Tag: drawing

characterdesigninspiration:

awaywardmind:

Having trouble coming up with your own post-apocalyptic hero(ine)?  Try out this generator! I tried to include options that would help with building both the character and their world.  I’d love to check out what you make with this generator if you wanna tag it “characterdesigninspiration”!

To Play: click and drag each gif or take a screenshot of the whole thing.

Crap I accidentally had this in the wrong blog’s drafts. Here’s the newest generator though!

key-feathers:

I often get comments about this little guide I did way back for a college assessment. Its a bit old and I’d like to do a new one eventually, but thought I’d share it here incase it helps anyone! 

Posted below, is what I had posted with my original DeviantART post, so apologies if some of the links are now dated or not working. 

Bird wing ref! 

The three important points when illustrating wings are –

1) Feather placement! First primary goes UNDER the next feather from top view. First primary goes OVER second feather on underside view.

2) A bird wing is like a human arm in a lot of ways. Make sure you have the correct amount of bends- joints. If in doubt try posing your arm for ideas!
3) When folded, primaries tuck under the secondaries not the other way around!

Sourced from many places, including illustrations and photos online, books, a dried wing I own and my parrot NC. It’s probably not the most amazing ref (and there may be mistakes atm *so tired* XD). But hopefully this will be of use to someone!

Here are some usefull photos and illustrated refs that I have collected for my study. I am sure they will be of great help for those who wish to draw some wingsssss!

Bones –
http://academic.emporia.edu/sievertl/verstruc/birdbody2.JPG
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21279442@N00/4301540128/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cyborgsuzy/1455596431/

Feather illustrations – 
http://featherfancy.com/images/wing_clips.gif
http://www.twitt.org/LordsBird03.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/Wingfeathers.png
http://raptorrehab.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/bird_wing_by_lily.jpg (This one again shows the vital placement of the primary and secondaries!)

Photos – (Seriously, look through flickr. You will find some awesome bird wing refs there!) 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrnikon/3809206571/in/photostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sarahbelle1/144753429/

http://susty.com/image/legend-of-pale-male-red-tailed-hawk-wing-wave-central-park-building-beak-feather-new-york-city-nyc-sky-nature-wildlife-animal-raptor-bird-of-prey-photo.jpg

http://www.dorlingkindersley-uk.co.uk/static/clipart/uk/dk/bird/image_bird003.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/daaynos/449276506/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/59303791@N00/3953343294/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/32081016@N07/3607434096/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/1stlady/644398880/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/50059444@N00/300765724/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/53898309@N00/2211304917/

2 really good tutorials (much more in depth) others have made! – 

http://unkraut.deviantart.com/art/Bird-s-wing-anatomy-30580013?q=boost%3Apopular%20bird%20wing%20tutorial&qo=5

http://theantimonyelement.deviantart.com/art/Bird-Wing-Tutorial-150844565?q=boost%3Apopular%20bird%20wing%20tutorial&qo=0

characterdesigninspiration:

Several people requested magic-related generators, so here’s a fairly large mage generator! I tried to include a mix of character design and development categories, though of course you’ll need to do a bit more developing for a fully-rounded character.

I’d love to see your creations, if you wanna tag ‘characterdesigninspiration’ in any drawings you post from this!

To Play:Click and drag each gif or take a screenshot of the whole thing.

fallenzephyrart:

If 18 or 20 palettes wasn’t enough, I present to you: my 100 Palette Challenge! This is a collection of some of my favourite palettes from color-palettes and Adobe Kuler and I thought it would be really fun to have a huge variety of palettes to chose from

I am no longer taking suggestions for this challenge, so please do not send me any more asks!

If you would like to participate in this challenge, I ask that you DO NOT repost this anywhere else, including deviantART; please REBLOG this instead! I have the challenge uploaded to deviantART as well, so please check it out there if you want to do it on deviantART!

yoyonaki:

I er….decided to make my own cuz I dont like the color palette that’s been going around on tumblr (sorry i’m very picky w/colors) O-(—<

Send me a character & # and hopefully I’ll try to pick yours…if not then gomen, tomos (cuz lmao I’m also doing these on twitter too)

bluesigma:

rynnay:

Just an easy trick I learned a few years ago that I thought I’d share. May not work 100% all the time, but works well for simple hand/arm placement.

MY FACE LITERALLY DROPPED THIS IS FUCKING PERFECT