, and thank you for sticking with us. We hope you'll support the contributors (lists and links are on the Legacies page) in their other endeavors, and most of all, we hope you don't run into a zine this messy again.

Please do not reach out to Mods Michi or Ari, as they have been parted from the zine for over a year. They had nothing to do with this.

To anyone wanting to partner with @lunaresolis, I highly advise you read this message.

Thank you for reading and understanding.

Sincerely,

The Legacies Contributors