Some AI generated borzois for your viewing displeasure 

Just in case you forget this exists.

It exists.

With those “when you want to design a character but you don’t know color theory” posts flying around I thought this would be relevant again.

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there’s also Coolors website that gives you randomized palettes!

Don’t forget ColourLovers, either! It’s a social media-esque site where you can browse tons of palettes and share your own.

You can browse the most popular ones or search for certain colors, themes, and even specific hex codes!

When you find one you like, you can download a wallpaper swatch of it and also select the specific colors it uses to look at more palettes that use those same ones.

ColourLovers is my go-to for when I’m having trouble coming up with a color scheme! It’s also been around for over a decade, so there’s plenty to browse through.

So You Want To Make a Character..

I’ve got a few generators you can use.

Need some clothes?

Need an Appearance idea?

Need some details and shit like that?

You thought I was done? Nope. Motha. Fuckin. Names.

Items. Yeah. You heard me.

Other shit.

You bet your ass I will continue to update this. If you’ve got something I should add to this hmu. Now, go forth! Make characters and live yo life. UPDATE: Added more shit everywhere.

reblog to save a life

the suffering never ends

This is the real process

Resources for you!

Character Ideas:

Character Design Ideas:

Naming Help:

Creating Background/backstory:

Character Interactions and putting your character into your world/story:

Bonus art masterlist!

BLESS EVERYONE IN THIS POST.

OMG LMAO OHNOOO my icon is actually from  specific pokemon game art that i FELL INLOVE WITH 

BUT SERIOUSLY look this shit up it’s another INCREDIBLE example of how to use palettes VERY WELL!! 

BUT DONT WORRY you will one day accomplish the power of palettes… and then you and i will become gods. 

Some other useful websites I recommend are Paletton and Color Supply, which help you make your own pallets! 

A while ago I also saw people talking about Coolors and Canva too

I highly, HIGHLY recommend reading up a bit about color theory. Just learning what analogous, split complimentary, triadic, etc etc is, is SUPER useful! A lot of how I learned to pick colors was looking at pictures or color combinations I liked and figure out why I liked them. Was the palette analogous, complimentary, etc, and then apply those relationships to my own work. Sorry it’s really vague I wish I had a better way to describe it! 

I also remember seeing a really good tutorial by Sycra about color theory, but now I can’t find the video! (It’s worth checking their stuff out anyways imo)

Hope I could be helpful! 

I WAS TEMPTED TO ADD THESE TO MY LINK LIST AS WELL since i already have them saved lmao THANK YOU THIS IS ALL SUPER GOOD!!

Let me link Yall’ to this holy grail. I present to you Character Design Reference on [Pintrest] || [Tumblr] || [Twitter] || [Facebook] || [YouTube]

I couldn’t even include all of the reference boards this blog contains on this photoset. That’s right! There’s EVEN MORE! There are pages and pages of them! It is an inspiration treasure trove! Bookmark this link! Fill your life with inspiration!

JESUS CHRIST ALMIGHTY BLESSINGS

These could all be legit albums

omg i could do this all day

mine was…not as good

i love this New Meme

this is a good meme

no masters or kings, when the ritual begins. there is no sweeter innocence, than our gentle sin.

DRAGS HANDS DOWN FACE?!?!!?!

SHE DIDN’T CHANGE THE PRONOUNS

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I fucking love Barry Bluejeans cause, okay, imagine you’re like, the store keep at a dark magic shop or smthn, and you’re up to your regular nefarious retail shenanigans when in walks in this guy. This, this fucking chubby-fantasy-Tom-Arnold looking motherfucker. This guy who looks like you’d find him shopping for lightbulbs at the Home Depot on a Saturday morning. This guy who looks like he belongs in the footwear section of a department store, comparing the prices between nearly identical pairs of plain white socks. This guy comes into your incredibly deadly and illegal Darke Magyk Emporium flanked by a pair of incredibly hot elf twins. They come up to the counter and ask if you have any books with level 12 spells. Level 12? you ask, skeptical, but cautious. 12 or higher, says This Guy, with a shrug. The elves look bored. 

You pull down an enormous spellbook from the fancy, imposing shelf you have behind the counter. You have to climb the cool roll-y-ladder-thing to get it, and it is fucking heavy. It has tarnished silver clasps. It’s got arcane symbols and pictures drawn in beautiful, terrible detail. It is bound in fucking dwarf skin. You put the book on the counter with an ominous boom and This Fucking Guy goes oh neat!, like he’s looking at a half-off sale on Bran Flakes instead of an incredibly sick and dangerous magykal tome. 

This Guy flips through the spell book. The pages are thick yellow parchment that smell inexplicably of rotting flora. This Guys hands are soft, and look kinda sweaty. He lands on a page in the middle and excitedly points to a spell, sliding the book towards one of the Hot Elves. The Hot Elf is equally excited, and you watch in horror as the two of them coo over some of the most diabolical Necrotic incantations you have ever seen like newlyweds browsing through novelty kitchenware. The other Hot Elf has picked all the molars out of the jar of teeth you keep on the counter and is rolling them like dice. 

This Guy has decided to buy the spellbook. You ask what he’s willing to pay, in your best spooky salesperson voice. He digs through his jeans for a moment and pulls out a handful of thick, golden coins. They are engraved with pictures of strange, otherworldly creatures. The writing on them strains your eyes. You are literally having trouble comprehending what This Motherfucking Guy is trying to hand you right now. Who even is this Guy?? You try an Deception check. This Guy is not trying to trick you. You try and insight check. This Guy is completely sincere. You try True Sight. This Guy is a mother fucking lich. 

There is a Mother Fucking Lich in your shop and he looks like a middle-aged house-husband. 

This Mother Fucking Lich buys the book with his weird coins. One of the Insanely Hot Elves drapes themselves over his shoulders. None of them bother clean up the teeth all over your counter. As the three of them head out of your shop you call out to them, in horrified reverence who the fuck even ARE you??

The Lich looks over his shoulder and stares you dead in the eyes. My name is Barry Bluejeans he says, deadpan. You die, instantly. He leaves. As whatever sinister machinations you have prepared for your inevitable doom are set into motion, you realize one of the Hot Elves switched the gold coins out for candlenights gelt. Anywho that’s why I love Barold thanks for coming to my Ted Tal

i just found this website that can randomly generate a continent for you!! this is great for fantasy writers

plus, you can look at it in 3d!

theres a lot of viewing options and other things! theres an option on-site to take a screenshot, so you don’t have to have a program for that!

you can view it here!

Totally gonna use this for making my worlds

Light and Shading Tutorial

This breaks it down a bit more toward the level I need

good tutorials are few and far between ( a lot of artists seem to get caught up in the superficial trappings of portraiture rather than the nitty gritty fundamentals), but these breakdowns by Bryan Lee are just fantastic.  Super applicable tips and tricks, no matter your personal technique/approach.

I got a lot of asks about this so I made a tutorial on how I was able to emulate the 80s aesthetic, please keep in mind I’m not an expert and what I put here is just what I personally did. I hope you guys like it and hope it helps

go crazy kids

What the ever living fuck

WHY DID THIS HAVE TO END

OH MY GODDDDDDDDDDD

Made my day 100 times better

I think this is the closest thing a bird can achieve to the  ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ stroll

#hozier is lesbian

he completely changed the feel of it how magical

Reblog, click the picture, and prepare for battle.

after a while i became convinced that the words were mocking me

Nothing happened. 

I WAS PROMISED A BATTLE

*throws down gauntlet*

Edit: Went back. This is the best thing to happen to my dashboard ever.

Reblogging again because my followers need to see this. To be clear, rebog, go to your actual blog, then click the picture. 

aight

OH MY GOD I WAS NOT EXPECTING THAT

DO IT

WOW IT REALLY IS SOMETHING FREAKING GOOD PLEASE CHECK IT OUT

Okay, if this is a rickroll I swear to…

1) It was not a rickroll

2) It was super awesome!

3) No jumpscare or anything designed to freak you out, so doesn’t need an unreality warning (YMMV, of course).

Suspicious but curious. Curiosity wins!

attention all writers following me- try this or you will lament.

That is so cute.

DEAD FROM CUTE

Awwwwwwww!

It’s just SO lovely!

ELI SHOWED ME A COOL THING where it generates a skeleton in various angles for you !!!!!!

oh shiiiit it’s the ultimate warmup tool yesss thank you

FEEL IT’S MIGHT 

ORT

This site is SO FRICKIN COOL!!! OMG I am ADDICTED!!!

WHOA WHAT IS THIS DOING ON MY DASH AGAIN

@pandora-sboxofabyss

posting for all my followers who art

2 girls chilling in a hot tub five feet apart cause they are gay and dont fcking know how to approach intimacy