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Happy to help! What's your budget? I'm on mobile - let me see if I can grab links to what I would recommend based on what you want to spend


Edit: these are the markers I have and I love them. A bit pricy but worth it if it's in your budget: http://www.amazon.com/STD334SB20A6-Staedtler-Triplus-Fineliner-Pens/dp/B0007OEE7E
(There is actually a bigger set you can get from JetPens.com I think)

For a coloring book, I have a couple I like:
This one (and the other ones by this author/artist) is great: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1780671067/ref=pd_aw_fbt_229_img_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=0C8DWW0SZ6WKWXY2EX4N


This one also looks nice. I don't have it but one of my friends does: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1941325122/ref=pd_aw_sim_14_2?ie=UTF8&dpID=61DETogR%2BIL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL100_SR100%2C100_&refRID=1NJH3VAEG30BFHGYWTF4

Juliette Aristides has two books on painting from WG: 'Classical Painting Atelier' is a good overview (and has a really good section of good artists in the back) and 'Lessons in Classical Painting' is sort of an expansion. Aristides teaches at NMA, for reference.

Also from the same WG series is 'Elements of Landscape Oil Painting' which is really good, and 'Portrait Painting Atelier' by Suzanne Brooker, also good.

Also I don't care who you are, if you don't already own 'Color and Light' by James Gurney, you are doing yourself a massive disservice.

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I'm nowhere near as good as I want to be, but there are two resources that made a dramatic improvement in my painting--ironically, one for portraits, and the other for mixing colors!

The first is a book on portrait painting. I wouldn't say that it made my portraits better, but by loosely following this guys process I can now do in hours what used to take me days. The book is Portraits from life in 29 steps by John Sanden. I found it at the local library and have checked it out several times.

Learning why mixing yellow and blue don't always make green (and red+blue≠purple, and yellow+red≠orange) really helped me get the colors I want. I started with the tutorial here:
How to choose a pallette
which led to this one:
The secret of colour mixing

I've watched YouTube videos on the same topic since then, but those are the tutorials that first opened my eyes to color bias.

Seems like adult coloring books are now a thing:
http://www.amazon.com/Adult-Coloring-Book-Relieving-Patterns/dp/1941325122

Geschichterwissen - It's about doubles of historic celebrities returning in the present ...

RTL stars: Dieter Bohlen, Bülent Ceylan, Oliver Geissen, Daniel Hartwich, Frauke Ludowig, Paul Panzer, Marco Schreyl und Sylvie van der Vaart

UFA stars: Adrian Hoven, Louis Trenker, Fritz Kortner, Lilian Harvey, Willy Birgel, Alexander Hunzinger

The culture of the private broadcaster RTL puts with the mentioned stars of their program, particularly conspicuous doubles of persons in the foreground, who reached the peak of their career during the Second World War - or shortly thereafter. Of course this raises questions. Today the production company "UFA" is still an important supplier for RTL.

Adrian Hoven (UFA) vs. Marco Schreyl (RTL)

https://imgur.com/a/Bza0ucY

It's highly bizarre !!! Are these RTL stars only casted by looks and not by talent?
Are they only promoted because they look like actors from the Third Reich?

RTL is the propaganda instrument of contemporary consumer culture - nobody will seriously doubt it. But does the private broadcaster also continue other traditions that were brought to the screen by the UFA group during National Socialism?

In March 1927 Alfred Hugenberg, the media entrepreneur and later Minister of Economy, Agriculture and Food in the Cabinet Hitler, bought the UFA and transferred it in 1933 to the NSDAP.

Do media experiences and castings affect our perception of reality and distort it?

Media scholar Dr. Daniel Hermsdorf - Gesichterwissen

https://www.amazon.de/GesichterWissen-Thema-Finanzkrise-Daniel-Hermsdorf-ebook/dp/B00BFC6R0Y

If meditation, exercise, getting up earlier, etc. isn't working for you and the longest you can sustain that regimen is a month, find another approach that fits better with your lifestyle. Also, stop trying to achieve "greatness", or just realize that greatness for most folks is just being productive, and, if not blissfully happy all the time, then at least proficient at not letting your negative thoughts get the best of you.

When you find yourself being lazy, get up and do something. ANYTHING. It doesn't have to be the gym, because, honestly, who the fuck wants to go to the gym? Go for a walk. Take your laptop to the nearest cafe and write something. Go buy an adult coloring book. Also, do the things you know you're good at. I know there's at least a couple. This may require some motivation, but try and force it to happen. I'm really good at video editing, but because of my depression I find it very difficult to persuade myself to do it more often. As soon as I sit down and start, I get sucked into it. Find your activity and do it, even if you don't feel like it.

There's no formula, there's just doing and not doing. Only one of those options will get you anywhere.