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Arts & Crafts
- PETSCII editor: Tool for making Commodore 64-era ASCII art
- How Bogleech ships enamel pins as flats or letters
- Lessons in Color Theory for Spyro the Dragon: This article singlehandedly taught me so much about like, everything ever. I feel like the best tutorial isn't a tutorial, but an examination of a pre-existing work.
- Wind Waker Graphics Analysis: Articles analyzing the art of one of my favorite games.
- The Ultimate Guide to Sonic Adventure DX Sins: A blog dedicated to comparing the graphics of Sonic Adventure to its inferior Gamecube port.
Reference
- Animal Photo Art References Search: Rotate a 3D skull to get photos of animals from that angle. A must-have for furry artists.
- Your Bike Photos: Photos of motorcycles. Not sure why I have this as I have never drawn a motorcycle in my life.
Writing
- ConceptNet: Every time I'm looking for this I never find it. Fun and perplexing crowd-sourced thesaurus thingy. Absolutely look up your favorite animal and read what it's capable of.
Sewing
- While She Naps: I have Abby Glassenberg to thank for me getting into sewing. Her Elements of Soft Toy Design series is amazing.
- How Is Soupy Formed: A unique-looking fursuit from start to finish. Taught me about EVA foam!
- Giant Yoshi Plush: It's Giant Yoshi Plush. What more can I say?
- Tutorials for Hand Embroidered Leaves & Flowers
- Displaying Embroidery in a Hoop
- Learn to Sew
Typography
- TYPE CRIMES THAT WILL GET YOU SENT TO THE “WEEKEND HOBBYIST” JAIL: But I'm a weekend hobbyist!
- Fonts In Use: An independent archive of typography.
- Typeset in the Future: Studies of typography in sci-fi movies.
- The Nickelodeon brand: Development of the Nickelodeon logo.
- ACT SELECT: Recreated Sega fonts. Not for professional use, but cool to study.
- BETTER LETTERER: Comic Lettering Tips
Web design, HTML & CSS
- Glitch Text by Fabio: (not CC0, but cool to study)
- Germs' BBCode School: Comprehensive guide to BBCode, mostly Flight Rising-specific but a lot of these apply to other sites too.
Streaming
- Peer2Peer.Live: Discovery tool for marginalized Twitch streamers. I'm on here!
- Music for Streaming, Broadcasting, and Content Creation: Music you can use without getting killed by Twitch or YouTube. Not all of it is free.
Leaving the System
- Tartube: Offline downloader. My current favorite.
- YTMP3: Offline downloader.
- Offliberty: Offline downloader. Not sure if it still works, but I'm preserving it, especially since I used to use it daily.
- SpotX: Spotify ad-blocker.
Alternatives
- Instead of Google, try DuckDuckGo.
- Instead of Adobe Photoshop, try Krita for art and Gimp for photos.
- Instead of Adobe Illustrator, try Inkscape.
- Instead of Aseprite, try Libresprite, a fork of the original code.