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Early-Look: Angel Sculpture ☁️ + what to expect this week! ✏️

Happy Monday everyone! 🥰 I hope your weekend was a cozy one 🤍

Here is an early look at another fun sculpture study I finished today :) Lots of you have asked to see a more in-depth process video of how I draw my sculpture studies, so today I decided to draw one while screen-recording the full process! So you guys will get to watch the real-time proc...

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Tutorial Suggestions! 📮💌 + Feature Friday Artist Support ✨

Hello again! 🥰 I hope you’re all having a lovely start to your weekend so far :) 

It’s the first Friday of the month and that means it’s time to get your suggestions for this month’s tutorial video topic! 📸 Last month there were sooo many amazing suggestions that got into the poll (which you can see 2022-06-04 02:05:51 +0000 UTC View Post

Early Look: Wonder Woman Fan Art💫✨

Happy Friday everyone! :)

Here‘s a sneak-peek of my Wonder Woman drawing that I‘ve been working on! 🌟 I started this as a demo from the fan art tutorial last month and I liked the sketch a lot so I decided to finish it 🥰 It was a bit more challenging because of the full-body pose and the composition but I learned a lot!! On a funny note I‘m also pretty certain...

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Drawing a Sculpture Study 🤍☁️ Timelapse Process! ✨

Happy Thursday everyone! :)

Here is the timelapse process of my most recent sculpture drawing 🥰 Drawing studies of these sculptures is one of my new favorite ways to decompress while drawing! I think when it comes to creating art, it's good to have certain subject matter that you can always turn to and draw comfortably, especially during times of art block or just want...

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June Newsletter! 💌 + Tips for your Art + Wonder Woman WIP ✏️

Hi again & happy first day of June! 🥰🤍

Earlier this morning I shared a little sneak-peek of my most recent sculpture study with you guys, and I wanted to start this little newsletter...

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Early Look: Sculpture Study 🌟 + Hello June! 🌼

Hi everyone! 🤍 I hope you’re all having a happy week so far 😌

I wanted to show you a quick sneak-peek of another sculpture drawing I’ve been working on! I think drawing studies of marble sculptures in my own style is one of my new favorite ways to relax 🙈 I can just sketch and render without thinking and I really enjoy the process 🥰

Later today I’l...

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Tutorial: How to Draw Stylized Fan Art! ✏️✨

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

Here is a brand new tutorial video for you! 🥳 You guys voted for a video about how to draw stylized fan art, so in this video I’ll be sharing my best tips with you guys when it comes to drawing fan art :) There’s a section that briefly covers how stylization works and then we’ll be drawing three differ...

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Tutorial Sneak-Peeks! ✏️✨ progress on the video 🎞

Hello everyone!! 🧡

This week I’ve been a busy bee working on finishing up the studio vlog (which I just posted today for all devoted dragonfly patrons! 😍) and also working on our tutorial video!

As you know, the video will be about how to draw stylized fan art, which is such a cool topic to ...

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STUDIO VLOG 🌷 showing how I edit my photos, lots of drawing, going on a beach trip with my sister, & more ✨

Happy Friday everyone!! :)

It's been a very busy week of drawing and editing videos (both the studio vlog and this month's tutorial video!) but I managed to finish this vlog for you guys in time for the weekend ☺️ 

In this video I'll be showing you what I did this month, things I worked on, places I went, and other things like a demo on how I edit my instag...

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Step-by-Step Tutorial: How to Draw White Hair 🤍☁️✏️

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

Here is a bonus step-by-step tutorial for all of you about how to draw and render white hair! ☁️ I’ve included a detailed sheet about the process with my recent drawing of Kida and I also included a mini version of the step-by-step that summar...

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Tutorial Progress: drawing three different styles! ✏️✨

Hello everyone & happy Sunday! 🥰

Yesterday I started working on filming and drawing for this month’s tutorial video, and here’s some progress so far! ✨ The tutorial will be about how to draw stylized fan art, so I’m starting with showing how stylization works with three different variations of the same reference! One is rea...

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Sketching in my Sketchbook ✏️ + chatting about work-life balance 🌼

Happy weekend everyone!! :)

Here is a new draw with me video for you 🧡 In this video I'll be sketching on a page in my sketchbook to practice hands and hair while chatting with you about some work-life balance things I've been learning about this month! 😌 So get cozy and draw along with me or just enjoy watching ✨

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Sneak-Peek: Casual Kida, sketchbook session, + upcoming content ✏️✨

Happy Friday everyone! 🤍 I hope you’ve all had a lovely week :)

This week I’ve been busy working on some new content for you guys! 🥰 As you all know, the tutorial topic that won the vote for this month is How to Create Stylized Fan Art, and since I’ll be working on the video this upcoming week I wanted to warm up with some fan...

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Early Look: Sketching in a new sketchbook and filming ✏️✨

Hello everyone and happy Tuesday! :) 🌼

I wanted to show you some sneak-peeks of what I've been working on this week :) I recently ordered a new sketchbook when I discovered that all my other sketchbooks are full, (I never thought that would happen haha 🙈) and yesterday I started sketching in it!! 

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Early Look: Sculpture Study ☁️ + filming for the studio vlog!✨

Happy Saturday everyone! :)

I think I’m in love with drawing these sculptures now 🙈 They’re so satisfying to draw!! This time I rendered a regular grayscale version and also a colored version, which one do you like more?? 🤍

I filmed the process of drawing this piece for this month’s studio vlog, so you guys will get to see it in the vide...

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Coloring Floral Mermaids 🌼 // real-time drawing process! ✨

Happy weekend everyone! :) 🧡

Here is the real-time process video of my floral mermaid drawings that you saw yesterday 🥰 I felt really inspired by art nouveau styles for these mermaids, especially my favorite artist Alphonse Mucha 🌼  So in this video you'll get to see how I colored and rendered these flowery merms from start to finish! :)

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Early Look: Floral Mermaids 🌼 + Tutorial Poll Results! 📮✨

Happy Thursday everyone! :) 🤍

Here are my finished floral mermaids! I had so much fun coloring these because I wanted to experiment with a more vintage color palette, since I’m not used to painting with yellows and greens very much ☺️ 

As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, I screen-recorded the full coloring & rendering process of this drawing for ...

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Sketching a Mermaid ✏️✨ Real-Time Drawing Process!

Hi everyone! :) 🧡

Here is a real-time drawing video of sketching a mermaid based on a fun reference pose! I really enjoyed the sketching process of this piece 😌 

I started coloring this drawing a few days ago, but for some reason as I began to color the drawing I started to really dislike it and faced some art block; it was one of those moments where it f...

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WIP: Floral Mermaids 🌷 + other things I’m working on :)

Hello everyone! I hope you’re all having a lovely week so far 🥰

Here‘s a sneak-peek of a sketch I’m currently working on! I’m exploring a combination of mermaids and florals, and these were actually meant to be some practice thumbnails to test out some ideas for a more complete painting of a floral mermaid, but I kind of like how these are turning out! So ...

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Sneak-Peek: Painting a Marble Statue ✏️✨

Hello everyone!! Happy Tuesday :) ✨

I wanted to show you a quick sneak-peek of a drawing I made last night to practice values and textures! It's not mermaid-themed, but I suddenly felt inspired to try drawing a one of those elegant marble statues ☺️ I actually learned sooo much from studying the values in the statue reference, I really recommend drawing one of these...

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Vote for this month's tutorial video! 💌✨

Hello again! 😌 

This morning I've been going through all of your comments on our tutorial suggestions post and there are so many amazing suggestions this month!! I wrote all of them down in my notes and I've put 9 of the most popular requests here in thi...

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Step-by-Step Tutorial: How to Draw Waves 🌊✨

Happy Monday! I hope you’re all doing well :) 💌

Here is a new step-by-step about how to draw waves from sketch to finish! ✨ In this little tutorial I’ll be showing you guys how to render waves in a way that’s simple and basic to follow, using only a round brush and the lasso tool :) I hope you guys enjoy it and find it useful! 🥳

I‘ve attached...

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Early Look: Mermaid Sketch 🐠✨ + what I’m up to! ✏️

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

Here’s a little sneak-peek of a mermaid sketch I’ve been working on, inspired by the reference you guys voted for this past week! I’ve started coloring her and I’ll show it to you soon 🥰

I’ve also been screen-recording the full sketching and coloring process so you guys will g...

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Tutorial Suggestions! 📮 + Feature Friday Artist Support 💌

Happy Friday everyone! :) ✨

It’s a new month and that means it’s time to start preparing for a new tutorial video! I’m sooo happy you guys enjoyed last month‘s video, View Post

Vote for my next drawing! 🐠🦋✨

Hello again! ☺️

I’m about to start working on a new drawing since I finished my wave studies, View Post

Early Look: Ocean Wave Studies 🌊✨

Happy Thursday everyone! ☺️✨ I hope you’re all having a lovely week so far :)

Here‘s an early look at some wave studies that I painted to practice water and movement! ✨ The last time I painted water was about a year ago so I wanted to study it again, and I learned so much from these!! I’ll start working on a new step-by-step tutorial about h...

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Drawing Process: Ariel 🐚✏️✨

Happy Wednesday everyone! :) 🤍

Here is a little process video of my Ariel drawing! I wanted to do a screencap study of her form the animation, which is something I love doing whenever I draw Disney characters 😌 I think it can be really good practice to interpret a scene in your own style, and I had so much fun with it!! I hope you all like her :) ✨

This week...

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Ariel + Ocean Wave Studies 🐠✨ + what I’m working on this week! ✏️

Happy Tuesday everyone! 💌

I hope you're all enjoying your week so far :) Here is a little sneak-peek of my Ariel drawing that I finished this morning! I wanted to draw some fan art of her as a warm up for all the water-themed art I want to make this month 🥰

Today I'll start editing the process video of this drawing and post it for you guys eit...

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Ariel Sketch 🐚✨ + Happy May Newsletter! 💌

Hello everyone & welcome to a new month! 🥳✨

I hope you've all had a lovely weekend so far :) It's currently a lovely sunny afternoon and I wanted to sit down and write this little monthly newsletter to you to go over some of the things that I've got planned for this month! 

Many of you know that whenever May arrives I love to spend the month drawing to...

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How to Draw Hair! ✏️ different hairstyles, coloring process, & more ✨

Happy Friday everyone! 🧡

Here is a brand new tutorial video for you 💌 This month you guys voted for a new tutorial all about hair, so in this video I'll be leading you guys through each step of my process from start to finish on several different kinds of hairstyles! There will also be a coloring demo at the end to show you how I co...

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