Attempting Mermay! (It's Been A Few Years Since I Participated So Lets See How This Goes)

RESOURCES FOR POSES

Line of Action

JustSketch.Me

PoseManiacs

Human-Anatomy-For-Artist.com

MagicPoser

MIXAMO

Pose Archives

Bodies in Motion

Posemy.art

ReferenceAngle

CroquisCafe

which bat photographed by Jose G. Martinez-Fonseca are YOU today?

So, maybe just one more day with a basically identical pose

day 14!

Why is she so concerned? we may never know.

(I've been doing this for 2 weeks? (???) that doesn't compute somehow)

Day 30!

Her hair looks dumb :)

Wow we're almost done with mermay! I've actually managed to keep up with it! (watch me get hit by a bus and miss the last day lol)

hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

I say this with the utmost sincerity, but I hope you have the courage and space and freedom in the upcoming year to be the nasty little freak that you are. I hope you can find a place to realize that the things you think make you unlovable and disgusting are in fact very lovable and not disgusting in any way. I hope you find sincerity beyond your ability to even comprehend.

as an aroace person with limited sexual experience, no interest in watching porn, and poor sex ed as a teen, there IS something simultaneously funny and vaguely tragic about being 28 adult years old and realising how extremely tiny your frame of reference is for genitalia and deciding you should expand this to better understand bodies (yours and others). and then you're just there like "okay so what the fuck do I even google right now, anyway"

Mermay day 3!

I'm already on a low effort day, this doesn't bode well D:

OKay, so i started this on the 7th might have finished it after midnight though

I had to switch from night shift to day shift to do overtime at my job, and now I have to switch back 😭

I can't even say RIP my sleep schedule, that bitch is the memory of the ghost of a resurrected corpse at this point. My sleep schedule is a revenant slowly chasing me down. Anyways! ANother pink mermaid! I'm actually really happy with this one

ive decided to put the postcards ive done so far up for sale on ko-fi this week since its my birthday today!

check out https://ko-fi.com/hess/shop for the listings - they’ll be shipped out next week!

(reblogs are also v much appreciated (and a great bday gift winks))

to get postcards like this at a discounted rate + lots of bonus content you can have a gander at my patreon as well!