73pctgeek / #art-resources

https://arkivism.com/

Arkivism is a free search engine for 4 million+ public-domain images and videos from great museums and archives. Describe what you picture.

https://lightdropper.com/

Light faces, human figures, and more with interactive 3D lighting references. Build exactly the reference you need with the tool made for artists.

https://kalapaint.app/index.php

Kala Paint - Painting software built by painters for painters. One-time purchase. No subscription.

https://nappy.co/

Beautiful photos of Black and Brown people, for free. For commercial and personal use.

https://framethrower.ai/

FrameThrower is the reference app for the future creative: one of the largest film still libraries on the internet, callable from a REST API, an MCP server and an npm SDK. Indexed frame by frame on lighting, lens, shot size, colour and mood. Free $2 of credits, then pay for what you use.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoDL-pVT8wU

Thought about making your own Procreate brushes? Here's a free class with everything you need to get started.Join our brush developer Kyle T. Webster for a d...

https://www.canadacomicsol.org/2020/03/30/the-ins-an-outs-of-webcomics-by-jey-pawlik-pdf-download/

We hope everyone is doing ok out there and that you have plenty of comics to keep you company at home during this difficult time. As a final art deliverable for their writing residency, Jey Pawlik has created a wonderful comic to guide you through the ins and outs of webcomics. We have made it available as a free pdf you can download on our website, and it will eventually be available in zine format at our library. This is a great Scott McCloud-style narrative for those looking for comics-related reading material, how-to guides, or an introduction to webcomics! This comic was adapted from Jey’s artist talk and workshop at the library in February. You can download the full pdf over here: InsAndOutsofWebcomicsPDF You can support Jey’s work and other fantastic projects over here: patreon.com/jpawlik/ ko-fi.com/topazcomics A few sample pages from the zine!:This residency program was produced with the support of the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council.  

https://jeypawlik.itch.io/ins-and-outs-of-webcomics

A mini guide on how to start, post, promo and print your own webcomic

https://huggingface.co/spaces/davanstrien/bl-images-search

Enter a text description, choose a collection and year range, and optionally pick example images to guide the search. The app returns matching page images from the British Library’s public‑domain c...

https://ittaimanero.gumroad.com/l/TheSketchbookExperience

🎨 The ultimate digital sketchbook experience for Procreate!Designed to replicate the charm of a real sketchbook, The Sketchbook Experience takes full advantage of Procreate’s Page Assist feature (introduced in version 5.2) to give you the most authentic traditional sketchbooking experience in the digital world.Watch me use this tool and explain how it works in this video:✨ What’s included • 16 digital sketchbooks → 8 in A4 (large) and 8 in A5 (classic half-page), each with unique covers and paper textures. • Customizable covers → versions with or without stickers, plus the Manero Brushes sticker that can be shown or hidden independently. • 58 sketchbook-focused brushes → pencils, inkers, markers, ink washes, splatters, and more. • 29 real coffee stains + 4 graphite dirt sheets in PNG format you can add to your sketchbook pages → scanned from real materials for an extra layer of authenticity. • Stickers & planners → decorate covers with the included PNG stickers or add monthly calendars and weekly planners. • FREE updates → any future new brushes, stickers or planners will always be free to existing owners. 🚀 Featured: The All-Improved Manero Brushes has been updated (11/03/25)• New monochrome thumbnails: this set previously featured unique full-color thumbnails. Unfortunately, with Procreate 5.4 this is no longer possible, so all thumbnails have been carefully redesigned for clear readability in black & white/greyscale.The previous version of this update also added the following improvements: • Reorganized brushes into clear categories for easier navigation. • Vertical Pencil Light/Medium/Strong brushes → the textures have been remade from scratch for a more natural result. • Added Apple Pencil Pro barrel roll compatibility on some brushes 🔄 (or azimuth on other Apple Pencils). • Minor tweaks for improved precision and performance. ℹ️ Notes • Compatible with Procreate 5.4 and above. • The included digital stickers are for personal use only — not for commercial or printed products. • If you enjoy this product, please consider leaving a rating — it helps a lot! 📜 Full Update History(newest first)• 12/15/25 → 5 new brushes + new monthly calendars and weekly planner templates added. • 11/03/25 → Thumbnail redesign for black & white/greyscale readability, since Procreate 5.4 no longer allows color thumbnails. • 09/17/24 → All-Improved Manero Brushes update: categorized brushes, improved pencil textures, barrel-roll support, performance tweaks. • 12/18/24 → 5 new brushes + 2025 calendars added. • 12/20/23 → 8 new brushes + 2024 calendars added. • 01/15/23 → All brushes updated to support Apple Pencil hover. • 11/15/22 → 8 new brushes (graphite, pens, inkwashes). • 08/16/22 → 10 new stickers added. • 03/14/22 → 5 new brushes (pencils + inker). • 12/11/21 → 4 new stickers added. • 12/07/21 → Stickers & Planners update: 10 hand-drawn stickers + 2022 calendars + weekly planner. • 11/18/21 → Brush behavior improved (inkers + Marker 02). Have questions? Feel free to email me at [email protected] — I’m happy to help.

https://shop.lucaspeinador.com/products/lp-sketchbooks-for-procreate

Transform your iPad into the Ultimate Digital Sketchbook! LP Sketchbooks It is a collection of covers, papers, and organizational tools with hundreds of combinations to make your perfect digital sketchbook inside Procreate. Never leave your sketchbook behind! Use the LP Sketchbooks and carry every single one of your sk

https://www.truegrittexturesupply.com/collections/infinite-pulp-collection

Game-Changing Brushes, Textures and Effects for Procreate, Photoshop, Illustrator, Clip Studio Paint and Affinity. Level up your digital art with our professional quality tools.

https://help.procreate.com/procreate/handbook/page-assist

Learn everything you need to know about Procreate in the official user guide.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPwozO7izbk

The NEW best pencils for Krita. SK3 is a new bundle for pencil artists, graphite lovers. Learn how to install the bundle, how to use the new feature "Auto in...

https://www.thedrawingchallenge.com/

The Drawing Challenge is a daily art community: post one drawing a day, follow a monthly theme, build a streak, and grow alongside fellow artists. Free to join.

https://neladunato.com/blog/mixed-media-art-supplies-compatibility-chart/

The most detailed free art mediums compatibility reference containing 169 different combinations, plus notes on 19 mediums that were not included in the chart.

https://papertexture.co/

Art Surfaces - Professional digital papers that add paper texture lighting and shadow to your digital artwork.

https://lastmuseum.com/

The Last Museum is a semantic search engine for 5.8 million artworks from the world's great museums. Search by theme, style, subject, or any description you can imagine.

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/

The Biodiversity Heritage Library works collaboratively to make biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.

https://rybitten.space/

RYBitten is a color tool and library for exploring painterly, RYB-inspired color mixing, gamut presets, and palette generation on the web.

https://www.purins.com/refilling-prismacolor-markers/

Can you refill or revive dry Prismacolors? Yeah! And it's pretty easy and affordable.

https://peertube.touhoppai.moe/w/7p7ZU64dayZsuoMJAT6xfH

After a year of posting weekly comic strip on my social media, I wanted to film the making of the episode 53 published on the 20 May and build with all the 20 hours of video a tutorial on how to achieve this type of comic strip using Krita, from A to Z! Chapter: 00:00 intro 00:49 Scenario 08:29 Panels 25:41 Speechbubbles 37:59 Layout 40:43 Sketch 44:37 Drawing / Inking 53:45 Coloring 58:03 outro This tutorial has longer chapter on the new comic panel tool (in 5.3) and explains a full setup on how to use it, even for more complex comic pages, and also I spend time on the creation of speechbubbles, text (also new features of 5.3) and consideration regarding the layout and composition. The fundamental stone of getting a comic easy to read! However, the inking and coloring chapter are a bit more lightweight, mainly because I already have many video on my channel about painting, shading, and line-art with Krita and I wanted to keep the video lenght under one hour. I'll certainly make more video about those specific workflow step later! I hope you'll like the video, the first one I record and video edit on Wayland (and it wasn't a challenge at all; everything worked just as expected). Final comic + sources: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/053.html Free brushes: https://www.davidrevoy.com/tag/brush Fonts: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/fonts/index.html Textures: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article263/five-traditional-textures

https://trueref.io/collections/all

All TrueRef pose reference packs.

https://community.trueref.io/free_references

TrueRef delivers both free and premium monthly references for artists. No retouching and never AI-generated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Mf1zugu_9s

For the TOP placed Procreate course out of more than 3000:https://www.udemy.com/course/procreate-solid-foundations/?referralCode=15006F0281BB063D1371For peop...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPNtK0MdqXU

The Drippy Cat Art Studio – a complete Procreate studio system.Brushes, papers, colour systems, textures & guides — all designed to work together.👉 Get it h...

https://www.proko.com/timer

Timed drawing sessions with reference

https://www.proko.com/values

App designed to study grayscale values in images. Use it to learn how to see and draw values better.

https://figurosity.com/pose-generator

Our timed figure drawing tool lets you choose your duration, clothed, nude muscle or smooth and what sides of the body you want to see.

https://www.adorkastock.com/sketch/

This is a web app for gesture drawing, figure practice & general sketching. If you find this helpful, please consider making a donation!