I Think Everyone Should Make Dumb Ugly Zines And Bad Music And Write Shitty Books With Weird Premises

I think everyone should make dumb ugly zines and bad music and write shitty books with weird premises and publish them for pay what you will online. I think people should write plays that are only ever intended to be performed with their friends in their living rooms. I think people who like ttrpgs should explore bizarre itch.io games and new systems that have no affiliation whatsoever with any major publishing house. If youre lucky enough to have a cool local community radio station nearby you should listen to that and what people close to you have to say and what they're creating that has no focus on being nationally appealing. I just think creation should be more joyful and local both in a geographic sense and a personal and social sense and unconcerned with whether or not it will be commercially viable or slick or even good beyond your own pride in it. And I think it's good to seek out art that exists for its own sake or to appeal to the community it was created within

#7 - Usopp, ducks

some more character refs for art fight, Springtime the Tiefling(left) and Dahling Buddinglum(right), my dnd monk and my bugsnax oc respectively

it feels like my ocs are all over the place lol

i ended up picking team seafoam since I’ve been consuming large amounts of pirate content as of late

I’m super excited for my first artfight, and I hope I’ll be diligent enough to make lots of art

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.

Artfight for shire

Just finished the first season of Dungeon Meshi and was ✨inspired✨

This is Beetle, a goblin wizard. They are my test adventurer that for a dungeon tower I’m building. I rolled a 6 for their strength stat so you know they’re a great character. Their staff is also their arcane focus, and they know a lot of fire spells for cooking and because flames shooting out of the lantern is aesthetic.

I drew this at work so the only thing I had to color with was my phone’s photo app ccccc:

Please enjoy!