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ONLINE ART GALLERIES & COMMUNITIES
Elfwood - Is the largest community of Fantasy/SciFi artists and writers on the web! Open your FREE gallery or library page today!
Elftown - Is a HUGE community of Fantasy/SciFi artists, writers and fans! There are discussions, wikis, contests and more... it's a great place for people to get even more out of their Elfwood experience.
ACEO Art-Cards.org - Is a growing community of self-representing artists, devoted to increasing interest and awareness of "Art Trading Cards". Visit eBay and do a search for "ACEO"... some of these tiny Art Cards sell for over $150.00!
DeviantArt - Offers galleries for artwork, photography and writing... plus a huge online community. You can even offer your work for sale as prints, cards, T-Shirts, mouse pads and more!
Epilogue - Is a vast juried, professional quality art gallery. Featuring some of the most talented artists/writers online!
The Garden - This community offers art duels, contests and more!
Solar Voyager - An online art gallery and community, offering some of the most amazing space art on the Web!
Side 7 - Is an all-genre gallery, that gives aspiring artists, the chance to display their work, in their own gallery on the Web.
Illuminator's Guild - This is the "Guild of Role-Playing Character Artists".
Renderosity - A HUGE online community of artists and writers, both professional and amateur.
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ONLINE ART TIPS & TUTORIALS
Elfwood’s FARP (Fantasy Art Resource Project) - They have great tutorials that cover a wide variety of subjects. There are Art techniques, Writing tutorials, Business advice, and more. Highly recommended, go check it out!
About.com - No matter what software you're using, you'll find a helpful tutorial here!
Arizona Kate's PSP Tutorials - A wonderful site! Full of animations and art tutorials, to help you get the most from PaintShop Pro!
Al Mackey’s Photoshop Tutorial - A thorough step by step tutorial on how this artist creates his furry drawings with Photoshop and a Wacom tablet!
The Art Corner Tutorials - Here you will find tips and tricks to become a better CG artist!
Blue Sfear Tutorials - Simple Photoshop tutorials that teach how to create several different graphic effects, Tech Lines, Smoke, Lightning, Ice, and many more (45 tutorials)!
TutorialGuide.net - The super site for all your tutorial needs!
Katherine Dinger's Tutorials - Tutorials for alpha channels, creating realistic dirty metal textures, drawing human eyes, lips, feathers, animal fur, human hair (both down and up styles), clouds/smoke, gritty pipelines, and gritty wall light. Walk throughs explaining her techniques on several artworks. Subjects include women, landscapes, and animals.
Tutorials By Rebekah Lynn - This artist offers some wonderful CG tutorials, especially on creating beautiful hair!
Good-Tutorials.com - This is a site that indexes tutorials from other websites. This one has over 3000 (that’s not a typo, over 3000) links to various tutorials. There is a keyword search feature to find what you need and the tutorials are also sorted into various subcategories such as Effect, Text Effects, Photo Effects, Web Graphics, Color, Textures, Drawing, etc...
PSLover.com - They have over 700 Photoshop tutorials, divided into categories (Basics, Text Effects, Special Effects, Interfaces, Colors, Textures, and Others). They even have a Tutorial Search that uses keywords to find what you are interested in. The tutorials are hosted on other sites, but this is a great way to find them!
Phong's Tutorials - Great Photoshop tutorials for beginners and maybe some stuff that advanced users didn't know!
PolyKarbon Tutorials - Several tutorials that should help you either get started in Anime/Manga styled art or maybe help refine some skills. Covers both manual drawing and photoshop!
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ART & WRITING RESOURCES
DickBlick.com - Quality art supplies, at deeply discounted prices!
EBSQ - Is a HUGE community of self-representing artists. They offer tools to help you promote and sell your artwork.
CafePress - Open your own e-store and sell your artwork on T-Shirts, Coffee Mugs, MousePads, Pillows and more!
LiveJournal - Sharpen your writing skills! Keep an online Journal... share your deepest thoughts or most boring ramblings...*grins*
Art History.cc - Everything you ever wanted to know about Art History!
Getty One Royalty-Free Photos - Free account for download of comp photos, searchable database of all royalty-free photo scrap. Useful reference!
Corbis - Photo References for your artwork or website.
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ARTISTS WHO WILL INSPIRE YOU
Linda Ravenscroft - If you LIKE Amy Brown...you'll LOVE Linda Ravenscroft!!!
Michele-Lee Phelan - Her beautiful use of color and creative ideas never cease to amaze!
Carrie Hawks - You'll love her vivid cat paintings and fantasy cat art!
James Browne - One of our favorite fantasy and whimsical artists... you will be delighted!
Michael Orwick - Michael has a unique way of blending fantasy and reality that you won't want to miss!
Dee Dreslough - Here you will find Dee's glorious collection of Dragon paintings, clip art, web graphics and more!
Naomi Repper - A wonderfully talented young artist whose work is full of color and whimsy!
Liiga Smilshkalne - Is an up and coming young Latvian artist, with wonderful CG skills!
Shayne McGuire - A very talented photographer whose images truly capture the magic, myth and legend of Ireland and the British Isles!
Elizabeth Alexandra - Her bold use of color and form is reminiscent of Georgia O'Keefe!
Stephanie Pui-Mun Law - You haven't seen watercolor perfection until you've visited Stephanie's gallery!
Ursula Vernon - One of our favorite artists on Elfwood... her work is unique and exciting!
Wendy Feldmann - Is truly a master of quilted art!
Pek-leng Lim - A wonderful and exotic digital artist!
Anneth Lagamo - Her beautiful Hawaiian Fairies are not to be missed!
Laura Diehl - Her bold and whimsical digital artwork will delight you!
Melody M. Pena - This well known Windstone artist also has a gallery at Elfwood!
Lori L. Wrasse - You will be delighted by her wonderful polymer clay sculptures!
Kajsa Flinkfeldt - An extremely talented watercolor artist, you'll love her character portraits!
Norma Peters - You've probably already visited her gallery on Elfwood and have long admired her beautiful digital artwork!
Eden Celeste - Does wonderful RPG character portraits and more!
Erin Prince - We just love her fabulous anime and furry art!
James Rhinehelder - You are sure to enjoy his comical characters!
Taly Reznik - Her watercolors are sooo rich with color and texture!!!
Kurtis Rykovich - We find his work to be hauntingly beautiful!
Natasha Dahlberg - She creates beautiful full-figured women and great satyrs!
Sandra Staple - Her bold and beautiful colored pencil works, paintings, sculptures, etc...are sure to make you a fan as well!
Tina Purin - Another fabulous furry artist that we admire!
Rebecca Cox - An amazing fantasy artist with a beautiful website!
Kari L. Korthals - A wonderful furry artist with amazing rainbow, dragons!
Steve A. Roberts - He really knows how to bring Fantasy to life!
Michelle Mayo - We LOVE her "Muse-Gnomes" and her comic style!
Victoria Griffin - She does lovely Fairy portraits!
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