Artist's suitcase - a collection of useful stuff for artsy people

References, inspiration, stuff every creative person needs sometimes.

At least for me this is the case. Decided to post my little collection of things, feel free to suggest more stuff that could fit here.

Things i dig up myself will be added here from time to time too.


Last update:
20th february:
So I am currently going through all my favourites and saved stuff, expect a lot updates here.... and more things to be added.

Please tell me if links arent working or lead to the wrong things! I sometimes fail hard.


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Deer
References and tutorials featuring deer/deer anatomy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX6BG7iezTA - a music video, featuring deer. Not only an awesome video, but also a nice reference for movements. In my opinion.


http://leedassin.deviantart.com/art/Elk-Tutorial-96464888?q=boost%3Apopu... - An antler tutorial that helped me a lot to undserstand how they work.



http://www.michaelspornanimation.com/splog/?p=1463 - studies done for walt disney's Bambi. Helpful for fancy poses (don't mind the url though...)



http://www.endlessforest.org/community/all-artists-deer-anatomy-scans - Anatomy Scans done by Unplugged , thank you, dear <3




The Science collection / Deer 'Closeup' - deer anthomy, muscles and skeleton thanks Unplugged! =D






















Animals/Wildlife/deer
References and tutorials featuring not only deer but many other animals

http://www.tierfotoagentur.de/index.php?m=news - Nature photohraphy from germany, many different animals besides deer, sadly german only, but I am sure you'll get it anyway


http://www.naturephoto-cz.com/ - Wildlife photography, not only deer but photos of many other critters, site in english and german


www.skolaiimages.com - direct link to the gllaries. Many pictures, not only of deer, very nice =)


https://danchase.3dcartstores.com/ - DON'T klick this if you have a problem with taxidermy. The bases you need for this are also great references... especially because you can see well on them how the muscles run (Many thanks to firedance for this link <3 helped me to finally understand deer faces)



http://www.skull-cleaning.com/ - all kinds of skulls



http://www.skullsite.co.uk/index.htm - many different skulls of different spiecises, including deer. Sorted by spiecies and their latin name



http://solene.ledantec.free.fr/ - maaaany many wonderful drawings and prints of different animals. Sadly my french(? is that even french xD) sucks so i can't telly you anything but exploring there ^^



http://www.fallingpixel.com/deer-skeleton-3d-model/5514 / http://www.fallingpixel.com/ - a 3D model site. You don't have to buy those renders... of course... they are still quite useful as references, since they show the skelettons from different angles and with closeups. When you scroll down you can see, they not only have deer skelettons there.



http://www.tier-fotos.eu/name/bilder/hierarchie1/Paarhufer/hierarchie2/Hirsche.html - german site with many different wildlife photos. Linked you directly to the deer-galleries


Fur tutoral - by ryky, check out his gallery.












Human
References for human anatomy

http://fineart.sk/ - moar human references. not much to add here. Just: you will see nekid people here.


http://www.posemaniacs.com/ - great for human pose reference (many thanks to fayne! =D )



http://www.3d.sk/ - human photo references. Beware, you will see naked people there.













Miscellaneous
Everything usefull that doesn't fit elswhere... tutorials n recourses n


https://kuler.adobe.com/# - Kuler. A tool to create fitting color-shemes and pallettes whery helpful, since it gives out every color code you could may need.
Click 'create' to experiment with colors.


TOW-7 How to Draw Blood a list with more usefull stuff in the artist's description below the tut.












Plants n' Trees
Well... plants n' trees!

Tree tutorial Part 1 // Part 2 // Part 3 - A Tree tutorial by calisto-lynn on deviantart


shading grass - well... grass! Check out that guy's other tutorials as well.















Misc Effects
Effects and other misc stuff that may comes in handy.

Bubble Shading Bubbleeees! Also check that guys other tutorials.


Magic Lights - Also by the samr guy as above.


Clouds - one more


Moon - aaand one more















Tutorial resources
Where you can find more usefull stuff


Ryky on DA - manny of his tutorials are already featured here, but check out the rest as well!









Music
Atmospheric music can be very inspirational.


http://www.dennyschneidemesser.com/ 'Music for Motion Pictures'... but this music is also very inspiring for drawing and writing... very epic pieces there.



http://www.magicboxmusic.com/virtualresume/brandxplayer.php - thanks to kaoori ;D















Websites
Interesting websites with awesome stuff on it.


http://new.weavesilk.com/ - more a tool to relax and calm down... but also inspiering. I reccomand to enjoy it in fullscreen. For firefox you turn into fullscreen by hitting F11. To close the fullscreen hit F11 again.


http://www.facebook.com/TrustMeIamADesigner - 'Trust me I am a designer' on facebook



http://www.whokilledbambi.co.uk/ - Who killed bambi? - Morbid art warning here.























Animations
Wonderful short-animation films.

"Eye of the Storm" - by Lovett


Invention of Love



When the day breaks



Balance



In Sickness



The silence beneath the bark / le silence sous l'écorce



The Backwater Gospel !! GORE WARNING!! Don't watch if you can't handle that stuff.












Starling's picture

Thankyou

Thankyou<3

aooo yes.

aooo yes. <3

oooo Someone should add this

oooo

Someone should add this to the directory. This is wonderfully helpful

i think it was at the

i think it was at the directory but i moved the thing twice now so... eeeh sorry about that |D
mits's picture

Track this!

Track this!
ChocolateTabbyKat's picture

#Ineeedthis

#Ineeedthis

These are great, thanks Alice

These are great, thanks Alice c:

.: Absolutely wonderful!

.: Absolutely wonderful!
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Thanks for posting this!

Thanks for posting this!
mismatched's picture

gimme~

gimme~
Aivilo's picture

Tracking o3o

Tracking o3o

bump because of new content

bump because of new content

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sghcbhnjm,./

and another update bump.

and another update bump.

Here's a short animation that

Here's a short animation that I've found inspiring for some strange reason...

https://www.youtube.com/watch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dnflBERf2zM

This video talks about how to develop a Visual Library and how having one improves design skills. It focuses on designing for the video game and movie industries but I can see how it would have applications for anything, including TEF character design. The guy narrating also mentions there are many more in the video series (50+) so it could be beneficial to look at the others, if people find things useful.

must put a track for myself,

must put a track for myself, too.

@tera: that sounds like something that will be incredible helpful for me too! Thanks for sharing this, i will add this with the next 'update'