The Big Ressource Thread For The Artist
Hello Steemit Artists !
For those of you who are wondering where to Begin to learn drawing and painting, I made a small (f* big) list of links to follow for your education. Whether you are looking for books, more links, mentors, schools etc. Feel free to browse the following and tell me what you think in the comments. If you guys give me some good links I will be able to update this post as well regularly.
The bold links are the one I think you should begin with as a beginner artist. (The others, you should go back there and take a look at your fundamentals too, it never hurts hahah)(me too...)
BOOKS :
How To Draw
How To Render
The Visual story
Beyond Art Fundamentals
Art Fundamentals
Human Anatomy For Artists
Anatomie Artistique de l’Homme (French)
Traité d’anatomie artistique (French)
Monograph/Muscles in motion
Comment dessiner les comics (How to draw comics, French)
My Pinterest (I add the books I loved and those my teachers, mentors and friends refer to me)
YOUTUBE VIDEOS :
Anatomy :
Framing and composition :
Channel Criswell
Every Frame a Painting
Podcasts :
Artcafe
Bobby Chiu
Chris Oatley
LevelUp
Ryan Kingslien
The Grind
Tutorials & Education :
BlenderGuru
CGCookie
DrawMixPaint
Anthony Jones
ImagineFX
Mitchel Albala
Nick Carver
Phlearn
Proko
Scott Robertson
Sephiroth
Shaddy Safadi
SinixDesign
Sycra
NoahBradley
Schoolism
Beekart
FZD School
Conferences and Talks :
IndustryWorkshops
PromisedLand
Artists and Inspiration :
Atey Ghailan
Dominik Mayer
Jama Jurabaev
Boulet (French, English, Korean)
MrJack
Nicholas Kole
Noah Bradley
Sam Hogg
Stjepan Sejic
WEBSITES :
Level Up
CG Cookie
Layer paint (Former 2DTotal)
Ctrl+Paint
Draw A Box
Iamag
Design Spartan (French)
Legal (French)
Communities :
INTERACTIVE WEBSITES :
Concept Art Sessions (topic exercise + timer)
Paletton (Create your own color palett)
Circular (Can you draw a perfect circle freehanded ? Test your draftmanship)
Method.ac( (Multiple mini games for artists)
One of those games based on Color Theory practice
Zbrush in your browser
Pixel Art
Animation automated in your browser
Timer
Make a gif
BLOGS
Movie Frames
Muddy Colors
Noah Bradley
Design Theory
Cannibal Candy
Chris Oatley
Kiri Leonard
Specific awesome articles :
Storyboard theory
Moebius Wisdom
Kotaku, perspective from Plan view to 3D view
Composition Rules of 3rd
Wisdom for applying to a CG art position
Art Schools by Noah Bradley
Design Theory
Design Theory 2
Process of Thoughts
Concept Art
FORUMS
/r/DigitalArt/
/r/ArtFundamentals/
/r/ArtBuddy/
/r/DigitalArtTutorials/
/r/LearnConceptArt/
Cubebrush
Polycount
Blender artists
Café Salé (French)
Facebook Groups :
LevelUp
Artcafe
Brainstorm
30Day challenge for artists
The Art Hacker
Virtual Plein Air
Specific awesome threads
Updated List of reliable Resources For Concept Art
MENTORSHIPS
Darek Zabrocki
Anthony Jones
Bobby Chiu/ Schoolism
LearnSquared
Patreon
SCHOOLS :
Brainstorm (California, USA)
FZD at Singapore
REFERENCES:
Pinterest
Alcy's
Hard Surface
Textures
3D Textures and Maps
Airlines
Forgotten places
Clothing and fashion
Figure Drawing
Portraits
Expressions
Blueprints
Anatomy :
360 Anatomy
Hippydrome
Tours University
Fuckton Of Anatomy References Reborn
Freebies :
365PSD
Icones gratuites
Pixeden
GettyImages
Photobash
EVENTS :
Europe :
Trojan Horse was a Unicorn
IFCC
PromisedLand
Industry Workshop
Angouleme Cartoon Festival
Annecy Animation Festival
World :
Americas :
SOFTWARES
OBS Project - Record Your Screen
Kuadro
Krita - Photoshop Free and Open Source
Blender 3D Soft
BUSINESS & MARKETING
This part is a big big work in progress and needs a lot of love, especially from Freelance artists, business entrepreneurs and marketing messiahs, so if you are one or know of one who really helped you a LOT and changed your life for the better (your top 1 link to share), please let us know here in the comments, or contact me through Discord thank you !!)
Books
Articles
@adammillwardart : Want to make art your career? Why Style is Super important
I hope you find these helpful !
Cheers guys !
As usual when it comes to art education, the business side of art is left out lol Here's an article I wrote about the importance of style when it comes to selling art. If you think it's worthy of being on your list, there's a few other art selling tips articles I wrote too that I can link for you, but I don't want to SPAM your post with all of them unless you like my writing and information and ask me to lol ;) https://steemit.com/art/@adammillwardart/want-to-make-art-your-career-why-style-is-super-important
Hey @adammillwardart !
Thank you for your comment I appreciate your feedback. You're totally right about marketing and the business side of art. I am actually trying to learn about that but I am not proficient enough with that nor have I good links to share. Though Bobby chiu, Noah Bradley and many others talk and share their knowledge about this part of the job, I find their informations to be too introductory to the marketing (no real plans to strive). So I am still looking into it but if you know some great links I am thankful !
The best I have found right now so far is Tim Ferriss' book : the 4 hour workweek. Other than that, I am totally lost haha
And you are right I will definitely add a business part to it in the next entry ^^
Concerning your post, I should add it as well on the list in the next business links (for the time being I'll just resteem ^^)! I loved it and I think you are actually right and I wish I could learn more and dive deeper in this article as the main preconceived idea on the internet (Deviantart/Artstation) seems to be 'if you don't do fanart' you won't sell. And your post seems to show something totally different based on galleries seeling. But it many artists sell original art as well thanks to their style. Do you mind if I reach you out on Discord or somewhere else ? So I won't ramble nonsense I don't know about here hahaha
Cheers !
EDIT : just added the links
I'm JUST learning about Discord, I'm on a few channels (I think channels? lol) PAL and SteemArtists. In my previous career I managed a sales call center for 10 years. The reason I was able to make art my career in less than 3 years after I created my first painting (at age 31) is because I knew that without selling art, I'd have no art career.I knew I needed to apply all the stuff I'd learned in 17 years working in sales environments to make it happen. And - I soon learned selling art is pretty different from selling most other things. That being said, like most other things, there's ways that are proven to work.
Soon I'm actually going to start writing an art business advice column for an art magazine in NYC - they actually saw one of the art biz advice articles I wrote for Steemit and reached out to me because of it :) When that kicks in I can send the link to the new article each month for you too. In the meantime, here's another one I wrote on Steemit a couple of weeks ago - feel free to add it to your list! https://steemit.com/art/@adammillwardart/want-to-make-art-or-photography-your-career-3-things-not-to-do
JESUS CHRIST THIS A LIBRARY OF KNOWLEDGE.
Thank you so much @alcy Q__Q
And i'm completely free in the weekend to dabble and swim around in this knowledge, I was expecting to know half the links but damnnn thats so much, Time to get busy!!
Yes haha I know ! Maybe you will find your happiness in there ! but don't get lost ! =D
Hello, I nominate you for 7 day black and white photo challenge ^^
Heeey ! Thanks for the nomination =D Sorry for the delay my laptop died =D
No problem! I hope you're well and problem fixed :)
You can do the challenge if and whenever you want ^^
thank you for that @alcy! resteemed
Thank you Ankapolo !!
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STOPNice to your post.realy good job.
Perfect, also very neatly organized ^^
Thank you for sharing!
Thanks Kristyglas ! feel free to add more links if you know some useful ones =D
Everything looks great some new things even for me :D
I'd only add FZD design youtube channel, but I might have just missed it ^^
And maybe Foundation on Patreon
Oooooh !! I knew I forgot some of these !!!! Thanks a lot ! Just edited ^^ the fuoundation patreon is incredible especially.
Haha, you already put so many! It's understandable that no one can know or remember all the links ^^
Just remembered: for pixelart I highly recommend Saint11 https://www.patreon.com/saint11
He makes free tutorials, patreon is for voting and extras ^^
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Yes!! Very helpful xDD I tried Blender. Old user of Maya want to pick up 3D again. Kuadro seems useful!!! Heard of Krita, may be try it someday too :P
Did you stopped 3D ? I am actually trying to learn 3D through Blender, I had very bad memory about that soft but I must say, it has done a long way up since then ! pretty easy to take in hands from my noob POV.
Krita seems great as well ! I'm not proficient with it but what i've seen it is very useful and production driven ! So I guess it is the best alternative to PS and also Linux supported which is wonderful.
I managed to follow this tutorial several years ago but my laptop barely survived rendering. Now on pc I want to try 3D when less work :D
I'll try to find the picture of my tutorial's result xD
Blender so powerful >< I was shocked when I heard about it and it is free for download.
Indeed ! I tried it 10 years ago and it felt like Gimp, but now youcan use it as video compositor, editing, UV unwrapping, sculpting, compositing, VFX.... And the community behind it is still growing, it seems crazy !
I learned in university (long time ago), but finally only using photoshop and after effect for animation and compositing in work. Not so familiar with the UI and keys in Blender, need some times to get used to it xD (Getting old and feel difficult to pick up new software @o@)
Hahhaha I understand x) like Krita, even if it is a great way to go around Adobe, We're still used to Photoshop x)
Thank you, very useful information!
Thank you !