Resources for Digital Artist

Hi Everyone! Summer is in the swing of things. I’ve been busy doing artist visits, and summer camps this year. I have been working hard to also get my freelance illustration career going.

I wanted to share some helpful resources that another illustrator posted on their Instagram their handle is anngee.foote.creations and I found some extra ones for color I wanted to share.

I find that it’s great to get some jumping points to start by collecting a library of visuals. Then I can look and curate things based on the needs of the visual story I want to tell. If I need things to be an emotional dark scene in the children’s book how have other medias forms created that feeling?

I hope these resources help!

Happy Creating!

Film Grab had some great compositional shots for you to look at for ideas. There is a long list of films and you can sort by the creators. I thought what a great site for compositions, color, and light studies!

https://film-grab.com/

Explore 3D models from any angle for drawing!

https://sketchfab.com/

Do you need references of heads a

http://referenceangle.com/

Need some ideas for color palettes?

https://coolors.co/

Adobe Color

https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel

https://www.makethedot.com/textile-design-templates

Ideas for composition, color stories, lightning, etc.

https://animationscreencaps.com/

My Creative Life Season 6 Podcast Interviews

I’m into season 6 of my podcast interviewing creatives and how and why they create their art. I decided this season should focus on animation. Though I struggled dearly with creating works for my animation class I had so many supportive and friendly classmates in my animation class. Here’s the list of accomplished people and I’ll be making a recap at the end of what I learned. I seem to get a lot more listens when I do that. I would normally do separate posts for each person, but I’m short of time and have been super busy with personal and side projects. There seems to never been enough time in a day or week for that matter. Really lovely group of people and I hope you’ll take the time to listen and check out their work on their sites. Links have been provided below. Thanks for everyone’s support and listens to the podcast please like and subscribe! I’m nearing close to 3,000 listens.

June 06 6.01 Nino or Xinyi Cao @blanknk5512, Illustrator

June 13 6.02 Morgan Holub @moholub, Animator and Storyteller

June 20 6.03 Robin Mallory @rgmallo, Painter and Illustrator

June 27 6.04 Casandra Brewton-Johnson Animator and ASIFA-South
http://www.casandrabrewton-johnson.com/animation

July 04 6.05 Avery Kasper, @averykasper_art Painter and Teacher

July 11 6.06 Mónica Rodríguez @lisse_srm, Animator

July 18 6.07 Yining Li @yining_li20, Illustrator

July 25 6.08 Nick Gottswinter, @nickolas_gottswinter, Animator

Aug 01 6.09 Roger Miller @r_edgar_hoover, Animator

Aug 08 6.10 Liz Richards @lizrichardsdesign and her website www.lizrichardsdesign.com, Concept and Production Artist

Aug 15 6.11 Jeffrey Yu, Concept Artist and ASIFA-South and Ginger Tontaveetong, Animator and ASIFA-South
and Slothique.com

Experimenting with Winsor and Newton Watercolor Granulation Medium

I decided to try some Winsor and Newton Watercolor Granulation Medium so I could learn how to make some amazing textures. I saw the work of Naomi Tideman I wanted to learn how she created her amazing textures in her watercolors. Did some research and I found this video.

Then I made my own video showing what I tried.

I bought some other mediums and I hope to get some time to try some more things with them as well.

4.06 Rita Tu, Illustrator

Rita Tu is a freelance illustrator based out of NJ, and an MFA Illustration grad from the Savannah College of Art and Design. She has won numerous awards in the field of illustration. We talked on this episode of My Creative Life about her career.

To see more of Rita’s work

Visit RitaTu.com or IG @RitaTu

Listen to the interview at My Creative Life.

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