A Comic I Made For The Antithesis Zine Back In 2021

Can't afford art school?

After seeing post like this 👇

And this gem 👇

As well as countless of others from the AI generator community. Just talking about how "inaccessible art" is, I decided why not show how wrong these guys are while also helping anyone who actually wants to learn.

Here is the first one ART TEACHERS! There are plenty online and in places like youtube.

📺Here is my list:

Proko (Free)

Marc Brunet (Free but he does have other classes for a cheap price. Use to work for Blizzard)

Aaron Rutten (free)

BoroCG (free)

Jesse J. Jones (free, talks about animating)

Jesus Conde (free)

Mohammed Agbadi (free, he gives some advice in some videos and talks about art)

Ross Draws (free, he does have other classes for a good price)

SamDoesArts (free, gives good advice and critiques)

Drawfee Show (free, they do give some good advice and great inspiration)

The Art of Aaron Blaise ( useful tips for digital art and animation. Was an animator for Disney)

Bobby Chiu ( useful tips and interviews with artist who are in the industry or making a living as artist)

Second part BOOKS, I have collected some books that have helped me and might help others.

📚Here is my list:

The "how to draw manga" series produced by Graphic-sha. These are for manga artist but they give great advice and information.

"Creating characters with personality" by Tom Bancroft. A great book that can help not just people who draw cartoons but also realistic ones. As it helps you with facial ques and how to make a character interesting.

"Albinus on anatomy" by Robert Beverly Hale and Terence Coyle. Great book to help someone learn basic anatomy.

"Artistic Anatomy" by Dr. Paul Richer and Robert Beverly Hale. A good book if you want to go further in-depth with anatomy.

"Directing the story" by Francis Glebas. A good book if you want to Story board or make comics.

"Animal Anatomy for Artists" by Eliot Goldfinger. A good book for if you want to draw animals or creatures.

"Constructive Anatomy: with almost 500 illustrations" by George B. Bridgman. A great book to help you block out shadows in your figures and see them in a more 3 diamantine way.

"Dynamic Anatomy: Revised and expand" by Burne Hogarth. A book that shows how to block out shapes and easily understand what you are looking out. When it comes to human subjects.

"An Atlas of animal anatomy for artist" by W. Ellenberger and H. Dittrich and H. Baum. This is another good one for people who want to draw animals or creatures.

Etherington Brothers, they make books and have a free blog with art tips.

As for Supplies, I recommend starting out cheap, buying Pencils and art paper at dollar tree or 5 below. For digital art, I recommend not starting with a screen art drawing tablet as they are more expensive.

For the Best art Tablet I recommend either Xp-pen, Bamboo or Huion. Some can range from about 40$ to the thousands.

💻As for art programs here is a list of Free to pay.

Clip Studio paint ( you can choose to pay once or sub and get updates)

Procreate ( pay once for $9.99)

Blender (for 3D modules/sculpting, ect Free)

PaintTool SAI (pay but has a 31 day free trail)

Krita (Free)

mypaint (free)

FireAlpaca (free)

Libresprite (free, for pixel art)

Those are the ones I can recall.

So do with this information as you will but as you can tell there are ways to learn how to become an artist, without breaking the bank. The only thing that might be stopping YOU from using any of these things, is YOU.

I have made time to learn to draw and many artist have too. Either in-between working two jobs or taking care of your family and a job or regular school and chores. YOU just have to take the time or use some time management, it really doesn't take long to practice for like an hour or less. YOU also don't have to do it every day, just once or three times a week is fine.

Hope this was helpful and have a great day.

i'm playing persona 5 with the fem!joker mod because i am weird about games where the protag is a guy (would be a LONG rant to explain) but romancing ryuji is reminding me of how much i love ryuji lmao.

side note: i'm not in the fandom but i'm still aware that akechi/joker is the most popular ship but it's really funny to me because. my only experiences with persona 5 are this streamer's playthrough (he called ryuji best girl and always declared his love for ryuji but didn't even notice akechi was gay) and my own playthrough (romanced ryuji before even meeting akechi). as far as i'm concerned akechi is always pining for a protag who is Not Interested and Already Dating Ryuji

omg ok SO! I love Ryuji, that is my favorite guy <3 -- P5 is a game where I chose my fave early and it just never changed for the whole game. Love him lol <3

I played royal on switch, so no mods for me, but the fem joker one definitely looks cool! I would have loved to romance Ryuji as part of the game lol. I chose not to have Joker date anyone in my playthrough just bc it didn't feel natural to me.

Joker/Akechi is a great ship narratively, just because character foils are like that sometimes lmao, and I do really like it, but!! I definitely love Pegoryu too <3 -- The two ships kinda serve different purposes imo -- Ryuji is the cute boyfriend that Joker gets to have a sweet and happy relationship with, and Akechi is the guy he's undeniably intertwined with in an obsessive, dramatic, and kinda tragic way, which is a dynamic that I honestly can't get enough of lol. So I love both for different reasons.

Also I highly recommend playing the FemC route in P3 Portable if you haven't already! It's a great way to experience the story, and she has some great social links (Saori, my beloved 😭💖).

explaining executive dysfunction to people is so embarrassing yeah I have the be useless for days at a time disease

Figured maybe I should share this on tumblr

hate when I wanna talk to a person but I don’t really have anything to say. but I yearn for the connection. can’t just message someone like, hi I have nothing in particular to say but you’re fun and cool and I would like to have a conversation

That post about death note being "everyone's first anime" (untrue statement) made me curious and now I want to gather data for science

Can you reblog this and tell me where are you from and what was your starter anime?