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My friend's cool site featuring HOG. Has neat games and acivities and secrets :o |
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Very fun expansive personal site of a scientist. Lots of cool little nooks to root around in. |
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Nature focused personal site. Check out the NaSaun's! |
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Artist's website, very vintage-y storybook medieval style with mostly human subjects. |
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Artist's website, incredible style, excellent shapes, human (specifically lesbian) subjects. |
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Artist's website, featuring lovely animal (specifically fox) focused art and incredible imagination and creativity. |
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Nature science focused personal site, lovely art and photos. |
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Artist's website featuring furries and BUGS HOORRAAAAYYYYYY |
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Artists website featuring MORE BUG ART YAAAAAAAAAAAY |
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Artist's website featuring cute furry work and video games. |
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Artist's website, very expansive and creative, very interesting and unique furry work. |
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Artist's website, furry focused art + tattoos, excellent style. |
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Artist's website. Been following this artist since the early 2000s. One of my favorite human artists, they also do a lot of dinosaur art now C: |
| WHITEDESERT |
A collection of surreal/horror themed games/websites. |
| Mallardness | A personal collection of Mallard photos |
| Swifty's HQ | A personal website featuring cute animal art. |
| DROWSY | Incredible human centered art. |
| Mio Ebisu | Unique contemporary art. |
| Wayne Barlowe | Famous sci-fi artist who has done work for film and television and games. His Expedition and Hell projects are breathtaking. |
| Beth Cavener | Striking and evocative animal focused sculpture. |
| Vertebral Art | Horror focused concept artist. Excellent grasp of anatomy and movement. Their personal hell project is inspiring. |
| Alexander Semenov | Underwater photography of lessor known sea creatures. |
| Mikaela Ritter | Photography of her dogs often in outdoorsy situations. |
| Andy Murray | Bug photography with a focus on springtails. |
| DMax | Urbex photography. |
| Merlin Tuttle | Bat photography and portraits. |
| Etude de la mer : faune et flore de la manche et de l'océan V. 1 | French illustrated book about ocean life. |
| Book of Kells | It's the Book of Kells |
| The Art of Illumination | Book about the Belles Hemes of jean de Berry illuminated manuscript. |
| Jim Woodring | Incredible surrealist cartoon art. |
| Meg Allen | Very nice human photography, her Butch project is a favorite of mine. |
| Virgil Finlay | Prolific science fiction illustrator for pulps. |
| Yoiko Yokochou | Striking and suggestive illustrations. |
| Don Davis | Public domain NASA paintings back when NASA was cool. |
| Web Gallery of Art | Database of european art from the 3rd to 19th centuries. |
| Oakland Museum of California | Digital collection of work found in the Oakland Museum of California. |
| Public Domain Review | Collections by The Public Domain Review. As in the title, all the works featured are in the public domain. |
| Public Domain Image Archive | By The Public Domain Review. Searchable database of images in the public domain. |
| Smithsonian Open Access | Collection of public domain work in the Smithsonian. |
| Trinity College Dublin | Collection of art/manuscripts/letters etc. by Trinity College Dublin. |
| British Library | Digital collections by the British Library. Many various artwork. |
| Weird Tales covers | Collection of the covers of Weird Tales magazine. |
| Monster Brains | Personal project collection of various monster artwork. |
| Werewolf Movie Image Repository | Personal project to screencap werewolves in movies and tv. |
| Bodleian Library Collections | Digital collection of various books and manuscripts from the Bodleian and Oxford College libraries. |
| National Gallery of Art Open Access | Digital collection of public domain work in the National Gallery of Art. |
| Getty Virtual Collections | Digital collections of various art, manuscripts, letters, history etc from the Getty museum. |
| Berlin State Library Collections | Digital collection of various art, manuscripts, letters etc from the Berlin State Library. |
| The Viintage | Personal collection of various vintage artwork. |
| Europeana | Digital collections of various art, books etc from various european insitutions. |
| Munich Digitization Center | Digital collection of various art, books etc from the Bavarian State Library. |
| Larsdatter | Personal project on the Middle Ages. |
| British Library digitised manuscripts | Digitised manuscripts collection from the British Library. |
| The Morgan Library Collections | Digital collections of various art, books etc from The Morgan Library. |
| Austrain National Library Collections | Digital collections of various art, books etc from the Austrian National Library |
| National Library of Poland Collections | Digital collections of various art, books, etc from the National Library of Poland. |
| Gallica | Digital collections of various art, books etv from the National Library of France. |
| Abecedarian | Personal collection of a large amount of various illustrations and comics. |
| Magazine Covers | Personal collection of various magazine covers. |
| Wikimedia Commons | millions of images, look at them with your eyed balls |
| color palette generator | Generates a digital color palette from an image. |
| color hexa | Learn the hex codes of digital colors, and much more. |
| colour lovers palettes | many user created palettes. |
| color blender | blends digital colors and supplies hex codes. |
| Quick Poses | Human figure ref |
| Bodies in Motion | Human figure ref |
| Adorka Stock Archive on dA | (old archive) human figure ref |
| Adorka Stock | Human figure ref |
| Pose Space | Human figure ref |
| animal head angle ref generator | Not very comprehensive, but handy and fast. |
| reference angle | ^ the same but with humans |
| pose search | another similar tool as above, for human poses of certain body parts. |
| Animal Photo Reference | Reference photos of animals |
| Line of Action | study tool for studies of various subjects |
| Sketch Daily | study tool for studies of various subjects |
| Film Grab | screencaps of movies |
| animation screencaps | what it says on the tin |
| inner body | 3D tool for learning the human skeletal system. |
| Skull Index | Skulls of various animals |
| Just Sketch Me | 3D humanoid character posing tool |
| Posemaniacs | many 3D humanoid poses |
| Human Anatomy for Artist | for just One Artist. The One Artist to rule them all, One Artist to find them, One Artist to bring them all, and in the darkness, bind them. (it's actually a good site tho, lmao) |
| An Atlas of Anatomy for Artists | Human anatomy book free on Internet Archive. |
| Drawing Dynamic Hands | book on drawing hands free on Internet Archive. |
| Comparative Anatomy textbook | Textbook on comparative anatomy for many different species of animals free on Internet Archive. |
| Dynamic Anatomy | Book on dynamic human anatomy free on Internet Archive |
| dynamic life drawing | book on dynamic life drawing free on Internet Archive. |
| Charles Bargue Drawing Course | 19th century drawing course free on the Internet Archive |
| The Art of Animal Drawing | Book on drawing animals free on Internet Archive |
| Framed Ink Drawing & Composition for Visual Storytellers | Book about comic art for free on Internet Archive. (Make sure to download these to your computer, they have a tendency to get deleted.) |
| Comics and Sequential Art by Will Eisner | Book about comics and sequential art by will eisner free on Internet Archive. |
| Perspective for comic book artists | book on perspective for comics free on Internet Archive. |
| the animators survival kit | book on animation free on Internet Archive. |
| animation production art | lotta good stuff here |
| character design references visual library | character art as references for character design |
| Fashion History | Yep, fashion history |
| RNDRD | "a partial index of published architectural rendering" |
| free photo muscle | muscle men stock photos |
| Gaping Maws | lots of good reference for many species of animal mouths. (don't think too hard about why this site exists, just enjoy the great references.) |
| Letters and Lettering | Book about letters and lettering free on project gutenberg. |
| Knots, Splices and Rope Work | Book about ropes and knots free on project gutenberg. |
| Pen Drawing: An Illustrated Treatise | Book on pen drawing free on project gutenberg. |
| Drawing For Printers | Book on drawing for printers free on project gutenberg. |
| Treatise on Landscape Painting in Watercolors | Book about landscape painting free on project gutenberg. |
| color and light by james gurney | book on painting color and light from james gurney, free on Internet Archive. |
| Animal scans on Sketchfab | search of animal scan 3d models on sketchfab. Only some of them are free but... yknow... better than nothin'! |
| Biodiversity Heritage Library | like a billion natural history illustrations of yore |
| Internet Archive Book Images | the lack of albums here is a bit of an oversight, but if you have the strength, you will find Images. |
| National Library of Medicine | You wouldn't think there'd be a wealth of images here but boy are there ever. |
| thecmn's albums | Tons of vintage illustrations. |
| Elusive Muse's albums | tons of vintage illustrations, again. |
| Artvee | classical and modern public domain art |
| Journal of Decorative Art | Book about decorative art free on the Internet Archive. |
| Idustrial decay, urbex | photos of industrial decay and other urbex photos |
| control rooms and panels | urbex photos of old industrial control rooms and panels |
| Aquarium photo | Fish photography |
| bug pics for art refs | bug pics for art refs on inaturalist. |
| petfinder | look at animals and be kinda sad but also know what they look like |
| Earthsworld | candid portraits of americans at county fairs (VALUABLE reference tool, learn to draw normal people and not just conventionally attractive models) |
| Model Society | Nude art and photography. |
| Gunnerkrigg Court | Strange girl at a strange school. Been reading this since 2005. Not really happy with the way its been going lately, but I just can't seem to give it up. Ongoing. |
| Hyperbole and a Half | Humorous personal stories from the mid 2000s, contains objectionable language. No longer updates. |
| Nature of Nature's Art | Inscrutable and bewildering personal symbolism heavy comic about animals trying to understand themselves, with magic martial arts. Ongoing, many finished arcs (favorite is 10%+). |
| Runaway to the Stars | Hard sci-fi comic featuring cool aliens with a focus on accessibility and accomodation. Ongoing. |
| Webcomics of Evan Dahm | Rice Boy is a cool surreal fantasy comic, finished. Vattu is my personal favorite about colonialism and empire, finished. His current comic, 3rd Voice is a very interesting post apocalyptic story, ongoing. |
| What Happens Next | Milo Holliday assisted in a murder when he was a child. We look at how this has affected various different people. Ongoing. |
| Metafurquest | Unique and fun multimedia furry comic about an online game. No longer updates (please check it out anyway, it does some really fun old web type stuff). |
| SUPERPOSE | "queer sci-fi comic about physics" it says, but it's also about transness and interpersonal relationships. Incredible art. Ongoing. |
| Drop-Out | Two girlfriends go on a road trip of questionable purpose. Furry. Finished. |
| Fresh Meat | By same author as Drop-Out. A young girl is institutionalized. Furry. Finished. |
| Pinky and Pepper Forever | Furry comic about art and suicide and going to hell. Finished. |
| Dog Girls on Drugs | "Two girls get, uhhhh, fuck, uhhhhhhh." |
| Lackadaisy | Furry cat comic about the american prohibition. Incredible art. Ongoing but rare and sporadic updates. |
| Serenity Rose | Early 2000s gothy comic about a fantasy witch going through some shit, fantasy or otherwise. Instantly transported to my 13-year-old goth days when i first read this. Finished. |
| Digger | Fantasy furry comic about a wombat who gets lost and finds herself far from home. Finished. |
| A Doemain of Our Own | Classic furry gag-a-day/slice of life comic that started in 1999!! Finished?? didnt really have like a storyline. |
| Mare Internum | Science fiction about a troubled researcher on Mars. Finished. LOOK AT THE CONTENT WARNINGS, VERY IMPORTANT. |
| Aphelion | I forgot what this is about. Science fiction surreal end of the world? Incredible art. Ongoing??? |
| Hell's Corners | Very old webcomic about a nerd who gets sent straight to hell. Unfinished but I still like it. |
| Nekojiru | Sometimes disturbing manga about cartoon cats. |
| Brainchild | College student dealing with "ghosts" and hallicinations. No longer updating. |
| He Is A Good Boy | Crange is a loser acorn at the center of the universe. Finished. |
| Comic Book Plus | Scans of many different kinds of comics from the 50s and 60s. |
| Mangadex | Many scans of manga. |
| Tufts | baby bird identification |
| Crab Database | Crab Database |
| sci-hub | tool that accesses science articles that are behind a paywall. domain changes, if link is broken just search it and you'll find its current domain. creator got their brain melted by crypto-greed so you can't currently request new articles without playing their shitcoin game, but it has a huge database of articles older than 2022, so if you're wanting an older article it never hurts to see if they have it. |
| Bugguide | Bug identification. |
| INSECTS.AT - by Per Hoffmann Olsen | A personal catalogue of all the arthropods a photographer has photographed, with detailed taxonomic information. |
| Generic Guide to new world Scarab Beetles | Pretty self explanatory. |
| Key to beetles of the world | tool for indentifying beetles of the world. |
| Featherbase | database of bird feathers. |
| ZooKeys | Open-access zoology articles. |
| fishbase | database of fish. |
| Worm Atlas | Database of nematodes |
| Mindat | database of rocks and minerals |
| discover life | database on a wide variety of natural life |
| wildflower search | tool for identifying wildflowers |
| US wildflowers | information and photos on US wildflowers |
| Angiosperm Phylogeny Website | learn phylogenies of angiosperms |
| biodiversity library | database of biodiversity articles and other publications |
| conifers | gymnosperm database |
| intro to gymnosperms PDF | a nice little introduction to gymnosperms by Stephanie Conway. |
| bird anatomy tool | interactive tool for learning bird anatomy |
| wildflowers, moss and lichen in alaska | personal website cataloguing various lifeforms in alaska |
| flora of alaska | did u kno? ther is flora in alaska |
| alaska wildflowers | personal website cataloguing wildflowers of alaska (other plantlife included) |
| alaska berry bog | personal website cataloguing alaska's berries |
| alaska berry futures | detailed informational booklets on alaska's berries with a focus on climate change |
| Florent's guide to tropical reef life | personal website on tropical reef life |
| gallformers | oh the gall, the gall of it all!!! learn who makes 'em! |
| arthropod systematics and phylogeny publications | free articles concerning arthropod systematics and phylogeny, y'know, if youre into that. |
| an atlas of insect morphology PDF | genuine tome of insect morphology! hot dog! |
| Staphylinidae of eastern canada | key for identifying rove beetles in eastern canada |
| Ichneumonids of north america | good sir, may i interest you in a nice ichneumonid? |
| hawaiian (and more) weevils PDF | catalog of weevils of hawaii and other nearby islands |
| natural history museum, hymenoptera section | a collection of photos of hymenoptera specimens from the natural history museum |
| wayne's word | WAYNES WORD, WAYNES WORD, PARTY TIME, EXCELLENT!! ("an online textbook of natural history") |
| coyote yipps | personal site of observations and information about their local coyotes |
| hyena project | studying spotted hyenas in the Ngorongoro Crater |
| Eileen and dogs | personal site with very good thorough and compassionate information about dog behavior, training, health etc. |
| plant systematics | plant systematics on the internet archive |
| national geologic map database | find geologic maps of specific areas of your choosing |
| lichen portal | lichen learning!! |
| consortium of pacific northwest herbaria | searchable specimen database for various plants of the pacific northwest |
| calflora | database for plants in california |
| bonap | biota of north america program, plants of north america |
| protist information server | protist database with other microorganisms |
| chaos of delight | beautiful magical wonderful soil life! |
| david moore's world of fungi | personal website all about fungi |
| all about birds: browse by taxonomy | learn about birds! DO IT! DO IT NOW!!!! |
| birds of the world | a well now everybody's heard about the bird- learn about all the birds of the world. |
| Where do you want to go birding today? | information on birding hotspots around the world, unfortunately many broken links, but the galleries are still intact! |
| animal diversity web | information on animals |
| read books (botany) | many botany books online hoorayyy yaaayyy yippeeee |
| songs of insects | "a guide to the voices of crickets, katydids and cicadas" |
| keeping insects | guide to keeping select bugs as pets and their care |
| virtual museum curtesy of the university of edinburgh | virtual museum of natural history |
| animal behavior and cognition | open access articles regarding animal behavior and cognition |
| welib | search and read like a billion pdfs of anything and everything |
| connected papers | makes a visual graph of similar articles |
| ref seek | academic search engine |
| you feel like shit | interactive self care guide |
| death sucks | guide for all the bureaucratic bullshit you have to do if you're the one that has to do a bunch of bureaucratic bullshit when a family member/loved one passes away. |
| fat liberation archive | archive of many zines and other publications for and by fat people concerning fat liberation |
| siren archive | archive of the 90s lesbian magazine Siren |
| trans reads | collection of trans literature |
| hathitrust digital library | millions of books online |
| online books | finds books online for you |
| internet classics archive | classical literature ("Mainly Greco-Roman works") |
| the phrontistery | obscure words and vocabulary resources |
| behind the name | the origin and meanings of names |
| urban exploration resource | guides, maps, photos of urban exploration |
| eat or toss? | did you leave something in the fridge too long and now it looks weird? find out if its ok to eat or if you should toss it out! |
| erowid | learn about drugs! yay! (i coulda sworn they had an interactions graph but i cant find it) |
| A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry | writings on history and popular culture, featuring resources for world-building |
| w3 schools | html and css coding help and tutorials, along with other coding and programming thingamajigs |
| lissa explains it all | if you didnt have the luxury of growing up on neopets to teach you the basics of html/css, this nifty site will do the trick |
| flight rising | collect and breed dragons for different breeds, colors, and genes. |
| pixel cat's end | (not) cat rpg, with a dnd-like adventure system. |
| wajas | collect various wajas, which are dog like creatures. breed them for different markings and genes. |
| the final outpost | collect various creatures, get people to click on them to grow them (though its not required) |
| chicken smoothie | collect various virtual pets. this site is unique in that it has its own oekaki board! |
| lost and pound | lists pets that are "stuck" in the pound. |
| Sunnyneo | has a list of dailies, game guides, grpahics, fonts, etc |
| Jellyneo | like sunnyneo but a tad more comprehensive |
| Jellyneo's item database | database for neopets items, shows their shop wiz price, their effect if any, where they can be acquired etc. |
| dr sloth's image emporium | database of all official neopets images ever in history |
| neoquest guide | walkthrough for neoquest |
| bandcamp | you know what this is |
| radio garden | listen to radio stations around the world |
| metal archives | encyclopedia of metal bands |
| radiooooo | listen to popular music of different eras from everywhere |
| Afropop Worldwide | learn about the rich history of afropop |
| or FEAR NOT! | beautifully illustrated web-novel |
| project gutenberg | thousands of ebooks for free, often available as html pages |
| all tomorrows | by nemo ramjet, who created snaiad. all tomorrows is "a billion year chronicle of the myriad species and varying fortunes of man." beautiful science fiction, i love his art so much. |
| weird tales | huge archive of the magazine Weird Tales |
| strangers | huge, expansive work of very imaginative fiction. been following this artist for years now, its awesome to see the culmination of their work. |
| Sugarbutch | queer kinky erotica |
| The Sick Land | i LOOOOOVE this. a reseachers diary documenting his work studying an anomalous zone. the blog archive links on the right spoil bits of the story but you'll be ok. if you're not familiar with blogspot, the archive goes from bottom to top. |
| animorphs pdfs downloads | read animorphs. its a bit dated, especially when the children try to use slang, but its still a good series. |
| Dionaea House | archive of the classic web-based horror story. |
| Edgar Allan Poe | explore the works of this fucken guy. site doesn't have all of his work, but its not hard to find them elsewhere, like perhaps on another website on this very list! |
| scp foundation | it turned into kind of an annoying beast, but i still love a lot of the older entries. |
| creepypasta wiki | yeeaaahh sorry for linking to a fandom wiki but there are just no cool archives of creepypastas |
| Ted's Caving Page | archive of the beautiful, the perfect, the classic Ted The Caver |
| The Palm-wine Drunkard | incredible work of fiction by Amos Tutuola |
| every day for the rest of your life | a disturbing yet poignant story. content warnings for so many things, view with discretion. |
| Stone Butch Blues | Author Leslie Feinbergs pivotal work, free pdf download. content warning for like everything, everything bad that could happen to a person happens in this book. |
| Roadside Picnic | the origin of the Stalker movie and video games. |
| folktexts | "a library of folktales, folklore, fairy tales and mythology" |
| The Story of the Bell Witch | an 1800s american ghost story |
| Anomaly info | database of the strange and unexplained |
| interactive fiction database | database of text based interactive games (like twine games) |
| my father's long, long legs | classic horror text based browser game |
| Aalay Nirakul | explore a gorgeous game-y website with incredible art |
| Corru Observer | very cool science fiction game. flashing warning |
| Level 13 | another text based science fiction game |
| a dark room | interesting text based rpg |
| lomando | interesting explore-y browser game |
| terminal 00 | horror website game thing? flashing warning |
| angelangelangel | oh my god the biggest flashing warning, the flashiest warning, jesus christ. but very intriguing!! |
| superbad | explore a wacky expansive website |
| the barnacle goose experiment | browser based idle game |
| cookie clicker | you know this, man |
| sandboxels | play with sand and other various elements! |
| this is sand | make sand art |
| little alchemy | little alchemy!!! i loved this back in the day, play with the elements! |
| little alchemy... 2! | the squeakquel |
| orb farm | make your own aquarium ecosystem! |
| hammy home | browser hamster! |
| everest pipkin | the creator of the barnacle goose experiment, has many other games and projects |
| the deep sea | scroll down to explore the deeps! |
| space elevator | scroll up to explore space! |
| if the moon were only one pixel | explore a scale model of space |
| Furcadia | a classic furry role playing game |
| Wolfgirls in Love | text based game of werewoof girls in love :). i love kitty horrorshow |
| hornets | another text based game by kitty horrorshow |
| mastabasnoopy | classic text based interactive fiction |
| Exobiotica | explore the alien life of another planet |
| Snaiad | MY BELOVED SNAIAD!!!! ive loved these beautiful perfect wonderful aliens for 20 years :) |
| Planet Furaha | learn all about an alien planet |
| Finfin homepage | come and see him! |
| Animal Land Where There Are No People | wonderful book written by a child |
| embroidery troubleshooting page | ........ :) |
| Cosmos archive | archive of the classic series Cosmos with Carl Sagan |
| Nature archive | archive of the classic pbs nature documentary series Nature |
| Ari at home | producer in nyc makes live music on the spot and encourages strangers to participate |
| Blackbean | Excellent traditional artist with fantastic vision, his ability to not only use but master such a wide range of mediums astounds me. |
| Micah | Another amazing traditional artist, often philosophizes about the process, life, meaning of an artist and their work. |
| Carter Amelia Davis | Very fun and interesting animated videos |
| Guba na Nature Refuge | Trail cam footage of various wildlife in queensland, australia |
| Mugumogu | Maru may be gone but he is not forgotten. |
| Stop Optimizing Your Art! | Really good video by amazing artist Steven Zapata. Every artist on the internet needs to hear this. |
| Fake Documentary "Q" | Excellent horror shorts, my favorite horror short channel ever. |
| Horror video playlist | my playlist collection of various horror videos i like on yt |