Well, looks like lots of us are stuck at home for a while. I’ve been seeing a lot of news and newsletters and such reminding people about free resources, announcing new ones fur this new isolated time, and even coronavirus sales.

I’ve been babbling about these in the chat, so why don’t I collect them and post them here. Feel free to post with any you find:

Always legally free:

YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY. It may be physically closed, but there are probably online resources and services you can access from home for free using your library card (they probably have or are working on how to get a new library card right now): Ebooks! Audiobooks! Magazines! Newspapers! Music! Scholarly databases! Photo archives!  Lynda.com! Mango Languages! Kanopy! Scienceflix! You'll have to go through your library's website, so do some investigating and see what you can get access to!

Borrowing Ebooks will probably involve using an app like Overdrive or Kindle. See what your library recommends. They may even have their own app.
https://www.overdrive.com

There may even be huge digitized archives of stuff you wouldn’t be able to go through regularly anyway:
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/
https://sfpl.org/locations/main-library/sf-history-center/digital-collections

PROJECT GUTENBERG for when you want to access that Public Domain goodness without going through the formality of “borrowing” an ebook or letting Amazon know even more about you:
https://www.gutenberg.org

THE INTERNET ARCHIVE
Is… is this legal? Is it legal that I can play Number Munchers online using this?
Just a wealth of content. I’ve really enjoyed listening to old radio dramas using this.
https://archive.org

GOOGLE ARTS AND CULTURE “Visit” museums and famous places! Rotate 3D models of things!
https://artsandculture.google.com/

COLOR OUR COLLECTIONS for lineart you can print and color for free!
http://library.nyam.org/colorourcollections/

Don’t forget free creative software!
https://krita.org/en/
https://medibangpaint.com/en/
https://www.blender.org
http://pixologic.com/sculptris/
https://www.jahshaka.com
https://wonderunit.com/storyboarder/
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/
https://www.sketchbook.com


Free In Honor of Quarantine

The New York Metropolitan Opera will stream opera every night!
https://www.metopera.org/about/press-releases/met-to-launch-nightly-met-opera-streams-a-free-series-of-encore-live-in-hd-presentations-streamed-on-the-company-website-during-the-coronavirus-closure/

Moog and Korg’s synth apps are free for the time being. I know nothing about how these work but you poke at it and it sounds like you know what you’re doing?
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/minimoog-model-d-synthesizer/id1339418001
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.co.korg.kaossilator.android
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/korg-ikaossilator/id452559831

Scholastic Learn at Home, for those of you with kids in your family
https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome.html

LUNCH DOODLES with Mo Willems. Also for kids, new episodes every weekday.
https://www.kennedy-center.org/mowillems

QUARANTINE SALES AND SPECIALS! The economy demands money offerings! Its hunger is insatiable and its displeasure makes us quiver!

Not necessarily a personal endorsement, but you’re probably getting newsletters and stuff with these, too, so may as well see if anyone’s interested. Besides, I get a certain amusement out of some of these so I want to make a record:

Until March 19, Jeff Miracola’s Oil and Acrylic Painting Techniques digital downloads are 50% of with the coupon code SCREWTHEVIRUS  https://gumroad.com/threepoints

Until… March 22 I guess, Beehive Books’ store is 15% off with the coupon code COVID http://beehivebooks.com/

DavidsTea has free shipping now, if you you’re into loose tea
https://www.davidstea.com

For the rest of March, get 20% off MaxPacks Procreate brushes with the code: WASHHANDS
https://twitter.com/MaxUlichney/status/1239331596102066177
https://www.maxpacks.art/

Looks like we're gonna be stuck this way for a while, so if you find any good stuff, feel free to share it!

This is something I bumped into while perusing the Google Play.

It's an Android app called Oekaki Supple. It's primarily in Japanese, and only the first few notes have been translated into English so far.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.gr.java_conf.natnag.es100

You can also see these notes and more in Japanese on Pixiv
http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?id=642630&tag=OEKAKISUPPLE

It's a set of anatomy pointers for artists, many of which specifically address common areas of confusion and flubs that I've seen even more experienced artists make.

(I did a bit of looking and I'm pretty sure this hasn't been posted here yet)