askrattyspokes:

Here’s a pretty fun challenge for you guys!

Go to this site and generate a single random Pokemon.

Now try to come up with at least three different character designs for that pokemon, no matter what you get. (Yes, even if you get Klink. That’s what makes it a challenge!)

This is an nice exercise to improve your design skills, but is also especially useful for PMD-E! Being such a big group, you often bump into a lot of Pokemon of the same species, and sometimes accessories/colors aren’t enough to tell them apart. Being able to put a lot of variation into characters is a great way to prevent that from happening.

That and it’s really fun.

EDIT: Hey, if you do this, would you mind tagging it #pokedesign? I’m interested in seeing these and I’m sure other people would be, too!

aicosu:

cosplayresources:

This is on of my absolute favorite tutorials, and I can’t believe I haven’t posted this yet… I’ve used this method hundreds of times (okay, maybe 3-4), but it works flawlessly every time.

This method creates beautiful armor pieces on the cheap, but they still look amazing. This is one of those cosplay-life-changers!

Check out the full tutorial here

THIS IS THE TUTORIAL THAT TAUGHT ME HOW TO MAKE CRAFT FOAM ARMOR.

bridgioto:

Just hangin out with that inner critic, yo. She’ll creep up on you like nobody’s business.

I think one of the hardest things to learn when you’re starting out on a making-stuff journey is which bits of that voice are valid and which bits are a waste of time. A lot of it can drag you down and get you stuck so much that you can’t find the confidence to face the stuff you need to do to get better. But once in a while there’s a real piece of honest self-reflection. Telling the difference between those two can be super tough; knowing when to listen and when to just chin up and move on.

oh god uploading a long comic to tumblr did i do this right

extra addendum i ate a whole bunch of fruit by the foot while drawing this, i think it is becoming my official Art Fuel