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Monday 14 March 2016

7 Free resources to improve your art

The art world is a competitive one, we all need to strive to improve every day, but not all of us have the cash to go study at the best art schools or get a mentor.

Below I share with you some of the best Free art teaching tools you can use daily to improve your art.

1. Posemaniacs



This is a great interactive tool if you want to do pose studies, anatomy studies or gesture drawings.
It has a wide variety of different poses in multiple angles and you can rotate each pose 360 degrees.







2. Artists.pixelovely



This is a great place to come and do a gesture drawing class. This website takes free stock images from around the web and creates a type of slideshow. You can choose between standard mode or class mode and also choose between time intervals between images. There are images for figure drawing ( you can choose between male or female and if you want them clothed or nude), faces and expressions, animals as well as hands and feet.





3. Leave me the white



If you want to improve your composition or colour, doing studies from movie screen shots help a great deal. This site has loads of great screen shots from movies and TV series.



4. Unsplash



If you are looking for free high res photographs for doing colour study or just reference images this is the perfect site. It has hundreds of gorgeous photographs of people and scenery.






5. Loomis Books



If you haven't got your hands on the Loomis books yet, What are you waiting for? These books are free to download and chock full of knowledge.








6. PROKO



Probably the most fun you will ever have watching art demonstrations. This guy cracks me up. Watch his figure drawing tutorials on Youtube for an in depth and detailed step by step demonstration of drawing the human body.




7. Onairvideo / Croquis Cafe


Amazing real time HD figure drawing video class. Each session is around 23minutes with multiple poses and time intervals just like a life drawing class. They also have a website with high resolution reference photographs of the poses at Croquis Cafe


Now lets start drawing!

Do you have any more resources to add to the list? Leave it in the comments below and share the love!

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