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Decided this month I am going to try to only draw from references, I have always just drawn from memory and imagination and make up shit I don't know, and has result most of my works have glaring inaccuracies if you look longer then few seconds. Also this was done using PPP and Baki, has refernces and I think it turned out better then if I just drew it off my memory.
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Now I'm gonna ask, where do I get references for certain styles? Specifically I'm looking for the 1940s 50s and 60s newspaper strip/magazine comic style and I'm looking for a comprehensive list of artists who drew in that style (al williamson, jack kamen, reed crandall, wally wood etc). Wikipedia does not have a comprehensive list, it's three separate pages (list of golden age comic creators, list of cartoonists, list of illustrators) which cover about 70% of artists, I want something deeper. The reason is cause they drew some fucking amazing women, with the hair and lips and proportions n shit. I would also love, additionally, if anybody can find me places/magazines which give 1940s model pictures (actual ones, pinterest gives fucking ai). I started to refer to Arizona nature magazines from the 40s for some of my nature references, I would love the same for women of the time period.
 
funwithshemales69 said:
Now I'm gonna ask, where do I get references for certain styles? Specifically I'm looking for the 1940s 50s and 60s newspaper strip/magazine comic style and I'm looking for a comprehensive list of artists who drew in that style (al williamson, jack kamen, reed crandall, wally wood etc). Wikipedia does not have a comprehensive list, it's three separate pages (list of golden age comic creators, list of cartoonists, list of illustrators) which cover about 70% of artists, I want something deeper. The reason is cause they drew some fucking amazing women, with the hair and lips and proportions n shit. I would also love, additionally, if anybody can find me places/magazines which give 1940s model pictures (actual ones, pinterest gives fucking ai). I started to refer to Arizona nature magazines from the 40s for some of my nature references, I would love the same for women of the time period.
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On that regard i'm out of shit without a paddle. Finding good references from old artists is already hard because most webs are bloated with many tutorials and other stuff. The older they are the harder it is to get unless you get a PDF or a specific guide about them or the particular style of the time.

I think i saw some on my usual haunt for tutorial manuals and reference books but it will take time (it has over 800 different manuals)
 
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On that regard i'm out of shit without a paddle. Finding good references from old artists is already hard because most webs are bloated with many tutorials and other stuff. The older they are the harder it is to get unless you get a PDF or a specific guide about them or the particular style of the time.

I think i saw some on my usual haunt for tutorial manuals and reference books but it will take time (it has over 800 different manuals)
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Ive sorta given up looking up specific artists (Theres a guy called Manuel Rosenberg who did exceptional caricatures. Never could find more than a few of his works. Same for the guy who did the Rhodes Colossus Cartoon, Edward L Sambourne) but Im just trying to capture specific styles of art and just general visual design, clothes hair and stuff. Helps expanding my visual library.
For women of the each decade, there are very good very specific clothing and hair choices which you wont find that much anymore. Idk what the hairstyle is called but the ones which 40s Brunettes had is really great, ones you find in Double Indemnity and Vera Lynn and other sources. Same for the 70s blondes, they had banded straight hair down till their chest which curled in the end, I think Jane Fonda and Sharon Tate did this well. Same for Y2K, with the trunk pants and goth hairstyles (or pixie hair you would find in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe, America never had a pixie hair phase during Y2K or ever.). For the second and third, I could probably hunt down publicity pics or magazines of the time (Or I could just look up pictures of Bjork), not that hard unless youre looking for very specific mags.
For the 50s and before, I dont even know the magazines which existed much less where to look them up.
Also, if anyone wants them, I have couple books/collections of political cartoons from before WWII, with the artists (Among many many many of my references/sources). If anybody wants them, Id be happy to send em.
 
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I was really bored so I drew some retarded redesign of triage from marathon and added some literal who.
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It looks like shit because I was so lazy to shade it.
 
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More Menta-kun!! This time in the style of a series of Sanrio "photograph" portraits:
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It was tricky emulating the style just right, especially the dashed lines, but I think I nailed it. I also considered making Menta-Kun's background a pastel blue with the white swiss dots to match the others' pastel bgs, but then I'm like, "he's a deep-sea octopus, his background is a dark ocean, right?" So dark bg with dark dots! I think it gives the whole thing a little more atmosphere. I also got to pick fun "stickers" for around the photo, and I went with a UFO and a wing because his bio says he's proud to resemble a UFO and dreams of being able to fly. <3
I'm thinking of making a pixiv account just to store/display these Menta-kun pics. I'm not Japanese so I can't exactly socialize, but other Sanrio fans might like to see my love for best octopus.
 
Goku!
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I may have given myself a minor wrist strain from rushing on a work-related art piece so I can't hold a pencil very firmly right now without discomfort, the timing could not be worse. 😅
 
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