Resource Hub

 I'm something known as a "tutorial hoarder", and will throw a small stack of tutorials at any friend that asks for help. I've always loved information and learning, I was a major bookworm growing up and that... Sort of evolved into hoarding of informational resources. So... Here's my giant list of Things I Have Found Most Useful from all my time on the internet + me gushing about them because no one can stop me.

 This list is very likely to be continually updated, so check back occasionally if you're interested!


General

KNKL (Kienan Lafferty)

Kienan hasn't uploaded in a long while now, but his channel is still an incredible resource for all things art, including some pretty niche topics. Also, his videos are long form so I like to draw along with them alot, lol.

Sinix Design

Long time Art youtuber. Has an incredibly large and extremely valuable library of tutorials from over the years.

BaM Animation

Art advice/tutorial channel by a duo working in TV animation.

Toniko Pantoja

Incredibly useful advice and tutorial channel about all things art, animation and storyboarding.

Painting

10 Minutes to Better Painting Series- Marco Bucci

Short, extremely infromative and well made videos about all things painting.

Devin Elle Kurtz

Professional Background artist. Offers a priceless wealth of knowledge through her painting process stories on Instagram. Covers workflow, thought process, color theory, composition, perspective... Pretty much anything you could think of, all for free. Also offers free brushes for foliage, fur, cityscapes and free backgrounds to paint over for portfolio use on her Gumroad.

Sinix Design- Paintover Pals Series

Honestly I would just link up his entire channel if I could. Seriously, check it out. It's a treasure trove of years of information about anatomy, design, etc... But if I had to pick what I found most personally helpful, it would definitely be his Paintover Pals and Design theory series of videos. Paintover Pals is a series where he takes paintings from channel viewers, and critiques/paints them over (hence the name). I personally found it incredibly useful, and alot of what he ends up covering incidentally aligns with alot of problems that I've had and still continue to with painting.

Why Your PORTRAIT Paintings Look CARTOONISH...- Paint Coach

About detail work. Very helpful.

The PAINTING Exercise That Will HELP You the MOST- Paint Coach

Really great excerise about reduction of information and making the most of your brushwork.

Power in The Greys- Lighting Mentor

A New Way to Think About Colors- Lighting Mentor

I remember these videos blew my mind when I first saw them. It really just made color relativism click for me.

Animation & Storyboarding

BaM Animation

Art advice/tutorial channel by a duo working in TV animation.

Toniko Pantoja

Incredibly useful advice and tutorial channel about all things art, animation and storyboarding.

A Guide to Storyboards!- MagicBunnyArt

My Storyboard Process- MagicBunnyArt

Free downloadable guides for storyboarding from a professional storyboard director. Very approachable and easy to understand.

Perspective

Sycra- Coil Technique

Still one of the most useful videos I've ever watched for foreshortening. I still use an adapted version of the coil method for foreshortening.

Backgrounds

Devin Elle Kurtz

Professional Background artist. Offers a priceless wealth of knowledge through her painting process stories on Instagram. Covers workflow, thought process, color theory, composition, perspective... Pretty much anything you could think of, all for free. Also offers free brushes for foliage, fur, cityscapes and free backgrounds to paint over for portfolio use on her Gumroad.

Workflow

Level Up Your Character Design with Knight Zhang- Proko

General Workflow/Art talk video for the start to end process of designing a character. I still re-watch this one regularly because of how helpful it's been to me.

Also, Knight's voice is very relaxing to listen to while I'm stressing about art lol

Quick and Easy Coloring Tutorial with Clip Studio Paint- TheStarfishFace

Just a workflow tutorial for Starfish's coloring process that ended up probably being my most re-visited tutorial. There are some deepcut features of CSP I would've never known about mentioned in this video.

side note: for all Clip Studio Paint users, a small but obscure tip... if you're looking for something, but dont know what layer it is on... You can CTRL + Left click the element to find it. CSP will briefly flash to what layer it's on. If there are multiple layers it could be on, make the layer CSP thinks it's on invisible and then CTRL + Left click again. Repeat until you find it. You're welcome :D

CSS

Using borders, outlines, and box-shadows- Ben Goddard

How to Use CSS Border Images- Solaria

CSS Box Alignment Module-W3




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