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What's coming up // October 2024

We are a couple days into my favorite month of the year! I think that's because it's my birthday on October 11th 🤭 I'm looking forward to creating another month of art content for you! Here's what you can expect from me this month as a patron:

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MONTHLY CHALLENGE // expressive cat studies

It's the spookiest month of the year, but also the coziest! This is why we'll be making expressive cat studies together this month. Depending on how you draw them, they can be either cute and fluffy, or possessed by demons. Which vibe are you going for?

Visit this link to fi...

What I created this month // September 2024

It's the last day of September and we're getting deeper into the fall! Another month of Patreon content is complete ~ here's an overview of everything I made this month!

 This month's tutorial video was on Stylizing Anatomy! This topic ...

RESOURCE // glossy surfaces

Here's a little resource video about this month’s challenge! In this video, I do a quick review of the artwork posted in the discord, walk you through my process for creating the artwork for this challenge, and discuss common mistakes and tips for tackling studies like these in the future!

I hope you find it helpful ❤ And tha...

PROCESS VIDEO // glossy surfaces

Here's the process video for my glossy surface studies! Here's the final result of the session:

Some info about this process:

• I forgot to screen-record the first couple of minutes of sketching, but I had a phone recording! The screen r...

  2024-09-25 12:43:03 +0000 UTC View Post

EARLY ACCESS // glossy surfaces

This month’s challenge for flame members was on studying glossy surfaces! I took it as an opportunity to draw autumnal comfort foods because why not? It is the season after all! It was a bad idea to draw these while hungry, though 😂 

Flame ...

Q&A // September 2024

Here is the recording of this month's Q&A session! I loved this session, there were so many recurring themes like imposter syndrome, mental health and positivity towards one's own art that kept coming back. These are themes that are so important to me, so it was nice to be able to talk about them!

Some of the topics covered in this session:

• How to make stiff sketches more fluid

• How drawing at di...

  2024-09-23 08:40:17 +0000 UTC View Post

REMINDER // Q&A session this weekend

Hello flame members! This is just a friendly reminder that this month's Q&A session is on Sunday, at 5PM CEST.  That's in two days! Visit this time zone converter to see what time that is in your area.

I hope some of you can make it, and as always, feel free to drop an...

EARLY ACCESS // style studies

Earlier this year I explored a style that was inspired by Egon Schiele's work and the way he separates the planes of the body and face into different colors. I wanted to play around with that style a little more and see what came out of it! I really like drawing in this way because I feel like it's a mix between studying the body and fac...

TUTORIAL // drawing cozy interiors

In this tutorial, I show you my process for drawing cute and cozy interiors! I break it down into a couple of easy and digestible steps so that it feels less overwhelming, and I also give tips and advice to make your interiors look more appealing and fun. Key lessons include: How to construct an interior scene so that it has a believable sense of depth and scale How to divert from a reference image and add elements from the imaginatio...

PROCESS VIDEO // september sketches - part 2

Here’s the process video for my September sketch session! This is part two, which is the process for the second two pages (random characters and birds). Here’s the final result of the session: 

Some information about this process video:

• The process has been sped up by 200% - so twice the original speed.&n...

  2024-09-17 09:02:01 +0000 UTC View Post

PROCESS VIDEO // september sketches - part 1

Here’s the process video for my September sketch session that I posted last week! It’s been a while since I recorded the process of a traditional sketch session and some of you have been asking for that, so I figured it was time! I’ve divided it into two parts - this is the video showing the process for the first two pages (the foxes and the mushrooms). Here’s the final result of the session: 

2024-09-17 09:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post

EARLY ACCESS // September sketches

It was time to sit down and spend some time with my sketchbook - this always gets my creativity going! It’s almost autumn so I wanted to get into the flow with some fall-inspired sketches: foxes, mushrooms, and cozy clothes. I'm especially happy with how the mushrooms turned out! It can be so freeing to draw something that doesn't need to be drawn perfectly to make sense.

I also filmed the process for these sketches and I’m...

EARLY ACCESS // fishbowl

This is a theme that I’ve drawn before, but I wanted to revisit it again! I sometimes talk a bit about my art school experience in Q&A sessions, and it’s been on my mind lately because last weekend I visited a city I used to live in: Gent (or Ghent) in Belgium. While walking through the streets of this city, it suddenly hit me that...

TUTORIAL // stylizing anatomy

It's time for this month's tutorial, which is on stylizing anatomy! In many ways it also touches on the topic of stylization in general, so I think this is a useful video for anyone who is cultivating their style - but especially for those of you who are trying to figure out how to get away from realism when drawing characters and figures!

There are a bunch of tutorials I've made which form excellent companion...

What's coming up // September 2024

September is upon us at last! Here's what you can expect from me this month as a patron:

As always, I'll be making a tutorial video this month! It's going to be on stylizing anatomy. I got a lot of questions about this and I...

MONTHLY CHALLENGE // glossy surfaces

September always reminds me of shiny, red apples 🍎 So I thought it would be fun to take a closer look at the kind of glossy texture they have. That's why for this month's challenge we will be making glossy surface studies together! You can draw any subject matter - fruit, leaves, honey, candy - basically anything that has a shiny, glossy surface! There's a lot of images in the reference folder, and the inspir...

What I created this month // August 2024

The last day of August is here, and that means that all of the August patreon content is complete! It's time for an overview of everything that I made this month here on the Patreon. Here we go!

As always, I created a monthly tutorial video! This one was more of a lecture-type format and was about 2024-08-31 09:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post

RESOURCE // simple & expressive shapes

Here's a little resource video about this month’s challenge! In this video, I do a quick review of the artwork posted in the discord, walk you through my process for creating the artwork for this challenge, and discuss common mistakes and tips for tackling sketches like these in the future!

I hope you find it helpful ❤ And th...

PROCESS VIDEO // simple shapes - final sketches

Here's the process video for my simple & expressive shapes sketches that I did for this month's challenge! Here's the final result of the session:

Some info about this process:

• This is the second of two videos - the first one shows how I warmed up and experimented, and it went up right before this one.

2024-08-29 09:04:01 +0000 UTC View Post

PROCESS VIDEO // simple shapes - tests

Here's the process video for my simple & expressive shapes sketches that I did for this month's challenge! This part is just me warming up and trying out some different rendering styles. I only really land on something I use in the very last stage. The drawings I make in this process video are kind of random, but I figure it would also be good to share how I warm up / experiment / try things out before proceeding to the final! 2024-08-29 09:02:00 +0000 UTC View Post

EARLY ACCESS // simple shapes

This month’s challenge for flame members was on drawing poses with simple and expressive shapes! This is a great exercise to practice stylization and push the personality of the poses. It's actually so much more complicated than it sounds - simplifying takes a lot of effort! I also created some warm-ups and style tests before I figur...

PROCESS VIDEO // emotions

I put together the process video for my emotion sketches! I figured this was an interesting one to share because it shows how much I depend on painting and rendering to get an expression just right. My initial sketch is very different than the final result!

These drawings are inspired by 2024-08-27 14:27:08 +0000 UTC View Post

Q&A // August 2024

For those who missed it, here is today's Q&A session! It was a long but super cozy and fun session with a lot of honest personal questions. I really enjoyed talking so openly with you all!

Some of the topics covered in this session are:

• What makes a good reference image

• What to do when you feel 'stuck' with your art or you want your art to look more like someone else's

• Whether I...

  2024-08-25 18:37:12 +0000 UTC View Post

REMINDER // Q&A session tomorrow

Hello flame members! This is just a friendly reminder that this month's Q&A session is tomorrow, at 5PM CEST. Visit this time zone converter to see what time that is in your area!

I hope some of you can make it, and as always, feel free to drop any questions you have into the #ask-loish channel ...

EARLY ACCESS // self portrait

It’s been a long time since I drew a self portrait! I’ve definitely been through a lot since then. My health took a nosedive and I got sick so many times, and I also went through a really rough time for my mental health which led to many aspects of my life coming to a standstill. I even had a flare-up of my arm injury which I hadn’t had ...

EARLY ACCESS // emotions

After drawing last month’s emotional painting, I realized how rarely I draw more extreme or negative expressions. It’s sometimes hard for me to reconcile my style with that type of emotion. Because of that, I wanted to practice these expressions and see how I could strike a balance between that intensity and my more rounded “cute” sty...

TUTORIAL // creating flowy & dynamic lines with ink

In this tutorial, I show you how I create artwork using ink. I discuss which tools I use, how I gradually build up my inked artwork step-by-step, and give tips and advice on how to approach this type of artwork! Key lessons include: How to build up your ink lines gradually. How to draw in a loose, relaxed style so that your lines are more dynamic. How to switch between tools throughout your drawing process. This tutorial is 49 minute...

BONUS // Loish's Digital Art School

Hello lovely patrons! For the past months, I've been working on something on the side: Loish's Digital Art School, a free pack of resources! It includes two Procreate tutorials as well as a number of things that many of you will recognize from this...

EARLY ACCESS // summer bingo

I did my own take on the summer bingo challenge that’s happening in the discord server right now! I love mixing and matching random ideas so this one was a lot of fun to do. I included some bread and strawberries, which is a specific summer memory I have. Every summer, as soon as it was warm enough to eat outside, we would eat strawb...