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Early Look: Aurora 💗🎀 + new video going up today! 🎥✨

Hi everyone! :)

Here’s an early look at my finished Aurora drawings! 🥰 I had soooo much fun drawing her and now I really want to watch the movie again 🥲💗 The art style of the film is so whimsical, I tried to incorporate a little bit of that style into the forest background and the curls of Au...

Tutorial Suggestions! 📮 what should the video topic be? 🎥✏️✨

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

It’s time to get your suggestions for this month’s tutorial video topic! Last month’s video was about 2024-11-24 20:49:25 +0000 UTC View Post

Sketch Sneak-Peek: Aurora 🌹💗 + filming a new video for you! ✏️✨

Hello everyone! 🥰

This week our poll for the bonus video theme closed, and the option that won was Aurora from Sleeping Beauty! 🌹✨It literally won by ONE vote?! That’s never happened before 😂 But I was very happy she won the vote because I haven’t drawn her in SO lon...

Early Look: Galadriel & Halbrand Scene Study ☀️🖤✨ + new draw with me video! ✏️

Hi everyone! I hope you’ve all had a happy weekend:)

Here is an early look at my finished scene study! 🥰 After painting my last Galadriel + Halbrand piece, I wanted to draw another one but make it a mini comic/scene study:) I really wanted to focus on the expressions and convey a contrast between t...

Vote for the Bonus Video Theme! ✏️💗✨

Hi again! :)

It’s time to vote for this month’s bonus video! For all the new members here, each month I film an extra video and let Devoted Dragonfly members vote for what I should draw 🥰

Here are three options for the theme of my next drawi...

Draw a Scene Study With Me! ✏️🖤✨

Happy Saturday everyone! 🥰

Here is a new draw with me video for your weekend! 💗 After painting my recent Galadriel and Halbrand piece, I wanted to draw a scene study of them and turn it into a mini comic to practice expressions and backgrounds:)

I’ll be sketching, drawing line art, adding ...

WIP: Scene Study 🖤☀️✨ + filming a new draw with me video! 🎥✏️

Hello everyone! :)

Today I started filming a new draw with me video, and here is what I drew in the video! 🥰 I wasn’t ready to be done with Galadriel and Halbrand, so I decided to start painting a scene study with them :) I totally made Halbrand look good rather than evil, but he’s a master manip...

Real-Time Process: Galadriel & Halbrand ✏️🖤✨

Hi everyone! 🥰

Here is a new real-time drawing video for you! And I think this one is the longest video I’ve ever posted haha 🙈 I wanted to create a romantic scene with Galadriel and Halbrand from The Rings of Power because I love their contrasting aesthetics of darkness an...

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 a...

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 ...

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, he...

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 😍...

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 2024-11-02 01:24:01 +0000 UTC View Post

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 li...

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 t...

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 �...

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...

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 2024-10-22 18:57:57 +0000 UTC View Post

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: pu...

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 🎃🧡

2024-10-18 23:13:20 +0000 UTC View Post

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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 �...

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 an...

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...

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 :)

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...

BONUS VIDEO: ACTION POSES ✏️👊✨

Hello again! :) 💕

Just finished posting a brand new tutorial for you about co...

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 appl...