⟡ art resources

Good, usually trusted photography assets. [https://www.flickr.com/]
Decent photography assets. [https://unsplash.com/es]
DO NOT USE PIXABAY. OR OTHER PNG/STOCK SERVICES. THEY SUCK.

— Bonus. Use [https://www.tumblr.com/explore/] or any social media for non-photographers pictures. Just from average users. The photographs have more personality since it’s more about everyday life and not trying to take the perfect picture. Hard to find.

Real images of galaxies, high quality, no need to register into a crappy PNG sharing site, or pay. Navigate a little bit through the NASA website or the twitter account.

Find a font you really like in any font database/marketplace. Then, in your search engine, type «nameofthefont.otf» or «nameofthefont.ttf». The results will contain pages with the font file available to download. You can look through several of them and choose the page that contains the largest amounts of glyphs or styles, if you want more customization.

Have a website as an example. [https://www.onlinewebfonts.com/fonts]

Firearms database for movies, games, etc. https://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Main_Page

You can pick any online store that includes photoshoot images, I personally like Massimo Dutti. There is advantages to browsing here vs pinterest;
— Since this is a store, they will put effort into making the material look at its best, the images are high quality enough to see textures.
— You can get pictures from actual professional models to get inspiration for posing or direction.
— The apparel is on season, you get to learn what is «trending» even if you’re not into fashion. You can get inspiration from the colors/thematics of each seasonal photoshoot, and they ALWAYS bring new products and pictures every few weeks or months. You can also get inspiration from browsing through the catalogue and find perhaps the exact item you’re looking for.
— There is a sense of «community» or «style» within each store, vs. pinterest or giant chinese warehouses like temu or shein that are catered towards a broader audience/ internet audience and do not curate their collections, neither designs.

Outfit inspiration only. Images do not showcase photoshoot poses, but outfits from designers in runways. This is an historical archive.

Displays every page of (usually) popular asian artists’ artbooks. [https://www.youtube.com/@artbookie]

Database that includes artbooks. Very extense. [https://www.thevideogamelibrary.org database]

Nice catalogue of digital artists’ artbooks among other themes artbooks. [https://pie.co.jp/catalog_issuu/?lang=europe]

[https://danbooru.donmai.us/]

Their youtube channel offers A LOT of insight into the process of working in big companies. Sometimes, the videos feel like mini-courses. I recommend this one by Esben Lash. [https://youtu.be/wDzanfQQ1xk]

Need to be extremely selective as this is promotional material. Only consider technical aspects like composition/canons and character design traits if you are aiming towards the same industry. If not, select a few traits like mood/atmosphere, rendering on eg. gold or clothing, VFX in illustration (particles, lights), extremely useful for rendering.

Entire HK/HK:Silksong maps displays, not in the best quality. If a place catches your attention and you want higher resolution watch a walkthrough of the game on youtube and skip to the specific area, or play the game and travel with no-clip or a similar tool that makes it comfortable to navigate.

Gestures, ready to use with in-built timer and various themes. [https://www.rkgk.org/]

+ Accurate pose finder. [https://pose.aphrite.com/]
+ Pose library. [https://bodiesinmotion.photo/]
+ Accurate head finder. [http://referenceangle.com/]
+ Head, can be rotated. [https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/stylized-anime-female-head-e8d04325a74e46a98a6494abe721a8b2]
— Can download any head model and open in Blender (free 3D program) to freely change the light or add several lights.

Theory only. It is hard to give this a practical approach.