You know, an interesting tumblr transformation that's happened gradually, and which I've seen no one talk about: ask-culture has essentially dropped off to nothing.

By which I mean, asks used to be WAY more of the tumblr economy. They used to be more common to send, and receive, and see. They were integral to the collaborative, forum-like behavior of old tumblr communities, not even to speak on the HUGE number of ask-blogs that used to exist to only be interacted with in ask-form.

I'm not saying this in a vying-for-attention way but instead in an observational way: I used to get way way more asks in like 2015, even with a fraction of my follower count. I wonder if it's due to the homogenization of social media sites? There's a lot more of this divide between "content creator" and "consumer" instead of just a bunch of peer blogs who would talk to each other. "Asks" aren't really a thing on twitter, are they? And as I understand it, the closest thing to an "ask" on instagram or tiktok would be a creator screenshotting some comment and responding to it in a new reel or video or whatever those content mediums are. Are asks just too tumblr-specific? Is that aspect of the site culture dying out as more and more people converge to using all their social media sites in the same way?

Jacob and Cole walking around town

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.

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Something like this would be so colossally helpful. I'm sick and tired of trying to research specific clothing from any given culture and being met with either racist stereotypical costumes worn by yt people or ai generated garbage nonsense, and trying to be hyper specific with searches yields fuck all. Like I generally just cannot trust the legitimacy of most search results at this point. It's extremely frustrating. If there are good resources for this then they're buried deep under all the other bullshit, and idk where to start looking.

Figure Masterpost Part one!

This masterpost is to help you better with gesture, posing, and general body construction! Though most of this is stylized and shape construction, there are lots of anatomy videos to explain muscles, bones, and other anatomy things more heavily! Nudity will be tagged, PDFs have not been scanned and thus are tagged for nudity just in case! Barbie doll like figures will not be tagged as nudity!  (If theres an option to turn off nudity it will not be tagged as nudity). Tutorials specifically for a certain sex will be tagged as dmab or dfab (designated male at birth or designated female at birth). Videos wont be tagged for skeletons!

Reference and Resources!

Figure drawing PDFs (Warning! Nudity) Bridgman’s Constructive Anatomy PDF (Warning! Nudity) Bridgman’s guide to life drawing PDF (Warning! Nudity) Quickposes! Pose Maniacs! Sketchdaily! Line Of Action! SenshiStock! Make a pose! (iPhone app!) Design doll! (Posing software!) Brightwing12! Pose reference! Pachurz! Building block references! (Warning! Nudity) Joumana Medlej! A bunch of tutorials on human anatomy! (Warning! Nudity) Allonsyraerae! Helpful activity! (Warning! Heavy text) Dresdencodak! Figures: They Speak for Themselves (Warning! Nudity and heavy text)

Tips Griz and Norm! The three steps! Griz and Norm! More acting less anatomy! Griz and Norm! Start strong gesture drawing tips! (Warning! Heavy Text) Griz and Norm! Pick a side! Griz and Norm! Leg Support! Griz and Norm! It’s all in your head! Griz and Norm! Push It! Griz and Norm! Gesture drawing! Griz and Norm! More tips on gesture drawing! Griz and Norm! Figure drawing pointers! Griz and Norm! Straight against curves! Griz and Norm! Don’t just stand there! Griz and Norm! Drawing through! Griz and Norm! Half and Half! Griz and Norm! Apply Pressure! Griz and Norm! Pelvis Tilt! (Warning! Skeletons) Griz and Norm! Line of action! Griz and Norm! Contour line! Griz and Norm! No straight lines! Griz and Norm! Shapes in figure drawing! Phailetdoesart! Things to keep in mind! Mitsouparker! Hip and shoulder spine line! Radiocga! Neck Fluidity! Radiocga! Hip tips! Ursuladecayart! general tips! (Warning! Suggestive imagery) Dammek! how to get a lively pose! (Warning! Heavy text) Littleulvar! Poses and perspective! Kisu-no-hi! Pose advice! Ryouhora! drawing poses from different angles! Dave Pimentel! Tapering body shapes! Betsyillustration! Heres the thing about contour! Shoomlah! photo reference! (Warning! Heavy text) Elixirmy! Pose and gesture suggestions! Elixirmy! necks in poses! Elixirmy! poses pt1 Elixirmy! poses pt 2 0lightsourced! Simplifying the body! Art-resource! “thinking in 3D” practicing! (Warning! Nudity) Makanidotdot! expressions and gesture! Sherm Cohen! Sponge bob guide to lively poses! Alex Woo! Gesture book first chapter! Dunyun-rings! giving drawings form! Munchanka! Simple vs complex! Flooby Nooby! Line of action - Mickey’s Christmas Carol Johnkstuff! Animation school lesson 5 line of action! Drawbetterart! gesture drawing!  Andrew Dickman! Sketching! Incaseyouart! good silhouettes! Marazure! drawing DFAB people! Loshitsu! Body drawing review! (Warning! Skeletons and suggestive posing) Helpfulharrie! gesture tips! Sketchercise! analytical figure tips! Creamysmutthie! Drawing thicker DFAB! (Warning! Nsfw blog, sfw post) Meridiangray! wanna draw better people? Mobble! Some tips for gesture drawing! Yessu! Posing tips and tricks! Ipoophere! how I deal with anatomy! Kelpls! tips! Chusska-art! Anatomy tips! Tanglefootcomic! Anatomy advice! (Warning! Heavy text) Toasty hat! Posing tips!

 Tutorials! Thundercluck! Shapes and silhouettes Thundercluck! the human body! Thundercluck! Different body types! (Warning! Nudity) Thundercluck! DMAB tutorial!  Thundercluck! Rough Sketching! Thundercluck! Poses! (Warning! Nudity) Thundercluck! Character Interaction! Radfordsechrist! Simple Vs Complex Radfordsechrist! Gesture notes! Grafight! DFAB proportion trick! Grafight DMAB proportion trick! Gayda! Quick anatomy tutorial! Ron Lemen! DFAB figure drawing tutorial! (Warning! Nudity) Nechayano! DFAB tutorial! (Warning! Nudity) Winterbramble! Guide to drawing big DFAB! (Warning! Nudity) Marshmallowfury! Body Types! Sully-s! How to sketch like I: DFAB Bodies! Projectendo! Endo’s Body Type Tutorial! Faun-songs! Body Construction Tutorial! (Warning! Nudity) Slothscandraw! Short Basic Body Construction Tutorial! Serenity-fails! Body type diversity (DFAB Edition!) (Warning! Heavy text) Phobos-Romulus! AFAB Body Types Tutorial! (Warning! Nudity) Noodle-nut! Faces/Heads/Bodies tutorial! Lunaartgallery! Tutorial: Shapes, Character, and Personality! Izzzyzzz! Simple bodes! Hellmandraws! Simple body technique! Radiocga! Simple fluid gestures! Radiocga! Shapes in bodies! (Warning! Nudity) ImagineFX Magazine! Breaking figures into geometric shapes! (Warning! Nudity) ImagineFX! Strike a Pose! (Warning! Nudity) Anatoref! Using Simple Shapes to Draw Cartoons! Foervraengd! Gravity & Balance in Anatomy! (Warning! Blood) Binley! Binley’s pose tutorial! Erik Gist! Figure tutorial! (Warning! Heavy text and nudity) Kelpls! Bodies and Poses! Dredsina! Varying Your Body Types! (Warning! Nudity and skeletons) Dredsina! Creating the human form out of simple shapes! (Warning! Skeletons) Sketcholivia! Proportions: A Mini Tutorial! (Warning! Heavy text) Lowaharts! Posing and Flow Markpenmanfutureworks! Drawing the Body! (Warning! Nudity) Nijuukoo! Body motion and fluidity of movement! Helpfulharrie! How to make quick sketches from real life models! (Warning! Nudity) Lomonte! How to do better poses! HolyElfGirl! AFAB body tutorial: Tips and mistakes! (Warning! Nudity) Jigokuen! Construction + Rhythm! (Warning! Skeletons) Zettanoia! An anatomy tutorial! (Warning! Skeletons) Bechnokid! Stick figure posing! Fadura-lotti! How to Draw AFAB Characters! (Warning! Nudity) Kenzandfriends! Fat bodies tutorial! (Warning! Nudity) Majnouna! Big Guide to Drawing the Body! (Warning! Nudity and heavy text) Keiid! Tips for Drawing: Human Body! (Warning! Skeletons) Xcandyslice! Quick Tips: Action Poses!  Ai-Bee! Curves on AFAB People!  Sarahculture! Drawing Tips from the Art of Animation! Simonist! New way of sketching in/drawing joints! Howtodrawcomics! Giving your characters unique features!  Dangerkhoa! How to draw high angled poses!  Dangerkhoa! How I draw poses from low-angles! Zonepan! How i draw bods! Tiribrush! Body shape tutorial!  Dolcissimo! How to draw a body! (DFAB edition!!) Tomatoscribbles! How I do bodies! Digiartlink! How I draw Figures! Poly-m! Body Language tutorial! Taleclock! Figure drawing proportions! Nicolas Rix! Figure drawing! Beedalee-art! Curves on DFAB Cosmother! Dynamic posing! Nsio! Nsio explains Dynamism! Hexphra constructing poses! Thegreatshono! Posing! (Warning! Heavy text) Trisketched! Flow and Rhythm! Bouncingquarians! Bodies and poses! Horatiosroom! how to draw DMAB! (Warning! Nudity) Anyeka! Torso construction!

Videos!

Javi can draw! Best tutorials for drawing the human figure! Javi can draw! How to sketch, gesture drawing, and posing! Javi can draw! How to draw body types! Javi can draw! How to draw acting! Stephen Silver! Art tip: How to construct feeling into a pose!  Brandon Green! People Sketching Tutorials! (Playlist!) Alphonso Dunn! Figure Drawing! (Playlist!) Alphonso Dunn! How to draw the human figure from imagination! Alphonso Dunn! Gesture Drawing! (Playlist!) Proko! Introduction to Human Anatomy for Artists! (Warning! Censored nudity) Proko! Figure Drawing! (Playlist!) (Warning! Censored nudity) Robert Marzullo! How to Improve Your Figure Drawings! Robert Marzullo! Twisting the Body! Robert Marzullo! How to Draw a Character Pose From Your Imagination! Robert Marzullo! How to Draw Dynamic Figures! Kienan Lafferty! Constructing Bodies! Pt. 1 Kienan Lafferty! Constructing Bodies! Pt. 2 Kienan Lafferty! Concept art bootcamp! bodies! Kienan Lafferty! Drawing bodies with shapes! Kienan Lafferty! Drawing fat on the body! Sycra! How I Sketch Poses! Sycra! How to Simplify the Figure for Dynamic Posing! Sycra! Sycra’s Simplified Anatomy Model! Sycra! Follow Up to Simplified Anatomy! Sycra! Some Figure Drawing Tips! Sycra! How to Draw Interesting Poses! Drawing & Painting! Figure Drawing! BabaKinkin! Drawing More Diverse Body Shapes in Any Style! BabaKinkin! Drawing Torsos/Bodies! MissKerrieJ! How I Draw Anatomy! (Playlist!) Emma Frew! How to Draw a Basic Figure! Cre8tivemark! Figure Drawing Basics! Drawing Tutorials Online! Torso Peanut Shapes! Mike Toney! How to Draw! Mead McLean! Figure Drawing Quick Sketch Process Explained! Digital Painting Lessons! Quick Pose Gesture Sketching! Color and Scribbles! Gesture Drawing! Wacom Dennis! Gesture Drawing Tutorial By REIQ! (Warning! Censored nudity) Emma Maree! How to Improve Your Drawing Skills! Jon Torres! Figure Drawing Part 1! How to Draw Comics! Figure Drawing Foundations! Strathmore Artist Papers! Force Drawing Part 1 with Mike Mattesi! Strathmore Artist Papers! Force Drawing Part 2 with Mike Mattesi! Strathmore Artist Papers! Force Drawing Part 3 with Mike Mattesi! Strathmore Artist Papers! Force Drawing Part 4 with Mike Mattesi! Michael Mattesi! How to draw force! This post will always be updated! If you know of any tutorials, tips or helpful advice we missed be sure to send it our way! - Admin Dirk!

Drew @seb0la’s bat along with mine

Fusions I made for people on Twitter

They found something under the stairs

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

Drew my own version of Teemo

League of Legends Redesigns: Ahri

Aatrox || TBA

Melissa my big doggo gal who’s the girlfriend of Alex the sheep

League of legends champion redesign: Aatrox

My first redesign. Hopefully I’ll do more and improve with each one.

Melissa seeing the lights at the temple

A Big ol’ Yeti

A gift for @maccheesewoooaah