Reference - Blog Posts

Updated fursona ref

Tumblr artists inspired me to draw my fursona I made in middle school

Hello! Here's a little sketch of My favourite sleep deprived man I made, I used reference from 8a8yjunk's art

I'm not very good at perspective so any advice is apreciated 🫶

HOT GAMEDEVS DON'T GATEKEEP

Inspired by this post by @midwinterhunt, here's a compilation of all the game dev resources I have come across, most of which I use fairly frequently. Most of these are free, some are paid but fairly cheap. Feel free to add your own resources. ✌️

Important reminder: When using basically any works or programs someone else created in your games, make sure you thoroughly understand the licenses and terms it has been shared with. If you don't know what the terms are, reach out to the resource and ask. Don't be lazy about this; it's not only dishonest but it can come back to bite you.

Engines

Unity - Best suited for mobile and multi-platform.

Unreal - Tailored for shooters and high-fidelity experiences.

PICO-8 - Virtual console for simple games

Godot - Open source and free!

GameMaker - Good for 2D games

Bitsy - Great little engine for making simple games and experiences

Construct - Never used but have heard nice things

Scratch - If you've never coded before, this is the best place to start. Great for young devs and those who want to get their feet wet.

Adventure Game Studio - Best suited for adventure games

RPG Maker - Best suited for top-down classic JRPG style games

Twine - Text-centric games like Interactive Fiction

Assets

OpenGameArt - Many assets, various licenses, and plenty of CC0 content.

Unity Store - For Unity only. Some free.

Unreal Store - For Unreal only. Some free.

Godot Asset Library

Jean Moreno's Toon Effects - Some of the best effects available on the Unity store. Unity only but I've used them in basically every project.

Steamworks.net C# Wrapper For Unity - Unity only C# wrapper for integrating Steam compatibility to your game

Itch.io - Plenty of free art assets and game dev resources

Kenney - Kenney makes tons of open-source assets for devs to use.

Art

Mixamo - Generates rigs for your humanoid models and lets you apply a library of free humanoid animations to them. Super helpful for prototyping. Adobe.

Blender - Free, open source and fully featured 3D program.

XNormal - Free offline normal map generator

Normal Map Online - Free online normal map generator

Crocotile - Cheap tool for building 3D models from sprite sheets

MagicaVoxel - Free voxel modelling tool

Piskel - Free online sprite drawing tool

Aesprite - Paid sprite drawing tool

TurboSquid - Not always great quality, but can be good source of free placeholders.

Textures.com - Limited texture downloads per day but free for personal use.

Pexels - Free stock photo resource. Most are free for commercial use. Check licenses.

Clipstudio - Good for illustration or graphic design. One time payment.

GIMP - Image editing program a-la Photoshop. Free.

Audio

Audacity - Free and fully-featured DAW/audio editor.

sfx.me - Free 8-bit synth-style sound effect generator for games.

CastingCallClub - Easy forum to find amateur voice talent for your project (p.s.: you should pay them).

FreeSound.org - Free sounds, searchable by license. A go-to for my audio needs.

Incompetech - Royalty-free music by Kevin McLeod.

Scott Buckley Music - Royalty free with conditions. Generally more on the cinematic side of things but very good stuff!

SoundCloud - 'Search -> By Track -> Filter: Use Commercially' leads to songs posted with allowance of commercial use. Always reach out to the artist to understand their terms and confirm that it's okay to use with your project.

Project Planning

Keymailer - Handy for mailing keys to influencers (don't expect a lot of traction unless you're paying for some of the features though).

Trello - Kanban board. Great for organizing tasks, managing bugs, etc. Free.

Notion - Private text and wiki page editor. Good for project organization, note taking, and fleshing out ideas. Free.

Obsidian - Alternative to Notion, with similar features.

Miro - Free whiteboard for organizing thoughts, images, brainstorming, etc.

Wave - Free Bookkeeping site. Great for keeping finances organized.

Not me saving each and every Astarion screenshot for „drawing reference“™ despite A) not having any time to draw whatsoever and B) not even being in full denial about the fact that I just wanna look at my pretty pookie lol

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.

TAH-DAH

wow, the first installation on davey, FL!!!

i’ve always wanted to do something like this, and i’m so excited to start!

expect a comic around once a week!

it’s crazy how much diversity there can be in one species…these are all pictures of the same bird species (red-tailed hawk)

Reference Sheet for my gal, Lydia! She belongs to a storyproject/headworld of mine, which you can find more about on my Toyhouse: https://toyhou.se/liquidsnake/characters/folder:4683462

Yo-

Yo holly shi-

✨️MDF HTF REFERENCE✨️

For me tho idk about ya'll i see weapon, i get flashbacks

*flippy phantom ears casually pop out*

AYO DONT-

Lonely wizard painting based on this picture of a bus I found.. idk why I made this

If you're ever bored, here's a list of Studio Ghibli films you can watch for free.

Castle In The Sky (1986) Grave of the Fireflies (1988) My Neighbor Totoro (1988) Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) Only Yesterday (1991) Porco Rosso (1992) Pom Poko (1994) Whisper of the Heart (1995) Princess Mononoke (1997) My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999) Spirited Away (2001) The Cat Returns (2002) Howl’s Moving Castle (2004) Tales from Earthsea (2006) Ponyo On A Cliff From The Sea (2008) The Secret World of Arrietty/The Borrower Arrietty (2010) From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)

If any of the links stop working, please let me know so I can fix it.

For Castle In The Sky, wait for the free user button to be clickable and it will send you to the video.

I was having writers block and so I took a break and soon enough it was 3 in the morning and I had impulsively sewn together a tiny mouse you’re welcome

a collection of almost every IRON MAN comic, from his first ever appearance to his latest, for your reading & downloading pleasure. wherever possible, please support the comics by buying them.

to read on a mac, simplecomic. to read on a pc: cdisplay or comicrack.

UPDATED AS OF: 27 APRIL 2017.

for a direct tie-in to mcu: iron man vol. 4′s extremis for iron man 3 (2013). civil war for ca: cw. recommendations: iron man vol. 3 & iron man: fatal frontier. read with a healthy dose of salt: superior iron man.

SOLO RUNS

TALES OF SUSPENSE (1963-1968) 039 - 048   049 - 058   059 - 068   069 - 078   079 - 088   089 - 099

IRON MAN VOL. 3 (1998 - 2004) 001 - 010   011 - 020   021 - 030   031 - 040   041 - 050   051 - 060   061 - 070   071 - 080   081 - 089

IRON MAN VOL. 4 (2005-2008) 001 - 006   007 - 012   013 - 014   015 - 018   019 - 020   021 - 026   027 - 028   029 - 032   ANNUAL

INVINCIBLE IRON MAN VOL. 1 (2008-2012) 001 - 007   008 - 014   015   016   017   018   019  020 - 024   025 - 032   033   500   500.1  501 - 503  504 - 509  510 - 515   516 - 520   521 - 527   ANNUAL 

IRON MAN VOL. 5 (2013 - 2014) 001 - 005   006 - 008   009 - 017   018 - 022   023 - 028   ANNUAL

IRON MAN: FATAL FRONTIER (2013) 001   002   003   004   005   006   007   008   009   010   011   012   013

SUPERIOR IRON MAN (2015) 001   002   003   004   005   006   007   008   009

INVINCIBLE IRON MAN VOL. 2 (ALL-NEW) (2015–2016)  *  UPDATED  * 001   002   003   004   005   006   007   008   009   010   011   012   013  014

INTERNATIONAL IRON MAN (2016)  *  UPDATED  * 001   002   003   004   005   006  007

VARIOUS TRADE PAPER BACKS DEMON IN A BOTTLE   ARMOR WARS   BENEATH THE ARMOR   IRON MANUAL

MINI SERIES / ONE-SHOTS HYPERVELOCITY   ENTER THE MANDARIN GOLDEN AVENGER  IRON PROTOCOLS    RAPTURE   KISS AND KILL   TITANIUM   IRON AGE    MCU TIE-INS: FAST FRIENDS   IRON MAN 2 - PUBLIC IDENTITY

OTHER APPEARANCES

ALL-NEW APPEARANCES IN OTHER SOLOS

BLACK WIDOW V.6  006   

CAPTAIN AMERICA: SAM WILSON  011   

CIVIL WAR II:  CHOOSING SIDES 005   THE FALLEN

MS. MARVEL V.4  004   006   

NOVA V.6  003   

SPIDER-MAN V.2  006

THE MIGHTY CAPTAIN MARVEL  003

TOTALLY AWESOME HULK  001  002  003

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 001   002   003   004   005   011.NOW

APPEARANCES IN OTHER SOLO RUNS

BLACK WIDOW V.4  001   BLACK WIDOW V.5  012

CAPTAIN AMERICA: MAN OUT OF TIME  003   CAPTAIN AMERICA: SENTINEL OF LIBERTY  005  006

CAPTAIN MARVEL V.1  002   CAPTAIN MARVEL V.2  001

DAREDEVIL V.3  029

HAWKEYE V.4   006

INDESTRUCTIBLE HULK  002  WORLD WAR HULK  001

MS. MARVEL V.2   013  032

SHE-HULK V.3   001

THOR V.2  080  081 

where are those startups that are disrupting the glasses industry

reaction image masterpost. please add on

Few Liners YA stand alone book Reviews and Recs

A Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue

Young, English gay 18 year old lord Monty goes on Grand Tour around Europe with his best friend/ crush Percy and his sister. Highwaymen, Pirates, little bit of sci-fi , scandals in a palace party and excellent representation.

Deals with a few serious issues but the tone is adequately breezy, hilarious comic sense and A MUST READ.

What If It’s Us

A summer romance, set in New York City between two boys who have nothing in common. As someone who doesn’t like romances a lot, I became obssesed with this book.  You get instantly attached with all the characters, not just our main two dudes. Extremely character-driven plot (in a good way) .Amazing writing style and the Harry Potter, Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen references are to kill for.

Highly recommend it (the audiobook was perfect)

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of Universe

A fresh contemporary novel set in the 80s, revolving around two boys and their story of growing into adulthood and a slow burn romance.  Not once the central focus of the plot becomes their romance ( which i loved because romance isn’t really my thing). Amazing Representation. Deals with issues like post war trauma, family in jail and accepting one’s own sexuality. Has a charming mother-son relationship .

Do yourself a favour and read it.

13 Reasons Why

The book isn’t half as bad as the show but still… it romanticizes suicide (in my opinion).Do yourself a favour and don’t read it :)

Turtles All The Way Down

I read John Green because of his writing which more than makes up for lack of a strong plot in his books.

On point, no bullshit, non-filtered representation of OCD and Spiral thoughts Disorder.

The storylined seemed forced, irrelevant and bland but for the representation alone, I would recommend it.

The Night Circus

Imagination at its finest.

Two magicians who are bid to play a game where they will either kill the other one or die themselves. And guess what? they end up falling in love. This book had a lot of potential to go haywire but it didn’t, not even once. Can take you a while to get into but once you’re in, you’re in.  Beautifully constructed urban fantasy world set in the nineteenth century. Highly imaginative but can get a little descriptive at points and i wish it had been a little concise.

I would definately recommend it.

Eleanor and Park

Primarily a teen romance but heavily layered. Deals with a lots of issues like domestic abuse, sexual harrassement, body type stigma, bullying ,and out of all these, a beautifully worded, innocent, pure romance is born. Good representation of Asian male protagonist and his daily struggle to fit in. Excellent writing style and I was in awe the whole time reading it.The main complaint about this book is its ending but i am okay with open endings. So i got no complaint but i would love to see a sequel.

Highly Recommend.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Told in a epistolary format from the POV of a 15 year old boy. A heartbreakingly beautiful story of friendships and love, love done right and also done wrong in our main protagonist, Charlie’s life. The writing style is a bit poignant in nature.

Do yourself a favour and read it.

A List of Cages

A story of friendship and platonic love between two boys, Adam and Julian, who lived together at one point. Then Julian was taken away to live with his uncle. After many years. they meet again  and Adam realizes something is wrong with Julian. Adam does everything humanly possible to help him.

This book is a heart-wrenching representation of purity, innocence and goodness in people.

Check out its trigger warnings but highly recommend it.

Feel free to comment or message me about any of these books above :)

Musical Boots

i’ve decided to upload all my bootlegs to a google drive, here’s the link- https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B91CI1WRq-n3MVNpV0NQbFVWR0U?usp=sharing 

message me if you have any problems

Here are all the boots included:

-21 Chump Street

-A New Brain (2015 revival)

-Amile

-Anastasia

-Andrew Rannells at Lincon Centre

-Bare

-Book of Mormon (OBC, London, NR and BP)

-Carousel

-Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

-Come from away

-Falsettos (live performance and two versions of the pro-shoot)

-Fun Home

-Great Comet

-Groundhog Day

-Hamilton

-Hedwig and the Angry Inch (i have a bunch of them)

-In the Heights

-Legally Blonde

-Mean Girls

-Rent

-Something Rotten

-Spongebob

-Spring Awakening

-The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

-The Prom

-Waitress

-Wicked

-Yank

Future reference for anyone who wants to draw the protagonist of slay the princess

Bits and parts of the protagonist body I gathered, might update it if I found anything else

There will be spoilers&gore

You ready?

Ok

Usually we only see the arm and the mirror, I brightened it up so we can see clearly

Our protagonist got wings! FOUR of them! Made me kinda wonder why they haven't use it, maybe it's because they didn't know? But they also acknowledge their feathers and claws so I'm not sure.

Next is feet (Wraith route) . They have webs, and their feathers extend to their knee.

This is from the adversary route where your face get yeet off. The triangle is the beak, at least I think so?

2023/12/15 update:

It is confirmed by the developer that the protagonist has a beak and he also does not have a beak because he and the princess's nature is paradox

And a bunch of organs :)

I think that the protagonist have grey skin? At least that's what I get from Fury, but than again most of the game is grey scaled.

If you guys found anything interesting, please do tell me to add to the list!

Mouthwashing... Mouthwashing is bring me alive for today...

Yeah, it doesn't look the best because I'm not the best artist here and I don't want to be. I just suffered over this piece of pixels for 2.5 days.

Here's a split version of the final outcome.

And with gore contents. (I can't draw blood, sorry-)

Thanks for seeing this shit thing, I hope it gets lost in all the good content other people are making about this game.

Have a niiice day, everyone.

– Stump.

Okay, okay, I realized my mistake and will no longer publish something made up with my characters.

As an apology for this, I drew a Medic and a Sniper in costumes that I found on Pinterest.

Yes, it looks simple and even without shadows, but I didn’t have enough for more, sorry :")

I hope you will enjoy.

- with love, Stump.

Well... I lived up to this moment and tried to make a reference for my oc/sona...

I present to your attention this something...

Seriously, I don't know why the hell I did this, but I'm tired.

I hope you at least like it, because I myself became disillusioned with this world a long time ago.

– With love, Stump.

Yes, I made a reference of him, although no one is interested in this.

Well, okay, as they say: “the barn is on fire, so is the house,” so let it be so.

I hope that someday I will be noticed, but what's the point in deceiving myself, right?

In case you were unaware the “I ain’t quittin’ you” scene night at the museum

If a reference to the movie brokeback mountain

Which is a movie about GAY COWBOYS

If that isn’t proof of Jed being queer then I don’t know what is

I don’t think I’ve ever posted this publicly so

really rushed Stanley ref…….

Sergeant Casedy Ref Sheet

One of my main SW OC's

idk what to write so uh i’m sorry for the bad quality 😔

i blacked out and 2 hours later found myself with this thing in front of me and all i can say is that it makes me feel like the unravel soundtrack

based on this reference picture i found on pinterest (sorry that i cant list the actual artist)

Thou art blessed pillow to be given all sides a cold touch

Morgott the Omen King anatomy reference masterpost

The saga continues - this time with Morgott. It was requested by @eldenbiscuit to do one for the little omen peepaw, so here it is. Morgott is also one of my favourite characters.

Please show this to your artist friends by either reblogging or sharing it, as it took 10-ish hours to make.

There are many photos below, all of them 3k or 4k in size, so open them up separately if needed.

Posts like this:

Godrick 1 2 3 4 & Rennala

Hope you like it!

If you find my reference posts useful, you can support me on Kofi if you'd like to.

You'll most likely see this post on my reddit and twitter too, so keep an eye out if you're more active there.

Thank you for your attention.

SNAILS !! 🐌

sketch + sculture project finished (clay bas-relief)

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