The Proko website offers many drawing tutorials. Anatomy, Figure Drawing, Portrait, and Caricature lessons are all available. The website is a great resource and also covers topics like lighting, shadows, perspective, and techniques. The videos are straight forward and easy to follow and there is plenty of free content or you can pay for the premium version.
https://www.proko.com/how-to-draw-videos/
The Getty Museum has a Pinterest page. It can be found here It has over 50 boards and more than 5000 pins. It has a collection of Instagram photos (called the insta-getty board) taken while at the Getty and the boards make it easy to search for your favorite things! Some the boards feature artistic styles or movements while others highlight fashion, wardrobe, featured body parts in art-like eyes or heads, cupids, manuscripts and winged-creatures.
TinEye is a reverse image search engine. It finds out where an image came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or if there is a higher resolution version. While most of the time people are looking for images on the internet sometimes we have an image and need to see where it came from or if there are othher versions available. This is where TinEye comes in.
The goal with TinEye is to connect images and information and to make sure that images can be attributed to their creator.
Using TinEye, you can search by image or perform what we call a reverse image search. You can do that by uploading an image, or searching by URL. You can also simply drag and drop your images to start your search.
TinEye constantly crawls the web and adds images to its index. Today, the TinEye index is over 18 billion images.
The online Balboa Park Commons is open to the public.
The web-based resource developed by the Balboa Park Online Collaborative with funding from the Legler Benbough Foundation and the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services includes more than 20,000 “rare and significant” materials from seven Balboa Park institutions.
The website has a video to explain how to use the Balboa Commons
According to an article in the Union Tribune the website should be particularly useful for educators, scholars and researchers (representatives from each group were involved in the development of the website). It allows registered users to download images for classroom or other educational, noncommercial use. But the site should also appeal to just about anyone who is curious.
The institutions currently included on the site are:
Mingei International Museum
the Museum of Photographic Arts
the Timken, the San Diego Museum of Art
Air &Space Museum
Museum of Man and the
Natural History Museum.
A recent article by Allison Meier talks about the decision as to whether high quality photographs of artwork in the public domain can and should be considered fair use. Here is a link to the article: http://hyperallergic.com/261496/uk-affirms-that-photographs-of-public-domain-art-are-fair-use/
Lorenzo Lotto, “Portrait of a Woman inspired by Lucretia” (16th century), oil on canvas. (via National Gallery/Wikimedia). The image on Wikimedia through the Google Cultural Institute is one of the high resolution images of public domain art protected against new copyright.
