List of Free Resources to Learn Anything

Wanna learn how to do all the things? Use the resources found below. They should all be free - or at least freeish.

Check out the updated list of free online learning resources for 2022.


3D modeling

• https://www.blender.org/
• www.tinkercad.com for very easy 3D modeling.
• http://www.sketchup.com/products/sketchup-make
• Free Online CAD Place: OnShape https://www.onshape.com/
• For 3D CAD, you may want to consider AutoDesk Fusion 360 .
• For 2D, Dassault DraftSight
• For 2D Animation: Don't forget OpenToonz and Synfig for 2d animation.

Digital Painting:

• https://krita.org/
• CtrlPaint: http://www.ctrlpaint.com
• Terragen has a free version of its amazing software, with only some restrictions on image render size, quality levels, but can still create stunning images.

Vector Drawing:

• https://inkscape.org/

Digital Music Production:

• https://lmms.io/
• https://www.audiotool.com/
• http://ardour.org/

Music MIxing:

• http://mixxx.org/
• For digital music production there is also reaper, you can use the demo (which is like the full version) as long as you want(and not only during 60days as advertised). : www.reaper.fm
• Audacity

Photo/Image Editing:

• http://www.gimp.org/
• Paint.Net
•  https://pixlr.com/editor/

Go to school and take courses:

• https://www.edx.org/
• https://www.khanacademy.org/
• http://www.coursera.org/ - I knew I was forgetting one!
• Future Learn

Learn programming:

• https://www.udacity.com/
• https://www.codecademy.com/
• http://cscircles.cemc.uwaterloo.ca/
• http://scratch.mit.edu/
•  Visual Studio Community is free, and is basically pro without enterprise-level stuff: /. The MSDN (documentation) is free online ( https://msdn.microsoft.com ), as well as Stack Overflow for questions.
• Visual Studio with Monogame is great for getting started with object oriented programming.
• http://www.theodinproject.com/
•  http://www.freecodecamp.com/
• LearnCPP is a great source for learning C++ and some C
• http://www.w3schools.com/

Learn about Cyber Security!

• https://www.cybrary.it

Make a game:

• http://unity3d.com/get-unity
• https://www.unrealengine.com/
•  http://www.godotengine.org/
•  http://www.yoyogames.com/get
•  https://aws.amazon.com/lumberyard/
• https://play0ad.com/ - free, open-source, historical RTS game, being built, and could use more help
• http://superpowers-html5.com/index.en.html

Learn a language:

• https://www.duolingo.com/ (App is free for iOS and Android)
• http://readlang.com/ - I just remembered this one, it's Chrome extension which translates to teach.
• https://www.memrise.com/
• https://lingvist.io/
•  https://www.clozemaster.com/

Play old arcade games:

• https://archive.org/details/internetarcade
• Play old PC Games: https://archive.org/details/classicpcgames

Learn how to fly a flight sim:

•  http://www.flightgear.org/ - Free Flight Sim

Nothing Needed

• Write a book or short story. No Internet needed. Just word and your imagination.

Also for digital painting:

• http://www.ctrlpaint.com/

And for regular painting/figure drawing:

• http://www.proko.com/
• https://www.drawspace.com/
• http://www.drawmixpaint.com/
•  http://drawabox.com and its subreddit /r/artfundamentals for drawing.

(New Masters Academy-they have gesture practice there too)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCliUF1c8m7MUspaCykJljSg
To practice gesture:

• http://artists.pixelovely.com/practice-tools/figure-drawing/
• http://www.quickposes.com/

Reference libraries for people:

• http://characterdesigns.com/index.php?sitepage=photosets
• http://senshistock.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=0

Palette selector (A THING THAT HELPS YOU PICK COLORS THAT GO GOOD TOGETHER)

• http://paletton.com/#uid=1000u0kllllaFw0g0qFqFg0w0aF

Can't think of what to draw? Here's an image randomizer of things to draw

• http://something-to-draw.com/

Edit: I didn't post the original post, credit is up top. But I am adding things others are suggesting.
Edit: added formatting which I just learned. So that's a free thing.

• http://reddittext.com/

This is a list that I'm saving so that I can find it again later. The original list was found on Reddit /r/askreddit