Where Do You Get Your Resources? Share em!

by **Spenny** on Thu Dec 06, 2007 9:16 pm

Where do you get your resources from, like stock photos, textures, good reference, etc.?

I frequent these places:

for textures:

http://mayang.com/textures/

http://urbandirty.com/

http://cgtextures.com/

http://resurgere.deviantart.com/

http://autumnights.deviantart.com/

For Reference:

http://mjranum-stock.deviantart.com/gallery/

http://tigg-stock.deviantart.com/gallery/

http://www.shutterstock.com/

http://www.istockphoto.com/index.php

http://elandria.deviantart.com/gallery/

http://allureanddesire.deviantart.com/gallery/

Patterns:

http://squidfingers.com/

by **lowfro** on Sat Dec 08, 2007 6:51 pm

http://www.posemaniacs.com/blog/pose/

Found this on Cloudnine a while back. Proved to be pretty useful... I just wish I had it when I was in 2nd year doing stupid muscle charts...

http://www.babynamesworld.com/

This one is great for names.

Werd.

by **Karyl** on Sat Dec 08, 2007 10:21 pm

Holy badword balls!! That pose maniac link is going straight in my bookmarks. I second "where was that when we were in second year".

by **satek** on Sat Dec 08, 2007 10:22 pm

3D and Animation resources:

http://www.animwatch.com/index2.php

http://s7.invisionfree.com/Brackenwood/ ... topic=4488

http://cgsociety.org/

http://www.catsuka.com/gengal.php

Inspiring blogs and web design resources:

http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/

http://www.kirupa.com/

http://www.webdesignerwall.com/

http://www.lostgarden.com/index.html

http://www.linesandcolors.com/

Interesting Sites:

http://www.tokidoki.it/

http://www.animallogic.com/

http://www.abc.net.au/arts/strange/default_lowband.htm

http://www.threeleggedlegs.com

Good Tutorials:

http://itchstudios.com/psg/art_tut.htm#shadows

by **Spenny** on Sun Dec 09, 2007 1:00 am

Whoa! Great stuff, guys! I second that pose maniac site!

by **CaptainKing** on Sun Dec 09, 2007 1:38 pm

POSE MANIAC! Where were you last month!?

Thanks for sharing the references guys!

I have one, I found it helpful for my Morph project but if you're ever needing animal skeletons/bones, check out http://www.digimorph.org

by **Spenny** on Sun Dec 09, 2007 4:49 pm

Sweet stuff again!

The question came up "what if someone uses a lot of porn as reference?" while I know this was meant to be funny its also valid. I myself found most of my reference for the girl in my popgun story from a softcore porn site. SO, my advice for you if you have some good reference sites that are X rated make sure to warn people explicitly before posting any links to nudes, but please no hardcore scenes, and no direct image posting of pornography unless we make a secret forum where things can be taken a little more seriously and also be safe from younger eyes that are just lurking on the forum!

I get a lot of reference from Mc-nudes - warning, not work safe, this is a softcore porn site

Continue!

by **Nihilist** on Mon Dec 10, 2007 8:38 am

I found torrents of some really nice art books once. =X

by **Spenny** on Mon Dec 10, 2007 11:48 am

That would probably be a really awesome item to share, depending on the books!

by **phoq** on Fri Feb 08, 2008 7:51 am

I'm transferring the infos from the "Poses and such" thread to here, to keep all the resources at the same place.

Here goes!

MissusHow wrote:Well, I'm not incredibly good at doing things without references...and I guess this is for those people who havn't got anatomy down very well.

http://www.posemaniacs.com/pose/thirtysecond.html

You do ten every day, and it improves your form a lot. I can only do one minutes. Havn't yet moved to 30 seconds. ;D

Anywho, they've also got this random pose thing that you can use a reference for whatever you want to be drawing.

So I think that site is awesome. yes. :3

Spenny wrote:Check this out too:
http://characterdesigns.com/
These probably both belong in the resources thread, but I'm illustrating and can't be bothered. har har

by **Spenny** on Fri Feb 08, 2008 6:42 pm

Good move!

Here's some more links as well:

http://www.dreamstime.com/
http://texturemattic.deviantart.com/gallery/
http://pinkpaint-stock.deviantart.com/

by **phoq** on Fri Feb 08, 2008 10:18 pm

by **Spenny** on Sat Feb 16, 2008 5:18 pm

Sweet! That's a lot of links!

Everyone keeps asking me where I get all of my tons of art books (which apparently are +9 against VC assignments) so I'd like to point everyone towards Budplant:

http://www.budplant.com

This is where I order all of my more rare finds, like Claire Wendling's Desk, Drawers, and Iguana Bay. Anything I haven't been able to find anywhere else I have found on their site.

Something similar would be the place Graeme introduced me to, Brand Studio Press. Damn, they have some nice books on here:

http://www.brandstudiopress.com/store/

Also, if you're into other types of art collecting then check out Splash Page Comic Art, which is where I go when I'm looking to buy original comic art. This guy vends for a lot of leading professionals.

http://www.splashpageart.com/

by **Spenny** on Tue Mar 04, 2008 12:21 pm

Matt Forsythe posted 20 of his high res textures for free via his Flickr account:
http://comingupforair.net/2008/02/19/20-free-hi-res-textures/#comment-36290

by **Spenny** on Fri Mar 07, 2008 2:53 pm

The Practice and Science of Drawing, in full to download at:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14264

by **Karyl** on Fri Mar 14, 2008 1:37 pm

I found some really great quick colour theory overviews and tutorials on dA yesterday. I still struggle with colour and colour schemes after all these years, so maybe these will be helpful to someone else as well

http://cedarseed.deviantart.com/art/Col ... l-14617828

http://envisagedesigns.deviantart.com/a ... y-28548673

by **Spenny** on Mon Mar 24, 2008 11:42 pm

Those are actually really good!

Here's a nice model I found:
http://almudena-stock.deviantart.com/gallery/

by **Spenny** on Wed Mar 26, 2008 11:07 am

Karyl had shown me a few people that had made their own color wheels for use in PS that I liked so I made my own based on how I saw Noxizmad has his laid out. The colors vary slightly although they look the same, so if you're looking to use the same consistent color be careful.

You can download it below

http://www.monkeyslunch.com/files/monkeyslunch_colorwheel.aco
Once downloaded, go into Photoshop and under your swatches palette go to "Load Swatches" and find the file. Its 20 squares wide if you want it to actually look like a wheel, so you'll have to enlarge the palette to that.

If you want to see some more neat color wheels that you probably ALREADY HAVE, for PS users of CS2 and higher check the swatches that come with Photoshop for "Visibone" and "Visibone 2"

by **Karyl** on Wed Mar 26, 2008 1:19 pm

Shwet dood. Thanks for making that up for us!

by **Spenny** on Sun Mar 30, 2008 10:13 pm

Very welcome, mon frere! Put 'er to good use! I'm going to make another one based on different color schemes, like analogous, complimentary, split complimentary, etc. I love those rare hues as well (I use a lot of those these days) so I might collect some more of those as well.

Also, here's a neat color program for making swatch sets. I love it mostly because of the name colorPoki hehe.
http://www.classicteck.com/colorpoki.html

by **Mud** on Mon Mar 31, 2008 12:53 pm

Muybridge
http://www.archives.upenn.edu/primdocs/upt/upt50/upt50m993/upt50m993.html
figures in motion stuff.

by **Spenny** on Thu Apr 03, 2008 2:50 pm

I love that figure stuff, ever since I found one of the old books at the U of C library.

As promised, here is two new swatch files that I did up for Photoshop.

What we have here is:

First, a blank file filled with a single white swatch so that you can easily reset your swatches to something blank (if you just select "reset swatches" it reverts to the Photoshop defaults and you have to delete swatches one by one if you want to create a swatch file of your own like I have).
http://www.monkeyslunch.com/files/blank.aco

And second, and more importantly, this:

http://www.monkeyslunch.com/files/monkeyslunch_colorSchemes.aco
This is a swatch set of possible color schemes. The first row is analogous, then complimentary, then split complimentary, and finally triadic. So, this might help a few people when composing compositions that need more strict color selections. Enjoy!

by **Karyl** on Fri Apr 04, 2008 10:13 am

The colour scheme swatch palette is another good idea. I think I'll hold off on that one for now, because I'm trying to force myself to internalize that information. Maybe once I feel more comfortable with colour in general, I'll use it as a handy shortcut.

by **Spenny** on Fri Apr 04, 2008 6:11 pm

same here, but I've found on a few of these projects I've had to push through kind of quick, especially on the projects where we're supposed to do studies with various different color palettes and I needed something a little more efficient! I'm with you on that one though, and I wish I had more time! Soon... 3 weeks!

by **lowfro** on Fri Apr 04, 2008 8:04 pm

Rad stuff. I can't wait to make use of it. This is really the kind of thing we should have at the start of VC...

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