/There is edit in the free-ware -section 24/8/2012/
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.
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.Sketchbook copic: a bit different program
Easytoon: Easy tool to make black and white animations. (Download not tested - be careful if you choose to download! Here is another download option for the program) - TUTORIALS FOR THE PROGRAM
Firealpaca: FireAlpaca is the image editor that can be used readily and easily.
We made it possible to provide the completely FREE download, in order for our products to be experienced by more users from all over the world.
It is available for both Mac and Windows users! First, we would like you to experience this great opportunity! - SAI & Photoshop compined
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)
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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 ReviewIndividual 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 LaFataliteLine 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-vampireMulti-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 kimicatdemonFor all you Sai peeps.
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Some great and simple tutorials from DerSketchie on DeviantArt
They have more tutorials in their Gallery so check them out!
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felt like doing a tutorial thingy (what should I call these??) again! I think I’ll make a tag for these in case I do more. This time I’m gonna talk a little about how angles affect how clothing falls aaaand stuff. here we go…
Given: The first drawing of these three is how the clothing naturally wants to fall, how it is made to be shaped. Or, whichever pose you could take that will give the garment the least amount of creases.
- I’ll actually talk about the green first; this is a representation of the hip box, which itself is a representation/simplification of your whole pelvis area. You see how your legs and hip box oppose angles here. in almost all poses except standing straight, your hip box and legs will create a bent angle, which affects how clothes fall.
- The red/blue is the skirt (obvs), the red specifically is the ellipses of the top and bottom openings of the skirt. This skirt is very stiff material for the sake of this example, so notice how the two ellipses always match eachother. the top ellipse is where the skirt is actually attached to the body, so it’s the boss; the bottom ellipse will more or less do exactly what the top one does.
- here’s where the fact that the legs and hip box are at different angles becomes important. The top of the skirt is attached to the hip box, but the bottom ellipse is in the realm of the legs. The orange lampshade shape diagram there is a simplification of this. It is very much like if you were to tilt a lampshade. The side you are bending towards will hug the body and create creases. The side you are bending away from will fall off the body in a straight line.
It even works with pants, though as the bottom ellipse(s) gets farther away from the top there’s more room for the garment to get distorted by gravity, perspective, and bent knees and such. But with this last example you can really see how the side touching the legs really hugs the body underneath, whereas the other side hangs off of it in a straighter, crease-less line.
Dresses are a little different because their top ellipse is attached to your torso/ribcage mass rather than the hip box.
Much of the time you get the same result as with a skirt. However if the hip box and ribcage mass are opposed sideways rather than forward or backward, it becomes a little tougher:
You can see in the third drawing how a shirt and a skirt together would fall in opposite ways if your body is bent sideways. If the shirt is long, just like I mentioned above about the long pants, there is more distortion of this effect.
I’ll take what I said above, “The side you are bending away from will fall off the body in a straight line”, and add a bit to the end: “… until it hits something.” In the fourth drawing above, the garment is falling off the body in a straight line on the right side. If you lengthen the garment:
The straight side continues down as normal until it hits the leg and becomes the body-hugging side. in response to that, the body-hugging side from farther up becomes the straight side when it falls off the hip.
Aaand with that I think I’ll stop lol. I hope that wasn’t hard to understand. It’s easy to do yourself, just wear a skirt or some loose pajama pants and take hula poses in the mirror lol.
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aluben /)arling. never ufcing thought I’/) /)raw you again.
oh and I made some shitty drawing process too :)
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i didn’t like the last one i was working on, so i redid everything
i’m pretty content with this one, and i’m going to start coloring it now
super high-school level destroyer of hope
but was known as being the super high-school level marksman
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