They’re All Here! I Took It Upon Myself To Create An Illustration Of A Mythological Creature Or Character

I’ve learnt alot when painting the azir piece, but I’m still far from perfect with expressing realistic metal. The gifs up there could be self-explanatory for the more experienced artist, but if you want the full breakdown, more below.

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Howl’s Moving Castle (Hayao Miyazaki, 2004)

Horse Grenadier Saber of Napoleon’s Imperial Guard

Dated:  1810

Culture: French

This ‘Horse Grenadier Saber’ (3rd pattern) was used by Napoléon’s Imperial Guard. These sabers were used also by the Dragoons of the Imperial Guard and the Elite Gendarmerie. This is one the most beautiful and famous sword from the Napoleonic period.

Source: Copyright © 2016 Sword Collection

Dress, 1890-1900.

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resource for procrastination

if you’re anything like me, working on a computer is a dangerous thing. i’ll get distracted by everything - that one email i should respond to, all the pictures of my dog, tumblr, and so on. I recently discovered an amazing resource to stop that.

it’s called writer’s block, and is free to download! 

when you open it, it shows this screen, where you can choose either a time limit or word goal

then when you start, it opens a document that fills the entire screen like this

and you cannot quit the app or open anything else until your word/time quota is filled. i just wrote half of my english speech that i’ve been putting off all morning, and it took only 20 minutes!

so yup, it’s called writer’s block and is free for both mac and windows. enjoy!

Concepts by, Jerad S. Marantz

how do u do this ? what program is this ??

Hello! I'm a self taught artist who wants to get better at shading/lighting and backgrounds especially. But whenever I try to do a background study, I can't break it down and it ends up looking terrible. Do you know of anything that would help?

Hi! I would like to talk a little bit of the thought process behind photo study and the importance of simplicity.

It is really important to break down an image to chunks of value rather than seeing the detail  first, which can lead to over-complicated mush of colors with no constructed value.

These are some of the artists that inspired me to get used to breaking down images in the most simplest way possible:

Notice how super simple and straight-on-point his thumbs are? And this is how his colorscript for Moana looks like:

Zero detail. Yet you have all the information you need!

I personally think these thumb studies are super important to train your eyes to break down an image in values and colors and therefore be able to organize and design your painting better.