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 Great resource for learning character illustration and digital painting.
 Steel Dolphin Creative has one of the best tutorials on how to import your line drawing in Photoshop for digital coloring.
 Blambot has excellent comic book fonts, both commercial and free, and also a few articles dealing with comics creation and lettering.
 Apart from the great comic strip by Nate Piekos (who is also one of the masterminds behind the Blambot! site), you can find articles on drawing and creating a comic strip in the "Bits and Pieces" menu option.
 This is a portrait art tutorial site, with lessons on sketching and drawing faces, tutorials on digital art, an overview of art and drawing techniques, art supplies, book recommendations, anatomy, and much more.
I don't want to sound redundant beginning each description with "blah blah this is [yet another] one of my favorite sites," so I'll just say up front that if they are here, it's because I like them immensely, and are IMHO a must-browse for anyone looking for excellent Photoshop resources. They are not listed in any particular order.
 Fractured Sanity is a resource-site for graphic programs, offering you a wide range of brushes, textures, patterns and tutorials. They are all found in the "Downloads" section.
 Obsidian Dawn has a superb collection of brushes, patterns and tutorials that has been featured in several graphic design magazines. Check it out.
 Tattered Halo Designs includes a variety of headers, icons, and brushes for Photoshop, as well as a variety of fonts. (Update 4/29/09: It looks like THD hasn't been updated in a while. If you have problems finding the downloads there, you can visit the author's deviantArt page and try there.
 Another big favorite of mine, Domen Lombergar's site has many (free!) Photoshop video tutorials as well as samples of his surreal artwork.
 Eye Digital Emotion treasure trove of Photoshop tutorials ranges from digital creation and coloring to Web design.
 This list would be incomplete without pointing you to the (rather obvious) Adobe Exchange. There you will find literally hundreds of presets you can download to use with Photoshop, as well as extensions and functions for other Adobe programs, including Illustrator, InDesign, Fireworks, and Dreamweaver.
Several of my favorite artists online...
The following list is ordered alphabetically. My "personal top 3" artists are Frazetta, Royo,and Brom, Althhough this is only about modern art, I should add that I also like the Preraphaelites and the works of Doré, Durer, Rackham, and Bosch.
I originally intended to list only sites of individual artists, but the following companies' sites are a must-see as well. A pity they don't list the names of the great talents they have among their ranks (which is usually why I normally don't like listing companies in my gallery links... too faceless):
- Glyphx—loved the work they did for thorougly enjoyable games Drakan and Advent Rising. Still, I would prefer knowing he name of the actual artists involved. (Update 4/29/09: the site's gone, which is a pity. Well, I'll miss them, together with Troika, Black Isle Studios, Looking Glass Studios, etc.).
- Massive Black—sponsors of ConceptArt.org, and yet another reason I bang my head on the wall for getting a graduate degree in English instead of design.
 The NO!SPEC campaign: to serves as a vehicle to unite those who support the notion that spec work devalues the potential of design and ultimately does a disservice to the client. Their mission: To educate the public about speculative, or 'spec' work. Highly recommended read.
 Graphic design resources, jobs information, graphics news, talk forums, software training and employment issues for designers, art directors, pre-press professionals, web developers and design students.
 I spent a few sleepless nights searching for a good and, well, inexpensive hosting solution since my wallet is rather thin these days. From the top 5 in my final list, I decided to try Arvixe, and I'm glad I did. The quality of the resources and services is as good or better than many other (and MORE costly) Web hosts. Don't just take my word for it, visit their site, and check out the excellent reviews at FindMyHosting and HostSearch.
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