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To celebrate this blog reaching 10k visits, here’s animation masterpost part II. I’m glad you guys found the first masterpost helpful. I hope you guys start using this information right away, practise is key. Happy animating !!

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Hi! I came across this really really useful posts on DeviantArt. I thought I could post it here. It was taken from THIS posts (I pretty much copied and pasted everything, so PLEASE go there if you want to see the original posts. I don’t own it, it’s not mine). It’s a really useful posts when it comes to know more about the amazing tool Paint Tool SAI and the things you can do with it.

FREE VERSION Paint Tool Sai Download Paint Tool SAI Official Site  Unofficial English Pack Read a Review

Individual Tutorials SAI Tutorial Part 1 and Part 2 by Spoonzmeister Paint Tool SAI tutorial by dragonchickaya Paint Tool SAI Tutorial 2 by dragonchickaya PAINT TOOL SAI TUTORIAL 1 by xxlilevilangelxx Tutorial - Paint Tool SAI by Salacia-Mao Sai Tutorial by Val4s Paint Tool SAI - Tutorial by Lelia Paint Tool SAI Tutorial by kioisrad -How to start a new drawing in SAI, plus a short rundown of the different brushes. Paint Tool SAI Tutorial 2 by kioisrad tutorial paint tool sai by Hamabi SAI Paint Tool - Tutorial by LaFatalite

Line Art tutorial in SAI by himiko SAI Tutorial: Vector Line Art by SakuraChan776 Sai Tutorial: Masking by SakuraChan776 Paint Tool SAI: Line Tutorial by Infitima Coloring Tutorial by sakimichan Lineart and SAI tutorial by suzuran Basic Coloring Tutorial SAI by e-nat tutorial, part 1 - hair and tutorial, part 2 - skin by tanukitchokes Paint Tool SAI quick tutorial: How to Shade by KoiFishSushi Wave’s Coloring Tutorial by suzuran SAI Paint Tool Tutorial:: 1 Line Art by ClassyPirate SAI Paint tool tutorial:: 2 by ClassyPirate SAI Paint Tool - Tutorial 2 by LaFatalite SAI Simple Color Tutorial by masquevale Eye Colouring Tutorial? by Fushi-Chou Semirealistic Eye Tutorial by yuumei Hair Tutorial SAI by Niaro Hair tutorial- Paint Tool SAI by merki-the-vampire

Multi-Subject Collections: Paint Tool SAI Tutorial Part 1 and Part 2 by Rueme Lineart Tutoral for SAI by Rueme Lineless CG Tutorial: HAIR by Rueme Kimi’s Paint Tool SAI Tutorial Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, by kimicatdemon

MY LIFE FOR YOU

Free art information. Pass this along to other art students!

Hello everyone. I figured there must be tons of these floating around, but I wanted to share a lot of good resources I use for learning art. I bookmark everything I find that could potentially strengthen my art, and I wanted to share with everyone tons of useful free information. Please send the creators of these posts/websites/whatevers a thank you if you use them! (Here is a reblog version).

http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=190982 - Almost my “go-to post”. Has 178 links on it as I type this. Conceptart.org is an all-around great website to lurk around for inspiration and information. They are way out of my league, so it feels strange to talk about the website as if I’m some kinda reg.

Really useful video/youtube channels I use—

http://www.ctrlpaint.com/ - Very very helpful for starting out with rendering in photoshop. The lessons are in manageable, short chunks, and in HQ. He also has some very nice lectures (I purchased 2 of them in one day) and they are very cheap by digital art lesson download standards.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Sycra - Has a lot of cool tutorials and demos. Also visit his website for a really good list of resources.

http://www.youtube.com/user/digitalbobert - Very good interviews, demos, and inspiration.

http://www.youtube.com/user/sinixdesign - Similar to Sycra. Has some really nice demos, and I think he still holds “community design challenges”.

http://www.youtube.com/user/FZDSCHOOL - Videos from the FZD School of design. A must visit. Very detailed lectures and demos.

http://www.youtube.com/user/idrawgirls - Tutorials. He also has lectures you can pay for on his website. My art-student wallet won’t allow me to test them, but I hear great things.

http://www.youtube.com/user/vilppustore - I only subscribed yesterday, but there are a lot of great traditional demos from what I have seen so far. This might be a good first stop— but take that with a grain of salt (I’m still a student!)

Tools for figure drawing/ ref. photos (nudes contained) —

http://www.artsyposes.com/ - Works on iOS devices. Good for ref. photos for models.

http://characterdesigns.com/ - Tonnsss of ref. photos.

http://fineart.sk/photo-references - Ref photos + links to other ref. photos sites.

http://armstreet.com/ - This is a store, but it has great ref. photos for armor, and weapons.

http://www.lovecastle.org/draw/ - Gesture drawing tool. You can customize it to suit your needs.

http://mjranum-stock.deviantart.com/ - A deviantart account filled with ref. photos. I’d suggest reading the post on how to use ref. photos before doing anything with them.

FREE Art e-books—

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=94571&page=5 - The Conceptart post containing hundreds of free e-books.

http://www.drawingbooks.org/ - As the name implies, some good drawing e-books are here.

Podcasts—

http://www.paperwingspodcast.com/ - A really friendly community with some good advice. Mainly comics-focused.

http://www.cvcomics.com/artandstory/ - Another great podcast for comics. The hosts went on to do their own separate podcasts, which you should also check out if you are into the creation of comics.

Chrisoatley.com - Chris is very enthusiastic about what he does, and I have found his podcasts and demos informative and helpful. He works at Disney and co-hosts the Paperwings podcast with Lora Innis, another extremely cool person I feel I have learned a lot from.

Some books that I feel have helped strengthen my drawing/ Are extremely helpful (To buy)-

Pretty much everything that Andrew Loomis put out. (I think you can still legally get his book in e-book form for free)

Color & Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter by James Gurney

Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn’t Exist by James Gurney

Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters by Robert Beverly Hale, Jake Collins

Perspective Made Easy by Ernest R. Norling

(For Comics:)

Understanding Comics, Making Comics, Reinventing Comics all by Scott McCloud

Drawing Words & Writing Pictures and the Sequel DW&WP: Mastering Comics by Jessica Abel and Matt Maden

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That’s pretty much everything I have on my bookmarks. Everything else is probably just links from one of the bigger lists of links I just posted.

I still have a long way to go before I should give out any kind of advice, but pretty much anyone I ask for advice that I consider to have a high amount of skill level in any visual art form (this includes comics, animation, illustrations) says that foundations (figure drawing, perspective, color theory, ect.) really strengthens any stylized work. I feel like if I have gotten better, it’s been from observing this stuff!

It wasn’t too long ago that I would fight studying any kind of realism, and just go straight to trying to draw anime-influenced art… but it’s hard to learn how to draw a stylized version of something, or caricature it if you have no idea how it works in real life!

So yeah, pass this around. The people in these links work extremely hard to bring everyone this content, so use it to your advantage!

*Decides to shut up and go back to practicing himself*