Hello Steemit Artists !
For those of you who are wondering where to Begin to learn drawing and painting, I made a small (f* big) list of links to follow for your education. Whether you are looking for books, more links, mentors, schools etc. Feel free to browse the following and tell me what you think in the comments. If you guys give me some good links I will be able to update this post as well regularly.
The bold links are the one I think you should begin with as a beginner artist. (The others, you should go back there and take a look at your fundamentals too, it never hurts hahah)(me too...)
BOOKS :
How To Draw
How To Render
The Visual story
Beyond Art Fundamentals
Art Fundamentals
Human Anatomy For Artists
Anatomie Artistique de l’Homme (French)
Traité d’anatomie artistique (French)
Monograph/Muscles in motion
Comment dessiner les comics (How to draw comics, French)
My Pinterest (I add the books I loved and those my teachers, mentors and friends refer to me)
YOUTUBE VIDEOS :
Anatomy :
Framing and composition :
Channel Criswell
Every Frame a Painting
Podcasts :
Artcafe
Bobby Chiu
Chris Oatley
LevelUp
Ryan Kingslien
The Grind
Tutorials & Education :
BlenderGuru
CGCookie
DrawMixPaint
Anthony Jones
ImagineFX
Mitchel Albala
Nick Carver
Phlearn
Proko
Scott Robertson
Sephiroth
Shaddy Safadi
SinixDesign
Sycra
NoahBradley
Schoolism
Beekart
FZD School
Conferences and Talks :
IndustryWorkshops
PromisedLand
Artists and Inspiration :
Atey Ghailan
Dominik Mayer
Jama Jurabaev
Boulet (French, English, Korean)
MrJack
Nicholas Kole
Noah Bradley
Sam Hogg
Stjepan Sejic
WEBSITES :
Level Up
CG Cookie
Layer paint (Former 2DTotal)
Ctrl+Paint
Draw A Box
Iamag
Design Spartan (French)
Legal (French)
Communities :
INTERACTIVE WEBSITES :
Concept Art Sessions (topic exercise + timer)
Paletton (Create your own color palett)
Circular (Can you draw a perfect circle freehanded ? Test your draftmanship)
Method.ac( (Multiple mini games for artists)
One of those games based on Color Theory practice
Zbrush in your browser
Pixel Art
Animation automated in your browser
Timer
Make a gif
BLOGS
Movie Frames
Muddy Colors
Noah Bradley
Design Theory
Cannibal Candy
Chris Oatley
Kiri Leonard
Specific awesome articles :
Storyboard theory
Moebius Wisdom
Kotaku, perspective from Plan view to 3D view
Composition Rules of 3rd
Wisdom for applying to a CG art position
Art Schools by Noah Bradley
Design Theory
Design Theory 2
Process of Thoughts
Concept Art
FORUMS
/r/DigitalArt/
/r/ArtFundamentals/
/r/ArtBuddy/
/r/DigitalArtTutorials/
/r/LearnConceptArt/
Cubebrush
Polycount
Blender artists
Café Salé (French)
Facebook Groups :
LevelUp
Artcafe
Brainstorm
30Day challenge for artists
The Art Hacker
Virtual Plein Air
Specific awesome threads
Updated List of reliable Resources For Concept Art
MENTORSHIPS
Darek Zabrocki
Anthony Jones
Bobby Chiu/ Schoolism
LearnSquared
Patreon
SCHOOLS :
Brainstorm (California, USA)
FZD at Singapore
REFERENCES:
Pinterest
Alcy's
Hard Surface
Textures
3D Textures and Maps
Airlines
Forgotten places
Clothing and fashion
Figure Drawing
Portraits
Expressions
Blueprints
Anatomy :
360 Anatomy
Hippydrome
Tours University
Fuckton Of Anatomy References Reborn
Freebies :
365PSD
Icones gratuites
Pixeden
GettyImages
Photobash
EVENTS :
Europe :
Trojan Horse was a Unicorn
IFCC
PromisedLand
Industry Workshop
Angouleme Cartoon Festival
Annecy Animation Festival
World :
Americas :
SOFTWARES
OBS Project - Record Your Screen
Kuadro
Krita - Photoshop Free and Open Source
Blender 3D Soft
BUSINESS & MARKETING
This part is a big big work in progress and needs a lot of love, especially from Freelance artists, business entrepreneurs and marketing messiahs, so if you are one or know of one who really helped you a LOT and changed your life for the better (your top 1 link to share), please let us know here in the comments, or contact me through Discord thank you !!)
Books
Articles
@adammillwardart : Want to make art your career? Why Style is Super important
I hope you find these helpful !
Cheers guys !