Ok, it's been a while since I posted a journal in here... or anything.
Many things happened to me in the past time, and I won't burden you with all of them.
In my life as an artist, hobbyist and hope-to-be-professional I have found so many awesome stuff about drawing, many of which were lost or deleted. But many have remained, and now I will share them with you.

First off:
All the credit goes to the respective owners and creator of everything shown in this journal, and I am just promoting their work. Please follow the rules if they have any.

I'll start with several amazing tutorials I found useful

My most favorite are probably this one:

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It shows how to use speed painting to improve your drawing, and it this helped me a lot on backgrounds, though I am far from this artist level
The brushes used in this Tutorial he/she linked in the description, if you have no problem using this type of bushes, check them out, they are really cool. 


Next:
Other than amazing gallery keelerleah - keelerleah.deviantart.com/ - has a few tutorials, my forite being the one here: keelerleah.wordpress.com/2009/…
That is meant to teach us how to color in Photoshop, under traditional pencil - like that



This little blood tutorial

For those who don't wanna use brushes. I used that several times, you have to be careful with the flow of the blood and the lights, but it's simple and useful.

I use this one like all the time:

It's very simple and works like a charm for me.

But let's leave it at that. Deviant art is full of tutorials, which you can find and use, and many are just great .

Other thing you might find in DA is the brushes and the photo stock that can save your life sometimes. Here you'll see some of them:
First I'll start with the brush set I use in any of my drawings:


THIS hairbrush set is a life saver

This brush artist here redheadstock.deviantart.com/ that goes by the nickname Redheadstock, has amazing brushes, I've sued many times. If you want to check them out.

My both mostly used photo reference artists would be:
mjranum-stock.deviantart.com/ - `mjranum-stock

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And
senshistock.deviantart.com/ - SenshiStock




Many other awesome stock artists can be found around here, it's not just those I've mentioned.
Please be respectful of them and their work.

And for last 3 sites I really fell in love with:
artists.pixelovely.com/practic… - This one is for drawing sketches and studies, it really makes a person just sit down and do it. Even a lazy ass such as myself

www.posemaniacs.com/thirtyseco… - This one is similar, but they are 3D models. If you take the time to look around the site, you'll see there is a lot of poses, you can spin them from different angles etc. Really great site.

And Finally:
www.colorsontheweb.com/colorwi… - This is coloring site, I've been using lately. I find it really cool, sometimes it gives me ideas for color.

I've also read some books, but they are a different topic. You can also search for YouTube tutorials, I think the New artist academy channel is geat. maybe I'll make an entry of my favorite youtube channels dedicated to painting some day.

I have a lot to learn, and I thank the internet and it's pixel people for the help, they have given me so far.
Hopefully one day I'll be as good as I want, and help others
Good night.

Ok.. I want to draw something, that one of you wants. I'm slow with drawing stuff... as you know... so I accept only one request - the fastest wins.