LOOKING FOR MODERATORS FOR A FORUM ON DEVIANTART, PREFERABLY THOSE WITH EXPERIENCE OF THE JOB. THESE LINKS WILL SOON BE MOVED TO A FORUM.
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People who use these links, please could you take the time to look at and perhaps comment on some of my art just as I have taken the time to put together these links in the first place. It's unbelievable that over 20,000 people have looked at these links, but only 100 of over 20,000 have looked at my DA page.
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This deviation will soon be moved to a blog on my main website, because each of these links needs to be managed properly. Maybe a forum interface may be better with an organised structure for people to easily browse around.

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Hello my name is Robert Shelley,I'm a big fan of your site.I always come here to gather insightful
information on comics and creators,I incorporate such things in my site.I love devoting myself to the advancement of young minds hungry for the knowledge of comics.When I was a youth I went to the Joe Kubert school of graphic Arts to obtain knowledge from qualified artists because there was no place to learn the great art of comics and cartoons anywhere.It is my mission to instruct and guide those looking for such information.I just started my site a few months ago and have worked very hard to pack it full of learning content,free of charge for everyone,I do it for the sheer joy of doing. I keep it updated with how-to's ,step by step slideshows and video tutorials along with live video when ever possible.Also I have the most up to date comic and cartooning news on the web updated daily also.Anyways I'll cut to the chase,You have a great site full of content and many people come to your site hungry for the knowledge and love of comics and anything you can do to help me promote my site would be sooo greatly appreciated,anything.Content is no good if no one knows where to go to obtain it.My site is at
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Thank you for your time and consideration to this great cause.
Robert P Shelley


DRAWING::
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Anatomy Pictures for Artist Online - Highly Recommended
[link]

Loomis - "Figure Drawing For All It's Worth" - Highly Recommended
[link] OR
[link]

Loomis "Creative Illustration"
[link]

Animation World Magazine - Tutorials by Glenn Vilppu Highly Recommended
[link]

Fantasy Art Resource Project - Highly Recommended (covers drawing, painting, computers and more)
[link]

Scott McDaniel - How to Create Sequential Art[Drawing Comics]
[link]

Art by Feng - Highly Recommended [How I Work]
[link]

Doug Chiang - Star Wars Concept Artist - Highly Recommended [Studio Tips]
[link]

Don Seegmiller Art - Traditional & Digital Artist, Great Tutorial Section (Short Videos Too) - Highly Recommended
[link]

Anticz - Ron Lemen - Heads and Hands [Learn]
[link]

Art Lessons by Bob McLeod
[link]

How to Draw Manga
[link]

Online Manga University - Drawing Tutorials
[link]

Polykarbon - Anime Drawing & Photoshop Tutorials
[link]

Saunders Creative aka WacoMonkey - Form and Designing [Resources > Tutorials ]
[link]

TeamGT Studios - Perspective, Shadow and Good Digital Painting Tutorial
[link]

The Drawing Board - Secrets of Comicbook Art (All Stages of Comic Production)
[link]

Victor Navone - Animator and Designer (Recommended Book List)
[link]

About.com
[link]

Agent44 - How to Create a Mech
[link]

Artbabe.com - Drawing Process in Creating Comics
[link]

How to Draw Anime
[link]

How to Draw South Park Style - Drawing Tutorial to Draw the South Park Style
[link]

Huntfor.com
[link]

Karmatoons
[link]

Sijun Tutorials - Drawing Habits, Basic Drawing & Head Drawing
[link]


Books

These are some links to amazon and other resources to give a listing of texts that are invaluable for different sorts of drawing fundamentals and ideas

Bridgman
[link]

Vanderpoel
[link]



Loomis

Here are two truncated texts that summarize fairly well some of the information in Andrew Loomis' various out of print books

[link]

[link]





INKING::
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Digital Ninja - Styles, Pens, Setup, Details, Outlines, Erasing and Finishing
[link]

Meth Art - Tools, Line Widths, Hatching & Feathering
[link]

Larry Dempsey's Comic Book Inking Survey [More Tips & Techniques]
[link]

Art Play Boy - Inking Tools of Jason Martin
[link]

Al's PhotoShop Tutorial - Inking Digitally
[link]










COLOURING::
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Comic Colours - 'Cuts' Colouring [tutorials tab]
[link]

Duder's Comic Colouring Tutorial
[link]

Figma - "How to's" on Comic & Digital Colouring, Lettering and Writing
[link]

HiFi Colour Design - Tutorials About Colour
[link]

How to Draw Manga - Anime Colour and Shading
[link]

Merekatcreations Colouring [tutorials tab]
[link]

Mindstorm - Lizard Colouring
[link]

Adi Granov - Mixed Media [tutorials link]
[link]

Britney's Room Colouring Tutorial
[link]

Fred Gigabyte.com - Comic Colouring With Layers
[link]

Genesoul - Hair, cel-style and OpenCanvas[Tutorials]
[link]

Halls of Creation - Mood/Tinting and Preparing Artwork for Colouring
[link]

Meth Art - Cuts Tutorial
[link]

MV Creations - Flats Tutorial
[link]

Nethersphere.com - Colouring Jewels, Translucent Objects, Magic Effects & Highlights
[link]

Outcaststudios.com - Colouring "The Bean"
[link]

Psionic Design - Digital Textures
[link]

RD Graphics - Cartoon Colouring and Texturing [Tips]
[link]

Tenth Planet Art - Colouring Digitally
[link]








COLOUR THEORY::
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Art Studio Chalkboard - Colour Wheel and Colour Complements
[link]

Colour Matters - Colour Theory
[link]

Colour Theory - Theories of Colour, Light and Photochemical Processes
[link]

Extensive List of Colour Theory Books
[link]

Sijun Thread on Colour Theory
[link]

The PolyParrot - Colour Tricks, Tips and Recipes
[link]












DIGITAL ART / 3D / MULTIMEDIA::
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An Airbrushing tutorial in portraits for Painter/Photoshop, describing the basic steps with help of a progress record. Written by the beautiful and brilliant Sarah for free and for you all to enjoy.

[link]

Craig Mullins Digital Painting Tutorial - Highly Recommended
[link]

3D Cafe - Huge 3D Resource
[link]

Anticz - 3D Modelling and Animation [Learn]
[link]

How to Animate
[link]

Animation Backgrounds
[link]

Anime Sample Site
[link]

Art Renewal Center - Old Masters Painting Tips
[link]

Designs by Mark - Photoshop Digital Creation [tips]
[link]

Eyewoo - Digital Painting
[link]

Joachim Art - Creating a Mech / Character Digitally [Art > Tutorials]
[link]

Loki's Digital Illustration Outpost - Digital Matte Painter [Digital Illustration]
[link]

Painter Techniques
[link]

Paint Shop Pro 7 Tutorials
[link]

Wacom Tips - PS, Painter, Flash, Tablet and Other Tips
[link]hotoshop

Industrial Light and Magic - "Portrait Series" - Video on Staff
[link]









WRITING AND RESOURCES::
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Williamsullivan Advertising - Writing for Comic Books
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WRITERS::
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J. Michael Straczynski - Writer of Tv's Murder, She Wrote, Jake and the Fatman, The New Twilight Zone and The Real Ghostbusters
[link]










HIGHLY RECOMMENDED / INSPIRATION SITES::
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Mark Harden's Artchive - Massive Collection of Great Artists, Theory & Criticism
[link]

Caravaggio - Master with Good High Resolution Images
[link]

Craig Mullins - Brilliant Photoshop Matte Painter
[link]

Scott Robertson & Neville Page - Concept Artists
[link]

Miles Teves - Illustrator, Painter and Concept Artist
[link]

Vebjorn Strommen - Conan Painter Artist
[link]

Gerry Alanguilan - Art Tips on General Comic Issues
[link]

Anders Finer - Traditional, Digital and 3D Artist
[link]

Angel of Joy - CG and Traditional Artist
[link]

Artgolem - Matthew Bayne - Illustrator, Animator, and Designer
[link]

Baxa Art - Illustrator and Concept Artist
[link]

Bob Peak - Movie Posters, Magazine Covers and Illustrations
[link]

Bradford deCaussin - Traditional, Digital and 3D Artist
[link]

Dan Brereton - Comic Book Artist
[link]

Den Beauvais - Illustrator and 3D Artist
[link]

Derek Thompson - Illustrator of Monsters
[link]

Devils Tower Frontier Museum - Traditional Painting
[link]

Digital Art - Huge Array of Artists and Styles
[link]

Douglas Carrel - Illustrator
[link]

FilRobb - Illustrator and Concept Artist for EA
[link]

Flying Islands - Digital Artistry (aka ceenda)
[link]

Frank Frazetta - Traditional Painter
[link]

Frank Vitale - Digital Artist
[link]

Iron Dragon Image Archive - Lots of Great Images of Females/Dragons/Knights in Various Media
[link]

Jake Parker - Illustrator
[link]

Jeffrey R. Watts - Scenic Oil Painter
[link]

Jim Warren - Canvas Painter
[link]

John Buscema - Comic Book Artist
[link]

Justin Sweet Gallery - Great Paintings and Drawings
[link]

Leyendecker and Rockwell Pieces
[link]

Morgan Weistling - Painter with an Interesting Style
[link]

Mike May - Illustrator
[link]

Odd Nerdrum - Classical Painter
[link]

Rinaldo - Digital Artist
[link]

Rolozo Tolkien Artist Alan Lee - Tolkien Artist Imagery
[link]

Rolozo Tolkien Artist John Howe - Tolkien Artist Imagery
[link]

RON LEMEN'S Site - Illustrator and Digital Artist
[link]

Rowan Dobbs - Digital Artist
[link]

Sylvain Despretz - Illustrator and Concept Movie Artist
[link]

Syd Mead - Illustrator and Concept Designer
[link]

Synj - Unusual Animations
[link]

Terence McKenna - Interesting Artist and 'Writer'
[link]










OTHER TUTORIALS::
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PolyKarbon Thread - Links to Various Categories of Tutorials
[link]

Prometheus Spawning Grounds - Materials & Practice
[link]

[link]

Great Overview Of An Artist's Process On A Batgirl Image
[link]






INFORMATIVE ORB & EATPOO THREADS::
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Art Books
[link]

Art Schools
[link]

Comic Colouring
[link]

Creating A Story: Take 1
[link]

Creating A Story: Take 2
[link]

Creating A Story: The World, Real People, Fantastic World
[link]

Preparing Artwork for Colouring - General Ideas
[link]

Preparing Artwork for Colouring - Blue Pencil Lines
[link]

Koro's guide to conventional tone - *Big DL
[link]
*PDF - [link]









IMAGE RESOURCES AND STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY/REFERENCES
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Anatomy Pictures of Artist - Images of People and Animals for Artists
[link]

Animetryx - Capcom and Final Fantasy Art
[link]

Corbis - Searchable Stock Photography
[link]

Costumer's Manifesto - Clothing, Costumes and Accessories for Many Time Periods
[link]

Dinosaur Pictures - Very Large Selection of Dinosaur Illustrations
[link]

Ditto - Visual Search Engine
[link]

Egypt and Art - Images of Egyptian Art
[link]

Fighters Generation - Huge Library of Fighting Game Characters and Artwork
[link]

Fotosearch - Searchable Stock Photography
[link]

Getty Images - Searchable Stock Photography
[link]

Images Central - Images from All Major Publishers
[link]

John Cang Photography - Stock Images of Animals
[link]

Medievil Gowns - Photos of Medievil Female Gowns
[link]

Philip's House of Stock Photography - "Free" Large Resolution Searchable Stock Photography
[link]

Photo Central - Searchable Photos (Type "nudes" in Search for People Ref)
[link]

Photovault - Searchable Stock Photography
[link]

RedWolf Airsoft - Images of All Types of Guns
[link]

Reference Image Archive - Images of People, Animals, Weapons, Vehicles etc
[link]

The 28th Floor - Nice Figure Studies/Nude Photos
[link]

Webshots - Large Selection of Photos in Various Categories
[link]

Weststock - Searchable Stock Photography
[link]

Male Reference ::
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[link]
[link]
[link]









ARTIST PORTALS, DIRECTORIES & GENERAL RESOURCES::
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Creating Comics - Resources on writing, illustration, Lettering, Submitting, Self Publishing, Networking and Other - Highly Recommended
[link]

Sumaleth's Link Archive - Huge Listing of Art Links [Highly Recommended]
[link]

About's Comic Books Listing
[link]

Abouts Comic Books Publishing Listing
[link]

Bud Plant - Good For Ordering Books In & Out of Print. Mini Biographies
[link]

Comic Artist Direct
[link]

Comic Book Resources
[link]

Commissions on Copyrighted Characters - Sijun Thread
[link]

Digital Webbing
[link]

dmoz Directory Listing
[link]

Draw123.com - Books on Monsters, Animals and Perspective
[link]

Fun Comics - Huge Listing of Publishers and Creative Talent
[link]

Komicwerks
[link]

Online Comic Artist Directory
[link]

Original Comic Art Websites - Links of Comic Book Artists
[link]

Small Press Comics - Information Relating to Small Press
[link]

The Comics Journal - Information About Comics From an Art-First Perspective
[link]

Writing for Comics - Glossary of Terms in Comics
[link]










ONLINE COMIC STRIPS::
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4 Seats Left
[link]

SAVANT
[link]













ART SCHOOLS::
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Art Center
[link]

Calarts
[link]

Otis
[link]

Pratt Institute
[link]

Ringling
[link]

San Francisco Art Institute
[link]

Savannah
[link]

School of Visual Arts
[link]

Sheridan
[link]

Watts Atelier
[link]



Australian
General List For All States In Australia
[link]

Julian Ashton Art School
[link]








HARDWARE / SOFTWARE::
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Jasc - PaintShop Pro, Virtual Painter, Web Draw
[link]

Adobe - PhotoShop, Illustrator
[link]

Corel - Painter, Bryce
[link]

Curious Labs - Poser
[link]

Macromedia - Flash, Director, Dreamweaver
[link]

Wacom - Graphics Tablets
[link]