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Having trouble coming up with something to draw? No worries - while you'll eventually learn how to start from a tiny seed of a thought and gradually nurture it into a complex concept to explore through design and illustration, it's perfectly fine not to be there just yet.
For now though, here's an idea that might interest you.
Goblin Beach Day
It's been a hard spring, harassing the farmers as they've plowed and seeded their fields, and picking off the newborns of their livestock. We plant our own seeds, of a sort - seeds of chaos that flower in the fall, as the humans succumb to panic and fear of a harsh winter.
But today is the first day of summer - and so, we celebrate! It's Goblin Beach Day! And the beach is not just about swimming. It's a day for games, a day for good roasted foods, a day for fishing, and a day for enjoying the sizzle of one's flesh under the heat of the sun.
Pick some aspect of the Goblin Beach Day celebration, and design it. Sure, you can go with goblin swimwear if you're looking to explore some character work, but there's much more than that. Design a goblin beach sport, or an impromptu grilling setup. Design an improvised parasail, or even some scuba-gear. Just remember - things that goblins make are usually makeshift and haphazard. So no name-brand goods!
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PureRef
This is another one of those things that aren't sold through Amazon, so I don't get a commission on it - but it's just too good to leave out. PureRef is a fantastic piece of software that is both Windows and Mac compatible. It's used for collecting reference and compiling them into a moodboard. You can move them around freely, have them automatically arranged, zoom in/out and even scale/flip/rotate images as you please. If needed, you can also add little text notes.
When starting on a project, I'll often open it up and start dragging reference images off the internet onto the board. When I'm done, I'll save out a '.pur' file, which embeds all the images. They can get pretty big, but are way more convenient than hauling around folders full of separate images.
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