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Stuff to procrastinate + WHO WANTS XMAS CARD?

I was going to make a big rant post about how fandom needs to have MORE multimedia awesomeness and that art should happen more and why and so on, but that's not happening today. :/
I will simply lament the fact that the AWESOME ressource post is pretty much useless for fanartists. (except a couple of caps posts)

yue_ix, I know you have an extensive collection of bookmarks that are visual-oriented. We should perhaps compile a similar ressource list for fanartists?

In case you don't know it yet, I like making lists.
Yue's list of stuff she should be working on
+ STBB pics
+ GO exchange pic
+ NOT MISSING THE SMALL GIFTS CLAIM DATE
+ Greenhouse stuff
+ Fest stuff
+ PROMOTING FANART SOMETHING
+ ST Dinos
+ Merlin pics for various fics (knights!)
+ A million tiny projects for Xmas gifts. :/

OTL

OK, so I might as well start this now so that i will have more time to work on the stuff.

THOSE OF YOU WHO WISH TO RECEIVE A HOLIDAY CARD FROM ME, PLEASE LET ME KNOW IN THIS POST!!!
PLZ PM ME YOUR ADDRESS.

EDIT: NOTE FOR PPL IN THE USA: PLEASE DO PUT USA AT THE END OF YOUR ADDRESS!? I KNOW ITS DUMB BUT IT HELPS ME KEEP TRACK AT A GLANCE! I live in Canada, and while i know our provinces and territories, I'm really not that proficient at international geography. >_< Humour me, i'm dumb!

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Yeah, that post made me have the same reaction of "BUT WHAT ABOUT ARTISTS *ARTHUR SADFACE*". We definitively should make a list, if we can. I've done something similar here at a party, and know that here are Creative Commons visual references for Arthurian characters. Would those be a good place to start? =)

Those are great links and that party post is AWESOME!!! That's probably a lot of what we need right there. Perhaps a few updates on the recent episode caps, but otherwise, you've pretty much done it! :)
I'll try to do some research for this weekend....
I say we make our OWN resource post to Drawmelot, then link it to them and be like PLEASE APPEND THE PICTORIAL AWESOME. >D

You rock! &heart;

THAT'S A GREAT PLAN! #

HERE'S MOAR (I may be fairly compulsive by now):

Category: Animals
Merlin (the bird) see also: Wing Tutorial
How to draw horses very exhaustive, clear Horse tutorial, see also: Horse armour
Dragons
Wolves: How to draw the Wolf - Anatomy of a Wolf - A Tutorial - Drawing realistic wolves

background elements
Celtic art (What, it makes for great designs or composition inspiration! XD )
Architecture of the United Kingdom by century
Medieval Jewerly (from rings to goblets (!) to decorated boxes)

And generic drawing things:

All
Big Guide to Drawing the Body
Guide to Movement1:Flexibility
Emotion and facial expressions

Girls specific
Boobs in action tutorial

Guys specific
TUT: How to Draw & Shade male character in REALISTIC comic style
(MATURE) How to draw intact penis
Tutorial: Man Hips

AND IF WE DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO REDO ALL THOSE LINKS:

Category: Animals
<a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Falco_columbarius">Merlin (the bird)</a> see also: <a href="http://windfalcon.deviantart.com/art/Wing-Tutorial-7915972">Wing Tutorial</a>
<a href="http://cedarseed.deviantart.com/art/Drawing-the-Horse-17767844">How to draw horses</a> very exhaustive, clear Horse tutorial, see also: <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Horse_armours">Horse armour</a>
<a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Dragons">Dragons</a>
Wolves: <a href="http://elruu.deviantart.com/art/How-to-draw-the-Wolf-in-Eng-59015531">How to draw the Wolf</a> - <a href="http://junryou-na-kokoro.deviantart.com/art/Anatomy-of-a-Wolf-A-Tutorial-110298195">Anatomy of a Wolf - A Tutorial</a> - <a href="http://yellow-eyes.deviantart.com/art/Drawing-realistic-wolves-II-96109568">Drawing realistic wolves</a>

background elements
<a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Celtic_art">Celtic art</a> (What, it makes for great designs or composition inspiration! XD ) 
<a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Architecture_of_the_United_Kingdom_by_century">Architecture of the United Kingdom by century</a>
<a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Medieval_jewelry">Medieval Jewerly</a> (from rings to goblets (!) to decorated boxes)

And generic drawing things:

All
<a href="http://cedarseed.deviantart.com/art/Big-Guide-to-Drawing-the-Body-15014442">Big Guide to Drawing the Body</a>
<a href="http://cedarseed.deviantart.com/art/Guide-to-Movement1-Flexibility-66104159">Guide to Movement1:Flexibility</a>
<a href="http://cedarseed.deviantart.com/art/Emotions-and-Facial-Expression-47118559">Emotion and facial expressions</a>

Girls specific
<a href="http://guruubii.deviantart.com/art/Boobs-in-action-tutorial-part1-35191912">Boobs in action tutorial</a>

Guys specific
<a href="http://yaoi.y-gallery.net/view/502336/">TUT: How to Draw & Shade male character in REALISTIC comic style</a>
(MATURE) <a href="http://yaoi.y-gallery.net/view/431896/">How to draw intact penis</a>
<a href="http://yaoi.y-gallery.net/view/101409/">Tutorial: Man Hips</a>

GOSH YOU ARE FAST WOMAN.

THAT'S FANATSTIC AND MUCH LOVE TO YOUUUUUU!~~~~~

Is it just me or do the y-gallery links all die? :(

Most Y!gal links, as soon as they show Mature materials, require one to be logged in so as to see them; could it be that?

Argh. i see i see. HOW DO WE OVERCOME THAT PROBLEM THEN? :/
Is there a way the pics themselves can be gathered into a post or something and linked back to their original address with proper credit? :/

BY THE POWER OF STALKING!

So, Draw-Male-in-Real-comic-style on DA & How to draw a man's hips. I couldn't find the penis one anywhere else, sadly, but perhaps some other artistic nude penis tutorial could be found around.

A last very important one: Artist Hospital @ DA has a LOT of really amazing tutorials for literally everything.

You are a genius.
y'know that great expression sheet of Bradley that you have? We should make one for each of the main cast.

I FEEL BAD BEING ALL TALK AND NO ACTION RIGHT NOW BUT GAAAH HOMEWORK :(

i love you~

There is some things we need that would be great if someone could do them (perhaps neither you nor me, but if we post this to Drawmelot, I'd love for others to pitch in):

- Expression sheet for main cast;
- that graph of their relative heights;
- cloth sheets for everyone, including color samples for easy picking;
- patterns, objects & accessories from the show (mostly a picspam of things one can draw inspiration from, or use as details. Categories exemples: cups, flags, vases, bedrooms accessories, jewels, weapons, engravings, windows)
- separate sheet for Arthur's armour (I could do that)
- Quick reference sheets of the others: humans (categories: guards, peasants!camelot, peasants!other kingdoms, druids, rogue gangs (Cendred's, that guy from S2..));
- Quick reference sheets of the others: non-humans (categories: conjured beings, magical creatures)

IT'S NOT YOU, IT'S ME: THIS HAS BEEN AN HALF-ARSED PROJECT OF MINE ALREADY, SO I HAD A FEW STEPS READY. BUT I CAN'T DO IT ALONE, SO WAS WAITING FOR SOMEONE ELSE TO STEP UP. Left alone, I would have driven myself to exhaustion. But, if you think that to-do list up makes sense, perhaps we could assign some volunteers to some items? They really don't take that long if we browse, say, disparue.org's screencaps.

*hugs*

It's a great idea to get more help! We definitely need it and it'll make it much faster!

You've pretty much covered everything else i could think of...
We mustn't forget buildings! 8D Architectural details structure! I guess that can be a section of "patterns/objects and accessories".

TOGETHER WE SHALL PREVAIL!!! I'm soo pumped, i want to get in it but i need to wait till weekend...
I'm down for the volunteer assignments!!! Will you just post a requesting help post to drawmelot?
(I'd love to work on the accessories post! I already do it unconsciously XD )

Buildins are important! In the initial camelot_fleet post, there was a Locations category - we could put them in there with subcategories such as Castle, Exterior, Villages, etc.?

I can't (or, well, shouldn't) until the week-end either because of mid-terms and other stuff, but I could try to put up a post around Friday or Saturday? (omg, Halloween!) That way, we can try fishing for volunteers at the Party, too. I'd personally love to do the mystical creatures. ^___^ *writes ourselves down first because we got dibs*

AHAHA, I just realized, that would make my 2nd or third post in a row that are only Mod-posts, and none of my drawings. Darn, I have to find some time to post those as well!

that would be great!! 8D

hahaha yesss~!!! fishing at the party sounds good to me. :)

you definitely need to post your epic art. AND your epic fic. That super duper awesome multimedia neverending story thing you did? WHY DON'T MORE PEOPLE KNOW OF ITS AWESOME?

You are wonderful! What awesome links! I especially like the boobs in action tutorial. Basketballs, wtf? LOL. Also, the smiley face on the correctly positioned penis was pretty funny, too.

Thank you for sharing!

Your welcome; glad if they might help! If

littlewolfstar, a few others and I can do this, there would be a whole, comprehensive list with ever more tutorials and references out soon. ^_^

Awesome! I have a couple of coloring tutorials favorite-ed on my DA account. Shall I link you just in case you haven't seen them?

Yes, I'd love that. :D There was only one thing mentioned for coloring, so that was lacking.

A Note on Light and Colour
Mini Painting Tutorial
Photoshop - Painting Hair
How to have six' with colours

I also found a couple of hand and feet tutorials:
Multireference: Hands and Feet
Hand tutorial

:)

Those are pretty awesome, thank you soo much for the help!! :)

You're welcome! I'm glad I could help. :)

Continued because I really do not want to study this thing:

- Hairstyle braids! I'm going dsfkljdflghslkgh at these, look how pretty they are!
- World maps, which might not be _all_ that useful for us, but since many other guides just don't have pictures, we might as well makes ours complete, heh? ^_~
-

nyxelestia have some very nice list of medieval resources here; while most are writing or plot-oriented, some would be very useful (runes! I can't forever be the only one giggling because I wrote "male/male union" on Excalibur in one of my drawings)

/BACK TO STUDYING. FOR REAL.

Continued, before I forget about these links:

- Characters:
Guards picspam

rupertyoung: Community for Sir Leon's actor

- Expression sheets that I did (Arthur and Merlin's), now severely outdated and in need of being redone with S2 (Merlin flirting!) are based on this template.

- Locations: there is whole communities for this!

merlinlocations and their website

- Medieval times:
Article on medieval black smiting, with a bunch of useful links at the bottom!
Language and Magic for Merlin, made for writers, but the links given towards the end would be useful for artists too~
Sex In The Middle Ages: 10 Titillating Facts You Wanted To Know But Were Afraid to Ask (NO JUDGING ME. THIS IS IN THE NAME OF FANDOM). I'd love to see artists explore those, hm, codpieces. And other things.

...Me? ^^;; http://disutansu.livejournal.com/119629.html

I need to start on holiday cards too... though I don't know if I'll get around to them ack. *might do New Year's cards or something* XD;;

OH YOU. You don't even need to ask! :) ♥

I know, I have no idea what time i will be able to work on them. But i have soo many ideas and projects i want to do i'm actually super motivated this year! *o*

Oooh, goodie! I'd love a greeting card from you... and maybe you can PM your addie too? Will PM you in a mo. Yes, we need a drawing resource for Merlin artist. Maybe a "how-to-draw the characters" posts too - that'll be really helpful. :)

Sure thing! thanks!! ^___^ I do this every year with my flist, it's become a tradition for me~

Yes agreed!

yue_ix and i (well mostly her for now) are working on it! Hopefully won't be long before it's up!
It's be hard to have a standardized "how-to-draw-soandso" tutorial because each artist has their stylistic preferences and ways to render characters. However, general human figure and character design drawing tutorials may perhaps be useful?
but you just gave me a great idea! there should be a post for each character detailing their unique characteristics for artists. like Merlin's big ears and curly hair, and morgana;s eyebrows and Arthur's lips, etc.

THANKS! ♥!

I only started the whole greeting card thing last year. It was fun! But so time-consuming because I ended up making 70 personalised cards (55 of which are for relatives and friends). This year I'm just going to concentrate on my flist because I see my relatives all the time anyway! LOL!

there should be a post for each character detailing their unique characteristics for artists. Yes! You phrased it a million times better than me. Usually I just use photo references for the characters, but yeah, a list like that will be really really cool! I can't wait to see what you both come up with! :D

Oh wow!! I usually leave the relative carding to the parents XD

That's exactly it! A picspam of gigantitude but with structure, like OBSERVE HERE COLIN'S EARS *picspam of ears*, etc. XD

ooooh i'm soo excited for this! >D

....oooo....that resource site is all sorts of distracting. hahahaha

OH YOU ARE TOO SWEET WITH THE CHRISTMAS CARDS *hugs you* I would love a Christmas card, dear! (Are you sure though? Postage will get a bit expensive, I do live in California. It's totally up to you.) Do you want me to write you something special for the holiday?

OMG we really need to work on Greenhouse stuff (hahaha, it's on my to do list, too). You, me, and Thingy need to have another chat soon.

Yes, yes cannot miss the small gifts claim date; I want to get something really cool. (And one of yours, if I can swing it :D)

ikr? ^-^

Don't worry about it darling! I do this every year and so what if it cost a bit? And California is not THAT far. I've sent books and purses to Singapore and Manila before. XD
OOOh special fic? *__* I'd looove that, but you don't have to cause i'm coercing you into soo many fics already! XD (I just really want to make our dino book!)
Btw where's that Kirk/Sulu you promised like... weeks ago?? :/ *pokes at you*
And yah, the greenhouse and the fest THEY NEED TO HAPPEN! >O

I'm soo excited for the small gifts!! i already have eyes set on a couple~XD And dude, i figure i won't even claim yours cause i'll just end up drawing it anywayz cause you make me do crazy shit like that, so i might as well let someone else AND THEN YOU'LL HAVE BOTH! >D
\0/ \0/ ♥♥♥ i'd loove you if you'd fill my prompt tho! cause if luuuuuufs youuu~~~ *crazy from homework*

Alrighty then. I will send you my address and I expect you to send me yours, too. I will make you an extra special card and everything!

Don't worry about coercing me! I offered it as a gift! Hahaha. Prompt me anything you like and I'll make it happen (unless I don't know the fandom). ~~I am working on it! Swear. I need to finish up some stuff and send it off to my beta. I hate breaking promises....I'm sorry DDD:~~ Dino book NEEDS to happen ~~for the the free for all day during the fest?~~ Oh, and I started working on that airline!au. Hahaha.

Small gifts is going to be soo much fun! I just hope that I can write fluff--so much of what I've written lately is SO ANGSTY! AW, thanks dear! Double!!! I'll def. try to claim your prompts (if I can't, I'll just do them anyway--they're SO cute!!!)

I ♥ ♥ ♥ you too!!!!

HURRAY! \0/ ♥ (Besides, i love going to the post office and send stuff all over the world in one go! XD)

Muahahahahha we are like, each other's mutual muse-slave thing. XD
~~It's ok darling, i just wanted to know it didn't fall into a crack and disappear! and I'm naggy. :P~~
Re:Dino I WILL TRY TO GET THE ART DONE ON TIME!! I also really wanted to make an actual pop-up book out of it. *_*
AIRLINE!AU!!!!ddlajdlkajs dl CHEKOV IN A SKIr- *SHOT* x-x sorry. my brain is a strange place.

It's only natural ppl with usernames like our exchange S/R gifties XD OF COURSE~ XD

I SQUISH YOU NOW LOVELY~~~ ♥
*flops and dies*

Yay Christmas cards! Remember to comment on my post when I put it up...which should be soon. :D

Awesomeness! >D I'll definitely do!! *does a flaily dance*

Ooh! Me! I want a holiday card!

wee! PLz PM or email me your adress?? :) ♥

Absolutely!

I would love a holiday card! ♥

I'd love to make yah one~ Plz PM or email me your adress~ :)

THIS REMINDS ME I MUST MAKE ONE FOR YOU~ WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE FOR CHRISTMAS? :DDDDDDDDD

HJG SJHFHJ YOU!!!

>D

Nothing, darling~ i just wanna see you and have a sleepover movie night or something~ XD

omg meeeeeeee I miss you bad and love your art <3 I'll email you my address :D

hey you!!~ any chance of seeing you at AN this year?

;_; nope. I'm off cons for good. Too much money xD I'm not so big into anime anymore, so it's also a waste of my time xD maybe, if I ever get to the point of selling my art, I'll go, but otherwise...nope D:

OH HAI I WANT A CARD TOO!!!
Will send you my addy. :D

OH BABY DO YOU EVEN NEED TO ASK?? >P

I insist to deliver in person just so we NEED TO MEET AGAIN. lol i don't see you nearly enough. Like once a year. :/

Ooh, will do! Please make sure to request one for me as well, if you haven't done so already!

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