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Some bladed weapon fighting reference found on pinterest.

Hunting Sword of Prince Camillo Borghese

Swordsmith: François Pirmet (French, Paris, recorded 1779–1818)

Goldsmith: Antoine-Modeste Fournera (French, Paris, documented 1806–17)

Dated: 1809–13

Culture: French, Paris

Medium: Silver-gilt, steel, leather, mother-of-pearl

Measurements: Weight with scabbard, 1 lb. 10 oz. (737 g) Length with scabbard, 27 in. (68.58 cm) Length of sword, 25 7/16 in. (64.59 cm) Length of blade, 19 ¾ in. (50.17 cm) Length of scabbard, 21 3/8 in. (54.28 cm) Greatest width of hilt, 4 5/8 in. (11.73 cm) Greatest width of blade, 1 3/16 in. (3 cm)

Provenance: Ex. Coll.: Borghese, Rome; Frederick Gallatin; Albert Gallatin; James P. Gallatin

In addition to the traditional hunting motifs, the decoration includes (on the back of the guard) the monogram of Camillo Borghese (1775–1832), Napoléon’s brother-in-law, who served the French cause in Italy. The scabbard is engraved with Pirmet’s name and his title, “gunmaker to His Majesty, the King of Westphalia,” in reference to Napoleon’s brother Jérôme Bonaparte.

Source: © 2000–2013 The Metropolitan Museum of Art

“Water painting tutorial” by Dżun

Clouds

’What is hair and how i can render it?’

I got this question and I really wanted to show on very simple examples how to render hair. Because it really is… simple! Following this guide you will be able to paint hair in few minutes.

This is called the ribbon technique.

It is used by many artists out there. I just wanted to show you a couple of examples. As you can see I picked Adam Hughes and J. C. Leyendecker. Look at it and see how they paint the hair. It doesn’t look like a mop. It looks more like big, overlapping shapes organized in some fashion.

Try to imagine a string of hair like a ribbon. Ribbon symbolize a large portion of hair. Don’t focus on every single hair string, instead of this imagine it as bigger shape. It will catch light in highest point and it will have core shadows.

Establish where light is hitting the hair and where it turns dark. Start with big shapes. big brushes to get the lights and volumes right. Then You can go into details and paint small brush strokes to add details like single hair strings.

I attached two examples. First is very simple where you can clearly see and understand the similarity between hair and ribbon. Second example is theory put into practice. But it’s basically doing the same things as shown in simple example.

Let me know what you think about this?

I based my knowledge on James Gurney blog (author of Dinotopia and Light and Color book)

And for the example I used Faestock (from deviantart) photo.

Nirvana into Lolita  by 菇倒王子

woopwoop. emoji meme

go ahead use it all u want idc

A visual dictionary of Boots

More Visual Glossaries (for Her): Backpacks / Bags / Bobby Pins / Bra Types / Hats / Belt knots / Chain Types / Coats / Collars / Darts / Dress Shapes / Dress Silhouettes / Eyeglass frames / Eyeliner Strokes / Hangers / Harem Pants / Heels / Lingerie / Nail shapes / Necklaces / Necklines / Patterns (Part1) / Patterns (Part 2) / Puffy Sleeves / Scarf Knots / Shoes / Shorts / Silhouettes / Skirts / Tartans / Tops / Underwear / Vintage Hats / Waistlines / Wedding Gown Silhouettes / Wool

This nature photography blog is wonderful for references

Couple Poses by Modelfactory

Couple Poses by modelfactory

I really like horns, so here, have a set horns, antlers and feelers! Feel free to use as a reference or inspiration, no need to credit. :)

decided to take a bunch of photos of my eye for ref

since eyes always look vastly different shapes and i dont feel like that has enough rep in art styles sometimes?

anyway if other people do this i’d love to see. have more eyes to add to my ref folder and all that

For all the photographers out there.

Wolf/Canine Teeth Study by TIFFASHY

Knife Sketches

Dennis Basso pre fall 2016

Walkthrough of How I draw lips (red & natural)

by: Mike Yeatts

zauberhaft by Oer-Wout 

Animated Font Tutorial

Today, I will be showing you how to make this !! ^^ By the end of this tutorial, I HOPE you will learn to make this!

Keep reading

Animated Glitch - Photoshop Action

This Action will generate a video sequence of animated glitch effects from your photos, logo or artwork. The effects are packed in clips and are easy to edit in the Timeline of Photoshop, in few clicks you’ll be able to make many variations and then export the file as a normal image, animated gif or video!

Download it here: http://bit.ly/glitchps

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Check this other cool effect: graphicdesignblg.com/post/130011794003/

Egyptian Gods

Greek/Roman Inspired Clothing:  2nd dress by Hana Touma, 3rd dress on ebay, 4th dress found here, 5th dress by Madame Gres ,6th dress by Kaufman Franco  , 7th dress by J.Mendel, 8th dress by Madame Gres, 9th dress by Jean Desses, 10th dress by Marchesa, 11th dress by 33Jewls, 12th (last) dress by Samuelle Couture

Sheep

Canine Ear Study/Tutorial by TIFFASHY

I think we can all just agree that dragons are pretty cool… But dragon designs in film and on television are so vanilla. Look! Look at what we could have! 

Dragon Head - by “Veramudis“ 

I’m Fabulous -  by Katarzyna Marcinkowska “Grzanka” (Tumblr) 

Dragon Mounts - by “V4m2c4”

Bluejay Dragon - by “Shinerai“ (tumblr 1) (tumblr 2)

Patterns- by “WhiteRaven” (tumblr) 

Last Ones -  by “WhiteRaven“ (tumblr) 

Classic Tabby Dragon - by Hillary Luetkemeyer “Hibbary“ 

Minty - by by “Shinerai“ (tumblr 1) (tumblr 2)

(Also these are all just incredible artists go shower them with attention.) 

Tea spirit prints are now available!