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From /ic/ with love:
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The usual fare for /ic/
http://www.itchstudios.com/psg/art_tut.htm
http://www.posemaniacs.com/pose/randomviewer.html
http://www.artnatomia.net/uk/artnatomy.html
http://www.eskeletons.org/
http://fineart.sk/
http://creative.gettyimages.com/source/home/home.aspx

Photoshop
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.lombergar.com/v6/free-photoshop-video-tutorials.html
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.eyesondesign.net/pshop/tuts.htm
http://www.screaming-art.com/tutorials.php
http://www.absolutecross.com/tutorials/photoshop/
http://steeldolphin.com/tutorials_photoshop.php
http://www.newtutorials.com/
http://ultrashock.com/


Illustrator
http://www.creativemac.com/2003/12_dec/tutorials/illcs3d1031211.htm
http://docs.rinet.ru/Ill/
http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modListing.asp

Painter
http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modListing.asp
http://www.pixelalley.com/tutorials/painter7-tutorials.html

Flash
http://www.flashkit.com/
http://www.vectorkid.com/
http://www.w3schools.com/flash/default.asp
http://flashmove.com/
http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modListing.asp
http://www.the-stickman.com/tutorials/
http://www.newtutorials.com/
http://ultrashock.com/
http://www.trainingtools.com/online/flash5/index.htm
http://www.citycollegiate.com/flashhome.htm

3D Modeling
http://www.3dlinks.com/links.cfm?categoryid=13&subcategoryid=105
http://www.3dtotal.com/
http://www.learning-maya.com/modeling.php
http://www.3dtutorials.sk/
http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modListing.asp
http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/tutorials.html
http://cube.phlatt.net/home/spiraloid/tutorial/index.html

Web Design
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/
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/

Pixel Art
http://www.zoggles.co.uk/asp/tutorials.asp?show=index
http://rhysd.syntesis.org/tutorial/
http://www.deviantart.com/view/2866522/
http://pixel.nascimpact.com/tutoriaux.php
http://www.spriteart.com/
http://www.speccy.org/remakesgraph/tutoriales/tuto.htm
http://pixel-zone.rpgdx.net/shtml/tutorials.shtml
http://www.drububu.com/tutorial/flashtival.html
http://www.drububu.com/tutorial/flashtival.html
http://www.barnettcollege.com/tutorial1.htm

Animation
http://www.idleworm.com/how/index.shtml
http://www.donbluth.com/academy.html
http://www.awn.com/tooninstitute/lessonplan/lesson.htm#top

Game Development
http://www.gamemaker.nl/tutorial.html
http://tilestudio.sourceforge.net/
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/xna/default.aspx

Nudes
http://www.female-anatomy-for-artist.com/
http://www.photo.net/nudes/
http://www.agalleryofnudes.com/gon/portfolio.html
http://www.amis-angels.com/models.htm
http://www.fotostrip.dk/model1.htm
http://www.bigkugels.com/content/Koch-RiethDerAct/KRFemales/index.html
http://www.bigkugels.com/content/Koch-RiethDerAct/KRMales/index.html
http://www.studiojorgen.com/main.htm
http://www.creative-nude.net/cnpn.html
http://www.bobx.com/dark/

Other Nude References
Not under 18, may feature pornography
http://www.mea-culpa.com/fr/
http://www.bookthumbs.com/
http://www.firexdream.com/

Clothes
http://www.3wishes.com/
http://www.victoriassecret.com/

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

References
http://drawinglab.evansville.edu/
http://www.theseventh.com/
http://www.topfigure.bigtopsites.com/
http://www.ww2incolor.com/gallery/ww2incolor
http://www.primeportal.net/home.htm

Animals
http://www.ups.edu/x5662.xml
http://www.junglewalk.com/
http://www.gapingmaws.com/index.html
http://1kai.dokkyomed.ac.jp/mammal/en/order_list.html

Fonts
http://www.dafont.com/
http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/
http://www.blambot.com/
http://cooltext.com/Fonts-All

Textures
http://textures.forrest.cz/
http://lemog.free.fr/lemog_v5/index.php?cat=4〈=english
http://www.mayang.com/textures/

http://qbranch.cottages.polycount.com/ref_links.shtml

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?p=1280135

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1. Draw an image, copy it three times and colour each differently/with different colours.
2. Draw something beautiful.
3. Draw something ugly.
4. Draw fanart of your favourite thing.
5. Draw something with no same colour used twice.
6. Draw a short comic of 3-7 panels.
7. Drawing using only two colours.
8. Cg a drawing, colouring it with three depths of shades and three depths of lighting.
9. Cg a drawing in black and white.
10. Draw an imaginary object.
11. Cg. Scetch, lineart, colour. Use an hour or more for every step.
12. Traditional. Scetch, lineart, colour. Use an hour or more for every step.
13. Cg a drawing using tools that mimic brushes and tools in traditional media.
14. Cg/traditional draw a face, male or female. Design a decorative makeup/tattoo to decorate the face.
15. Traditional inks. Colour with colour pencils.
16. Scetch a dynamic pose of a human. Feets can't touch ground and hands can't be on sides of the waist. No matter if you finish or not.
17. Draw something with not your usual style. Be it a mock or not.
18. A 10-frame animation. (Flash, Flash Player. Adobe Imageready, etc)
19. Do a pencil-drawing with pencil/charcoal and eraser only, and finish it with proper shading and such.
20. Draw something very detailed.
21. Work out a traditional work that has 3d elements added to it, like fabrics and plants and etc
22. Draw something very simple.
23. Draw something very small. (for example; A5/500 x 500)
24. Draw something very big. (for example; A3/2000 x 2000)
25. Draw fanart of your least favourite series, presentable, not mockery.
26. Draw your favourite animal.
27. A traditional painting using only acrylic/watercolour/oil-colours, et cetera.
28. Draw something you've never drawn before, not even scetched.
29. Do several scetches of the object/organism you have the most trouble drawing.
30. Traditional draw something using colourpencils only
31. Draw a zoomed in image of a bodypart of a human, something from neck down.
32. A traditional inked lineart, coloured with one or two colours only.
33. Draw something from the bird-eye view.
34. Paint something with coffee.
35. Draw something surreal.
36. Draw a battle.
37. A traditional pencil-scetch coloured with watercolours.
38. Draw a nude human. No exaggerated tits or penises.
39. Take two photos of ordinary everylife objects. Combine and photomanipulate them in Photoshop (or any other program) into one extraordinary object.
40. A pixel-drawing with pixels only. Atleast 100px x 100px big.
41. Draw a bird flying.
42. Do a cg using magic-wand and fill-tool only.
43. Draw a vehicle.
44. Do a collage. Of magazine-clippings, fabrics, buttons, pins, etc + you can use an ink-pen to create effects or details.
45. Cg a drawing without a stretch or a lineart. Begin with the colours and continue with the colours only.
46. Draw a portrait of a live human of your choice. Caricature or realistic.
47. Design a decorative outfit of your liking.
48. Do a small sculpture, no more 20 cm or less than 10 cm in height. You can use clay or even play-doh.
49. Draw a drawing and colour it with three shades of one colour only.
50. Draw an animal with surrealism added to it.
51. Draw an imaginary/existing landscape.
52. Draw something with foreshortening.
53. Pick two characters (your own or someone elses), male and female. Genderbender them.
54. Take a photo, and cg a drawing on it, like the character or the drawings belongs into the photograph.
55. Draw something using only one line aka not lifting your pencil off the paper. You can do this with tablet too but it might be harder seeing how the work-space is limited?
56. Draw someone chubby.
57. Draw an imaginary/existing building.
58. Draw a character doing two things at once. Standing/breathing et cetera not allowed, something dynamic and lively please.
59. Draw a character doing four things at once. Same notes as above.
60. Draw something traditionally and Photoshop it so it looks digital.
61. Draw an anthromorphic character.
62. Oekaki, 500 x 500
63. Draw someone thin.
64. Draw your least favourite thing, presentable, not a mockery.
65. Copy a famous painting and change things to your liking but not so much it's not recognisable anymore.
66. Draw a picture copying famous styles, art nouveau, children's illustrations, church paintings, et cetera
67. Open a book near you and draw what's happening on the page.
68. Listen to a song, and illustrate what it reminds you of or what visuals it brings to your mind.
69. Close your eyes and draw five scribbles on a piece of paper. Then, try to make a drawing or character out of each scribble. You can add on to each as much as you like, but you can't erase any part of the scribble.
70. Do a drawing using your feet.
71. Do a drawing using your non-primary hand.
72. Do a fingerpainting.
73. Put tiny splotches of watercolour on paper and wait for them to dry. Add lines to the splotches with a pen and see if you can make them something else than just drops of colour.
74. Draw a person with one exaggerated bodypart
75. Draw a diarylike comic-illustration of your day.
76. Illustrate a person's change of expression through a comic (3-5 panels)
77. Draw a character (yours or someone elses) in a style of another series or person. (Not your own style.)
78. Create a wallpaper for your desktop. (Preferably from your own drawing)
79. Draw something beautiful and ugly. Use your imagination!
80. Draw an image, copy it three times and colour each with a different light-source and/or type of lighting
81. Choose a character or subject and draw it in a single or three different compositions three times, experimenting with a different line type/weight/dynamic in each one.
82. Choose three different media and three distinct textures and create a triptych composition in which you experiment with rendering each texture in some way: realistically, abstractly, etc.
83. Do a collage using materials, paper-clippings, fabrics etc only, no pens this time!
84. Draw a picture without erasing anything, including the scetches and mistakes
85. Draw a huge insect with all the details visible.
86. Design five different underwear in five different materials.
87. Draw something seasonal.
88. Draw something using shading only. (Black on white, etc)
89. Draw something using lighting only. (White on black, etc)
90. Have a friend you haven't gift-arted yet? Surprise them.
91. Draw a heterosexual couple. No mockery.
92. Draw a homosexual couple. (Two females. No mockery)
93. Draw a homosexual couple. (Two males. No mockery)
94. Draw an image that supports something against your beliefs. A presentable one.
95. Draw an image that has something to do with religion (any of them, no mockery)
96. Hit "random deviant" button until you find a deviant with an original character. Draw it, and no skipping! (Show it to the person too!)
97. Put your playlist on random, pick a song, find the lyrics for it and choose a random line or two which you will illustrate.
98. Draw one of your human-characters as an animal/one of your animal-characters as a human.
99. Pick one of your old, old drawings, and redraw it.
100. Congratulate yourself for a work well done and do an appropriate image of CELEBRATION. This is obviously the final task. I hope you had fun.

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Using PaintBBS - an Overview: http://www.sakura02.com/html/body_oekaki_tutorial.html
Oekaki Basics (description of tools): http://www.kabukiyasha.net/tutorials.php?tutorialid=1
Using Oekaki BBS: http://neondragonart.com/dp/tutorials/oekaki.htm
Using Shii BBS: http://neondragonart.com/dp/tutorials/shii.htm
Using Paint BBS: http://neondragonart.com/dp/tutorials/oekakipainter.htm
Getting Acquainted with Paint BBS: http://www.ninja-monkey.com/tutorials/oekaki_tutorial1.html
Application: http://www.ninja-monkey.com/tutorials/oekaki_tutorial2.html
How to use Paint BBS: http://www.oekakicentral.com/tutorials/paintbbs2.html
How To Use Oekaki BBS: http://www.oekakicentral.com/tutorials/oekakibbs.html
Basic/Portraits: http://www.ninja-monkey.com/tutorials/oekaki_tutorial3.html
Drawing: http://www.ninja-monkey.com/tutorials/niko_tutorial.html
Photorealism and Reference: http://www.ninja-monkey.com/tutorials/neo_tutorial.html
Full Picture: http://www.ninja-monkey.com/tutorials/imonkey_tutorial.html
Realistic Eyes: http://www.ninja-monkey.com/tutorials/hclark_tutorial.html
Shi Painter Tutorial: http://www.sailor-games.com/oekaki/tutoria...t/tutorial.html
Coloring with Paint BBS: http://harusame.net/ooekaki/tutorials/paintbbs01.html
Watercolors in Paint BBS: http://coffeejelly.com/tutorial/index.html
Color Lineart: http://www.pinkpt.com/os/oekakiart/tutoria...torial_Pins.png
Watercolor Lineart in PaintBBS: http://www.oekakicentral.com/tutorials/wclines.html
Bezeir Lineart in PaintBBS: http://www.oekakicentral.com/tutorials/bezlines.html

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Painting clouds:
http://www.androidblues.com/cloudtut.html

Tutorials by Katie Lee De Sousa:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/34562471/
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/34563239/

Tutorial page by Natascha Roeoesli:
http://tascha.ch/?page_id=21

Tutorial page by Roberto Campus:
http://www.robertocampus.com/tutorials.cfm

Tutorials by Stephanie Pui-mun Law (all traditional):
http://www.shadowscapes.com/StepByStepFoxSpirits/wc.shtml
http://www.shadowscapes.com/StepByStep/dryad.shtml

Traditional painting demonstrations.
http://www.burdicklyon.com/demonstrations.htm
http://www.williamwhitaker.com/B_HTML_files/07_demo/INDEX.HTM

Oil painting tutorial:
http://www.dandossantos.com/methods.html

"This has some pretty good tutorials, too, despite being on Deviant art."
http://chaosshattered.deviantart.com/journal/6836628/

Time lapse of a comic strip being made:
http://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/2007/04/25/498854.html

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A library of hundreds of thousands of diverse pictures
http://www.photovault.com/

Many pictures of female hairstyles
http://womensbeautylife.com/gallery/

Figure drawing tutorial
http://www.deviantart.com/view/11939496/

Human anatomy drawing tutorial
http://www.deviantart.com/view/15014442/

Guide to drawing the "mongoloid" race
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/32046017/

Guide to drawing the "caucasoid" race
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/33220929/

Guide to drawing the "negroid" race
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/34877428/

Guide to drawing facial expressions
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/47118559/

Portrait drawing tutorial site
http://www.portrait-artist.org/

Some skeletal references
http://www.bio.psu.edu/people/faculty/strauss/anatomy/skel/skeletal.htm

Sources for Andrew Loomis's drawing books
http://www.saveloomis.org/

Proportions and anatomy drawing tutorial
http://www.blazedent.com/tutorial_1_3.php

Basic color theory tutorial
http://www.deviantart.com/view/14617828/

Basic hand drawing tutorial
http://www.deviantart.com/view/23565813/

Basic guidelines and tips for drawing female hands
http://www.deviantart.com/view/32471237/

Basic foot tutorial
http://www.deviantart.com/view/38271036/

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http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~zm5s-nkmr/index.html - A nice japanese site.
http://tutorialblog.org/gimp-tutorials/ - Tutorials for GIMP.
http://www.barenakedgallery.com/gallery.shtml - Lots of nude galleries, B&W.

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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(emphasization 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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Software:
oC online: - http://www.zomgart.com/zing/OC11B72.EXE

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Uncategorized (Oct 5 2007):
http://tascha.ch/?page_id=86 - Painting hair
http://www.furiae.com/index.php?view=gallery - Various painting tutorials
http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/contents.asp - TONS of fine art

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