About:
This thread contains 100 or so links to valuable information on Art/Comic making.


Some links may contain nudity, And may not be suitable for those under 18 years of age! Be advised! It is mainly Tasteful nudity, and the purpose of the thread is to be worksafe so-I will remove any links to sites the mods/admins/users deem to risky.


The links are great and I urge you to check them out. More are listed at http://shii.org/2ch/art.html
http://www.posemaniacs.com/pose/randomviewer.html
http://www.artnatomia.net/uk/artnatomy.html

Poses
http://www.sporting-heroes.net/Default.asp
http://www.asthangafriends.4t.com/Yoga_Poses.html

Forums
http://www.digitalwebbing.com/forums/
http://www.panelandpixel.com/forum/
http://conceptart.org/
http://www.dhtmlshock.com/
http://www.funky-chickens.com/
http://www.alistapart.com/topics/design/
http://glish.com/css/
http://forum.echoechoplus.com/
http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modListing.asp
http://www.mako4css.com/Tutorial.htm
http://www.csszengarden.com/

Fonts(Skull note: Remember never use anything to computerized for speech)
http://www.dafont.com/
http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/
http://www.blambot.com/
http://cooltext.com/Fonts-All

Photoshop(Skull note: If you use the GIMP most of these will work)
http://www.phong.com/
http://www.planetphotoshop.com/
http://www.teamphotoshop.com/
http://www.polykarbon.com/
http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modListing.asp
http://psworkshop.net/psworkshop/
http://www.good-tutorials.com/
http://www.purephotoshop.com/
http://www.photoshopcafe.com/
http://www.spoono.com/photoshop/
http://www.computerarts.co.uk/tutorials/2d/
http://www.absolutecross.com/tutorials/photoshop/

Anonymous
The Rules of Art v1;
1. Study the following first;
-Anatomy(muscle structure, bone structure, construction of objects)
-Perspective(viewing angle, 1, 2 and 3 point perspectives)
-Composition(placement of objects, focal points, viewing angle, overall feel)

2. Study the following next;
-Contrast(emphasizing of opposites colors to create depth)
-Light/Shadow(how light creates shadows and highlights)
-Color Value(mood, atmosphere, how they affect a picture)

3. Study the following LAST;
-Creativity(concepts and imagination)
-Style(proper exaggeration of the above basics of art)

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End Note:
I've had these links/sites/contributed too for quite a while now- But was nervous to share because of the content of some: Even I haven't gotten through ALL of them!

If one of the links contains something you think is waaaaay to risky-Please PQ or post in the thread and I will remove it! Mods/Admins feel fit to remove too-(Don't ban meeee plz-! ;-; I only wish to help!)

Skullbie's Notes:
-You will learn 10x more on anatomy from studying artistic nudes than people in clothing.

-Just because the ads on the sites are gross/porn doesn't mean the site is-they just need some extra cash ^^

-As you can see from comments in the post I take the 18+ warning quite seriously, Please respect the disclaimers.

-I made this thread because I want artists here to learn and grow as fast as I am- I hope those of you that came to this thread or the Overchan have learned at least one thing! :) I plan to add more to this thread as time goes on! But you can help as well::


If you have a link/tip to submit please post in the thread or pq! Your name will be added as credit next to it. Make sure the links have high quality content!
(I reserve the right not to add your link or tip-But that usually wont happen)
If you have praise/suggestions/complaints or otherwise also pq me or post them in the thread.

What links this thread currently needs: Links on comic tutorials!!

Links were taken from the Overchan and submitted by Anonymous, /ic/, Users of DD, and Myself. If you are 18+ please click 'help us' on shii.org^^

References:
Buildings, guns, medieval swords, castles, ghost towns, cemeterys and more- draw with a reference and you're sure to see the difference!

Stock and Reference Photos

a site dedicated to providing resources to the artist community with interviews of professionals, galleries of amateurs and professionals, and archives of figure references
http://www.characterdesigns.com/index.php?sitepage=home


Enormous Amount Of Stock photos, anything you could possibly need:
http://www.sxc.hu
http://www.freefoto.com/index.jsp
http://www.fantasyjackpalance.com/fjp/photos/index.html
http://www.dpchallenge.com/photo_ga...hp?GALLERY_ID=2


Misc References
http://drawinglab.evansville.edu/
http://www.topfigure.bigtopsites.com/
http://www.ww2incolor.com/gallery/ww2incolor
http://www.primeportal.net/home.htm -Submitted By lba-

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Architecture, Buildings, Cityscapes, ect

Great New York reference:
http://www.preyerplanning.com/newyork/categories.htm
http://www.greatgridlock.net/NYC/nyc.html <--holy shit, amazing!

Ghost Town Gallery
http://ghosttowngallery.com

Japan:
http://www.japan-zone.com/japan_gallery/urban
http://www.japan-zone.com/japan_gallery/landmarks

Castles
http://www.castlewales.com/listings.html
http://www.castlesontheweb.com

360 degree views of rooms and buildings
http://www.pan3sixty.co.uk
http://med-pharm53.bu.edu/pages/cemeteries.html
http://genealogy.about.com/od/cemet.../a/pictures.htm
http://www.pharmcat.demon.co.uk/cemetery
http://www.oldstpauls.ang-md.org/Ce...erypictures.htm
http://www.pbase.com/marchael/cemetery
http://www.travelin-tigers.com/zdave/grvmast.htm
http://www.petcemetery.org/pictures_page_3.htm
http://www.filmtrips.com/cemeteries/cemeteries.html
http://elusiv.com/neworleans/cem/scott-cem1.html

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GUNS

http://www.coolgunsite.com/funcheck/function.htm
http://kalashnikov.guns.ru/models.html

Handguns
http://ttjstk.diy.myrice.com/zdtj/gun/gun-1.htm
http://www.hk-usa.com

Machine Guns
http://www.army-technology.com/cont...achine_gun2.jpg
http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire...round/Guns.html
http://swordplayalliance.com/swdgall.htm
http://www.kopes.com/swords
http://www.barrettcustomknives.com/home

Medieval Weapons
http://www.historicalweapons.com
http://www.ackerforge.com/af_mainfr...lery.htm%7Emain
http://eq2.ogaming.com/gallery/album10

Arms and Armor
http://therionarms.com/reenact/index.shtml
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Clothes

Modern Clothes:
http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/home ( Skull note: Best- whole outfits by users)
http://www.metroparkusa.com/
http://www.buckle.com/

http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/apparel/apparel_detail.html?KEY=NEOAPP-92#
http://www.karmaloop.com

Women's 80's Clothes
http://www.mables.com/80s-clothes-womens.php

WORK CLOTHES
http://www.ebigchina.com/ebcps/4/pd/1315424.html

LADY'S SUITS
http://www.ebigchina.com/ebcps/4/pd/1639811.html

Gothic Clothes
http://www.geocities.com/gothic_clothes

Folds in clothing:
http://www.lostonwallace.com/folds1.jpg
http://www.lostonwallace.com/folds2.jpg
http://www.lostonwallace.com/folds3.jpg
http://www.lostonwallace.com/folds4.jpg
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Animals


Wings:
http://www.dreslough.com/main/wings/Index.htm

Drawing Dragons:
http://www.dreslough.com/main/tutorials.htm

Animal Pictures Archive
http://www.animalpicturesarchive.com/animal
http://www.coolanimalpictures.com
http://www.ups.edu/x5662.xml
http://www.gapingmaws.com/index.html
http://1kai.dokkyomed.ac.jp/mammal/en/order_list.html [1kai.dokkyomed.ac.jp]

Reptiles and Amphibians
http://www.members.carol.net/~jmaloney/animals.htm [members.carol.net]
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-Just a note. The Over 18 links are fine since they have warnings ^^

I didn't see morguefile in there. I might have missed it though.

http://www.morguefile.com/

lba
I didn't see morguefile in there. I might have missed it though.

http://www.morguefile.com/

Added under 'Reference.'
w00t you're the first contribution :)

I noticed you only mentioned the Gimp once... lol!

http://gimp.org/tutorials/ [gimp.org]

I dug through my bookmarks and found a couple more of varying usefulness. They're basically a couple lists which lead to more tutorials and info.

http://www.finearteducation.com/

http://www.gfxartist.com/features/tutorials

You should definitely add more facial expressions help.
Facial expressions make the comic more awesome.

Alas, I have no link to one. Never need one. :P
But, if I might make a suggestion; there are a few helpful tutorials in DD's tutorials section. You could link to some. :D

Nice post, Skull. Likely to get stickied.

Whoa! o.O Nice link-repository. This is really, really useful.

I scanned through your list, but couldn't see http://www.posemaniacs.com anywhere - and I've found that really useful.

Also, I didn't see much in the way of landscape/background reference, so I thought I'd dump mine here. They're mostly decayed/broken down buildings and machinery, because I'm kind of odd like that, but I've found them to be occasionally very useful, and some of the photographs are nothing short of gorgeous. Mind, they're Livejournal communities, so finding what you want is a matter of browsing extensively:

Urban decay
Rural ruin
Rundown town
Deathly decayed (cemeteries/gravestones)
Dead machinery (no houses, but truckloads of old, rusty machines - quite a few old cars and military equipment as well.)
Abandoned places

This should be stickied.

Saveloomis.org does not exist.

Frostflowers
Whoa! o.O Nice link-repository. This is really, really useful.

I scanned through your list, but couldn't see http://www.posemaniacs.com anywhere - and I've found that really useful.

Urban decay
Rural ruin
Rundown town
Deathly decayed (cemeteries/gravestones)
Dead machinery (no houses, but truckloads of old, rusty machines - quite a few old cars and military equipment as well.)
Abandoned places

Woot! What a great links, It gives me the idea to actually name my links too. Pose maniacs if up there of course lol! It's under 'the usual'

@mattandcow
You can use photoshop tutorials ;) The only reason i didn't put them up there is because gimp tutorials are lacking in quality usually...even though i use gimp myself. lol!

@Crocty
Thanks for the suggestions! Yeah a sticky would be cool.

@teedomoonstrider
Thanks. :) Crap that's one of the most useful links...I'll find another.

Loomis' books were very, very useful. Old school, but covered a lot of the basics.

Again, great list!

*Sigh* If I had the time, then I'd write up some photoshop to gimp tutorial conversions... But I don't. Maybe when I get back...

Wow, thank you for this! I have no contributions to add since the only site I've paid much attention to in the past was posemaniacs.com - and I got that from FrostFlowers ^.^

OK, I dedicated myself to look through some tutorials that you could post...
(Maybe put the DD tutorials under a new section?)
Ozone's drawing-type tutorial
Silentkitty's rain effect tutorial
Winterman's inking tutorial
Fishfry's word balloon tutorial
Enkinda's word balloon tutorial
Luminous' line art tutorial
Enkinda's homepage HTML tutorial part one part two (HTML problems should probably go in Coding and templates, but, why not?)
Glenfx's inking tutorial
Enkinda's comic page HTML tutorial
Finalfantasyfreak_07's lineart, and I believe colouring tutorial
Cartoonproffesor's movement tutorial
iowabarbiedoll's inking tutorial
Mutation's magic effects tutorial
Kingv's water drawing tutorial
Ronson's word balloon tutorial
heymelby's video tutorial of how one of his comic's is made
Deviant Lnyx's inking tutorial
Mister spook's tutorial on how to prepare lineart for inking

Whew...Also, I mostly skimmed through these, so...If some of them aren't that helpful, I apologise.
I'll probably make a tutorial one time come to think of it...
Well anyway, there they are.

crocty
.Also, I mostly skimmed through these, so...If some of them aren't that helpful, I apologise.
I'll probably make a tutorial one time come to think of it...
Well anyway, there they are.

No no, if people visit this thread from outside DD I'm sure they'll find it useful-thanks a bunch! (Yeah you should make a tutorial too :3 )

No problem.
I had nothing better to do. :P

(Skull note: Remember never use anything to computerized for speech)

To elaborate on this, get a font that is sans serif. The serif is the 'tail' that appears on the ends of letters that give it a calligraphy effect. Comic book dialog is supposed to look organic so serif fonts are best reserved for letters, typewriters, and computers.

Haha, my tutorial is listed there! I wasn't expecting that x)

But actually the reason I'm posting is to say thanks for that massive post. I'm bookmarking this thread, because those links are going to be really useful ^^. So thanks!

Cool! Thanks for the sticky! ^^
Hopefully even more user links will be added now!

SXC [sxc.hu]

Stock Xchange, lots of free photos (large, too), with a pretty good search function.

And something I feel is invaluable to comics-makin':

Guide to Semiotics [aber.ac.uk]

nice slideshow on semiotic basics/advertising [uvm.edu]

informative podcast about comic strip making
webcomics weekly @ halfpixel.com

Skullbie!

http://divine-star.deviantart.com/art/Step-by-Step-in-Comic-Making-22840359
The above link doesn't work anymore.

Here's a great tutorial on creating speed lines that I found to be especially useful:

http://katycoope.blogspot.com/2008/05/creating-speedlines-on-photoshop-part-1.html

ImagineFX has some pretty nice tutorials.

It's a magazine from the UK and it costs around $100 to get a 12 month subscription here in the US. I'd say it's worth the penny. I'd wish they had something similar here so it wouldn't cost so much.

I decided to scan some of their tuts and post them here.

New post section 'Reference' added.

For the fonts theres also www.1001fonts.com, and I found this tutorial on drawing anthros that also covers basic anatomy and skeletons-http://hippie.nu/~unicorn/tut/xhtml/ [hippie.nu]

For modern clothes there should be a link to www.luello.com/shop/

If it's cool to toss in another suggestion:

I found a great "How to draw figures" tutorial on Comic Tools recently :
"This week is only part one in a multi-part anatomy lesson tailored specifically for the cartoonist, who may not want, need, or be able to invest their time in studying all the complexities of anatomy, but who would like to at least be able to understand the basics of the figure."

^ That's an interesting way of looking at the basics of the human figure. I'm going to have to try that out.