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A master post of Thomas Romain’s art tutorials.

There’s not enough space to post all of them, SO here’s links to everything he has posted (on twitter) so far : 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12. 

Now that new semesters have started, I thought people might need these. Enjoy your lessons!

Once you care a little about lettering and fonts there’s no coming back

(Top to bottom fonts are: anime ace, back issues, minceraft regular, white rabbit, vcr osd mono, and determination snas

i feel like we don’t talk about things like this enough

Ur art is always so fluid and the poses just seem to be PERFECT EVERYTIME😭 PLZ PLZ PLZ GIVE US A POSE/ANATOMY TUTORIAL OR SOMETHING, LOVE UR ART BTW 🫶🏽

AHH THANKY I HOPE THIS HELPS HH SORRY IM NOT GOOD AT EXPLAINING THINGS :')

refseek.com

www.worldcat.org/

link.springer.com

http://bioline.org.br/

repec.org

science.gov

pdfdrive.com

a couple snippets from a presentation i gave at school this past week on storyboarding!!

‼️DISCLAIMER: I am a still a student and have only worked on student and indie projects! This is just stuff that I personally find helpful as an amateur, so feel free to take it with a grain of salt!

Happy boarding, friends! ✍️💕

Costume. Chitons.

Learning about plants has made my biopunk novel much more complicated like damn now I have to think about all the species and stuff

quick tutorial on how I shade with solid black (a lot of people ask, hope this helps)

prints | patreon  

Want to learn something new in 2022??

Absolute beginner adult ballet series (fabulous beginning teacher)

40 piano lessons for beginners (some of the best explanations for piano I’ve ever seen)

Excellent basic crochet video series

Basic knitting (probably the best how to knit video out there)

Pre-Free Figure Skate Levels A-D guides and practice activities (each video builds up with exercises to the actual moves!)

How to draw character faces video (very funny, surprisingly instructive?)

Another drawing character faces video

Literally my favorite art pose hack

Tutorial of how to make a whole ass Stardew Valley esque farming game in Gamemaker Studios 2??

Introduction to flying small aircrafts

French/Dutch/Fishtail braiding

Playing the guitar for beginners (well paced and excellent instructor)

Playing the violin for beginners (really good practical tips mixed in)

Color theory in digital art (not of the children’s hospital variety)

Retake classes you hated but now there’s zero stakes:

Calculus 1 (full semester class)

Learn basic statistics (free textbook)

Introduction to college physics (free textbook)

Introduction to accounting (free textbook)

Learn a language:

Ancient Greek

Latin

Spanish

German

Japanese (grammar guide) (for dummies)

French

Russian (pretty good cyrillic guide!)

I get asked a lot for tips with coloring black people, so i put together a little tutorial! (and bumps my kofi if you found this helpful)

RISE STUDIEEES

Thought I’d post these, the third one is just kind of a tangent, but why not share?

I might make another part on the show’s mouths but that’s pretty basic stuff, idk what I’d write. So it’s a strong maybe…

Besides Fantasy Name Generator and Behind the Name, are there any other naming sites you'd recommend?

i’ve recommended some of these before, so bear with me if anyone has seen these! i’ve used these sites for years bc they work incredibly well. 

this site has a great “creative” option for those people who want their names to sound more fantastical 

this site has a ton of fantastic lists as well as a name hunter option 

this site allows you to come up with different spellings for any given name, as does this one 

this one allows you to punch in origin and gender 

this site is a particular favorite bc it allows you to enter suffixes, prefixes, certain letters you want the name to contain, the gender, the meaning/origin, and the number of syllables in a name

this one has a selection of uncommon names

this one is fairly standard, but it’s definitely worth a look

this one is also fairly standard, but it’s useful

this one is fantastically organized by origin or ethnicity

and this is one i particularly like perusing

i hope these help! :)

The Welsh Viking is pretty cool! 

Female characters that have you going like this

So uh….some dude apparently recreated Adobe Photoshop feature-for-feature, for FREE, and it runs in your browser.

Anyway, fuck Adobe, and enjoy!

I compiled this a while ago but I was just looking for references and found the file so...

Best places to find reference photos:

Body types, poses, and anatomy:

http://reference.sketchdaily.net/en

https://www.posemaniacs.com/

https://quickposes.com/en

https://www.characterdesigns.com/#home-section

https://www.adorkastock.com/sketch/

https://line-of-action.com/practice-tools/figure-drawing/

https://www.proko.com/browse/tools?af=242

Giant anatomy reference tutorials Pinterest board:

https://www.pinterest.com/deedee1232/body-reference/

General:

https://unsplash.com/

https://pixabay.com/

https://www.pexels.com/

https://stocksnap.io/

https://www.freeimages.com/

https://kaboompics.com/

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

https://morguefile.com/

https://www.flickr.com/

https://www.dreamstime.com/

https://pmp-art.com/

https://www.freepik.com/

https://photobash.co/

https://picjumbo.com/

https://burst.shopify.com/

https://magdeleine.co/

https://wordpress.org/openverse/

Historical:

https://nos.twnsnd.co/

hi! how do you determine where to put thick and where to put thin lines in your drawings? id really like to know :3

here's some pointers I made hope this helps!

So here’s a couple of my Deltarune predictions (pic related), will reblog way in the future to see wich ones hit and wich ones miss!

-Ok maybe not something EXACTLY like the pic, but there’s a chance Sans’ brother in Deltarune is not Papyrus but a different character.

-Wether or not that’s the case, this will play a bigger role in a future chapter.

-A future chapter’s dark world will take place inside Asgore’s flower shop, particularly through the closed double doors in the room with the soul-colored flowers.

-Undyne will show up in Chapter 3 and potentialy lose an eye, ending up in the hospital afterwards.

-Each chapter’s antagonist will be themed around a chess piece (we got King and Queen already), Except for chapter 7, wich will be something different.

-All the secret bosses (or similar) will have some kind of connection to Gaster, or be implied to have interacted with him.

-It is revealed or heavily implied that multiple entities (including us) are posessing Kris.

-We will continue to make others do the dirty work in the Weird Route, this will cause clear repercusions in the light world.

-Also in the weird route, Susie will start suspecting that Something Weird is up with Kris.

-If so and she discovers what’s happening, she will confront Kris about it not knowing it’s not their own doing.

-Ralsei will get progressively more defensive/assertive about the prophecy.

-Nobody will know it was Kris who opened the fountain at the end of Chapter 2, but Ralsei will have his suspicions.

-Kris and Susie will stay in their dark world rooms Ralsei made for a night.

-Ralsei will not show up in Chapter 3 and Toriel will replace him for it.

-Pizzapants still hates his job.

Sussy

Masterpost: How to write a story?

Compilation of writing advice for some aspects of the writing process.

How to motivate myself to write more

How to get rid of writer’s block

Basic Overview: How to write a story

How to create a character

How to make a character unique

How to write conversation

Introducing a group of characters

Large cast of characters interacting in one scene

Redemption arc

Plot twists

How to write a summary

How to write romance

How to write emotional scenes

How to write yelling

Fatal Character Flaws

How to use songs in a fanfiction

Good traits gone bad

More specific scenarios

Slow burn

How to create quick chemistry

How to write a bilingual character

How to write a polyamorous realtionship

How to create and write a cult

Criminal past comes to light

Reasons for breaking up while still loving each other

Forbidden love

Date gone wrong

Causes for the apocalypse

How to create a coffee shop atmosphere

How to write enemies to lovers

How to write lovers to enemies to lovers

Arranged matrimony for royalty

Paramilitary Forces/ Militia

Honeymoon

Academic Rivals to Lovers

Love Language - Showing, not telling

How to write amnesia

AU ideas

Favourite tropes

Inconvenient things a ghost could do

Milestones in a relationship

How to write age difference

Platonic activities for friends

Introducing partner(s) to family

Writing a stratocracy

Reasons a couple would divorce on good terms

Love Language - Showing you care

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Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

CSP Brush Compilation

Some of my favorite csp brushes, I figured I may as well do one of these as well if anyone is interested

General Brushes

Lineart

CRO SAI PEN

ACHE & GANG PEN

DAE 12345 SET

Tuna G-Pen

SOIPEN

SU-Cream Pencil

Pom-a Pencil

Painting

Paint

Salmon Brushes

SOL

Soft fluffy paint (10cp)

Sharp Watercolor

PinGoshi dragging brush

ARTIST21 BRUSH PACK

Shading

Hair Pen 

One-sided gradient brush

Other

Hair Highlights Mega Pack

Curly Hair Pen

Severely Braid Brush

Decay pen (10cp)

Graffiti Blood

Birdprints (10cp)

Animal pattern brush

Snake Scale Brush

Pixel Brushes Mega Pack

Simple Retro Halftone Brushes

Tools

Mirre’s Favourites

MaaBlur Brush

Motion Blur Brush

Erase Along Edge

Eraser to remove only protrude pen and overflow

No gaps close and fill + for erasing tool reference layer

Tool to remove without gaps

Close and fill tool without gaps

Regular pattern creations aids

The Only Perspective Grid You Need!

10 Kinds of 3D grids & Basic Shapes (10g, 500cp)

Horn Model Collection 1 (500cp)

Bones

Clothing

General

Easy Seams

Seam, double line

Stitch Brush

Tights Brush

Boots New 01.

String brush

Fluttering string pen Kai

Patterns

The Border pen

Easy lines

Hound’s Tooth Check_Set

Camouflage Pens

Greek Pottery Patterns

Traditional Korean Glysm Brush

Korea Old Moon Exchange 2 (10cp)

Korea Old Moon Exchange 3 (10cp)

Traditional gold leaf brush

12

Triangular Diamond Brush

Backgrounds

A brush set that draws clouds

Sputtering brush

Rain brush

Rain Brush Set

Shake/Flow Brush

Roughly waves and light sea brushes

Glowing waves (10cp)

Water description

A brush set that paints a meadow

Bramble

Rose Petals

Building group brushes for a distant distance

Window brushes

Raiku’s City Lights

Hand-painted/ Bookshelf Book & File Brushes

Dancing paper brushes

Fantasy Papers

Ledlights

Sparkling Fish Flock Brush (100g)

Birbs 

Battlefield Dust Brush

Dust brushes

Sunlight brushes

Sunlight brushes (yes it’s different)

Ellipse blur brush

Effects

General Effects

Retro Effects

Retro Filters

VHS action set

Color-changing auto-action

Raiku RGB Shift

Gradient Sets

Empty color gradient set

Petitchery Set

Soft Atmosphere Gradient

Sea Gradient

Forest Memory Gradient Map Set

Waste World Gradient Map Set

Other

Ver.1.10.10 Default Sub Tools (May already be added during the update but if not, I highly recommend getting these!)

Jonas De Ro’s Photoshop Brush Pack (Since csp now supports photoshop brushes, I love to use these for backgrounds)

Mar-ka Photoshop Brush Pack (Some more really nice photoshop brushes)

(Paid) ByVegalia Black Hair Brushes: Gumroad Link, Etsy Link (Lots of options for programs as well!!)