Jackie Droujko

The Process Behind It | HOW I MADE THIS PIECE BETTER

Sometimes you make bad drawings and that's ok! Here I talk a bit about how this uuugly drawing of mine was the stepping stone to get to my final concept. Sometimes you gotta make bad art to push yourself to try again!

Australia sketchbook

Bought a sketchbook while in Australia and sketched some people in Sydney over the last couple days. The hood and the bad, here’s what it looks like to sketch for the first time in a month! Catching a plane back to Canada, thnks for your support while I’ve been on holiday! Excited to getting back to it and creating art fo...

Destroying The Portfolio That Got Me My First Job | EXTENDED

The extended version of my upcoming video with a whopping 10 extra minutes of content! I got into a little more depth in this version and explain concepts further. Thanks y'all!

Black and White process | SPEEDPAINT

Following Chuck P Comic's black and white to colour tutorial and learned a lot! Here's the full speedpaint version, but I'll be posting a youtube video this month too. :)

trying a new method of painting | WIP

following ChuckPComics' tutorial on painting from greyscale and learning a lot! This will also be my next youtube vid. Here's the greyscale before I attempt to add colour.

Fixing your art | Patreon EXTENDED version

This art critique video has an extra 9 minutes of critique content  compared to my newest youtube video that will premiere this Friday! Thank you to the artists who submitted their work to the Discord! Want your art critiqued by me for my next video? Submit your art to the #art-video-sub...

♡ Thanks for your support! ♡ mini update

Hello lovely patrons! I wanted to make a quick note to tell you all thanks for your support in the past few months while I've been a bit quieter on Patreon than usual. Things have been really craaaaAAazy for me with my Domestika course release, and a HUGE collab in the works! I appreciate your continuous support as I get back...

My New Charaacter Design Course With DOMESTIKA!

I dropped my very first course on Creating Dynamic Character Designs with Domestika!

I’m so excited to share this course with you, I worked on it for almost a full year and it’s finally out! (You can tell I filmed a whil...

Tears of the Kingdom | WIP

working on a new print and video simultaneously. busy this month.

Caricature dump

Some of the caricatures I made this month for caricature resolution. I don’t know if I’ll continue or even get to all of them, it’s overwhelming seeing all the really great caricatures on Instagram that I almost give up before I even start. It’s one thing not to compare yourself to others when you’re all creating di...

Caricatures | ANATOMY OF A STUDY

Hi Patrons! Here's another episode in my Anatomy of a Study series. Today I briefly break down my thoughts behind two caricatures I did this month of Cillian Murphy and Margot Robbie. Are you making caricatures this month as well? Link your insta below so we can all take a look!

HELP ME CHOOSE!

creating a piece that literally took me ALL day to conceptualize. this is for a very fun upcoming collab, but i need help on which concept i should go for!!

STEP 1: COMMENT YOUR FAVOURITE DRAWING- #1 OR #2

STEP 2: IS SHE A HERO OR A VILLAIN?

Changes to tutorials Announcement!

Hi all! I want to thank you all for your support on my Patreon, I appreciate you all! After a lot of thinking, I've decided to make a change to my tutorials on my Patreon. As of now, you can access every tutorial I've made through my lowest Patreon tier. As of January 2024, some tutorials will be removed and you can purchase ...

Anatomy of a Study | Failures

Today I wanted to share this piece that I hate. It's important to understand what you don't like about a piece to learn from mistakes and create better art in the future.

Wip concepts

Concepts for an upcoming tutorial book. Can you guess which one they picked?

LOTR studies

spent the day making studies of lord of the rings! focused mainly on getting colours accurate with focus on textures. understanding where to use a hard edge and soft edge is a very important skill to learn and i feel like i'm improving a lot already. also this is like my first layout study in... forever? ever maybe? i'm alway...

film studies | WIP

spent the entire day working on studies from films focusing on colour. i limited myself to 30 min per study but these two last ones took a bit longer. i hope to get more confident doing studies soon! i think i'll make a youtube video about studies... what do you think?

colour & texture | ANATOMY OF A STUDY

another study! this time i focused on a different type of reference image, a photoshoot pose. i wanted to capture the lighting of the studio in under an hour.

How I use my Procreate Brushes | GUIDE

It's been a few years since I made a comprehensive guide explaining which procreate brushes I use and how I apply them. So here's a handy little info page on my procreate brushes. Remember, it's not the brush that makes a good artist and you don't need fancy brushes to make good art. (but new brushes are always fun!)

Br...

Rendering // wip

rendering is such a balance.. i think i'm definitely overrending and get tunnel vision. i want to be able to add more texture. and i think my values are a bit too extreme. but I'm pretty happy with my first attempts at rending from imagination rather than following a study! learning lots!

Planning is important // wip

Trying again…. But this time… planning colours in advance….

Max's Study // ANATOMY OF A STUDY

Here's a short breakdown of my most recent study using Max Grecke's artwork as reference for rendering and lighting.

HOMEWORK: create your own black-and-white study of your own character using a lighting scenario from an artist ...

Two lessons // WIP

Today I started the Grim Reaper prompt from the October challenge that I posted on my discord. I used references from the amazing Max Grecke as inspiration for the rendering. But as I started rendering I noticed how horrible this drawing was coming together. I would think I must trust the process and kept going but the anatom...

Rhythm & Line | EARLY ACCESS + DISCOUNT

I've been a bit quiet lately because I'm sO EXCITED to share with you my latest art book: Rhythm and Line!  It's a special sketchbook where I share all my favourite people drawings from the past year and a bit. I announce to the public tomorrow but I wanted to let my patrons get first dibs! 

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