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Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.
Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.
Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.
Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.
SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.
SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.
Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.
Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.
Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.
Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.
Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.
Explain the love for the milkman guy to me please? pretty pretty please? Is it because he looks like a pathetic little wet cat? I'm willing to hear you out
PATHETIC WET CAT STOP.
I'm not sure still, but it definitely has to be with his tired eyes, or generally there is something with men who look d*ad inside lmao.
Actually he kinda looks like a vampire too... ohno
u know thinking about it a little i think the red guy design and its creepy-cuteness did a lot to like, establish the strange tone of dhmis before anything even happened.
like he is like. that stock puppet show species of “generic fuzzy monster” but the Way that type is executed in the design is like. ok it’s the generic monster-type but it’s also a faceless human-shaped thing with eyes in the wrong place. it’s not like, BLATANTLY creepy—it’s still a silly guy with mitts for hands made of brightly colored fabric and yarn—but the subtle creepiness catches you out just a bit.
it’s a slight uncanniness i think. not too much but just enough. the others are fully puppets so you’re like oh ok but this thing is like. a guy? but not a guy. the “overgrown hair” look of his head, the clear human shape and movements, and his normal person voice all create this “a little too close to human” feeling. but then you see where the eyes are and you’re like. ok this is definitely not human. it’s just something kind of shaped like one
like the red guy design is something like, a crayon drawing of a vague idea of what a human looks like. a blurry distortion of a someone. and i think that helps a lot in setting the dreamlike tone of dhmis while still being cute enough that it doesn’t break the tonal balance
(+ it goes well with the stuff decided later about how the other red guys basically act like vague caricatures of what “normal people” (normal adults?) are like)
tl;dr perfect design no notes
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