✷ Tonk's Art Resources ✷

Hi! No one asked but I wanted to make a big list of art resources I use because I like to try and help people be creative! Not everything I list is free (mostly the books & some PDFs), but I’ll try my best to keep a big portion of it unpaid.

I've also made a carrd with the same links and a set of software links + prices but I'll be updating this with more things I find that I think would be helpful. :)

Drawing

GES DRAW PARTY - Timed model videos

Drawing Tutorials Online - Figure drawing tutorials (& fun SVA student sketchbook videos)

Line of Action - Timed model Photos

3 tips to improve your PEOPLE SKETCHING (fast urban sketching techniques), Sketching Scottie

Creating Backgrounds, Tim Mcburnie

Drawabox

Reference Angle

Kaycem

Colour Theory

Why Color Studies Are So Powerful, Light Ponderings

Marco Bucci

Colour Tips and Tricks, Iniro (PDF)

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Animation

The Animator’s Survival Kit, Richard E. Williams (book) - I think this one is a pretty obvious must-have

How to Animate Night In The Woods [Scribble Kibble #103], Crowne Prince - Helped me get a grip on After Effects

Little Miss Hellraiser Toon Boom Harmony Rig, Edu Bruks - Free Toon Boom Harmony rig

Alex Grigg // Animation for Anyone

BaM Animation

Storyboarding

Exploring Storyboarding, Wendy Tumminello (book)

Storyboarding Essentials: SCAD Creative Essentials, David Harland Rousseau & Benjamin Reid Phillips (book)

Storyboard Pro Crash Course/Tips for beginners, OhJeeToriG

A Guide To Storyboards, MagicBunnyArt (PDF)

Character Design

Character Design Crash Course - A huge free course document with assignments you can work through

Delicious in Dungeon - Fundamentals of Character Design, lines in motion

Writing

Writing for Animation, Comics, and Games, Christy Marx (book)

Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting, Syd Field (book) - I have the 1987 edition

Reedsy

How to Plot a Comic From Start to Finish!, McKay & Gray

Portfolio Tips

How to make a Character Design Portfolio, Jackie Droujko

Top Tips on How to Kickstart Your Storyboard Portfolio, Brown Bag Films

25 Tips to Create an Animation Demo Reel, Sir Wade Neistadt

Extras

PuccaNoodles’ Animation/Art Resource Sheet

My Study References Pinterest board

Motivation Station - Playlist of sketchbook videos and some speedpaints that I use to motivate & inspire me

The Illustrated Freelancer’s Guide, Heather Parry & Maria Stoian (PDF) - Really useful for freelancers in the UK

Software substitution chart

Adobe Suite substitute chart

Remember to check out the carrd, it might have a more updated list!

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Three ships: Griddlehark, my beloved.. they just rotate in my brain no matter what I'm doing and I'm not ready for the series to end next year. CaitVi because yes. I want my messy blue/red lesbians and I hc Vi (gentle) touch starved af. Camilla Hect and therapy.

First ever ship: I cannot avoid the weird kid allegations anymore: Sonadow (Sonic X Shadow..... yes the hedgehogs).

Last song: Hot by Liili

Last film: Vesper on Netflix. I really liked the world they were presenting with the Citadels and lab-made viruses/diseases/fungi infecting and killing most of the world's wildlife and food. Workers have been replaced with lab-made creatures called Jugs due to them being easier to control so the lower class are struggling to survive outside the Citadels. Vesper is a girl who's self-studying to help make crops fertile again. It was pretty good, I recommend to anyone who fancies something different to watch.

Currently watching: Superstore on Netflix, recommended to me by a friend.

Currently reading: Frontier by Grace Curtis. Keeping with the dystopian themes I love so much; we follow a stranger who's fallen down to Earth in search of (what I assume is) their romantic interest/partner (because it's apparently a romance). The people of Earth now worship the planet itself, which is interesting as some phrases concerning hell have been replaced with space and phrases concerning god have been replaced with goddess (Mother Earth, fuck yeah, god is a woman). It's been interesting so far, but it feels like a story I'd prefer experiencing as a game.

Currently consuming: Tea.

Currently craving: Cinnamon buns tbh.

I tag anyone who wants to do this because I'm too nervous to give my mutuals tag notifs :')

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tagged posts ty for the tag :) I'm sorry im too nervous to tag my moots I don't talk to a lot of them because anxiety's a bitch <3

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