Refrence EVERYTHING

mt10: eyecager: https://www.facebook.com/Anatomy4Sculptors/phot...

Mon, 06 May 2013 23:14:39 -0400

eyecager:

https://www.facebook.com/Anatomy4Sculptors/photos_albums

Such a fantastic resource!!

Okay I feel like I study anatomy when I can, but I learned something from this one!

Top 110 Most Common Fears

Mon, 06 May 2013 20:14:45 -0400

rphelper:

1. Fear of Snakes
2. Fear of Heights
3. Fear of Flying (on a plane)
4. Fear of Public Speaking
5. Fear of Darkness and Dark Places
6. Fear of Not being able to Escape
7. Fear of Spiders
8. Fear of Terror Attacks
9. Fear of Rejection
10. Fear of Getting Cancer

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List of 300 Possible Secrets to Give Your Characters

Mon, 06 May 2013 20:14:20 -0400

crissverahelps:

This is a list of 300 possible secrets for your character when joining a secrets based rpg, or just to further character development.

This is not my original work. The original author is from the invisionfree site Caution 2.0

Please like or reblog if this helps

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55 Words to Describe Someone's Voice

Mon, 06 May 2013 19:44:40 -0400

writinghelpers:

I was sitting on the computer last night trying to be productive and actually write something. My first sentence included the character listening to a voice through an intercom and my first thought was, “What kind of voice is it?”

So, naturally, I found myself googling the different ways to describe a voice. I present to you my findings! I hope you all find it useful.

adenoidal (adj): if someone’s voice is adenoidal, some of the sound seems to come through their nose

appealing (adj): an appealing look/voice shows that you want help, approval, or agreement

breathy (adj): with loud breathing noises

brittle (adj): if you speak in a brittle voice, you sound as if you are about to cry

croaky (adj): if someone’s voice sounds croaky, they speak in a low, rough voice that sounds as if they have a sore throat

dead (adj): if someone’s eyes or voice are dead, they feel or show no emotion

disembodied (adj): a disembodied voice comes from someone who you cannot see

flat (adj): spoken in a voice that does not go up and down; this word is often used for describing the speech of people from a particular region

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ibelievepracticemakesperfect: Escher Girls: Developing your Characters and Making Them...

Mon, 06 May 2013 19:31:54 -0400

ibelievepracticemakesperfect:

Escher Girls: Developing your Characters and Making Them Interesting

eschergirls:

referenceforwriters:

Recently I got a message about a person struggling on how to develop their characters, as they normally wrote about already created characters—also about how to make them interesting and make the people reading your story actually want to continue reading it.

I’d say this is one of the main differences between fanfiction and original work. Writing fanfiction you already rely on the fact people know the characters—how they look (or are supposed to look), personalities, and backgrounds… unless you’re writing an AU. There’s people that already like the characters and would (probably) be willing to read your story. Now, you focus on a good plot to interest them.

But then we are back on our original stories, our novels, anything we write. We have to create our characters from scratch—interesting characters that can fit and make our story flow. Because good characters can handle a poor plot, yet a good plot can’t handle poor characters. I guess this is all we do here, right? this is the bane of our existence as writers.

Truth is, there’s no right way to write a story. And there’s no right way to develop a character! I tested this by asking you guys how you do to create and flesh out your characters. Every response was personal and different.

Sometimes it starts with the spark of an word, an archetype, a color, a trait, a flaw, a song lyric, a painting, someone you know in real life—then you go from there.

Here are some basic steps on developing a character, yet, you can do it as you see fit:

You start with the personality. Once that’s done it’s relatively easier to know how they look like. You sculpt and pick virtues and vices, flaws and qualities—perfect characters are not interesting. When it comes to protagonists and antagonists, they’re neither 100% good nor 100% bad, because there is not fully good or bad people. Get what I’m saying? Round characters are the thing we’re going for. Take details from people in real life, if you want: funny habits, mannerisms, what makes people human.

Work on the appearance of your character. What’s their body type, their eye color, skin color, hair color, shape of their face/nose, if they have birthmarks or scars somewhere…

Pick a name as you see fit. This can be the first step depending on how you work. Is there a meaning behind it? does it show somehow their character’s personality? remember sometimes they are relevant to the setting/genre.

Flesh. ‘Em. Out. Think of hobbies and background. How’s the relationship with their family and friends, how they act around authority, what kinds of clothes they like to wear…

Always remember: character development is an ongoing thing. You never “finish” developing your character, just like we, as people, don’t stay the same.

That being said, be creative with it! Don’t imitate the way your favorite authors develop their characters- create your own way! your characters are all yours! Make playlists about songs that remind you of your characters, keep a journal for them- sky’s the limit.

Good links for you:

Fuckyeahcharacterdevelopment: a blog just about character development. Seriously, if you are not following this blog, you are in nothing.

Our character descriptions and characters tags, along with body and mind and personality.

Create fictional characters from scratch

13 ways to create compelling characters

Moral Alignments and Jung Personality Theory: both good resources by the same person. They’re a different way to add dimension and understand better your characters. Even if you aren’t using them, they’re still a pretty good read.

Get to know your characters interesting questions require interesting answers.

-Alex

I saw this on my dash from a friend’s reblog, and given that we had a post on Escher Girls recently about writing characters and their arcs, I thought people might be interested in this, and some of the links provided which go into much more detail. :)

helpyoudraw: Study Schedule by Erik Berta

Mon, 06 May 2013 09:33:55 -0400

helpyoudraw:

Study Schedule by Erik Berta

reaill: sketchysei: [Part II of Set] Let’s Draw Manga: Yaoi...

Sun, 05 May 2013 14:39:38 -0400

reaill:

sketchysei:

[Part II of Set]

Let’s Draw Manga: Yaoi Boys Love BL Pose Collection Vol. 1 Suit Version [JP Oversized] Directed by Yuki Shimizu (Love Mode, Ze).

マンガ家と作るBLポーズ集 1 スーツ篇 [大型本] 志水ゆき

Publisher: Shinshokan. Check out these other books in BL Pose reference series. http://www.shinshokan.com/comic/haikei.html

It actually took me some time to find and locate these sample pages but I decided I’d share it here because I think they’re extremely handy. These sample pages can be found on Amazon Japan in the second link above as well as the Shinshokan website in the third link :3

omfg

paintbucketresources: List1 by vishstudio

Sat, 04 May 2013 10:46:20 -0400

paintbucketresources:

List1 by vishstudio

arandadill: Hip Tips

Sat, 04 May 2013 10:23:21 -0400

arandadill:

Hip Tips

pitch-king-of-nightmares: ymirr: Link to dA for better view:...

Sat, 04 May 2013 10:14:17 -0400

pitch-king-of-nightmares:

ymirr:

Link to dA for better view: Megalondon Tutorial dA

As promised, here you go…….. 8[

animationart: suckmycockatoo: Fantastic reference for...

Sat, 04 May 2013 10:13:18 -0400

animationart:

suckmycockatoo:

Fantastic reference for bears!

Kingdom Animalia is a new blog that features reference and tutorials for drawing animals, along with inspirational art.

turnabout-art: Reblogging because I guess this could be really...

Sat, 04 May 2013 10:11:38 -0400

turnabout-art:

Reblogging because I guess this could be really useful if you want to draw LAWYERS y’know

antiale: 4 all u kids who wanna study some figure...

Fri, 03 May 2013 23:05:11 -0400

antiale:

4 all u kids who wanna study some figure drawing/anatomy

Figure Drawing For All It’s Worth - Andrew Loomis >PDF download<

Mastering Drawing The Human Figure - Jack Faragasso >PDF download<

Figure Drawing Design and Invention - Michael Hampton >PDF download<

Dynamic Figure Drawing - Burne Hogarth >PDF download<

All the downloads are free they only take a little bit time to download because these are big files!

helpyoudraw: 50 male...

Fri, 03 May 2013 23:03:27 -0400

helpyoudraw:

50 male poses by MoonlitTiger

Poses….. by moni158

Poses by moni158

.Female Gesture Pose References. by sakimichan

Couples - poses chart by Aomori

Pose Collection 002by what-i-do-is-secret

Hard perspective anatomy references for males by ElephantWendigo

Another Pose Practice by MadameNyx

Anatomy Practice by tin-plated-dictator

Anatomy Practice 2 by tin-plated-dictator

Photo

Fri, 03 May 2013 23:03:08 -0400

wolftempest: Ahhhhh-hahahahahahahahahahahaha I’m gonna regret...

Fri, 03 May 2013 23:01:19 -0400

wolftempest:

Ahhhhh-hahahahahahahahahahahaha I’m gonna regret attempting this.

simonist: pages from Manga Matrix, via mini-sys

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 11:59:19 -0400

simonist:

pages from Manga Matrix, via mini-sys

ubiquitousassassin: Scanned pages of New Poses Volume 3:...

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 18:32:23 -0400

ubiquitousassassin:

Scanned pages of New Poses Volume 3: Couples

More scans found here: http://imgur.com/a/2Er8Y#0

Buy here: http://www.animebooks.com/newpocavo3co.html

toramiyo: Some great and simple tutorials from DerSketchie on...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:11:17 -0400

toramiyo:

Some great and simple tutorials from DerSketchie on DeviantArt

They have more tutorials in their Gallery so check them out!

alldrawtut: Heads constructing Duc Truong Huyen

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 12:24:13 -0400

alldrawtut:

Heads constructing

Duc Truong Huyen