Resources and Deviations that are Useful as References or Examples.
Everything You Wanted to Know About Sewing Ponies! by Pony-Berserker, journal
Everything You Wanted to Know About Sewing Ponies!
Most pony plush makers almost aggresively hide all their sewing secrets and patterns, keeping everything for themselves. (their FAQ's almost shout "no, I won't say anything!")
However, the best one in the crowd, adamlhumphreys (https://www.deviantart.com/adamlhumphreys) decided to share his secrets and tricks he uses, including a pattern for a pony plush.
The pattern, with files, vectors etc. can be found here:
the files are in the 'download' section for a mere 250 deviant art points (like, 2 dollars).
But if you, like most of us, don't know what to do with such a pattern, then you can watch YT tutorials uploaded by adamlhumphreys (https://www.deviantart.com/adamlhumphreys) so you can see and learn.
this is the
How to: Make thumbs big in features? by BitterBeanJuicer, journal
How to: Make thumbs big in features?
I get this asked a lot!
Back when they introduced sta.sh, I didn't really use it. Because it seemed hard to get used to. I always wrote my articles in the old way.
Then I toyed with it a little and noticed that is is something really awesome!
Not to mention that the only way to make articles and journals is through Sta.sh Writer.
So I assume not so many if you know that there is a way to make thumbs big!
That is actually pretty easy. All you have to do is add big in front of a thumb code!
For example:
: thumb159252268 :
This is the "regular" size
:thumb159252268:
: bigthumb159252268 :
This is the big size
Of course: without the spaces b
Hey Guys!
I do most of my research online for tutorials and references and stuff, and I've been wanting a place to collect them. So I thought: why not just make a journal entry that I can edit and update with references/tutorials as I come across them?
So here they are!
Font Sites
- http://www.fontsquirrel.com/
- http://dafont.com/
Crowquill Inking
- Basics/ Comparing Nibs https://www.mangamagazine.net/forum/posts/list/171.page
Digital Inking
- Video Tutorial Compilation http://www.idrawdigital.com/2010/12/tutorial-digital-inking/
- Varying LA in Illustrator http://www.threadless.com/profile/231200/Leroy_Hornblower/blog/369927/Il