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Sketching Hairstyle Studies! ✏️🫶🏻✨

Happy Friday everyone! 😍

I’m currently working on our new tutorial video, so here is a bonus video for you to enjoy in the meantime 🥰 As always, this is a special vid just for you Devoted Dragonfly members! It’s a cozy drawing video where I sketch some hairstyle studies:) I talk about this in the video, but I really wanted to try a cleaner line art approach with these, so I focus on layering the shapes in a way that makes sense while still trying to maintain t...

Early Look: finished hairstyle studies 🌼🧡✨ + tutorial poll results! 👀

Hi everyone! :)

Here is a sneak-peek of my finished hairstyle studies! ☺️ I sketched these for this month’s bonus video, which will go up tomorrow for all Devoted Dragonfly patrons! 🥳 I had so much fun painting these:) I don’t normally work with a super golden color palette like this, but I wanted to try it and I like how it turned out 😍

In other news, our 2024-07-25 03:50:46 +0000 UTC View Post

Vote for the Tutorial Video Topic! 🎥✏️✨

Hi everyone!! :)

Thank you all so much for your suggestions on my last post! 😍 Your ideas always help me so much, and I have a lot of inspiration now 👀💗 Several of your ideas are in my notes to use in future content, and the most popular requests are here in this poll 🥰 Keep reading to see what each option is about!

The options:

• 2024-07-23 15:07:17 +0000 UTC View Post

Tutorial Suggestions! 💌 what should we study together? ✏️💭

Hi everyone! I hope you all had a lovely weekend:)

It’s time to drop your suggestions for this month’s tutorial video topic! Feel free to comment any requests below :) All ideas are welcome, even if it’s a simple or complex topic! Here is last month...

Sketches: Hairstyle Studies ✂️✨ + filming a new bonus video for you! 💕

Hi everyone! :)

Yesterday I put up a poll for Devoted Dragonfly members to vote for this month’s bonus video topic, and the option that won was a video of drawing hairstyle studies! 🖤

I started filming today and I wanted to show you guys the result! :) For these hairstyles, I really wanted to study hair layering and combining large shapes with smaller shapes. Sometimes I just draw hair mindlessly, but I wante...

Vote for the Bonus Video Topic! 💗✨

Hi everyone! ☺️

It’s time to vote for this month’s bonus video topic! This poll is just for you Devoted Dragonfly members :) Below are a few drawing ideas I’ve had for a while and you guys get to choose which one I draw next! I’ll film a cozy drawing video about the option that wins 🥰

It’s multiple choice so you can pic...

Painting a Book Couple 📚🗡️ Real-Time Coloring Process! ✨

Happy Thursday everyone! :)

Here is the real-time drawing process for my character sheet of Kai + Paedyn! 💗 I loved the book Powerless, and since the sequel just released (called Reckless!) I couldn’t resist drawing these two 🥰 Normally I finish these character sheets pretty quickly, but I decided to spend a little extra time on the details on this one because I was really enjoying the process:)

I hope you all enjoy watching! ☺️ D...

Early Look: Kai & Pae 🗡️📚✨ + new videos for you! 🖤

Hi everyone! :)

Here is an early look at my finished drawing of Kai and Paedyn from the book Powerless! Swipe to see the inspiration I got from the book 🥰

I loooove reading descriptions of characters and drawing them the way they look in my head, and this was fun because most of the drawing was only from imagination :) I also got inspo from the book cover for the color palette! The purples, blacks and green tones were so dreamy to work with ☺️

The col...

Draw a Fantasy Scene With Me! 🗡️🖤✨ sketching + painting process ✏️

Hi hi everyone! :)

Here is a new draw with me video for you 🥰 This one covers my process of sketching and painting a fantasy scene, based on a reference that you guys voted for! 😍 I LOVED painting this piece and I hope you guys enjoy watching:)

Don’t forget to adjust the video quality to HD for perfect clarity! :)

In other news, I’m currently working on coloring my sketches you saw in 2024-07-14 19:38:31 +0000 UTC View Post

WIP: Sketching Kai & Paedyn from Powerless🗡️🖤✨

Happy Friday everyone! :)

Today I’m drawing in a coffee shop and I felt like sketching another book couple 🤭🖤 This is Kai and Paedyn from Powerless! The second book just came out (called Reckless) and I am SO excited to read it, I just had to draw these two 🥰

I couldn’t find a reference I liked, so I decided to try drawing from imagination - and I’m really happy with how it’s turning out so far! 😍 Coloring will be fun, Paedyn has silver hair ...

Fantasy Scene Study 🗡️🖤✨ + new draw with me video coming this week! ✏️

Hi everyone! ☺️

Earlier this week I showed you guys some sketch sneak-peeks of this drawing and now here is the finished version! 🖤

I looooved drawing these! Especially the expressions and the background 😍 I love reading fantasy books with battle scenes, so I was definitely trying to channel that vibe into these ☺️

The draw with me video is almost done being edited, and I’ll be posting it soon! You’ll get to see how I sketc...

WIP: Sketching a Scene Study 🖤🗡️✨ + filming a new draw with me video!

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

I’m starting off the week with sketching a scene study! ☺️ Our poll closed over the weekend and you guys picked this reference for me to draw:)

Thank you guys for voting!! I was so happy this one won 😍 (and don’t worry, I’ll totally be drawing a few of the other reference options ...

Vote for my next drawing! ✏️🖤✨

 Happy Friday everyone! 🥰

Starting off the weekend with a poll for you to vote for my next drawing! I’m going to be filming a draw with me video soon, so whichever one wins will be the reference I use in the video:)

I want to draw a male character portrait, and I love each of these conceptually!...

Wallpaper Pack! 💌 10+ high-res drawings ✏️✨

Hi everyone! 💗

I hope you’re all having a lovely day so far:) Today I wanted to share a new wallpaper pack with you! This one has 11 new artworks that you can use as screensavers, so just scroll down and download the ones you want 🥰 And you can also browse the Wallpaper Pack feed for more packs!

In other news, yesterday I posted the 2024-07-03 21:10:58 +0000 UTC View Post

Real-Time Painting Process: Jude Duarte 🥀🗡️✨

Hi again! 🥰🫶🏻

Starting off the month with a real-time video for you! This is the rendering process of my Jude Duarte drawing✏️✨ This one starts off with the sketch done and the base colors in place, so I jump right into rendering :) You might’ve noticed I’ve started using my red line art again, and I love using it because of the inner warmth it creates for the drawing. I think it worked especially well for this piece, since it’s a very warm, rosy pa...

Happy July! 🌼 + finished portraits with backgrounds + other goodies ✨

Happy new month everyone! 😍 I hope you’ve all been having a lovely week so far:)

I wanted to show you the finished portraits I made for our new tutorial about how to draw portrait backgrounds! 🌅 I love loose and simple backgrounds where the character is the focus, so these were super fun and refreshing to paint 🥰

You can watch the tutorial 2024-07-02 14:25:03 +0000 UTC View Post

TUTORIAL: How to Draw Portrait Backgrounds! ✏️🌅✨

Hi everyone! 🥰

Here is a new tutorial video for you guys! You all voted for a video about how to draw portrait backgrounds, so in this video I share my favorite techniques to create pretty backgrounds in 3 levels of detail :) I hope you all enjoy! 🥳🫶🏻

Here are some other videos to go along with this tutorial:

• 2024-06-29 21:02:16 +0000 UTC View Post

Dating a Vampire: storyboarding, drawing and making a reel 🥀✨ BONUS VIDEO 🖤

Happy weekend everyone! :)

You all voted for me to make a video showing my process for my Dating a Vampire series, so here you go! :) 🖤 I show my storyboarding process when I’m planning out a scene, my sketching and coloring process, how I turn it into a reel, and more 🫶🏻

Make sure to adjust the quality to HD for perfect clarity ✨

I hope you all enjoy! 🥰 Later today I’ll also be posting our new tutorial video about 2024-06-29 18:13:49 +0000 UTC View Post

Early Look: Dating a Vampire pt.4 🎥🖤 + tutorial poll results! 💌

Hi everyone! :)

Yesterday I finished filming a new bonus video for you, and in the video I share my full process of how I make my Dating a Vampire series! I cover my storyboarding/brainstorming process, my canvas dimensions for reels, how I decide on the perfect amount of clips for a reel, how I pick music, how I draw and render the scenes, and more 🥰

I’m SO excited to share the video with you!! Currently editing it and it ...

Vote for the Tutorial Video Topic! ✏️🎥💕

Hi everyone! :)

It’s time to vote for our tutorial video topic! Thanks so much to everyone who commented ideas and suggestions earlier this week, I’ve saved them all in my notes! 🥰 This poll has the most popular requests as well as a few others you guys have mentioned that I think would be fun to make a video about 😍

Here are the options:

Step-by-Step: Shadow & Highlight Tips for 3/4 View Faces 🌸🎀

Hi again! :)

Here is a new step-by-step tip sheet for you! This one is a more specific guide on how to render the shadows and highlights on a face from the 3/4 view :) Below I’ve put some links to my custom color palette guides and other content that will help you with coloring and rendering a portrait like this! 💗🌸🎀

To access the step-by-step, just open the PDF attachment at the bottom of this post! Then zoom...

Early Look: Elain Archeron 🌸✨+ content plans this week! 📝

Happy Monday everyone! 🥰

Today I’ve been a busy bee working on lots of new content for you guys, starting with this drawing of Elain Archeron from A Court of Thorns and Roses! 🌹 This is how I imagined her character while reading :) She’s sort of a sad character in the books, but her personality is vibrant deep down, and that’s what I tried to portray here 💗

This drawing is part of a new step-by-step tutorial I made with tips ab...