Art&Animation by Todd Lockwood
http://www.tolo.bizI love gold dragons even more now
Whoa, these are great animations!
Golds have the best thought out alternative to bat/bird wings, no contest. They’re AMAZING.
arty masterpost
(Sorry this is so long, tumblr won’t let me un-indent all the things without messing the hyperlinks up BLUH. So press J to skip.)
I just went back through over 900 liked posts and dug out all the art tutorials so i can keep track of them. I guess this might be helpful to some of you guys, so here you go.
Some of these were gutted from posts where the original was deleted and so can’t be linked to in the masterpost list - especially one by Tumblr user melkh who has since either deleted or changed their url, so props to them.
Here we go then!
Freeware
Alchemy - this is a really fun program. You play around making abstract shapes until you start to see something in them, kind of like a Rorschach test. Then you use the shapes as a base to draw it from.
MyPaint - a pretty decent painting program that also has the benefit of working on Unix systems.
openCanvas 1.1 - I haven’t used openCanvas in years but it was a nice program with a pretty unique feel to it.
ArtRage - Only used this a couple of times donkey’s years ago just before I got oC, but I’ve heard good things about it.
The GIMP - In a similar vein to Photoshop, but free. I couldn’t get on with it when I tried it out a few years ago, but it’s pretty popular and is available on Unix systems and Macs.Not-free-ware
Photoshop - Standard painting fare. Probably the most flexible program (particularly the latest versions) but not designed to act in a “natural” way. If you’ve used it for painting versus something like Painter you know what I mean. Who the fuck pays for it though? Google “Photoshop tumblr masterpost” and take your pick.
Paint Tool Sai - Far more affordable and definitely worth paying for if you can. The brushes are very decent (especially when they’ve been tweaked a little), the gui is simple and intuitive, and I dare you to find a program with which making smooth lineart is easier.
Corel Painter - My program of choice for most things. More tools than you could ever possibly use and pretty cheap on a student license, providing that you can prove you’re a student! It’s got a few bugs but if you want realism or a more natural feel than PS or SAI this is the program for you.Anatomy
anatomy and rotation of the head
Expressions
emotions and facial expressions
expressions from different angles (love this site)
Poses
Skin tones
paint some life into your skin tones
Colouring
gamut mask tool (very nice!)
5 easy ways to improve your colouring
fucking gradients, how do they work
achieving a painterly look in SAI
kuler (more colour schemes)
Brushes
a very nice setting for the sai acrylic brush
photoshop fur brushes (and tutorial)
Other peoples masterposts
love your fellow artist (anything from prompt generators to animation background here, very nice)
e books
art e-books (mediafire download)
even more e-books (including human anatomy, animal anatomy, cartoons, animation, composition, design, scenery, perspective…)
Tutorials
a pretty extensive general art tutorial
tumblrs
criminallyincompetent (check out their #reference and #tutorial tags, they’re gold)
good post, add it to your likes
Add to the freeware list: Firealpaca! haven’t used it much, but it gets rave reviews.
Bonus reblog tonight because there’s a new turtle blog on the block. Also, these are some adorable tortoise gifs!
fAT BABY ANIMALS MY ONLY WEAKNESS……
I’ve been absolutely overwhelmed by the positive responses I’ve gotten from my Fuck These Are Some Good Stories series! (If I had known so many people would read it, I might have come up with a better name, to be honest.) I can’t tell you how great its been to see so many people loving all over short genre fiction.
Those lists were the product of a slow summer job that allowed for lots of time to skim through short fiction archives. As of this past Monday I’ve reached the end of this summer’s labor. I don’t have enough stories left to keep making themed lists.
HOWEVER. I’m not done reading or reccing stories yet! There’s so much more out there! So I’m shifting from a weekly themed reclist to a daily story rec over on this here sideblog! Recs won’t be themed any more, but stories will be meticulously tagged so you’ll still be able to sift out, say, dystopias or lgbtq characters or authors of color or what have you. There’s going to be a lot of crossover from the old lists until I build up a solid queue, but I’ll be throwing new things in there when I come across them. (By the way, submissions are open!) I hope I’ll see some of you there.
This is so cool.
yay yay this is a thing now!
senior year of high school i had the battiest old lady for my ap lit class and we had to get up and present a poem and i totally forgot to memorize one so i got up in the front of the room and recited “hotel california” word for word with a straight face and everyone was like cracking up and the teacher gave me a hundred for being “insightful and poetic”
It looks like a baby kyogre * U *<3
OH MY GOD IT DOES
Does anybody know what this fish is called??? It’s cute as fuck
Mandarin fish. 99.999% sure it’s a baby too (although it might be female); adult males have much bigger fins.
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What do I even tag this.
omg
If I ever doubted speedwell was the best flower
lies, speedwell has always been the best flower.
And now ALL THE PLANETS, with Earth first because of obvious reasons.
Earth: No real gender to this personification, Earth is whatever the people call it. Sometimes he’s a he, and sometimes she’s a she. Earth is the most lively, imaginative, curious, intelligent, and sometimes most childish of all the planets. It’s constantly getting into the business of other planets, especially Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. Earth is rather intelligent, though can do some stupid things sometimes. It’s fragile, however, and extremely protective of its life forms, especially the humans, despite the damage they’ve caused.
Mercury: A competitive athletic girl, the fastest in the solar system. She’s upbeat and a little arrogant at times. She challenges everyone to races around the sun all the time, though no one ever takes her up on them.
Venus: A rather patient and caring individual, she’s rather close with Mercury and Earth. Earth and Mars are her siblings, and she often keeps an eye out for Earth, shining her bright light on it whenever she comes to check in. She’s rather cheerful and has a brilliant smile.
Mars: A bit of a cold person, Mars is one who takes care of himself. Even though Earth is always bothering him, he tries to keep distanced from his siblings in general. He has many impact scars across his body and is used to the harsh terrain, storms, and freezing cold temperatures that he always has to deal with. He’s rather stoic, but he tries not to be mean, and is polite at the very least. He’s not very sure about the gift that Earth recently gave him, the Curiosity rover.
Jupiter: The big brother to all other planets. He’s the self-appointed protector of the inner planets and the largest of them all. He’s rather laid back and cheerful most times. Though he has taken far more impacts than Mars, he doesn’t scar as easily, and often just brushes them off as nothing without a word. He’s caring, but can be rather blunt sometimes.
Saturn: Mama Saturn, as some may call her, is a very outgoing and dazzling individual. Her ice jewelry is her pride and joy and never goes to a party without looking her best. She mostly keeps an eye on the twins, though she is also one of the few who actually pay any attention to Pluto anymore.
Uranus & Neptune: Twin brothers who like to spend a lot of time together. Uranus is a bit…odd. He enjoys spinning on his side a lot, and thinks that Earth is his best friend [other than Neptune] since every time someone says his name, Earth likes to laugh. He’s a bit strange, a little awkward, but VERY outgoing and enjoys other planets. He’s the other planet that actually pays attention to Pluto, even though Neptune is closer. Neptune, however, is a lot less social. He’s kind of quiet and always has his hair in his face. It’s rather windy where he lives, so he doesn’t brother brushing it, it’ll just go back in his face anyway. He loves Uranus but worries about him a lot.
Pluto: Pluto is rather unnoticed these days. She was once part of the gang, but when she missed a planetary rotation party for being too slow, Earth decided to take her off the list. It seems pretty mean, but Pluto isn’t all that hurt over it. She’s always been quiet and shy, and doesn’t mind the few quality friends she’s made in Saturn and Uranus. Pluto mostly just likes watching from afar, and sometimes worries about what the other planets get themselves into, but she’s too small to do much anyway so she just stays in her little corner in the back.
PLUTO BBY ;~;
This is
just
so cute ;;
Omg I collect anthro planets now
What am I doing with my life
