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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

Auraeum belongs to Auspice

here’s my final for my covers class. which i took the opportunity to draw @gingerhaze‘s Nimona, cuz why the heck not. if you still haven’t read this book, you should buy it. 

welp. ima sleep now. 

my Tabaxi Sorcerer in my current campaign. we’re playing Curse of Strahd which is a lot of fun. :3

🎨 it's nearly time for #mARTch again 🎨

mARTch is a little art challenge i host in march! it's full of quick daily prompts u can use to warm up :) you prob already heard me talk abt this if we're friends or if u picked it up at fotp last weekend .. but heres whats up:

every time i host an art event i get messages on here and on twitter and on insta from people who 'would love to join in but don't feel like they can draw every day' so i just want to specify again ...

this is NOT an event where u gotta draw daily!!!! go at your own pace unless you love endurance - the NORMAL way to do mARTch is to only draw on the days marked with a star (2 days per week) seriously seriously seriously don't push yourself unless you like pushing yourself!!!

Guess who did some art? And got an IPad? Procreate is pretty stellar….

For drawing references 

[@/ALEXbutalsoK on Twitter]

outfit ask meme!! but catered only to the things i like to draw a lot

send an ask with a character, letter, and a number and i’ll draw them in that outfit!! ^_^

Rather than drawing your character standing there doing nothing over and over again, here’s 100 other ideas to put them in action and challenge yourself as an artist.

***UPDATE*** New and improved version of my action prompt list! Full-size file is now available FREE to download on Gumroad as a part of my Character Developer Prompt Pack. Plus my Character Design Prompt Pack is there too! Hope you like it~

so it’s been a few months since my fam’s Decent into Avernus campaign concluded, but I never got around to drawing them all so I DID IT FINALLY. (and lol wow two arts in a week? WILD)

Anyway, my character was Ozirek Betrug the Bard, who you can see rocking out.

Asca is my brother in law brother (just brother in law?? NOT SURE) Elf Druid who’s chilling with Lulu.

Quelena is my Sister’s ranger/rougue who has PTSD from previous trips to hell.

Lulu is Lulu. A hollyphant and all around GOOD GIRL.(NPC)

And there’s Nikki who was played by our DM after he failed to kill her off??? And he just couldn’t figure out how to get rid of narratively?? AHahahah. Anyway, she was a Rogue who was in love with my Bard, which made life difficult.

So. would you beleive....it took me two years to do this fucking drawing. I started it for a YuYu Hakusho fashion zine in the summer of 2019 and uh....then i dropped out of that. possibly because i'm a little flaky but also because I knew I wouldn't finish the piece to my liking in time.

and gonna be real. I don't fucking care about Kurama and Yokou anymore! look at the REAL star! MY BEAUTIFUL COUCH! mutherfucker took so many hours....but i love it. (as you can tell then I drew the parts that wouldn't show up where the characters are....whoops.)

anyway, I still don't like my shading but I'll have to live it, because that's just where I am right now. enjoy both Kurama and Yoko looking stupid fancy for no reason now and hella out of context of the zine. :D

So. would you beleive....it took me two years to do this fucking drawing. I started it for a YuYu Hakusho fashion zine in the summer of 2019 and uh....then i dropped out of that. possibly because i'm a little flaky but also because I knew I wouldn't finish the piece to my liking in time.

and gonna be real. I don't fucking care about Kurama and Yokou anymore! look at the REAL star! MY BEAUTIFUL COUCH! mutherfucker took so many hours....but i love it. (as you can tell then I drew the parts that wouldn't show up where the characters are....whoops.)

anyway, I still don't like my shading but I'll have to live it, because that's just where I am right now. enjoy both Kurama and Yoko looking stupid fancy for no reason now and hella out of context of the zine. :D