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The secret wish is to write a fanfic that someone loves so much they make fan art of it, or to create a drawing that someone creates an entire fic based off of it.
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shrugsinchinese · 6 days
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Can't afford art school?
After seeing post like this 👇
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And this gem 👇
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As well as countless of others from the AI generator community. Just talking about how "inaccessible art" is, I decided why not show how wrong these guys are while also helping anyone who actually wants to learn.
Here is the first one ART TEACHERS! There are plenty online and in places like youtube.
📺Here is my list:
Proko (Free)
Marc Brunet (Free but he does have other classes for a cheap price. Use to work for Blizzard)
Aaron Rutten (free)
BoroCG (free)
Jesse J. Jones (free, talks about animating)
Jesus Conde (free)
Mohammed Agbadi (free, he gives some advice in some videos and talks about art)
Ross Draws (free, he does have other classes for a good price)
SamDoesArts (free, gives good advice and critiques)
Drawfee Show (free, they do give some good advice and great inspiration)
The Art of Aaron Blaise ( useful tips for digital art and animation. Was an animator for Disney)
Bobby Chiu ( useful tips and interviews with artist who are in the industry or making a living as artist)
Second part BOOKS, I have collected some books that have helped me and might help others.
📚Here is my list:
The "how to draw manga" series produced by Graphic-sha. These are for manga artist but they give great advice and information.
"Creating characters with personality" by Tom Bancroft. A great book that can help not just people who draw cartoons but also realistic ones. As it helps you with facial ques and how to make a character interesting.
"Albinus on anatomy" by Robert Beverly Hale and Terence Coyle. Great book to help someone learn basic anatomy.
"Artistic Anatomy" by Dr. Paul Richer and Robert Beverly Hale. A good book if you want to go further in-depth with anatomy.
"Directing the story" by Francis Glebas. A good book if you want to Story board or make comics.
"Animal Anatomy for Artists" by Eliot Goldfinger. A good book for if you want to draw animals or creatures.
"Constructive Anatomy: with almost 500 illustrations" by George B. Bridgman. A great book to help you block out shadows in your figures and see them in a more 3 diamantine way.
"Dynamic Anatomy: Revised and expand" by Burne Hogarth. A book that shows how to block out shapes and easily understand what you are looking out. When it comes to human subjects.
"An Atlas of animal anatomy for artist" by W. Ellenberger and H. Dittrich and H. Baum. This is another good one for people who want to draw animals or creatures.
Etherington Brothers, they make books and have a free blog with art tips.
As for Supplies, I recommend starting out cheap, buying Pencils and art paper at dollar tree or 5 below. For digital art, I recommend not starting with a screen art drawing tablet as they are more expensive.
For the Best art Tablet I recommend either Xp-pen, Bamboo or Huion. Some can range from about 40$ to the thousands.
💻As for art programs here is a list of Free to pay.
Clip Studio paint ( you can choose to pay once or sub and get updates)
Procreate ( pay once for $9.99)
Blender (for 3D modules/sculpting, ect Free)
PaintTool SAI (pay but has a 31 day free trail)
Krita (Free)
mypaint (free)
FireAlpaca (free)
Libresprite (free, for pixel art)
Those are the ones I can recall.
So do with this information as you will but as you can tell there are ways to learn how to become an artist, without breaking the bank. The only thing that might be stopping YOU from using any of these things, is YOU.
I have made time to learn to draw and many artist have too. Either in-between working two jobs or taking care of your family and a job or regular school and chores. YOU just have to take the time or use some time management, it really doesn't take long to practice for like an hour or less. YOU also don't have to do it every day, just once or three times a week is fine.
Hope this was helpful and have a great day.
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shrugsinchinese · 8 days
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some essek portrait doodles :] still figuring him out but i do love 2 draw him
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shrugsinchinese · 10 days
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So, you want to start reading Discworld, but have no idea where to start?
Great news! It doesnt matter! (I mean, it sort of matters. Some books are better starters than others, but none are truly bad.)
Discworld is a shared universe, more like a collection of smaller series, not one cohesive story. It has retcons and contradictions and each book can stand alone, though many are improved if read in their order of publication within their set of characters.
It might be tempting to just start at the beginning- The Colour of Magic. Except...The Colour of Magic...isnt very good. It's fine, of course! But Sir Terry hadnt quite worked out the tone and vibe of the books yet, which makes CoM a poor representation of the world as a whole. I dont recommend it.
This article gives many great options.
This reading order map is fun visually.
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And my personal recommendations:
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Guards Guards is the first of the City Watch books. I think it is the best starting place for most people. It is funny, thoughtful, and both Sam and Sybil are among the best characters on the disc.
Mort is the first Death book. While not my favorite Death book, it's a good introduction to the character. Very funny.
Equal Rites is the first witch book. A lot of its details about the Unseen University get retconned later, but it gets you a fun peek at how magic works on the disc.
Other options:
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Hogfather is the 4th Death book, but certainly the most iconic and its Christmas-y! (Hogswatchy?) It also has a great TV adaption.
Small Gods is a stand alone novel set long before most of the other books. It is thoughtful and funny and really good.
Wee Free Men is the first Tiffany book, which themselves are kind of sequels to the Witch books. They are also maybe my favorite books in the whole series. I only put it down here because the final Tiffany book (Shepards Crown) is the final Discworld book, and I'd wait to read that one until you've read though more of the series.
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shrugsinchinese · 11 days
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Self indulgent Colindeli epilogue
Bonus sketches below
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shrugsinchinese · 13 days
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Cryptic visions of space and time...
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shrugsinchinese · 14 days
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A gentle spirit
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shrugsinchinese · 15 days
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A gentle spirit
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shrugsinchinese · 19 days
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First trailer for Dreamworks' ‘THE WILD ROBOT' and HOLY FUCK ITS GORGEOUS???????
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shrugsinchinese · 19 days
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[eng by me]
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shrugsinchinese · 19 days
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“Your friendship is more valuable than this life.” 
RRR (2022) dir. S. S. Rajamouli
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shrugsinchinese · 25 days
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Well, it is here—my first ever big bang! I’ve kept VERY mum on this throughout the whole process, but I am super proud (and dreadfully nervous) to present to y’all:
nothing grows in corpses (in the earth of me)
Just over 100k words in a universe where the show ends the same way as the comics do until Death decides it doesn’t. Things…fall apart in a spectacularly ghastly fashion.
Ft. angst, whump, hurt/comfort, the VERY long road that is physical & psychological recovery, and by and large Hob being a life-loving bastard and Morpheus being a grave-obsessed bitch. Please heed the full tags list. Got nearly every category of Dead Dove: Don’t Eat in there.
But it’s not all heavy! Have some spectacularly captured comedy from my amazing artist @shrugsinchinese ! You were such a joy to work with, and I am so glad you were the first person who shared in the complete story. 😊
TAGGED:
@strandhai
@the-centennial-husbands-bigbang
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shrugsinchinese · 25 days
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My illustration for @the-centennial-husbands-bigbang!
This piece is for the incredible fic Nothing Grows on Corpses by @starbase-yorktown!
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shrugsinchinese · 26 days
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Dream should know better. No one bothers me while I’m sleeping!
(So excited about this!)
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shrugsinchinese · 26 days
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💫I want to watch the universe expand💫
💫I want to break it into pieces, 💫
💫small enough to understand💫
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shrugsinchinese · 26 days
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Get a random les to do your makeup by 贺呵呵
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shrugsinchinese · 27 days
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Hello everyone!
After months of hard work, the Centennial Husbands Big Bang is going LIVE!!
Here we are, at the end of the line! On behalf of the mod team, I want to cheer and congratulate our wonderful participants who worked very hard on their submissions!
You can find their work on AO3 under the CHBB collection : https://archiveofourown.org/collections/CHBB_2024 As well as through their personal blogs!
We will be reblogging and reposting everything over on our dedicated tumblr blog (right here!) over the next few days - our posting period is from March 1st to 3rd - before compiling a Masterpost afterwards!
We are extremely proud of all of you for these months of sweat, tears and hardwork, but most importantly joy, accomplishment and community! You are all amazing and I hope you know just how much y'all ROCK!!!
Thank you so SO much for this adventure and keep on Dreamling!!
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