I've finally found a free wiki provider for this project, and here it is:

The Art Tutorials Wiki!


Some background for this project: Last year, I started with drawing after a break of more than 10 years after I purchased a graphics tablet. Back then, my drawings were crude and primitive (I'm slowly getting better, but I not really "good", either).

So naturally, I sought out online tutorials helping me with digital art. And I found lots. But it was quite difficult to find the exact one I wanted. And naturally, there were lots of cool tutorials that I didn't even knew I wanted until I found them.

So I put them all into a large link list. Which got large. Really large. Eventually, there were so many that organizing them into a wiki seemed like the logical conclusion.

But then I thought that maybe a wiki collecting them could be more than that. After all, it could as well serve as a repository for new tutorials - creating them becomes easy within the framework of a wiki.

Now I've set this wiki in motion. Eventually, I hope that it will become the first stop for anyone anywhere seeking any kinds of tips on any kind of artistic endeavor.

But of course, I can't do that alone. I've started several wiki projects over the years, and while some of them floundered, the success of one one them has by far exceeded my expectations, with multiple daily updates continuing to this day even without my direct participation. So what can you do to help?

First of all, go take a look at it. The tutorial links section is already quite extensive, and anyone who does digital art in any way will likely find something of interest. Bookmark the site. Tell your friends who also might be interested in it. Perhaps you can also put a link to it into your signature. By merely making the wiki better known, you can contribute significantly to its success.

Furthermore, you can add additional links to it. While the link lists are extensive, they are far from complete - and they have a bias towards digital art as well (because that's what I am primarily interested in). Add your own links, creating new categories as needed.

Finally, if you are up to it, you can add new tutorials of your own (naturally, these should be your own creation instead of the work of someone else!). So far, there's only one example of such tutorials - the beginnings of a Cartography tutorial I wrote elsewhere (I plan to add the rest of the tutorial over the course of the weekend). But it should be enough to get you started. You can also add all sorts of essays and texts for the tools you are using - anything which might help an artist.


So, what do you think of this little project of mine?

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- Jürgen Hubert

The Art Tutorials Wiki - Everything an artist needs to know!
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