kiwi:

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chipmunkchiptune:

nohara:

kiwi:

kiwi:

HEY THIS IS IMPORTANT whats your favorite place to find drawing references?

so far we’ve got

• senshi stock
  
• croquis cafe
• line-of-action.com
• quickposes.com
• posemaniacs
• clip studio paint models
• pexels.com
• sketchdaily
• eggazyoutatsu atarichan drawer
• designdoll

if you have any more please reply!

• Unsplash: All photos published on Unsplash can be used for free. You can use them for commercial and noncommercial purposes. You do not need to ask permission from or provide credit to the photographer or Unsplash, although it is appreciated when possible. More precisely, Unsplash grants you an irrevocable, nonexclusive copyright license to download, copy, modify, distribute, perform, and use photos from Unsplash for free, including for commercial purposes, without permission from or attributing the photographer or Unsplash. This license does not include the right to compile photos from Unsplash to replicate a similar or competing service.

• Freeimages: You can use the images in digital format on websites, blog posts, social media, advertisements, film and television productions, web and mobile applications. In printed materials such as magazines, newspapers, books, brochures, flyers, product packaging for decorative use in your home, office or any public place or personal use. The rights granted to you by FreeImages.com are: Perpetual, meaning there is no expiration or end date on your rights to use the content. Non-exclusive, meaning that you do not have exclusive rights to use the content. FreeImages.com can license the same content to other customers. Unlimited, meaning you can use the content in an unlimited number of projects and in any media. For purposes of this agreement, “use” means to copy, reproduce, modify, edit, synchronize, perform, display, broadcast, publish, or otherwise make use of.

• Stocksnap: Every single image on StockSnap are governed exclusively by the generous terms of the Creative Commons CC0 license. Specifically, that license means you can do any and all of the following: Download the image file.Publish, revise, copy, alter, and share that image. Use the image (as-is or as you’ve altered it), in both personal and commercial contexts. Moreover, you can put StockSnap CC0 images to any of these usages without buying the right to do it, acquiring written permission from the image’s creator, or attributing the work to the image creator. In other words, there’s no fee to download or use these StockSnap images in accordance with the CC0 license. They’re free to download, free to edit, and free to use - even in a commercial project! You don’t even need to attribute the image to the creator, the way you do with other CC or traditional copyright licensing schemes. (However, even though it’s not required, we here at StockSnap do encourage you to include an appropriate attribution. It’s a nice thing to do.)

• Burst.Shopify: Burst is a free stock photo platform that is powered by Shopify. Their image library includes thousands of high-resolution, royalty-free images that were shot by their global community of photographers. You can use their pictures for just about anything — your website, blog or online store, school projects, Instagram ads, facebook posts, desktop backgrounds, client work and more. All of their photos are free for commercial use with no attribution required.

• Pixabay: Images and Videos on Pixabay are released under Creative Commons CC0. To the extent possible under law, uploaders of Pixabay have waived their copyright and related or neighboring rights to these Images and Videos. You are free to adapt and use them for commercial purposes without attributing the original author or source. Although not required, a link back to Pixabay is appreciated.

• Viintage: All images hosted by Viintage.com are considered to be public domain images, each image is presumed to be in the public domain. It may be distributed or copied as permitted by applicable law. Viintage.com assumes no ownership of the images and they may be downloaded and can be used free of charge for any purpose. They may be downloaded and used for commercial and personal use. Understand “public domain” as the permission to freely use an image without asking permission from the photographer or the illustrator. Thus, the creator of the work will not sue you for violating his/her copyrights. It is your responsibility to make sure, displaying the image does not violate any other law. Viintage.com assumes no responsibility for how or where you use the images found on the site.

• Gratisography: You may use Gratisography pictures as you please for both personal and commercial projects. You can adapt and modify the images and get paid for work that incorporates the pictures. This includes advertising campaigns, adding your logo or text to an image, printed in any size print runs (e.g., book covers, magazines, posters, etc.), on your website, blog, or other digital mediums, and on merchandise as long as the picture itself is not the merchandise.

As someone who draws a lot of faeries, Faestockis godlike.

A wonderful addition to the list!

• Unsplash. Another whopping huge free images site like pixabay: free for commercial and noncommercial use and remixing; just don’t sell the photos unmodified or add them to other photo-sharing sites.
• Morguefile.Big old free photo archive from the dawn of the web. “We are a community-based free photo site, and all photos found in the Morguefile archive are free for you to download and re-use in your work, be it commercial or not. The photos have been contributed by a wide range of creatives from around the world, ranging from amateur photo hobbyists to professionals.”
• Open Access at the Met. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York: “Whether you’re an artist or a designer, an educator or a student, a professional or a hobbyist, you now have more than 406,000 images of artworks from The Met collection to use, share, and remix—without restriction.”
• Smithsonian Open Access. Download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images […] from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.
• Limited use, if you’re doing a Science and need control panels/rockets/futuristic an image search with qualifier site: nasa.gov You have to double-check a photo’s caption it’s really a NASA photo, but photos which were taken by NASA spacecraft and astronauts are public domain, since they’re funded by taxpayer dollars. (This also goes for images of animals archived at the USFWS Digital Library, i.e the US Fish and Wildlife Service, or rocks and landscapes on USGSwebsites.

Okay updating and consolidating lots of info here; as well as adding links for ease of access. Adding a brief description for some too; as is the case that not all of them have descriptions above.
(Warning that some of these links contain nude refs, I will try to mark where possible which ones have more prominent ones.)

Posing Sites and Apps:

• Adorkastock. Stock photos for pose refs. DeviantArt gallery started in 2007.
• FreePhotoMuscle.com. (translated page link click here) Japanese stock photo pose site that includes buff people, but in funny poses and costumes.
• CroquoisCafe. (NSFW, nude model poses warning) A stock photo pose site. You should be aware this org has been linked as pro-Trump. I leave it to y’all to decide if you want to use the resources or not. I highly encourage not financially supporting them and trying to support the individual models if you can.
• Line of Action. Fantastic site that includes posing refs, community discussions from other artists, figure study, anatomy, etc. So much stuff in here.
• PoseSpace. Extensive library of poses. Some free resources others are paid. I’ve not fully evaluated both, but you should be able to use this all mostly free and get great use out of it.
• SketchDaily. This one is one of the better ones out there. You can time yourself, search by pose, clothing options, body type, perspective, etc. All real models.
• JustSketch.me. A pose app for any device. Has apps for most devices and a webapp. Customize and pose models/props/scenes.
• Quickposes. Pose site that gives you timed challenges to become more proficient at poses.
• POSEMANIACS. Ref site with anatomical poses. All the ref pics are of 3D models with only the bones and muscles. Can be helpful for seeing how muscles behave in certain poses. limited to two body types tho.
• MagicPoser. A wonderful app that’s great on mobile. Lets you choose size of models, number of them, style, etc. Significant features are use of snap point with the physics engine, adjustable lighting, multiple perspective, 360 angle, articulated hand posing.
• Clip Studio Paint Modeler. Free 3d tool that works with Clip Studio Paint. You can import your own data or other models you find online. Not quite an alternative to Blender, but the integration with CSP is very nice.
• Egg a Zyoutatsu Atarichan Drawer. (requires enabling flash player or downloading and using standalone flashplayer) Drawing tool for pose practice. The developer is working on an html5 version.
• DesignDoll. One of the best pose tool apps out there. You can customize so many things. They also have an extensive collection of ready made poses here. You can use the free or pay once for life and have the poses integrated into the client as well as the ability to export your obj to other programs like blender or smt.

Stock Photo Sites:

• Unsplash. Giant free stock image site.
  

• freeimages.com. Another stock photo site, less features than some others.

• StockSnap.io. Stock photos with a creative commons CC0 license, which essentially means you can use the photos however you want and don’t have to attribute to them. (though its nice if you do attribute)

• Burst.Shopify. Tons of royalty free high quality images. Similar licensing to StockSnap.

• pixabay. I feel like most people know about this one, but it features entirely free CC0 licensed Photos, Videos, and Music. No attribution required, but still nice to support a giant site with all this content.

• Viintage. Big collection of public domain vintage photos.

• Gratisography. For commercial or personal use. They specialize in odd, quirky, wild stock photos.

• pexels. Great free stock photos and videos. Only a few stipulations of what they don’t allow, but their license info can be found here.

• Faestock. An artist and model with a huge amount of fantasy and fae and other types of photos available. Their terms for use are here.

• MorgueFile. Old stock photo archive that’s been around a long time.

Museum and Institution Open Access sites:

• USA National Gallery of Art. Over 50k works available for download.

• New York Metropolitan Museum open access. 490k works to browse. Even codes for Animal Crossing New Horizons patterns.

• The Smithsonian Institution open access. Probably one of the largest open access collections available online. Around 3.9 million items available to view.

• Many More. This article from Apollo magazine has an extensive list of open access museums and institutions from around the world. A brief list of places includes: Art Institute of Chicago, Belvedere, Vienna, Birmingham Museums Trust,Cleveland Art Museum,Harvard Art Museums,J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles,Kunstmuseum Basel ,Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles County Museum of Art,Mauritshuis, The Hague,Minneapolis Institute of Art,Munch Museet, Norway,Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington,Národní galerie Praha,Nationalmuseet Danmark,Nationalmuseum, Stockholm  , New York Public Library ,Paris Musées, Pinakotheken, Munich, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Wellcome Collection, London, Yale University.
  

wow its been a while since ive seen this post, im so glad more useful info has been added!

psychoticrambling:

newpath3432:

I’ve heard that many people prefer the purple and green aroace flag to the sunset one, so here’s a few of my prior background themes in the purple and green color scheme (made in WOMBO dream).

Tree of life, lotus flower, starry sky, ocean waves, fireworks, explosion, clouds, waterfall, sunrise

iiicarus0:

gray

it’s difficult, it’s all just so difficult in a way that doesn’t quite make sense.

we go out to get something to eat together and there’s moment

after moment where i look at your hands or make you laugh and all

i want is more of it, more of those little moments and more,

your eyes on me, my head on your chest,

fingers moving deftly around a knife in a kitchen flooded with light,

something warm and soft and full that stings in a pleasant sort of way.

and it should be easy, i’ve always liked a little blood, always liked

the way a knife glints, always liked how it hurts when people turn away.

but it’s something different altogether, the scene’s washed in

some different kind of light. the actors are moving the same way,

we’re moving the same way, but everything is washed in red and crimson

instead of yellows and blues like it usually is, everything screams

danger and panic and grief, and it’s not familiar. it’s all wrong.

the knife raises and raises and then falls, and halfway down i can

see how it’ll all turn out, see the reflection in the camera lens, and it’s what i always wanted;

a hand reaching out to a flame and getting burned, then recoiling,

something glass and fragile being dropped from a height and shattering,

destruction and desolation and isolation and failure,

all these things i usually wanted, destruction just the way i liked it,

so why is everything crimson? where’s the horror movie soundtrack coming from?

fine, let’s change the scene. we’re on a road trip and i’m driving even

though my hands tremble on the wheel and you’ve got the radio cranked up

and you’re laughing and tossing an energy drink at me

and you look beautiful in the golden hour light and suddenly i’m hitting the brakes

and pulling off to the side of the highway because the gold shifted to crimson again.

this shouldn’t be difficult. it isn’t for everyone else.

they’ve always said it’s what makes us human. so why is it so difficult?

the director shouts again, again from somewhere and the scene shifts once more.

i’m sitting in a room illuminated by a screen your name is on and your voice is

in my ears and i’m laughing, and you’re laughing, and everyone is laughing.

you must notice that something is off because you remind me that you love me, that i’m a great friend,

but suddenly my hands are shaking again, over the keys now, and i hope

you don’t notice how unsteady my voice is when i laugh back at you,

that you don’t notice how the blood seeps out from the hollow of my chest

and trails down my ribcage, each beat twisting the knife a little more.

once more, with feeling, as if just saying that doesn’t wrench open the wound again.

we’re sitting under an old magnolia at the edge of my yard, secluded and rural.

you could scream and no one would hear you, you tell me,

and so i scream, and keep screaming, til my throat’s raw and

everything comes out red and half-gurgled. i scream and you look at me

and hold out a magnolia blossom, and we lie there together under the branches

in the hot july heat, waiting for the bad feelings to be chased away,

the knife cast away and left to rust in the tall grass somewhere else.

but that’s still not right.

but now i’ve pushed too hard and something’s wrong with the lighting on set,

crimson to green and grey and white, everything’s flashing and it’s hard to think,

and i think i see someone’s face, and i think they’re good and lovely and beautiful,

but everything is flashing and i can’t be sure, because everything is flashing

and my head is pounding and it’s too difficult to put a name to it.

what i’m feeling must be fear, but which kind? what i’m feeling

must be panic, but in what way?

when i see their face, am i afraid because i want something normal and friendly?

when i see their face, am i afraid because i want something else?

i keep trying to ask but the lights keep flashing and nobody answers.

this page of the script is blank and the director is shrouded in shadow and unresponsive.

tell me, which is it? is it love or not? can i feel love or not? can i be loved or not?

but there’s nobody working on set and i don’t know how to make the lights stop flashing.

the way they blend into each other, the way the crimson always finds a way to peek through the rest,

the way it’s all so overwhelming and god damn it’s so hard to think.

it’s supposed to be what makes us human. how are you supposed to know?

how can anybody know when it’s like this? are the lights flashing for everyone else?

fondness either grows or festers, then it’s shoved into my arms

and i have to figure out what to do with it. how am i supposed to know what it even is when the lights keep flashing?

i want to have someone, i want to be certain,

i want the scene to be holding hands in a well-lit room instead of being blind in the dark,

i want light, and i want gold, and i want the bad feeling to stay away.

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hi, i’m ic and i’m grey-aromantic.

i’ve been feeling and thinking a lot about what that means to me lately, and figured that valentine’s day is as good a day as any to make a bit of that public, partly because i know i appreciated reading about other people’s experiences when i was trying to figure shit out, and partly because i’ve had this on my mind for so long that i kinda just want to share it.

until recently, i never had crushes. as a kid, i always figured i’d have a high school sweetheart, or find someone who makes me nervously excited with just a look eventually. and then i didn’t. for a while i thought i was aromantic, but when i found the term grey-aromantic (or grayro), something just clicked. here was a word for what i’d been feeling, or maybe what i hadn’t been feeling. here was validation for never having dated or had a crush, for feeling drawn to people but being uncertain regarding whether it was platonic or not, for having such a strange relationship with relationships.

a little over a year ago i started reading up on grey-aromanticism and felt that click. i finally stopped lying and telling myself i was completely aromantic (which was partly because of low self-esteem and partly because i’d never had a crush, which isn’t to say that aromantics are invalid because they’re just sad, not at all; that was merely my experience), and told myself that if i felt drawn to someone, i’d genuinely explore it instead of shutting it down like i had before.

onemaybe-a-crushand oneprobably-almost-certainly-a-crush later and my perspective has changed a bit, especially after the former. it made me realize that a significant part of me, in spite of all the anxiety and self-image issues, actually wants a partner. which sounds lame but as someone who spent a long time convincing myself i’d never have or deserve that, it feels nicer than i expected.

so yeah. happy valentine’s day, especially to my ace/aro spectrum folks. you’re not broken, no matter what a holiday might try and claim.

ceilingfan5:

Love

Love

Love love love

Sticky stuff poetry’s made of

Shines like syrup in the bottle 

Burns like acid, twists and mottles

Curls like ribbon, sweet and charming

Leaves a hollow pit, alarming

Surely this can’t be the stuff 

That makes your guts marshmallow fluff

Consider, hollow, haunted, aching,

Certainly they’re not all faking

So what makes you the odd one out?

Disbelief becomes self doubt

Becomes a horror neverending

Destined for a bitter ending–

Maybe something here is broken

A thing that should remain unspoken

Lest they understand what’s missing

And abandon you for touching, kissing–

For partners, bedrooms, dates and marriage

How cruel of you to itch, disparage–

When it’s your turn, you’ll understand,

The promise makes you just feel damned

To be alone, alone, alone,

A fate like death to be bemoaned–

How could you forsake hope like this?

Love is fate, is home, is bliss

Is something you’re allergic to

Something you lack the point of view

To comprehend, to touch, to know,

This fourth-dimension puppet show

You grasp at frames one at a time

They slip away, like jello, slime,

A puzzle missing half the pieces,

Concept as grippable as grease is.

Big picture insight keeps evading

While friends and foes are serenading

You’re doing calculus to appear 

Like someday too you’ll be held dear

But ever aching, chilling, howling

The truth is always watching, prowling

The chest hole where your heart should be

It never seems to hear your plea.

Perhaps it isn’t what it seems–

Blow that dream to smithereens

And comb the ashes for some insight

A different game, with effort, still might

Give you something to make sense of

Perspective helps drop pretense of

Love, love, love, love, oh love love love:

End all be all, below, above–

Romance might be for them, but you

Have a life to live for too. 

It might take some renovation,

Letting go of a fixation–

The world gave you a gift at birth

Set the orbit of your self worth–

Sweet satellite, my moon, my stars,

The world is theirs as much as ours

For love of flavors vast and varied

And things beyond the hope you carried.

The end is not a bed, a ring,

A galaxy so vast it sings

Awaits your heart, and soul, and feet.

This feast will take a life to eat–

My un-damned creature, your echo

Expects you, and if you let go

You’ll find there’s more than survival.

Go! We expect your arrival. 

You do not have to be the same

To live a life without that shame. 

It may take time to understand,

But i know you can withstand

A world not built for those like you.

You will find you are not alone,

The shackles shed, the seeds all sown,

Love, love love, love love love love, it

Isn’t fate. Romance can shove it. 

newpath3432:

Subtle pride ocean waves (made in WOMBO dream).

Rainbow, Asexual, Aromantic, Aroace, Oriented Aroace, Aplatonic

purplespaceacedraws:

purplespaceacedraws:

[short image ID; nine cute drawings of manta rays, all identical except for the colors, which are colorpicked from pride flags. The flags are loveless aromantic, lovequeer, aromantic allosexual, sapphic, polysexual, aromantic spectrum, angled aromantic asexual, demiboy, and cupio. End short image ID]

flags from left to right;

Loveless Aro | Lovequeer | Aroallo

Sapphic | Polysexual | Arospec

Angled Aroace | Demiboy | 4-Color Cupio

long image ID under the cut!

Keep reading

You can get all of these designs at my Redbubble!

newpath3432:

Subtle pride snowy wallpapers (made in WOMBO dream).

Rainbow, Asexual, Aromantic, Aroace, Oriented Aroace, Aplatonic

nachosforfree:

pov an aro person makes a post

im-green-salami:

lithromantic merch!!

lithromantic pendat

(comes in 4 diffrent shapes✮)

lithromantic bracelet

lithromantic flag

lithromantic pin

lithromantic arcade sticker

lithromantic gecko sticker