Just a quick tip to artists

monstre-rose:

archonix:

autumnbramble:

nuryfury:

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If you’re an artist who likes to work really close, (like me), do yourself a favor and put up two views. You can do this by clicking View–> New on your toolbar.


There’s nothing worse than finally zooming out and realizing what you were doing was very wrong. This saved me a lot of grief tbh. I’m sure everyone knows this already but ._.;; I arrived quite late to that party.

WHAT

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That’s amazing..

Attention anyone who needs hairstyle references

benzarro-smash:

I want to introduce all of you to this amazing place called the ukhairdressers style gallery.

It’s basically a massive database full of high-quality images of different hairstyles. I mean, look at all the options in that sidebar (and part of it’s cut off):

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In total they have 976 pages of hairstyles with about 17 styles each, that’s about 16592 hairstyles to look at. 

Look at all the stuff they’ve got! Long hair:

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Short hair:

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Straight hair:

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Curly hair:

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Afro hair:

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Men’s hair:

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Hair on older models:

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Extra-fancy hair:

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Even crazy avant-garde hair:

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So if you need help with designing a character or you just want to practice drawing hair, this is a fantastic resource.

ricardobessa:

juliedillon:

wannabeanimator:

Art Business Bootcamp 1: Getting You Found

This is pretty much the exact advice I give to people. 

Also: to find different art directors and publishers and studios if you don’t already have some in mind, look at the client lists of artists who are working in the field you want to work in. 🙂 

Extra tip: if you speak any languages besides English, your pool of possible commissioners just got bigger. Research the market in countries other than US if you’re able to (you can probably contact these people in English anyway, but researching their contact details might prove difficult).

(I don’t usually post this stuff on this blog, but this seemed like a good time to make an exception)