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PostPosted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 7:40 pm


Behold! Helpful stuff for the artists here from the Gaian Graphic Artists guild!


Useful Websites

Design Blogs, News Sites, Forums

Retrolounge
Speak Up
Acidtwist
AdLand
Adrants
Airbag
Anarchitect
Authentic Boredom
BD4D
Be A Design Group
Binary Bonsai
Coudal Partners
dangerousmeta!
Daring Fireball
Design is Kinky
Design Observer
Designweenie
Drawn!
Foreword: A Book Design Blog
pixelsurgeon
Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
Mark Simonson Studio
Netdiver
Newstoday
posterwire
RE. Design News Reluct.com
RobotJohnny.com
scottberkun.com
scrubbles.net
Shift Japan
Snog Blog
Subsystence | Balance
TextBased.com
The Designers Network
Typographic Collaboration | Typophile
Typographica. A Journal of Typography.
URLDJ
webgraphics
What Do I Know
xBlog: The visual thinking weblog
Fire and Knowledge
Core77.com
Maeda's SIMPLICITY
Creative Latitude
Art Forum and Graphic Design Discussion
DigiKitten

Tutorials, Resources, etc

Good Tutorials - great site!
Webmonkey! For help with coding and many web tutorials
FlashKit!A Site for flash developing resources ^__^
TIEMdesign - very cool!
About.com GD - Graphic Design, has good tips about portfolios, and lots more
About.com DTP - Desktop Publishing, has some helpful stuff about designing things
Graphic Goo - good online newsletter
JavaScript Source
Shiver7 - Tutorials with an Edge
Blues Fear
Bit 101
A List Apart
Worth 1000
Spoono
DesignFirms Articles
w3schools
DayDream Graphics
www.htmlgoodies.com
www.pixel2life.com
http://css.maxdesign.com.au - great css tutorials, as well as a bunch of stylesheet examples to make a list into cool navbars
http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/guilds/viewforum.php?f=615
http://www.mezzoblue.com/
Digital Thread

CSS, PHP etc

CSS Import
CSS playground
CSS Beauty

Just Plain Cool Sites (don't really have to do with design, or don't fit in any of the other categories, but they're fun to look at)
The Webcomics Examiner
MAEDASTUDIO
IDEABOOK.COM
Phrizbie Design

Drawing:

Varied/Misc
http://www.gfxartist.com/features/tutorials
http://www.neondragonart.com/dp/
http://www.sumaleth.com/links/
http://www.makeshiftmiracle.com/Tutorials.html
http://www.stencilrevolution.com/tutorials/

Figure Drawing
http://www2.evansville.edu/drawinglab/
http://www.howtodrawmanga.com/tutorial/tutorial.htm
http://www.polykarbon.com/tutorials/index.htm
http://www.bakaneko.com/
http://www.livejournal.com/community/demonology101/2003/01/19/
http://members.lycos.co.uk/stateofeuphoria/tutorials.htm

Computer Graphics

Colouring/Painting
http://www.neoterranean.com/art/tutorial/coloring.htm
http://www.steeldolphin.com/tutorials_photoshop.php
http://www1.linkclub.or.jp/~ooo/0/htm/eoc01.htm
http://div.dyndns.org/EK/tutorial/
http://www.studioqube.com/arkives1.php
http://www.portalgraphics.net/docs/cg_lecture/index.html
http://members.lycos.co.uk/stateofeuphoria/tutorials.htm
http://www.sumaleth.com/links/
http://clubph34r.com/cgpage1.html

Rendering

http://www.phong.com/
http://gallery.artofgregmartin.com/tutorials.html

Theory

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=3148
http://www.maillist.com.tw/maillist/maillist_browse.cgi?maillist_id=yamyoukan <== in chinese

References
http://creative.gettyimages.com/source/home/home.aspx
http://www.picturequest.com/
http://www.projectnoir.com/gallery/model-sheets01.shtml
http://www.fineart.sk/
PostPosted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 12:26 pm


this has been really helpful thanks!!! heart

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