Coal Dust Art and Writing

A writing podcast hosted by two authors, Larry Correia and Steve Diamond. They do a good job on demystifying the writing process all the while being realistic about it. A good chunk of their episodes go into the nitty gritty details, which is something that I feel like most writing podcasts don't do. On top of that, the few pick-me-up episodes that they've done really helped encourage me further in writing. As I've listened to the podcast, I checked out their books to see if they were worth their salt and I can confidentally tell you that these two definitely know what they are talking about. Even if you aren't an author, I'd still recommend this podcast if you are interested in making stories in other mediums, such as screenwriting or comics.

A marketing podcast with a niche for authors, but I believe some aspects in there are still beneficial regardless of creative and/or entrepreneurship fields. Learned a good bit of marketing from this podcast and the interviews are often worth listening to. That said, it does have some flaws. I do find that the episodes regarding tech-tools or similar episodes to be dated rather quickly or not to be relevant to my own personal situation whatsoever. I see no need to pay for an application that is supposed to help organize stuff when I can organize it myself for example. Of course, just because I don't find those episodes useful doesn't mean that you won't either. It's best to pick and choose the episodes that either interest you or you find relevant at the moment.

An anatomy book that helps break down the human body a little bit. Doesn't replace studying anatomy, but it sure as heck makes it easier to understand.

-Haven't fully looked through it yet, but this textbook sized guide has helped me understand perspective quite a bit as well as drawing a couple hard surface stuff.

One of my biggest complains regarding furries, anthropomorphic characters, etc. is how samey the designs tend to look. This guy is one of the few exceptions. While the word "furry" sticks out from the title, he does more than just show how to draw furry characters. He does a good job on showing how to apply animal characteristics to humans (whether it be giving them features or having tools that look animalistic such as mechanical spider legs), creating entire new species for fantasy settings,etc. Not even all of the designs in this book are humanoid either. Some are just straight up animals with human features. He also goes over a process in character design as well. He even shared the process he used to design Mizutsune from the Monster Hunter videogame franchise. I highly recommend this book if you want a fresh take on anthropomorphic characters.