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Early Look: Lady Galadriel + Halbrand 🖤✨

Hellooo :)

Yesterday I showed you guys my sketches for this Rings of Power fan art and now here is the colored version! 🥰 I may adjust the colors a little more, but overall I feel happy with how it turned out 😍

I recorded the full process for you guys, both the sketching and the rendering! It will be a real-time video so you can see each step of the process:) I’ll share it with you this weekend! ✨

In the meantime...

Sneak-Peek: Sketching Lady Galadriel & Halbrand 🖤✨ + recording new video for you! ✏️

Hi everyone! ☺️ I hope you’re having a happy week:)

I’m currently recording a new real-time video for you guys, and here’s some progress on my drawing! I’ve been seeing a ton of fan art for Galadriel and Halbrand from The Rings of Power, and I felt inspired to draw them 🥰

There’s no actual romance between them in the show, but I love their aesthetic of dark vs. light :) Here are some references I’ve been using f...

Step-by-Step: How to Render Flash Lighting! 💡✨

Hi everyone! :)

Here is a new step-by-step tutorial for you! This one covers how to render flash lighting from start to finish on a character portrait 🥰 So if you have a character drawing you’d like to try this type of lighting on, get your sketch ready! ✨ Or if you want to draw the same pose, here’s the reference:

 I create my sketch for this drawing in our 2024-11-06 19:32:33 +0000 UTC View Post

Early Look: Flash Lighting Study 📸💡 + content plans for the week! ✨

Hello everyone! I hope you all had a restful weekend:)

Here’s an early look at my newest drawing: a flash lighting study! This type of lighting has always intimidated me in the past haha 🙈 but I wanted to give it a try, and it wasn’t as hard as I thought! I actually had so much fun with this 😍

I wanted to record the painting process for it, but forgot to hit record 🤦🏻‍♀️ SO, I’ll be making a step-by-step tutorial of this d...

Sneak-Peek: Aphrodite 💗 + Happy November! ✏️✨

Happy new month everyone! 😍

It feels like October flew by, I can’t believe November is here?! 🙈 I already miss spooky season haha but I’m excited for the wintry months ahead :)

I wanted to start the month with an early look at a finished drawing I made for our newest tutorial video - Aphrodite! 💗 Since she’s the goddess of love, I always im...

TUTORIAL: Brush Techniques! ✏️💗✨

Hi everyone! Happy Halloween 😍🎃

Here is a brand new tutorial for you! This one is an in-depth video about brushes ~ I share the full updated list of brushes that I use for all my drawings, plus work on two drawings to show you guys how I work with them :)

💌 A little note for this video: It’s an hour long, so get cozy! I cover sketching and rendering, but most of my best brush tips happen during the rendering phase :) This is w...

Tutorial Poll Results! 💌 + Cardan Art & Dating a Vampire Pt. 7 🥀

Happy Monday everyone! 🥰 How was your weekend? 🧡

I spent the weekend planning for this month’s tutorial video since our poll just closed and we have our result! 😍 The topic that won the vote is: Brush Techniques! 🖍️ I’m VERY excited to film this video - I’ll be sharing my full updated list of brushes I use, plus showing how to use brushes for various effects in your art and how a brush can influence the ove...

BONUS VIDEO: Painting Fall Vibes ✏️🍁🧡

Happy weekend everyone! :)

Our tutorial poll just closed today so I’ll be announcing the results soon, but first - here is a new bonus video for you! 🥰

I’m currently sick with a sore throat and I lost my voice, so instead of recording a voiceover for this video, I wrote text for you guys 🧡 It feels kind of like subtitles hehe :) Currently resting my voice as much as I can so I can start filming our tutorial video soon! 🤞🏼

I hope you all enjoy...

Vote for the October Tutorial Topic! ✏️🍁✨

Hi everyone! 😍

The time has come to vote for this month’s tutorial topic! Thank you to everyone who commented suggestions, I saved all your ideas in my notes and have put the most popular requests in this poll! 🥰 Keep on reading to get an idea for each topic ✨

• Brush Techniques: This video will be all about my favorite brushes and how ...
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Tutorial Suggestions! ✏️💌 what should the video topic be? 💭

Hi again! 😌

It’s time to get your suggestions for this month’s tutorial video topic! Last month’s tutorial was about color theory, which you can watch here 🥰

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Early Look: Fall Vibes! 🎃🍁✨ + New Bonus Video ✏️

Hi everyone! ☺️ I hope you’re all enjoying your week:)

Here is an early look at a new drawing I made for this month’s bonus video 😍 Devoted Dragonfly members voted for me to draw something with fall vibes, so I painted the things that capture autumn to me: pumpkins, vibrant leaves, candy corn, fluffy jackets and knit sweaters, high socks, coffee and apple cider 🍎✨ I also wanted to paint with colors that feel like October...

Sketch WIP: Fall Vibes 🧸🍁 + bonus video poll results! ✨

Happy weekend everyone! :)

This week I posted a poll for Devoted Dragonfly members to vote for this month’s bonus video topic, and the option that won was a fall vibes drawing 🎃🧡

So I got started on the sketch today! 🥰 In the video I’ll be painting with an autumn color palette and I can’t wait to get started �...

Vote for the Bonus Video Topic! 🎥✏️✨

 Hellooo everyone! :)

It’s time to vote for this month’s bonus video topic! As always, this poll is just for you Devoted Dragonfly members 🥰 For all the new members here, each month I post a poll so you can vote for an extra video based on a topic you’d like to see! Last month’s bonus video was about drawing action poses and...

Sneak-Peek: Angel 🤍✨ + plans for the week! ✏️

Hi everyone! I hope you all had a happy and restful weekend:)

Today I started working on a new sketch, and here is a sneak-peek! For this drawing I wanted to practice using some softer, chalkier brushes, since I normally gravitate toward sharp line art :) It’s amazing how changing up your brushes can affect the overall feeling of your art! I’m loving the soft feel of this one so far 🥰

Currently experimenting with adding some color to it (swipe to see!) so w...

Draw With Me: Fire Lighting Study ✏️🔥✨

Hello everyone! :)

Here is a new draw with me video for you! This one is a cozy rendering process of my fae warrior lighting study ✨ I wanted to practice some nighttime atmosphere with fire as the main light source :) This kind of lighting is usually tricky for me, but I used several of the techniques I mentioned in 2024-10-10 19:35:50 +0000 UTC View Post

Early Look: Fae Warrior 🔥✨ + new draw with me video! 🎥✏️

Hello everyone! I hope your week is going well:)

Here’s a sneak-peek of a new lighting study I finished today! 🥰 I wanted to practice some nighttime fire lighting, which can be tricky since there are usually a lot of shadows mixed with bright light, plus some high contrast colors in the palette 👀 But I learned a lot and I’m really happy with how it turned out! 😍

I filmed the rendering process for a new draw with me video coming this...

Step-by-Step: Skin Rendering Tips! ✏️💗✨

Hi everyone! ☺️

I recently painted over an old drawing and corrected some problems with the skin, and I wanted to share that process with you! This step-by-step covers some color theory as well as the simple process of painting over old artwork to freshen up the palette in the skin :)

Warms and cools are super important in skin rendering, so I share my tips and also my favorite range of cool tones to paint over skin 💗✨ You can save i...

Painting Action Poses! 🦋 real-time process ✏️✨

Happy Saturday! :)

Here is a new real-time painting video for your weekend 🥰 It shows the full coloring and rendering process for my action pose sketches! Lots of textures in this one: rendering dress folds + ruffles, black leather + spandex, and feathery wings ✨ I hope you all enjoy 😍

You can also watch the cozy sketching process 2024-10-05 21:24:46 +0000 UTC View Post

WIP: Action Poses 🗡️✨ + New Video! 💗

Hello everyone! I hope you’ve all been having a happy week :)

I wanted to show you my current work in progress! This is the stage where I’ve narrowed down my color palette and rendered most of the drawing, but I’ve still got some refining to do in order to make each pose clean and detailed :)

The bottom right is the least rendered so I’ve got to work on that some more, and I also want to add some more texture and detail to the wings and the background �...

BTS: Making Art for an Upcoming Book 🖤📚 + Happy October! ✨

Hi everyone & happy October! 🍂 I hope you’ve all been having a lovely start to the month:)

I can finally share what I’ve been working on for the past month! 😍 One of my favorite fantasy authors, Adalyn Grace, commissioned me to draw the main characters for her new trilogy she just announced: The Wretched Divine ☁️✨

I’ve loved her books ever since reading Belladona, and I still can’t believe I got to work with her 😭💗...

BONUS VIDEO: ACTION POSES ✏️👊✨

Hello again! :) 💕

Just finished posting a brand new tutorial for you about color theory (had so much fun filming that video! 😍) and now here is a new bonus video showing how I sketch some action poses! ✨ I talk and draw while listen...

TUTORIAL: COLOR THEORY ✏️🌈✨

Hi everyone! 🥰

Here is a brand new tutorial video for you! 😍 You all voted for a video where we study color theory (which is one of my FAV topics!) so in this tutorial I go over color theory in detail, plus how to use your knowledge of hue, value and saturation to boost your understanding and application of color in your art 💗

In case you’d like to use one of the references I bring up in the video, I’ve included those as ...