Here's a list of helpful Art references for you to enjoy! I hope you find something you like!!
| Oliviameower's "How to draw Manga" Masterdoc | My personal google drive full of old Manga art tutorials, cherrypicked from various How to Draw Manga books on Internet Archive! Nsfw warning i guess, though its mostly just artistic nudity. Has tutorials for most things concerning the human form, as well as shading different materials! |
| Character Design References.com | An absolutely amazing website with drawing references, inspiration and tutorials for anything you can think of, from 2d to 3d art. A dizzying amount of artistic references can be found here. |
| Iniro's Color Tips and Tricks | Iniro's Color Tips and Tricks 1 & 2 are some of the most helpful tutorials and lessons I've ever gotten. Specifically for a less realistic style of drawing, this is definitely worth the $15, and the artist is definitely worth supporting! Go check it out NOW!! |
| Cubebrush.co | A website absolutely filled to the brim with anything you need, made by other independent artists. This ranges from brushes, references, 3d models, tutorials, and more. Extremely powerful website for artistic tools. |
| The Base Mesh | Probably my favorite site on here; this website has 1000+ 3D object files to use as reference, whether you're using Blender, Clip Studio Paint, or etc., and they're all free to use and enjoy. You can use the objects as references in Clip Studio Paint by simply downloading the .OBJ file and dragging it into your project's canvas. |
| Frenden's 800+ Clip Studio Brush Set | Can you believe this guy is out here selling over 800 high quality CSP brushes for only $15? I fucking cant. Go check it out!! |
| PSG Art Tutorial | A totally awesome website for rendering paintings digitally, perspective, color theory, and basically a little bit of everything else under the sun. Definitely worth checking out if you're a digital artist. |
| Cari Institute of Aesthetics | Not really an art reference website per se, but a wonderful source of inspiration nonetheless. It's a website that archives almost every aesthetic that has ever existed in media, from the 80's all the way to modern day. A very awesome and interesting website with some cool people at the helm. |
| Udemy | Lots of amazing classes that teach you whatever you want to learn. I learned how to use Zbrush here with Milivoj Popovic's Sculpting in Zbrush for Beginner's class, as well as The Ultimate Guide to Digitally Painting Everything by Austin Batchelor, which I always go back to if I'm having trouble painting something digitally. The classes are almost always on sale for as little as $10, and most of them are completely worth it for that price. |
| x6ud Animal Head References | A website that gives you a 3D skull of an animal to change to any direction, and gives you real-life references of that animal in whatever direction you have the 3D model facing. Super awesome and helpful for furries/animals! |
| Design Syndrome | A well of incredible textures, mockups, graphics packs and much more that are absolutely worth checking out. All are either free, or listed at a very good price for good quality. One of my favorite Gumroad sites. |
| Line of Action | A wonderful website where you can practice gesture drawing a variety of things in a limited amount of time (although the amount of time is customizable, and completely up to you.) |
| Bodies In Motion | Similar to the above website, except this focuses more on bodies that are actually in motion, rather than a still picture. This includes hands, bodies, animals, and more. |
| Drawabox.com | A website full of lessons, challenges and tutorials for her pleasure |
| Sketchfab.com | If you're a 3D artist/modeler, you're probably familiar with sketchfab. But it can also be a wonderful site for finding the right reference for illustration! A huge amount of models ranging from furniture to clothing are all available here and can be viewed in-browser. |
| Babelab.blogspot | NSFW WARNING!!! This website has lots of tutorials on how to draw, you guessed it, babes. Sexy women. But aside from that, it also has some helpful advice on perspective, composition, and the female form. |
| The Old Robots | A really awesome web-archive of old robots. Lots of inspiration to be found here for mechy techy goodness |
| Merchandise Resources | A very helpful Google Doc that links places to get physical merch made, like stickers, prints, charms, plushies and more. |
| Lolita History Gallery | A web-archive of old Lolita Fashion magazines to reference. Many of these were used as fashion reference by Ryukishi07, specifically while making Umineko: When They Cry. |
| ACON 3D | A good place to get 3D/2D assets for CLip Studio Paint. Some are a bit pricey, while others are either free or very cheap. But all are very high quality. |
| The Pose Archives | Tride and true heroes of DeviantArt. They've been making pose reference photos on there for as long as I can remember. |
| Plushify | A site that transforms any 3D model into a sewing pattern! Super cool |
| NoClip | Not really an art reference, but it can be if you need it to be! This website lets you navigate (or noclip, as the title implies) through different levels of various videogames, including Mario Kart Wii, Wii Sports, Mario Galaxy, Pokemon HeartGold & SoulSilver, Darksouls, Portal, Psychonauts, and so so many more. |
| Manero Brushes | Tons of brushes for Procreate, with a lot of free mini brush packs to choose from! |
| sickagain mockups/graphics | TONS of really cheap/free mockups/graphics/fonts for all of your goreshit/machinegirl/cybergore needs! |
| Dan Peacock Lessons and Brushpack | Gore/Body Horror Warning!!! This site has "Compression" brushes for Procreate that can replicate the feeling of a highly compressed jpeg image which is really cool, as well as lessons on designing monsters/drawing biohorror |
| Devin Elle Kurtz Brushes | From foliage brushes, cityscape brushes, and fur brushes, Devin Elle Kurtz has got you covered with massive brush packs, for free!! |
| Malte Grajewski Mockups | Lots of awesome mockups for your artwork, and most are free! And if they aren't, theyre like, a dollar. Unless you feel like tipping! ;p |
| True Grit Texture Supply | A website with tons of really awesome brushes, textures, effects, and more! Focused more on a risograph printing, halftones, and an overall grungy/dirty/gritty aesthetic. |
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