Small art samples

Here's a classic hard working kobold with candle. (2018)

Rust monster! (2017)

Oh boy, can't wait to see what's inside. (2023)

Whoops! Failed that perception check. (2023)

careless explorer learns what a gelatinous cube is

Should have remembered that ten foot pole! (2017)

After a successful adventure (2017)

a sneaky kobold (2017)

Thumbs up! (2024)

Parrots! Moody Gardens Galveston 2008

anemonemoneonemenes (2008)

old car in the woods (2005)

Arrowheads, surface finds!

Hippo! San Antonio Zoo 2016

Khajiit from 2012 when I was first playing Skyrim

BMO seemed easy to draw (2013)

I funking love coloring (2023)

I like sunflowers (2013)

Kate portrait, I was working on rough ideas for making a visual novel (2021)

Things got a little out of hand so I reorganized and stuck the bigger art on its own page.

Talking about Art

Playlist

I have a decent collection on YouTube.

Art and Science of Drawing

An art book from 1913 but still has good material.

Gurney blog

The artist behind Dinotopia posts all sorts of videos etc.

Databending!

databending-using-audacity-effects is exactly what it sounds like, might be old but might be useful still.

Cartographer's guild

Forum for map making, super nerdy.

Cartoon book from 1920

"And now a new physicochemical marvel has come that apprehends, reproduces, and guards for the future another sensorial stimulus. It is the motion-picture and the stimulus is movement."

Library hand

my handwriting absolutely sucks so I looked for a style that's easy and legible. This is good but I still suck.

makeprojects

Crafts as well.

map making

using climate and stuff to make cool maps for your nerdy projects.

Art references!

Art Institute of Chicago

Public domain paintings, sculptures, books, etc.

Met museum collection

They have public domain images as well.

character art guide for DOTA

"But I don't play that game!" it's still a good general design reference.

Free stuff from NY public Library

All sorts of photos and junk to dig through.

Library of Congress

All sorts of historical things.

Unsplash

plenty of stock photos.

Pexels

And more stock photos.

browser tools for Art

Picrew

If you can't draw or just want to play around. It's mostly anime girls though.

Adorkastock sketch refs

Plenty of poses to reference from.

One pixel editor

and another for variety.

Just to play with.

Too many choices

SO drawing in browser reminded me of oekaki boards back circa 2005 and I went digging around looking for ways to replicate that, and turns out everyone else had the same idea