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

• Egg_Design - Links to past contest threads, rendered and flat entries.

2014 and newer tutorials:

• Faeree's 2018 Egg Layout Design tutorial
• Faeree's 3DS Max 2018 Tutorial with Photoshop
• Greylady's Seamless skin tutorial for photoshop
• Mantid's Egg design viewer Quickly get a close to true render of an egg design

Older tutorials: These instructions may not work with the current software versions, but contain great tips!

• SilveRansom's Blender tutorial 2011
• Adrielle's 3ds Max 2010 Egg Rendering Tutorial
• Adrielle's Egg Stencil
• Ponytailguy's Applying Texture With 3DS-Max Tutorial
• SilveRansom's Egg Reference
• SilveRansom'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

• Avatar art - Browse avatar art that has been uploaded to Yppedia
• Current events
• Fan art - Browse fan art that has been uploaded to Yppedia
• Portrait Background Contest

Historical Links

• Art forum
• Avatar artists directory - A listing of artists who once created forum avatars
• The events thread on the old Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates Forums!
• The Mariner's Muse - The old Puzzle Pirates forum for everything art-related

Art Programs and Resources

Free

• Aggie.io - Collaborative art canvas for 2D illustrations that runs in a browser.
• Apophysis - Freeware fractal flame editor for Windows
• 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
• GIMP - Free image manipulation software with capabilities similar to Photoshop
• Inkscape - Open Source vector graphics editor
• Krita - Professional free and open source painting program
• Medibang Paint - Free to use depending on version downloaded. Is multiplatform (PC, Android, iOS) with a user account and 3GB cloud storage. Used mainly for 2D illustrations.
• 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
• Paint Tool SAI - Similar to GIMP; has a nice watercolour tool (31 day trial only)
• Sumo Paint - Free web-based art software with basic tools
• Terragen - realistic 3d scenery rendering program (free for students only)
• 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
• Yohoho Tools - Puzzle Pirate's scene editor; can be used to make islands, or any other scene from the game

Available to Buy

• Affinity - Graphic design, photo editing, page layout and drawing software
• ArtRage - Painting and drawing programs 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
• Bryce - 3D modeling, rendering and animation program specializing in fractal landscapes
• Corel Painter - Can create very realistic painting brush strokes
• Illustrator - Professional vector graphics design software by Adobe
• Lightwave 3D - modelling, animation and rendering software
• 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

Free Hosting Sites

• Imageshack - Free image hosting site
• LiveJournal - Free account, picture hosting only
• Mediafire - Can host both images and .xml files (handy for island designing)
• WikiUpload - Free hosting site

See Also

• Spanish article: Tutoriales de arte y recursos