The Preserver’s Hand

hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

On the hunt

Two of my favorite prints are on sale with the code THANKS20 (20% off 11/29-12/02) exclusively at Nucleus Portland

Introducing February's Patreon-exclusive pin!

Info:

Those who subscribe to Tier III will receive a different enamel pin each month, along with everything else included in the previous tiers. Pins sent out each month are limited in quantity! Pin designs will not repeated, so if you miss out on a previous month's pin, you won't have a chance to get it in the future.

This tier is limited to 50 subscribers, US residents only (for now) ---

About the pin:  Derived from my piece "Seraphim" (2020) from my Choir series, "Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus" (holy, holy, holy), is a proclamation by 'heavenly beings'. In medieval manuscripts, words so prolific in their use were abbreviated to save space on rare and valuable parchment. In this case, the composition of this pin forced the shortening of "sanctus" to "SCS". Another example, "spiritus sanctus (the Holy Spirit; every scribe in the Middle Ages would know that one) became "SPS SCS". These pins are only available from February 1-28.

P.S. There is still time to grab a January pin! By tomorrow, they'll be unavailable.

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with a face like this you can get away with anything

apple of my eye // fanart for KILLSHOT by sam @ / kindlespark which you can and should read RIGHT HERE

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Guanyin by Yuming Li

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