Visual Inspiration

This section of resources is dedicated to creative and visual inspiration, as many artists (not limited to them of course!) tend to struggle on what they should draw, create, and so forth (including myself). I kept this as a separate page from the Art Resources page since this can be applicable to non-art areas as well. Many of the links are composed of places dedicated to a specific subject such as fine arts, manga, architecture, fashion and other random topics. I won’t necessarily be linking individual artists since I follow a large number them on social media.

📝 Note from Auri:
◼️⚠️Although I keep my collection SFW, please note that sensitive content may be found in certain areas (notably in Anime/Manga) so do always browse at your own discretion.
◼️ I keep my collection restricted to non-edited works only (aka meaning no specific effects such as glitter gifs).
◼️ For anime/manga and video games, official artwork is the main focus (no fan art whatsoever).
◼️ As always, please respect the owners and their work.

💡INSPIRATION

TABLE OF CONTENTS
🔳 Personal collections
🔳 Random generators
🔳 Art blogs and Organisations
🔳 Animals and Nature
🔳 Anime/Manga
🔳 Animation Backgrounds and Environment Art
🔳 Environment and Architecture
🔳 Posing Ideas
🔳 Video games
🔳 Fashion
🔳 Miscellaneous

💡PERSONAL COLLECTIONS 🌟

🏷️ Things I faved on social media.

  • Social media links
    📝(Visit whoever I watch/whatever I liked on IG, Twitter, Pixiv, whatever)
  • ⭐📌Pinterest
    📝A large collection of images are on my Pinterest, all organised into folders (marked with 📁, which are my own boards). I keep it relatively clean (E.g. Fan art-free) and mainly use it for topic exploration, ideas, and inspiration. I’ll link to specific boards not made by me throughout certain sections.

💡RANDOM GENERATORS🌟

🏷️ Generators (simulated or random), best for when you absolutely have no idea what to draw. As always, check with usage rights.

🖼️ Visual-based

📖 Text-based

💡ART BLOGS AND ORGANISATIONS🎨

🏷️ Organisations/websites that are dedicated to sharing and/or curating art. Most of them are fine art focused exploring a variety of mediums and subjects.

Organisations
* I may not list out all of their social media since I’m going by whom I follow on social media.

Twitter

💡ANIMALS AND NATURE🐏

🏷️ A varied collection of visuals dedicated to animals and nature.

📌 Pinterest – Animals + Wildlife

📌 Pinterest – Insects

📌 Pinterest – Nature

💡ANIME/MANGA🌸

🏷️ Places dedicated to sharing anime/manga art; most of them are focused in on official artwork/scans with some for specific fandoms. Please note that nsfw content is notably more present in this section (view at your discretion), I try my best to mark the ones (with a⚠️) that are prevalent with them.

General

  • Zerochan
    📝Type in “(Insert title here) Official” for official work. There’s plenty of stolen and unsourced fanart so please take caution of that and refrain from reposting them in respect of the original artists.
  • Minitokyo
    📝Same said with the above, though scans are the best used for official work.

📌 Pinterest

🔷Tumblr

Twitter

💡ANIMATION BACKGROUNDS AND ENVIRONMENT ART⛰️

🏷️ Section dedicated to animation and background art. Please note this is art focused rather than photography. For photography, please see Environment and Architecture.

📌Pinterest

💡ENVIRONMENT AND ARCHITECTURE⛰️

💡FINE ARTS⛰️

🏷️ Section dedicated to fine arts. This is a little different than the Art Blogs and Organisation section and may be more text-based. For architecture, please see Visual Inspiration: Environments.

📌 Pinterest

🔷Tumblr

💡POSING IDEAS🧍

🏷️ Section dedicated to posing ideas.

📌 Pinterest

🔷Tumblr

💡VIDEO GAMES🎮

📌 Pinterest

Twitter

🔷Tumblr

💡FASHION👗

🏷️ Places dedicated to fashion. Please note that this may have more of a focus on mens fashion.

General

📌 Pinterest

💡MISCELLANEOUS

🏷️ Anything else that doesn’t fit in the above.

📌 Pinterest

Twitter

🔷 Tumblr