Literally Most Things That People Write Off As Just ‘textures’ To Use In Graphics Are Stolen & Unsourced

for those of you who remember cgtextures circa 2008, texture.ninja has a large repository of public domain textures without annoying hoops to jump through.

New CSP Brushes on my Gumroad!

I made the textures by hand in my sketchbook. They're pay what you want with no minimum.

Enjoy!

Made a twitter thread of the brushes and textures I use!! Wanted to share them here too

Links for everything can be found here

art cheats

hello i am here today to not lose track of the art cheats i have discovered over the years. what i call art cheat is actually a cool filter/coloring style/way to shade/etc. that singlehandedly makes art like 20 times better

80’s anime style

glitch effect

glow effects

adding colors to grayscale paintings

foreshortening ( coil )

foreshortening ( perspective )

clipping group (lines)

clipping group (colors)

dramatic lighting ( GOOD )

shading metal

lighting faces

that is all for today, do stay tuned as i am always hunting for cool shit like this

Hello! I remember seeing a tutorial for wrinkles / clothing physics here but i cant seem to find it... where could i see it again? Im having a hard time drawing clothing physics / wrinkles haha 😅

I haven't shared it publicly, but here's a preview image of it. It's available in full to my Patreon supporters, though. It's also in the Lackadaisy Essentials art book, which can be acquired through the BackerKit campaign currently in progress.

🎨color study note

They also have an animal one that I linked a whole back on the same site !

(source)

Unsplash -  photography, illustration, and art

Pixabay - same as unsplash

Pexels - stock photos and videos

Stockvault.net - stock photos

freepngimg - icons, pictures and clipart

Veceezy - vectors and clipart

Kissclipart and kissPNG - more vectors and clipart (often transparent!)

Getdrawings - simplistic images and drawing tutorials

Gumroad - photoshop brushes (and more)

Canva - needs login but has lots of templates

Library of Congress - historical posters and photos

NASA - you guessed it

Creative Commons - all kinds of stuff, homie

Even Adobe has some free images

There are so many ways to make moodboards, bookcovers, and icons without infringing copyright! As artists, authors, and other creatives, we need to be especially careful not to use someone else’s work and pass it off as our own. 

Please add on if you know any more sites for free images <3

A long time ago an anon asked my thoughts about drawing backgrounds, so I finally got around to putting this together. It’s more prop-centric, but it still represents my philosophy to backgrounds. 

I’ll try to do something more about drawing actual background spaces in the future! Please let me know what you think, if anything is unclear, or if you have suggestions for other tutorials you might find helpful!

I forgot I have to be active here so here’s my Twitter tutorial on how to draw folds I made a while back to help a friend!