A link to some extremely helpful drawing guides:
http://alexhays.com/loomis/

And some artists with useful tutorial collections:
http://what-i-do-is-secret.deviantart.com/gallery/#Resources-and-Tutorials
http://alexds1.deviantart.com/gallery/#Tutorials
http://cedarseed.deviantart.com/journal/4895422/

DICKS EVERYWHERE

DICKS EVERYWHERE

DICKS EVERYWHERE

I've always found this one very helpful.

Dicks nowhere to be found.

Very simple, but also a good basic ref for proportioning.

Here, have some sticky.

DICKS EVERYWHERE

agfh yess, I've been looking for the old thread for centuries.

Thanks guys, this stuff is beyond helpful.

BONES EVERYWHERE

DICKS EVERYWHERE!
(Am I doin' it rite?)

BIG CHUNK OF SHIT INCOMING

DICKS EVERYWHERE

ANATOMY EVERYWHERE

FACIAL FEATURES EVERYWHERE

EXPRESSIONS EVERYWHERE

BODY TYPES EVERYWHERE

FACES AND PERSPECTIVE EVERYHWERE

FACIAL MUSCLES EVERYWHERE

EYE STUDIES EVERYWHERE

GENERAL ANATOMY AND SHIT EVERYWHERE

TORSOS EVERYWHERE

MORE TORSOS EVERYWHERE

GENERAL BODY ANATOMY EVERYWHERE

ARMS EVERYWHERE

ACTUALLY DICKS EVERYWHERE

HEADS EVERYWHERE

MUSCLES EVERYWHERE

MORE MUSCLES EVERYWHERE

FEET EVERYWHERE

BODIES EVERYWHERE

SKIN EVERYWHERE

CAPS EVERYWHERE

MEN EVERYWHERE

HANDS EVERYWHERE

GIRLS EVERYWHERE

POSES EVERYWHERE

MORE FEET EVERYWHERE

EVEN MORE PESKY HANDS EVERYWHERE

MOTION EVERYWHERE

MORE MOTION AND SHIT EVERYWHERE

DOS AND DONTS OF HEADS EVERYWHERE

COMIC PANELS EVERYWHERE

SHADING EVERYWHERE

THOSE GODDAMN FEET EVERYWHERE

STYLE ADVICE EVERYWHERE

LINE OF ACTION EVERYWHERE

BODY BUILDS EVERYWHERE

HATS EVERYWHERE

HEADS EVERYWHERE

SKULLS EVERYWHERE

EYES EVERYWHERE

BASIC MALE FIGURES EVERYWHERE

HATS HATS AND MORE HATS EVERYWHERE

>>139
As helpful as this is for beginners I'd say that for those placing characters in scenes that drawing in this order will kill the unity. In those cases you want to start with the torso and legs to make the character properly grounded.

>>153
Valid point!

Also MOAR STUFF
ABS EVERYWHERE

VAGINAS EVERYWHERE

MORE HATS EVERYWHERE

EVEN MORE HATS EVERYWHERE

HEAD PERSPECTIVE EVERYWHERE

NOSES EVERYWHERE

MORE NOSES EVERYWHERE

VIOLINS EVERYWHERE

SKIN COLORING EVERYWHERE

COLOR THEORY AND PALETTES EVERYWHERE

COLORS EVERYWHERE

MALE TORSOS EVERYWHERE

MALE BODY TYPES EVERYWHERE

GODDAMN HANDS EVERYWHERE

MOTHERFUCKING HANDS AND FEET EVERYWHERE

FOOT BONES EVERYWHERE

VARIOUS FEET EVERYWHERE

EVEN MORE OF THOSE PESKY HANDS EVERYWHERE

HJLAKSRKLÖDKA HANDS EVERYWHERE

HEAD AND ANGLES AND STUFF EVERYWHERE

HORNS EVERYWHERE

HEAD PROFILES EVERYWHERE

LEFT HANDS EVERYWHERE

VARIOUS BODYPARTS EVERYWHERE

POSES EVERYWHERE

MORE POSES EVERYWHERE

YET EVEN MORE POSES EVERYWHERE

HANDS AND FEET AND BLAH EVERYWHERE

RIGHT HANDS EVERYWHERE

BODY HAIR EVERYWHERE

http://characterdesigns.com/index.php?sitepage=photosets

Thought I'd share this site. It's incredibly helpful for practising general anatomy and poses, though I wish they had more males.

The SDK also comes with fully poseable Maya models, and I still have the caps of all the characters from the front and the side if y'all would like those. (They just wouldn't have the proper lighting.)

>>230
would greatly appreciate those being posted, thankyouverymuch

>>230
oh god yes please

in fact I keep remembering the old TF2 refs thread and then feeling bawww; can we please bring that back up aaaaaah ;_;

>>255
I'm all up for resposting the entire thread once the chan stops screwing up the file uploads and the /help/ section is up again.

you guys are so helpful!

TANGLED LIMBS EVERYWHERE!

http://members.fortunecity.com/furnacehot/holds/holds.htm

DICKS EVERYWHERE

Derp

herp

hurr

>>291
Spy = Borat.
Cannot unsee.

For those of you who like to paint portraits.

This thread is amazing.

I've had a hard time finding tuts on digitally painting the skin of anything other than various Caucasian tones... Maybe I haven't looked hard enough? Does anyone have anything for someone on the lines of Demoman?

>>310
I agree with you Anon, maybe try this one:
>>175
It demonstrates the tones on a pretty dark skinned chick.
Maybe you could try using a realistic picture of a non-caucasian as a guide. Google is your friend.

>>323
^OP. To be honest, I've been all over Google and deviantART many times for this. The only stuff I can find is... well, Caucasian tones no matter how I word my search, or what number-colour paint tubes of _______ brand to use for traditional painting. Was just wondering if someone else had found anything before me. That's okay. My search continues!

Skin, part 1

This one was too big.

http://navate.deviantart.com/art/SKIN-a-tutorial-Part-2-145159387

Part two, skin tones

Imma force 'a naytcha

aww yeah just look at dat

birds fly, grass grows...

...and dotchan fails at posting, so have a Soldier instead.

last one alive, shut the door!

move out, move out!

Solly comes from a long line of Neanderthals.

huddah huddah hrr!

sphrr chrrk!

there really isn't a lot of room for an adult-sized head in that mask...

clearly this means the pyro is potatoes!

kaboom!

freedom!

it wasn't until I started capping close-ups that I finally noticed Demoman's shaving habits.

chicks dig the eyepatch

he'll punch out all your blood

epic gut is epic

he's coming for you...

pow! haha

Dot, we already have a ref thread.

http://tf2chan.net/offtopic/res/1549.html

aww, engie's wearing overalls at least one size too big for him.

gotta move that gear up!

nope.avi

Captcha: sexyat.

Even captcha is hot for Engie.

oops, zat vas not medicine!

did zat sting? sorry!

lookit dat manjaw of science

this is his srs face

one of the few pics from the old help thread that I saved

snoiping's a good job, mate

not a crazed gunman, dad

dat scar

dat underbite

did anyone happen to kill a RED spy?

well, off to visit your mother!

spy's the only class without giant man hands. hrmm...

just lay your weapons down and walk away...

last of the screencaps (except scoot's, which i will post as soon as i get the duplicate thread deleted).

reference pics of weapons coming...soonish, give or take valve time

Before I forget, Demoman's in-game emblem has changed: http://i52.tinypic.com/jpwto2.jpg

If you have any of the Orange Box (Half Life and sequels, Portal, Team Fortress 2), you can download the Source SDK for free, which includes a Model Viewer and Face Poser. Both lets you rotate/zoom/pan the model in its 3D environment and has the entire library of all animations.

It's an awesome, awesome resource for anybody who doesn't want to shell out $10 for Garry's Mod.

erecting a dispenser

sentry going up

need a teleportah heyah

Dot, again, we already HAVE a ref thread. Why don't you post these great images there?

http://tf2chan.net/offtopic/res/1549.html

>>410

Sorry, missed you pointing that out the first time. I kind of don't want to repost it all in the other thread right now, but I'll get to it eventually.

I LOVE dis thread! Truly I do!

I'm hunting for some good carry pose tutorials. Piggyback, fireman's, bridal; any and all person-carrying-person poses (dude carrying dude would be especially nice)...I would be mighty grateful to anyone who could share such a find with the rest of the chan!

>>168
wat, someone posted my tutorial on cooters. (thanks for ignoring my shit typing in it)

>>787
Well, given that this is TF2chan, it's not the MOST needed tutorial of all ... But if it stops just one person from drawing horrible generic animu vagoos, I'm already happy.

Are there any size comparison charts around? (as in class heights, like how tall one is compared tot the other) I tried to find one on Google and failed.

>>1289
In this thread, yes: http://tf2chan.net/resources/res/1.html

A guy on youtube I recently found has very useful tips and tutorials that I thought you guys might be interested in. You can either look up his username (matthew39arch) or here is the link to his channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/matthew39arch

His website he advertises has a lot more in-depth lessons, but you have to pay.

Probably not going to be useful for anybody other than weeaboos and yoweefags, but I figured a wingfag tutorial here wouldn't hurt.

OFFICIAL COLOR PALLET

>>1388
Best post ever.

This article should be read by all artists; it's very inspirational and helpful:

http://www.austinkleon.com/2011/03/30/how-to-steal-like-an-artist-and-9-other-things-nobody-told-me/

Apparently Danbooru is good for more than just porn and lolis.

Hey, I'm looking for some sort of head template I can use. Anybody got something like this?
Just a blank, basic head shape, that I can trace over, and design my character's face before I try drawing it for real.
It's a lot easier to figure out how to make the nose look on one of those things than on a full drawing, where I will inevitably fuck up the rest of the drawing by constantly erasing the nose.

Help for drawing kisses, anyone? Like an actually helpful tutorial or something? Kisses are even harder than hands, I swear.

Please, any kind of instructional thing or good reference would be really appreciated - Google isn't being helpful.

PLEASE I'M RAGING HARD HERE
(Thanks in advance)

>>1664

>>1671
Oh thank you, not bad!
Though I must say I'd love some more reference with more realistic faces. TF2 just doesn't cut it in that department. Still, thanks to you!

Feet: http://www.elftown.com/_foot%20photo%20reference Hands: http://www.elftown.com/_Hand%20photo%20reference
Huge zips of nude poses and some faces: http://www.mediafire.com/?5241h9d2pp3d2 (Mostly female but there are some very nice male folders.)

DICKS EVERYWHERE

AW MAI GAWD ♥ I've needed onea' these.

I remember before the board reset, in the art help thread, there was a link to a site, that had hundreds of probably thousands of male and female bodies in different poses and whichever pose you selected, it'd then load up in the flash window and you could then rotate it and move your view around so the 3D, digital model could be seen from any angle.

Does anyone have that site or something similar to it?

>>2447
Do you mean Posemaniacs?

>>2449
Yes. Zank you engineer!

Are there any tutorials on how to draw good with a mouse? I can draw alright with pencil and paper, but when I try drawing on the computer, it just looks awful, and I can't afford a tablet, so I'd like to learn how to draw using my mouse.

Could anyone upload some pictures of the characters' faces seen from different perspectives?

Anyone have a tutorial on how to draw people sitting down? For the life of me, I just cannot figure it out, no matter how many references I use.

>>2886
This one can also be found here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19352201/heads_render.jpg

You're welcome.

There was a blog I found on Blogspot, I think, that had really damn cheesy text but the most AMAZING black and white male nudes. The photos were classy and in a variety of extremely helpful poses, but the text on the blog was some white-on-black really cheesy RP stuff, with phrases like "welcome my lord" and "various realms with their own customs that you may have to conform to".

Is this ringing a bell for anyone? I am totally kicking myself for bookmarking it while still inside Sandboxie.

http://fineart.sk/ is like the God of all anatomy sites. Furreals, yo.

Not only do they have photography of nudes, males and females, of varying age and stature, but scans from some of the best books on the subject :D

GO TO IT

>>1664
How To Draw Kissing (Lots of different styles) - http://aqua-bluebell.deviantart.com/art/tutorial-how-to-draw-kisses-50197849 and http://www.dragoart.com/tuts/5061/1/1/how-to-draw-a-kiss.htm and http://www.dragoart.com/tuts/3397/1/1/how-to-draw-kissing.htm and http://princess-sky-x.deviantart.com/art/How-to-draw-a-kissing-scene-1-96618113?q=boost%3Apopular%20how%20to%20draw%20kissing&qo=5 .. some of them are kinda animu but the concept is pretty much the same throughout. Its weird that there aren't more tutorials on this subject...


>>2855 Get GIMP. Use the line tool. I used to use that until I finally got a tablet (by the way the one I have was 60 dollars on Overstock, Wacom Bamboo something. They're getting pretty cheap!)

Okay I can draw pretty well. The problem is I don't have a damn clue how to do line art or color. Halp pl0x?

I seem to remember stumbling across a spreadsheet of the Character Models some time ago that featured their teeth.

Valve, being a company with meticulous attention to detail, even went to far as to give each character a completely unique model just for their teeth (Sniper having sharpened canines akin to fangs, Scout's being slightly miscoloured from years of enamel-rotting soda, etc etc)

I don't remember where on this Chan I found it but I've been scouring /workshop/ and /fanart/ for the better part of an hour now looking for it. If anyone out there has it (or knows where to get it) could they please post?

Cheers.

>>3007
Never fear, my friendly anon! It was hiding in Dsc, the whole time!

http://tf2chan.net/dis/res/7387.html

>>3016

Thanks for the help!

Hello, does anyone have any Soldier holding his rocket launcher poses and/or possibly some rocket jump poses? Thanks.

http://www.ctrlpaint.com/
Found a really awesome website with video tutorials for all kinds of basic digital painting techniques using Photoshop.

Does anyone know how people get those really nice pencil scans? Whenver I try scanning my art, the texture of the paper, and all the erased lines show up and it makes it impossible to work on the picture with pencil lineart.

Does anyone have the BONK! logos? Not just the unraveled cans but the plain logo without any background, like on the Atomizer?

All I have currently is photoshop. I'm deent with it, but I just can't get that kind of 'painted' look I want. I want to be able to see every stroke I make and it's just not happening.
Is there another system that would work better for what I want? Or does anybody have any advice to give on the subjet?

>>3267
If you're using a tablet, I find that MyPaint is a pretty good open-source painting program, and there are plenty of brushes to work with. Paint Tool SAI works quite well too, though you need to purchase it.

On Sparkledog Central by kxhara

Umm... Someone said engineer's official eye color is blue, but I've only seen rebbacus' skin model with a bit greenish blue eyes.
Is there any references of engineer's official eye color?

>>3467
As far as I know, all classes except Demoman officially have blue eyes. Racist bastards.

Can you tell me where the source is??
In tvtropes, engineer is said to have greenish blue eyes while others have gray blue eyes.
I wanna see his exact eye color.

>>3469
Check the "Loose Canon" comic.