knickerweasels:

Drawing Feet and Shoes from 萌えキャラクターの描き方 (How to draw moe characters)

gracejo413:

I pretty much draw only one type of cloud and sky SO ANON THIS IS WHAT YOU GET omg guys don’t ask me art things because I am just as clueless as you guys are OTL

japanese-revision:

japanese-revision:

Textbooks:

• A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar
• A Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar
• Read Real Japanese Fiction
• GENKI: Integrated Elementary Japanese I and II [beginners]
• An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese
• Tobira (Gateway to advanced Japanese)
• TextFugu [an online textbook]
• Heisig’s Remembering Kanji
• Basic Kanji Book Vol.1
• Kanji in Context

Online Dictionaries:

• ALC (I use this everyday)
  →Expression encyclopaedia 
• Goo dictionary
• Weblio
• WWWJDIC (with audio clips)
• JWPce (downloadable dictionary for Windows)
• JEDict (downloadable for Mac users)
• Idiomatic Expressions
• Idioms dictionary [Japanese only]
• Counters dictionary
• Hovering dictionaries: 
  →Rikaikun for Chrome
  →Rikaichan for Firefox
  →Floating Dictionary for Mac
• Current Affairs dictionary
• Tangorin
• Imiwa? (a dictionary for the iPhone)
• Tagaini Jisho (downloadable for Windows, Mac and Linux)
• Nihongodict (also an app. for iPhone and Android phones)

For kanji.

• Jisho (I use this for spelling kanji for if I can’t read it)
• Yamasa (I use this for learning to write)
• A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters
• Associative Kanji Learning (stroke orders)
• WaniKani (reviewed and explained here)

Online reading:

• Hukumusume Fairytales
• 竹取（Bamboo-Cutting） (vertical writing)
• 吉田秀幸の日記（Hideyuki Yoshida’s Diary） (recipes)
• Chokochoko’s reading texts to help with JLPT
• TED Talks (with Japanese subtitles and transcripts)
• Learning through Films [Japanese subtitles/scripts]
• Blue Sky Library (public domain books, explained here)

Manga.

• Free online manga
• Vomic (free online manga with voice actors)
• Sound Effects (in manga, etc)

Improving your speaking:

• Japanese pronunciation guide
• Interactive Hiragana Pronounciation table
• Topics for Language Exchanges.
• Bubbly (a Twitter-like app where you can record yourself)
• Audioboo (similar to Bubbly, but also a website)
• My Language Exchange [to find a language partner]

Listening:

• “Real World” Japanese
• 泣きたいときのクスリ 2007 - ‘08 (radio drama)

Writing practice:

• Lang-8
• Japan-Guide [for getting Japanese penpals]
• 原稿用紙の使い方 (How to write an essay with Japanese writing paper)
• Shiritori (Japanese word-chain game)
• iTalki [similar to Lang-8]

News:

• NewsWeb Easy
• NHK News (audio news with speed controls)
• Mainichi Primary School student Newspaper

Podcasts:

• JOQR (Cultural Broadcasting)
• TBS Radio’s Junk
• TOKYO FM

YouTube:

• Afternoon Hirusagari
• Jet Daisuke
• バイリンガール英会話
• Analog TV Forever (collections of adverts)
• Real Japanese Studio
• Japancast
• Tofugu

Japanese sign language.

• Heartful Power Hideo
• Shuwa Island

TV:

• Japanese subtitles for anime
• KeyHole TV (to stream Japanese TV and radio)
• 風雲LIVE日本語（Feng Yun LIVE Japanese） (to stream TV)
• 映画で学ぶ実践英会話

Tumblr:

• Kanji-a-Day
• Holy crap Japanese
• Nihongo ga Suki
• Jumpstart Japanese
• Nihongolog
• Nadine Nihongo
• That Japan Addict
• ChilliMuffin
• Japanese through Fandom
• F-Yeah Native Japanese
• J-Vocab of the Day
• ぶらりめし [Japanese only]
• Peaceful Chef [Japanese only]
• Kumako365jp
• Japanese Revision (my blog for intermediates)

Those studying in Japan.

• Japanicking in Yamanashi (at Yamanashi University)
• Samxuel (at Kyushu Sangyo)
• Katy in Japan Town (at NUFS)
• Chocotastie (at Seinan Gakuin)
• Kim in Sapporo (at Hokkaido University)
• Sunriseosunset / My Japan Travels (Yokohama National University)

Blogging:

• Yaplog
• Ameba

Learning websites:

• JapaneseClass.jp
• The Japanese Page
• Tae Kim’s Guide to Learning Japanese
• Erin’s Challenge (with listening and reading practice)
• Maggie Sensei
• Tofugu
• All Japanese All The Time
• Japanese Level Up

Other resources:

• Lots of threads with a variety of resources for Japanese learning
• JLPT Resources
• Anki (flashcards for your computer, phone and online)
• DJT and Okra’s pastebins (lots of resources and textbooks for download, etc)
• Japanese.Livejournal (including tips on using IME)
• Human Japanese (for PC and phones, excl. Linux)

I’ve added even more to the list since I first posted this and am continuing to add new things to it. So, I thought I’d re-post it. As always, if anyone has anything they would like to add, let me know!

losthitsu:

Suits tutorial - translation

動きのあるポーズを描く時に）ry

dolldelight:

For the detailed tutorial please visit [here].

nearsightedpandas:

マンガ家と作るBLポーズ集 　ラブシーンデッサン集 （CDデータ付）/ 12 Sex Positions for Boy’s Love Comic

Price: 2,520 yen

Yeah I really need this because sEX POSITION REFERENCES YES PLZ

twelvekingdoms:

For those of us who don’t read Japanese, finding and reading all the Twelve Kingdoms novels is something of a challenge, but, fortunately, not impossible. Here’s a list of the books published to date (in order of publication), and where you can read them.

魔性の子 | Demon Child (1991)

Official translation (French) by Éditions Milan: L’être d’autre monde

Fantranslation by Aili: Demon Child

月の影 影の海 | Shadow of the Moon (1992)

Official translation by Tokyopop: Shadow of the Moon

Official translation (French) by Éditions Milan: La mer de l’ombre

Fantranslation by Eugene Woodbury: Shadow of the Moon, a Sea of Shadows

風の海 迷宮の岸 | Sea of Wind (1993)

Official translation by Tokyopop: Sea of Wind

Official translation (French) by Éditions Milan: Le rivage du labyrinthe

Fantranslation by Aili: Sea of the Wind, Shore of the Maze

東の海神 西の滄海 | The Vast Spread of the Seas (1994)

Official translation by Tokyopop: The Vast Spread of the Seas

Official translation (French) by Éditions Milan: Le maître des mers

Fantranslation: The Sea God in the East, the Vast Sea in the West (INCOMPLETE)

風の万里 黎明の空 | Skies of Dawn (1994)

Official translation by Tokyopop: Skies of Dawn

Official translation (French) by Éditions Milan: Le vent de l’infini

Fantranslation by Eugene Woodbury: A Thousand Leagues of Wind, the Sky at Dawn

図南の翼 | The Wings of Dreams (1996)

Official translation (French) by Éditions Milan: Les ailes du destin

Fantranslation: The Wings of Aspiration (INCOMPLETE)

黄昏の岸 暁の天 | The Shore in Twilight, The Sky at Daybreak (2001)

Official translation (French) by Éditions Milan: Les rives du crépuscule

Fantranslation by Eugene Woodbury: The Shore in Twilight, the Sky at Daybreak

華胥の幽夢 | Dreaming of Paradise (2001)

Official translation (French) by Éditions Milan: Le royaume de l’idéal

Fantranslation by Eugene Woodbury: Dreaming of Paradise

peperonyandcheasemygod:

whao this is INSANE helpful

butt-towne-usa:

My favorite stock artists on deviantArt, for my own reference, but also in case anyone wants some pretty sweet stock images (though most of these people are fairly well-known).

• ahrum-stock has the most insane poses. Seriously HQ dude.
• mjranum-stock has an incredible range of poses, costumes, models, lighting, and angles. Also verrryyyy HQ.
• senshistock has so many stock photos available it blows my mind. Not many different setups, but she always has unique poses and props.
• fairiegoodmother I just think the female model is really pretty.
• yellow-stock more pretty ladies, I’m sensing a pattern.
• felixdeon this dude has some of the weirdest gay fetish stock ever (that’s not true) but he also has an extensive gallery of male nude stock photos which is pretty hard to come by (heh heh come by).

Probably will add to this later as I rediscover photos. Enjoy if anyone is so inclined.