Art practice

Great looking paint-along course from Mikko.

Reference plates for art practice

Character template with 100+ fields to guide character creation.

Course about writing a novel start to finish.

Year long art challenge with weekly tasks, starting from basic and steadily getting more advanced. Emphasis on volume.

Cool art stream from Mikko that follows his painting a nice looking house with pastels.

Sashiko (刺し子, lit. 'little stabs') is a type of traditional Japanese embroidery or stitching used for the decorative and/or functional reinforcement of cloth and clothing. Owing to the relatively cheap nature of white cotton thread and the abundant nature of cheap, indigo-dyed blue cloth in historical Japan, sashiko has a distinctive appearance of white-on-blue embroidery, though some decorative pieces may also use red thread.

– Wikipedia article on sashiko

Image: Detail of a mid-19th century kimono decorated using sashiko, with white cotton threads on an indigo-dyed plain weave background (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

A Guide to Pictorial Perspective by Benjamin Richard Green, 1851