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art resources
reference angle find reference photos for the human head at any angle using a posable head.
pose search find reference photos for any part of the body at any angle/pose using a posable skeleton.
height comparison compare heights
screentones screentone and texture for photoshop.
watercolor guide guide to watercolor techniques and tools.
perspective grid assignments excercises in making perspective grids.
the theory and practice of perspective learn perspective
anatomylearning anatomy reference learning tool
color calibration tool tools to help calibrate color and gamma balance on your screen.
color and light by james gurney THE book for learning to color.
drawingbooks library of artbooks
blender beginner's course beginner's tutorials on blender 3.0.
adobe flash download archives of adobe flash. as this program is now abandonware, download freely.
silkyshark free open source mouse/tablet stabilizer, similar to lazynezumi
sculptfab sculpt in 3d in browser
paletton color palette generator
saithumbs tool to create visible thumbnails for .sai files.
cspextract Extract png images from Csp brushes.
reference guide for drawing muscles
characterdesigns.com photo references for drawing including nude and clothed models.
Pure ref software to organize reference images all in one place
hairfinder galleries and information on many styles of hair.
posemaniacs 3D "skinless" models of different poses.
line of action photo references of nude and clothed models, animals, face, hands and feet. You can also set a timer for a drawing session.
artbook scans 1 mostly anime artbooks.
comic dialogue formatter script that formats comic dialogue to be in a diamond/centered shape for word bubbles. if you are working in a program without text centering/formatting.
anatomy standard online 3d anatomy reference
biodigital more 3d anatomy ref
diagramify diagram/flowchart maker
domino2 online notetaking program
excalidraw online whiteboard
ezgallery plugin to make easy html galleries
scanline maker apply scanline effects to image
scanlinecrusheranother scanline tool
e-museums
movie-screencaps hq movie screenshots.
index of aesthetics visual index of various aesthetics in consumer ephemera from the 70s to now.
cloth doll reference archive reference galleries of different types of vintage cloth dolls
Museum of saudi arabian costume 'The Mansoojat Foundation's mission is to revive and preserve the traditional ethnic designs and costumes of the various regions of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia'
queer zine archive preservation of queer zines and underground publishing.
alchemy website Over 20 gigabytes currently online of information on alchemy in all its facets
Watercolor World 'the known world before photography'-- gallery of painted artwork documenting the world before photography.
old book illustrations illustrations in the public domain from the 18th to 20th century.
https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/ Web Design Museum exhibits thousands of websites that chronicle forgotten trends in web design from its beginnings in the 1990s to the mid-00s.
Textiles As Art gallery of antique textiles and fabric patterns from various cultures.
national museum of american history
Carrie's sticker collection scans of many stickers from the 70s to the 2000s.
the kyoto costume institute digital costume archive
musetechnical's christmas catalogue scans of vintage Christmas Wish Books and Retail Department Store Catalogs from the 40s to the 2010s
ghost of the doll gallery of toys from the 80s to the 90s.
mobile phone museum museum of mobile phones
wallmags vintage advertising gallery of vintage advertising art
adclassix vintage advertising gallery. over 1,000,000 vintage ads.
vintage advertising directory links to more directories of vintage advertising.
cover browser galleries of 400,000+ comic book (and book, pulp, games, DVD or magazine) covers
a dandy in aspic a blog focused on 1960s music and culture.
ajax all-purpose another blog focused on vintage/retro art, photography and culture.
peculiar manicule archive of 1960s and 70s graphic design
v&a museum archives virtual gallery of collections from the V&A museum.
densho digital repository archive of historic photographs, documents, newspapers, letters, etc. documenting WWII japanese american immingration and incarceration.
magzdb scans of many magazines. website is in russian.
museum of modern gifs museum made of gifs from geocities sites.
modernillustration.org An archive of illustration from c.1950-1975, shining a spotlight on pioneering illustrators and their work.
Bell Laboratories photos photos from Bell research laboratories in the 1960s.
library of congress - poster collection what it says on the tin
Ward's Morgue File a collection of images for reference & inspiration to artists by ward jenkins
the retro kid Flickr gallery of midcentury kids book illustration.
vintage childrens books my kid loves blog of vintage kids books.
golden age children's book illustration kids books illustration gallery.
artpassions fairy tale illustrations
vintage.es gallery of vintage photos, organized by decade.
Bartsol's flickr A huge gallery by Bart Solenthaler collecting old illustrations, vinyl covers, stock art, and other vintage ephemera.
western medieval manuscripts what it says on the tin
retro typography gallery what it says on the tin
archives.design A digital archive of graphic design related items that are available on the Internet Archives
thngs.co a photo gallery of objects, from technology to product packaging. The website is pretty broken right now, but you can still access the images by clicking for full-view?
the eye large data archive
archive of nan goldin's photography what it says on the tin
slogans from May 1968 slogans from may 1968
internet ray tracing competition archive gallery of 3d graphics from 1996-2007.
writing tools
ink scripting tool for narrative games.
wordhippo my favorite thesaurus site
etymology online Online Etymology Dictionary
resources for describing physical things
scrivener software for planning writing projects
library
z-library online library. Be wary of scam sites! zlib.io, z-lib.is and zlibrary.to are scams.
library genesis another online library. books, scientific articles, magazines.
mangadex read manga online
in my room : teenagers in their bedrooms photography book of the bedrooms of teenagers in the 1980s-90s.
public books syllabi curated reading lists
The tudor pattern book a study of plants, animals and lettering that was produced in East Anglia, UK, around 1520.
Costume: fanciful, historical and theatrical book of historical costume and clothing design
le costume historique book of historical costume and clothing design
what people wore when book of costume from ancient times to the nineteenth century for every level of society
The grotesque in church art book of carvings in church art.
FICTITIOUS AND SYMBOLIC CREATURES IN ART creatures found in art, and the common symbolism associated with them.
https://stoneharborgame.com/ interactive fiction.
world of tales fantasy and folktales from around the world.
ATU Index Basically a categorical system for finding fairy tales with certain tropes. Links directly to the stories but you'll probably need an archive.org account
software
https://mybrowseraddon.com/ repository of many open-source useful browser add-ons.
https://imagemagick.org/index.php a free, open-source software suite, used for editing and manipulating digital images
https://www.libreoffice.org/ free and open source office suite. alternative to microsoft office.
riot image optimizer free image optimizer and resizer. good for lowering the file size of images.
media
my retro tv watch tv from different decades
sakuga videos randomized sakuga videos.
blair witch archive archive of various versions of the Blair Witch project, and extra content like behind the scenes.
thoughtmaybe a curated collection of documentaries.
fun
3d lain game in-browser recreation of a strange serial experiments lain game.
DOKAN archive archive of anime fansites from the 80s to early 2000s.
SAM text to speech tool from 1982.
the nicest place on the internet
kittens game clicker/numbers go up game
spritedex animated pokemon sprites
nintendo game archives still working old websites for nintendo games.
postbox garden online gallery of postcards
websites from hell eyesore websites. general cw for flashing lights and eyestrain.
pokecharms make a pokemon trainer card
500 apocalypses "500 Apocalypses is a web installation memorializing collapsed civilizations from across our universe. This interactive space is designed to allow contemplative engagement with five hundred curated entries from the Encyclopedia Apocalyptica." (interactive fiction)
chao laboratory recreation of sega chao website from the 2000s.
deletedcity interactive map of geocities sites.
sandspiel sand game
neal.fun various browser games.
interactive fiction database an IF game catalog and recommendation engine.
What are the tapes? mysterious found footage.
https://noclip.website/ explore out of bounds maps of videogames in browser
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/ low tech magazine
the global consciousness project 'The Global Consciousness Project collects random numbers from around the world. The theory is that the Global Consciousness of all Beings of the Planet affect these random numbers... Maybe they aren't quite as random as we thought.'
Living Worlds pixel landscape art that 'animates' using html color cycling and changes dynamically based on the time of day. Based on a program for windows 98 called Living Worlds, with art by Mark Ferrari.
um jammer lammy website mostly-archived website for ps1 game Um Jammer Lammy.
Cameron's World a web-collage of text and images excavated from the buried neighbourhoods of archived GeoCities pages (1994–2009). archive of assets on the site can be found here.
unofficial homestuck collection offline archive of all of webcomic homestuck.