Art:Helpful art tutorials and resources

Avatar and Art Tutorials

 * Adrielle's Tutorial for creating a simple avatar using ArtRage 2.5 Starter Edition
 * Adrielle's Creating Shapes in Photoshop tutorial
 * Ardea's Flash and Photoshop Avatar Tutorial
 * Cattrin's guide to resize avatars - How to make a large avatar (especially an animated one) fit under the 60kb limit.
 * Drawing Now - A list of video tutorials for drawing various characters
 * Dragoart.com - A collection of easy to follow online step-by-step drawing tutorials
 * Drawing the Head by Ron Lemen (light and head anatomy)
 * Drawing the Head with Fred Flickstone
 * Gwiddon's ArtRage Avatar Process
 * Gwiddon's Paint.Net Avatar Tutorial
 * How to alter a screenshot - by Rhodin
 * How to color in a black outline in GIMP - By Adrielle
 * How to create an avatar on Sumo Paint, the Iljaynell way!
 * How to get a transparent background using Photo Editor - By Adrielle (originally posted to help with trinket contest entry creation)
 * How to make a basic animated avatar - A tutorial by Adrielle
 * Linkat's Gimp Avatar Tutorial
 * Llama's The Last Slice (of Pie)
 * Perspective by Sashas (Principles and technique breakdown)
 * Phillite's Sausage Approach to drawing dreadlocks
 * Phillite's Wood Texturing Tutorial
 * Raincake's Photoshop 7 Avatar Tutorial
 * Salvia and Alemar - a commissioned drawing by Stimmhorn
 * Shorty Jack's Photoshop Avatar Tutorial
 * Yppedia page on Art Technique
 * How to make custom brushes in GIMP
 * William Li's Figure drawing: Basic Pose and Construction - From FARP; useful resource for drawing people in different poses

Egg Rendering and Creation Tips and Tutorials

 * Adrielle's 3ds Max 2010 Egg Rendering Tutorial
 * Adrielle's Egg Stencil
 * Egg_Design - Links to past contest threads, rendered and flat entries.
 * Ponytailguy's Applying Texture With 3DS-Max Tutorial
 * SilveRansom's Egg Reference
 * SilverRansom's YPP Easter Egg Rendering for Non-Professional Max Users

Flag/Banner Design Tips

 * Corwyn's PSD with 3D element in shape of the flag, and instructions post
 * Micklauer's Photoshop smart object test rendering post
 * The 5 Basic Principles of Flag Design

Island Design

 * Having trouble getting the Editor to work on your computer? - Emerson's solution
 * How to make a dock
 * Ingvild's advice on hiding the grid - Handy advice with screenshots
 * Island Design Guide - contains links to download the Yohoho Tools scene editor, a list of commodity objects, how to combat flicker, and lots of other useful information for designing islands
 * Island design tips - Tips for using the scene editor
 * Kirppu's Handy Color Chart - Color chart of ground tiles; very handy reference for blending different ground tiles into one another in a natural-looking way and hiding the grid
 * Scene editor basics - Some basic information about using the scene editor
 * Synful's Helpful Post from Beat the Champs - Helpful post on island design
 * Yohoho Tools - Information on downloading, installing and using the scene editor

Other Art-Related Tutorials and Tips

 * Art - Has some basic information about YPP's artist community
 * Avatar - Shows how to take a screenshot, and how to change your forum avatar
 * Hosting files - Information on how to host files
 * Domokun's Tips and Tricks for Entering Events
 * How to post an image on the forums - from the forum documentation
 * How to post an image on the forums - Eurydice's tutorial with screenshots
 * How to take a screenshot
 * How to upload a file to Yppedia
 * Art technique on Yppedia

Other Useful Arty Links

 * Art forum
 * Avatar art - Browse avatar art that has been uploaded to Yppedia
 * Avatar artists directory - A listing of artists for hire to create forum avatars
 * Current events
 * The events thread on the Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates Forums! - A good place to look for upcoming artistic (and other) events
 * Fan art - Browse fan art that has been uploaded to Yppedia
 * The Mariner's Muse - The Puzzle Pirates forum for everything art-related
 * The on-going Portrait Background Contest

Art Programs and Resources
Free


 * Apophysis - Freeware fractal flame editor for Windows
 * Artpad - Free web-based drawing application
 * ArtRage 2 Starter Edition - Free version of ArtRage, a painting and drawing program with tools that mimic real-life art materials
 * Artweaver Free - Image creation/manipulation software
 * Autodesk - programs include Mudbox (digital sculpting), Maya, and 3Ds Max. Can be used to create and render 3d objects and animations (Free versions are available to eligible students only)
 * Blender - open source, cross platform suite of tools for 3D creation
 * Blingee - Add glitter effects and animations to images (using site is free, but payment is required to remove the site's logo from the bottom corner of the finished image)
 * Daz3d - 3d figure creation and animation tool
 * DrawPlus SE - Free graphic design and drawing software that can be used to create vector graphic images, bitmap graphics and web animations
 * Gickr - Create free .gif animations from uploaded still images
 * Gif optimizer - For shrinking the filesize of .gif animations (handy for avatars)
 * GIMP - Free image manipulation software with capabilities similar to Photoshop
 * Inkscape - Open Source vector graphics editor
 * LiveBrush Lite - Very nice line smoothing tools to draw with
 * Microsoft Photo Editor - Part of older versions of windows, handy for making backgrounds transparent
 * Online Image Editor - Handy online editor that can be used to add simple animations and effects to avatars, resize/crop .gifs without losing your animation, optimise .gif animations and more
 * Paint.Net - Free image creation/manipulation software
 * Sumo Paint - Free web-based art software with a host of useful tools
 * Terragen - realistic 3d scenery rendering program
 * Povray - High-quality, totally free tool for creating stunning three-dimensional graphics. It is available in official versions for Windows, Mac OS/Mac OS X and i86 Linux
 * Wood Workshop - Creates seamless wood textures
 * Yohoho Tools - Puzzle Pirate's scene editor; can be used to make islands, or any other scene from the game

Available to Buy


 * ArtRage 3 - Painting and drawing program with tools that mimic real-life art materials
 * Artweaver Plus - Image creation software with more features than Artweaver Free (the free version)
 * Autodesk - programs include Mudbox (digital sculpting), Maya, and 3Ds Max. Can be used to create and render 3d objects and animations
 * Blingee - Add glitter effects and animations to images (using site is free, but payment is required to remove the site's logo from the bottom corner of the finished image)
 * Bryce - 3D modeling, rendering and animation program specializing in fractal landscapes
 * Corel Painter - Can create very realistic painting brush strokes
 * DrawPlus 8 - Graphic design and drawing software that enables you to create vector graphic images, bitmap graphics and web animations; Has more features than DrawPlus SE (the free version)
 * Flash - Professional Flash animation software by Adobe
 * Illustrator - Professional vector graphics design software by Adobe
 * Lightwave 3D - modelling, animation and rendering software
 * LiveBrush - Very nice line smoothing tools to draw with, more features than LiveBrush Lite (the free version)
 * openCanvas - paint software that enables you to record and playback your drawing process to share with other users in the openCanvas user community
 * Paint Tool SAI - Similar to GIMP; has a nice watercolour tool
 * Photoshop - Professional image editing software by Adobe
 * Photoshop Elements - Professional image editing software by Adobe
 * Pixologic Zbrush - intuitive digital 3d sculpting
 * Poser - 3D rendering and animation software program optimized for models that depict the human figure in three-dimensional form, mostly used to pose and animate the figures in a similar way as a mannequin.

Free Hosting Sites

 * Egoshare - Free file hosting
 * Imageshack - Free image hosting site
 * LiveJournal - Free account, picture hosting only
 * Mediafire - Can host both images and .xml files (handy for island designing)
 * Photobucket - Free image and video hosting site
 * Webs.com - Free file and image hosting
 * WikiUpload - Free hosting site
 * Yfrog - Free hosting of images and videos

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