Finish What You Started 2025

Post by @finishwhatyoustarted-event · 2 links 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Tools Tuesday - Motivation to Start, and Setting Goals - September 2 · It’s the first Tuesday of the event, so it’s time for a Tools Tuesday! Tools Tuesday is a weekly part of the…

And the first Tools Tuesdays, Motivation to Start and Setting Goals
www.tumblr.com/finishwhatyo...

Post by @finishwhatyoustarted-event · 1 image 💬 2  🔁 45  ❤️ 47 · Finish What You Started 2025 Fall Event Rules · [ID, same as alt: Event Rules on a blue background. No new projects Any medium and any fandom welcome No Al content allowed NSFW i…

Until I get to my computer to post the bsky thread versions, here are the rules on Tumblr
www.tumblr.com/finishwhatyo...

Happy September! It's time for our fall event. I'm having some technical troubles posting the rules on bsky due to being away from a computer, but I'll have them up as soon as I can!
Fall event will run September 1st through October 31st

Our discord is always open, if you want to get chatting with fellow participants early!
discord.com/invite/ZPVF9...

Happy August, everyone! Our fall event is less than a month away, starting September 1st and running through October 31st.
Now is a great time to decide on what you want to try to finish, and also leave suggestions for Tools Tuesday topics

number of people who posted new work during the 2025 spring event: 18
number of authors/artists who posted multiple works: 8

most works posted by a single user:
TheStarGayzingEtherianCollection (fanfics) (8)
Léto le Gaosaure (fiber crafts) (3)
outofyourvector (illustrations) (2)

number of participants:

tumblr followers as of 5/1/2025: 323
bsky followers as of 5/1/2025: 84
twitter followers as of 5/1/2025: 969
discord members as of 5/1/2025: 175

number of completed works: 35 (28 fanfics, 1 animatic, 2 digital illustrations, 4 fiber crafts)
number of in-progress works with new chapters: 2

number of fandoms represented: 22

Thank you to all who participated in this event and encouraged each other on! Apologies for the delay in posting this. Let's crunch some numbers.

The spring 2025 event went from March 1st through April 30th.

Post by @finishwhatyoustarted-event · 2 images 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Finished It Friday - May 2 · Our final FIF for the event! Next week will be our masterposts and stats posts, so if you're almost done and want to slip it into the tag before then,…

Our final FIF for the event! Next week will be our masterposts and stats posts, so if you're almost done and want to slip it into the tag before then, I'll try to catch it!
Nothing in the tags on bsky again this week. Check out the tumblr post for this week's postings!
www.tumblr.com/finishwhatyo...

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I'm on the hunt for fresh Tools Tuesday topics for the fall event! If you see a cool resource, or some advice that helped you, feel free to message it to this profile's DM's, or on the other event socials!

And if you finished your project, great work!! Congratulations! Take some time to rest and bask in your success. Not sure how to bask in your success, exactly? Not to worry, someone wrote a fun little guide for just that!
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You made that! You pushed forward, even when it was hard! You participated in this event, which means you want to get it done, which means you are on your way to getting it done!

This event is just a motivation. Progress doesn't need a deadline. I hope that you keep working on your wip!

For everyone with works still in progress, whatever progress you've made -- a line on a drawing, a sentence on a page, a stitch on a fabric project -- I hope you look at it with pride.

Today is the final Tuesday of the event! Technically, the event ends tomorrow! It kind of snuck up on me, to be honest. These months have been busy! I hope you have made progress on your WIP!

Ohayou Bluesky. Proko told me about Eyes Training, a website where you can see the intersection refs of simple objects. Super handy for art exercises and understanding figures, huh? eyes.training/intersections/

FEMALE HEAD, LIGHT REFERENCE TOOL After the success of the first one, I decided to create another version of the lighting tool. So this is the Female simplified head version. Hope it will help you for your works ! feel free to share =...

This is one of my absolute favorite tool for face lighting! You drag the head to the angle you want and then press play or drag the bottom slide til the light is where you want it.

williamnguyen.artstation.com/projects/6a0...

Reposting this guide from twitter because I COOKED here. (and still refer to this at work even now!)

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Tools Tuesday is a weekly part of the Finish What You Started event where I share various resources I have found to help everyone complete their WIP. Have a resource you want to share? Send it in a message and I’ll take a look!

Hopefully some of these reference sources will help you finesse your artwork, or give you that inspiration to finish! What inspires you in a piece? Do you find the pose first, or craft a vibe and search for just the right positioning to fit it?

For shapes, try eyes.training/intersections/ to see how things interact and intersect.

FEMALE HEAD, LIGHT REFERENCE TOOL After the success of the first one, I decided to create another version of the lighting tool. So this is the Female simplified head version. Hope it will help you for your works ! feel free to share =...

For lighting faces, williamnguyen.artstation.com/projects/6a0...

For posing entire human bodies, isolated by joint or limb, there’s Pose Search x6ud.github.io/pose-search

And for animal heads at every angle, there’s x6udpngx x6ud.github.io#/

Let’s say you have a pose in mind, but just can’t find the exact angle you need. Pose aggregation sites can help you fine-tune what you’re looking for by finding photos that match a criteria. For human heads and facial expressions, there’s Reference Angle referenceangle.com

If using plain 3D models works better for you, people like Pan might be a better resource. www.kamitokatachi.com And if you use Clip Studio Paint, there are tons of poseable 3D models available on the Clip Store.

POSEMANIACS - Royalty free 3d pose reference for all artists Posemaniacs.com is a royalty free pose reference for all artists. Our mission is “to create free learning materials for all people who want to be an artist.” We are small teams it would be great if yo...

PoseManiacs is also a cool one to look at. They color code different muscle groups, making it a little easier to isolate parts of the body (just note their 3D models are basically skinless humans, if that is something that freaks you out) www.posemaniacs.com

TrueRef is one I just discovered! bsky.app/profile/true...

AdorkaStock Hub - AdorkaStock Connect with AdorkaStock on other networks and social media.

Speaking of poses, while you can get real life, media, or stock photo inspiration, there are those that make taking pose-reference photos their job. One that I personally really like is AdorkaStock. She brings in a variety of models, and has years of archived poses.
www.adorkastock.com/hub/

#tips What I pay attention to when com - 八多（Lhata4564）のイラスト - pixiv

This two-part thread gives a really concise breakdown to composing a piece of art with characters. I love the explanation and examples it gives for different elements. It’s good to bounce between composition ideas and pose references for cohesive looks. www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/...

Using contrast to make a focal point bsky.app/profile/scou...

Principles of design
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