Whether you’re an illustrator, a photographer, a graffiti artist or perhaps a t-shirt designer, inspiration for your art can come from anywhere. It may be as simple as walking down the street, drawing ideas from artists you love or using your God-given imagination. We scoured the web for some of the best artist resources when it comes to art, design, inspiration, technique, etc. Have a gander at the following sites and see if they don’t help your creative side shine.
Clicking through the following sites is sure to give your creativity a jolt. Jam-packed with ideas, resources and inspiration, the following sites should find their way into your bookmarks:
Creative Blog
Creative Bloq offers a perfect mix of inspiration and advice for graphic and web designers. In addition, you can inform yourself here about current trends and developments of the scene.
We and the Color
Outside of great design inspirations, artist features and considerable infographics, weandthecolor.com also regularly presents fresh fonts, often at a discounted rate.
How Design
Since 1985, howdesign.com has been a household name in the industry. In addition to news, tips and trends, they have a larger focus on the business side of the industry.
Design Instruct
Designinstruct.com is a news and inspiration portal all about digital art. Search through 13 heavily-populated categories to inform yourself about trends, tools and technology in your digital art genre. Help yourself to some great “freebies” too—things like icons, tips and tricks, etc. are readily available.
Envato Tuts+
Envato Tuts+ offers thousands of how-to tutorials from experienced designers and illustrators to assist you in creating designs of all kinds. You’ll also find useful and stimulating guidance on graphics software and manual drawing.
Illustration Age
A fantastic online magazine that is chockfull of interviews with celebrated and successful designers, behind-the-scenes looks into the world of design, online tutorials and inspiration by the boatload.
From Up North
Different styles and techniques from the world of creative industries gathered in a magazine-style format. In addition to artist profiles and some great articles, From Up North offers a very comprehensive list of resources and offers to help you well on your way to Creativity Land.
The Inspiration Grid
The Inspiration Grid is an online magazine celebrating creative talent and creative stories from around the world. It focuses on illustrators, graphic designers, product designers, web designers and varies nicely between different styles and techniques.
Eat Sleep Draw
Eat sleep draw is a really cool tumblr-type site that you can use to build your own portfolio or just have a gander at submissions and portfolios of other artists. It’s a great site to sift through from a creative inspiration standpoint and also a great resource from a professional one.
Illustration Friday
Fun, free and an amazing way to get those creative juices flowing: each week a topic is put forth and illustrators and designers submit their creations revolving around the topic. Strictly for inspiration purposes, but it’s a great site to spark your brain fire.
Obviously this is not a complete list. As we all know, the internet is an endless playground of creativity, inspiration, tips, tricks and learning. Have a look through these amazing sites and see what you can find
Do you have any sites that you frequent for knowledge and inspiration? We’re always on the hunt! Tell us in the comments what you think of our list and feel free to provide your own additions.
