References and Resources

Breaking down the costs of my setup

For transparency, here's a breakdown of my custom desktop build that I use for my digital art projects:

Notes: Items priced AUD at the time they were bought 2019 - 2023, therefore most hardware listed here have been discontinued

Item Model Cost
Monitor LG 32" Full HD IPS 32MP58HQ 399
Tablet Wacom Intuos 5 Medium 400
Motherboard AORUS Mini-ITX Motherboard 300
RAM (Memory Kit) Corsair Vengence RGB PRO 200
SSD Kingston A2000 100
Tower case NZXT H210 mITX with Side Panel Window 135
Graphics Card GeForce RTX 3060 Ti XC 8GB 500
Power Supply SilverStone Essential 100
Cooler AMD Ryzen 3700X 16 Cooler 500

Learning Materials and Video

Below is an embedded test youtube video, as well as a table of the resources I use.

Title Description Authors
Force: Dynamic Life Drawing for Animators Studying Posing and Gestural Drawing Michael D. Mattesi
Fantasy Cartooning A stylistic approach to drawing fantasy characters Ben Caldwell
Color and Light. A guide for the realist painter Exploration of colour and how light interacts with form and surfaces James Gurney