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New Brush Download! ✏️✨ Soft Grain Shader 🖤

Hellooo! :)

A little surprise for you! 🎁 I’ve been working on a new shading brush and now it’s ready to be shared with you 🥰 I’m calling this one Soft Grain Shader, because it has a grainy texture that’s very soft (not gritty) and I love using it for adding some texture to my shading! The brush is a combination of several characteristics that I’ve enjoyed in oth...

Early Look: Cupid & Psyche 💘✨

Happy Tuesday! 💕

Today I finished working on my marble statue study of Cupid & Psyche, so here’s a sneak-peek! ☺️ I really wanted to draw them after reading about their love story in Greek/Roman mythology, it’s super fascinating (totally recommend googling it! 👀)

Anywho, I had so much fun with this!! 😍 This month’s draw with me video will show the sketching process...

Tutorial Suggestions! 💌📮 what should the video topic be? 💭

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

I wanted to start off the week with a tutorial suggestions post! Last month you guys voted for an updated tutorial about expressions which you can 2024-03-18 15:58:26 +0000 UTC View Post

Sketch Dump! ✏️🤍 grayscale drawings + filming a new video 🫶🏼

Happy friday everyone! 🥰

This week I’ve been busy filming a new draw with me video for you guys, and here is what I sketched in the video! 🤍 It’s been SO long since I painted something in grayscale, and I remembered why I love doing it 🙈 It’s such a great way to focus on improving shading and values, plus it’s super relaxing!

You’ll get to see the proc...

Mr. Darcy Studies 🦋✨ Real-Time Painting Process! ✏️

Hello everyone! ☺️

Here is another real-time video for you! This one shows the coloring process of my Mr. Darcy studies :) I loved painting these!! Drawing character sheets like this is such a fun and relaxed way to explore a character design, and I hope you guys like my version of Darcy 🥰

For some reason my iPad didn’t record part of the background painting process for the meadow scene, but the ...

Early Look: Darcy Studies 🦋🖤 + plans for the week! ✨

Hello everyone! 🥰

Today I finished these studies of Mr. Darcy, so here’s an early look! These were really fun because I experimented with three different levels of detail; the hands were the quickest/least detailed studies, the full body study is slightly more detailed but still more minimal, and then the portrait is the most detailed ☺️

Full painting process is recorded for you guys and I’m c...

WIP: Mr. Darcy Studies ✏️🖤 + new video for you! ✨

Hello hello! :)

After working on my painting of Darcy and Elizabeth dancing, I felt like doing a few more studies of Mr. Darcy 🥰 So here’s some progress! He’s one of my fav characters ever and I wanted to draw some studies of him from the 2005 film ~ it’s one of my favorite movies of all time 🫶🏻 I love doing sheets like this because I get to play around with some relaxed backgrou...

Drawing Darcy & Lizzy 💘 real-time process! ✨

Happy weekend! :)

I recorded the full process of my Darcy & Lizzy drawing from start to finish, so here is the full video! ☺️ This shows both the sketching and the painting process so you can see how it all comes together ✨

I had so much fun with this piece!! I went for a more painterly style and a vibrant color palette, so it felt a little experimental :) I hope you all enjoy watching! 🥰 Be ...

Early Look: Darcy & Elizabeth 💕 + new real-time process coming soon! ✨

Hello everyone! 🥰

It’s currently a cozy rainy day, and I love drawing on days like this 😍 So I spent the morning working on my drawing of Darcy & Elizabeth and I wanted to show you all a sneak-peek!

For this one I wanted to explore a more painterly style with looser brush strokes, and also a color palette I don’t usually work with :) It was so fun to balance the warm tones and cool tones an...

Sketch Sneak-Peek: Darcy & Lizzy ✏️💗✨

Hello everyone! I hope you’re having a lovely start to your week 😍

I decided it was time for another couple drawing, and this one is going to be Darcy and Elizabeth! 💕 The only time I’ve drawn them before was in a mini comic on separate panels, so this is the first time I’m drawing them together on one canvas hehe :)

Swipe to see my mood boards I’m using for inspiration! I included a lot o...

Wallpaper Pack! 💌✨ + March Plans💘

Hello everyone and happy new month! 😍🫶🏻

I wanted to start off the month with sharing a new wallpaper pack! This one has a bunch of new drawings that you can download and use for your screen savers on mobile, tablet, and desktop :) Just scroll down and download the ones that you want! 🥳

You can browse the feed of other wallpaper packs 2024-03-02 18:20:07 +0000 UTC View Post

TUTORIAL: How to Draw Expressions ✏️🤍✨

Hello everyone! 💗

Finally!! 🥳 Here is a new tutorial video for you! :) This one is about how to draw several new expressions that I haven’t covered before: crying, laughing, screaming, annoyance, and being in love 💕 I had so much fun working on this video and I hope it’s helpful for you guys! 🥰 

Here are some other resources to help with this topic:

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Expressions Tutorial Video Sneak-Peeks! ✏️✨

Hello everyone! 🥰

I’ve been a busy bee working on the new tutorial video for you guys! 😍 Our poll closed over the weekend and the option that won the vote was Expressions Practice ✨ So this new video will be covering some very fun expressions ☺️ We’ll be studying crying, annoyance, laughing, screaming, and being in love 💖

So here are a few sneak-peeks f...

Step-by-Step: How to Draw a Curly Hairstyle ✏️🫶🏻✨

Happy weekend everyone! 🥰

Today I wanted to share a new step-by-step tutorial with you! ✨ This one covers how to draw a curly hairstyle on a male character :) I’ve covered how to draw curly hair on females, but I thought it would be helpful to show you a male character example as well! 🤍

You can find the sheet as an attachment at the bottom of this post! It’s a PDF so you can view it in high q...

Early Look: Archeron Sisters 💖 + new bonus video for you! ✨

Hello everyone and happy Thursday! :)

Here’s a sneak-peek of my finished drawing of Feyre, Elain, and Nesta! ☺️ Omg this took me longer to finish than I thought, but I loved the whole process so much!! It was my first time trying to draw three characters together on one canvas, which I always avoided because I thought it would be way too challenging 😅 But I think it just required more patience :) And i...

BONUS VIDEO: Drawing Fantasy Book Characters! 🗡️✨ ACOTAR Fanart 💕

Hello again! ☺️ I hope you’re all having a lovely day/night :)

This week I filmed my process of drawing some characters from one of my absolute favorite fantasy book series! 🥳 These characters are sisters from A Court of Thorns and Roses: Feyre, Elain, and Nesta :) At first I was just going to draw one character, but decided to challenge myself with three! This is the first time I’ve tried drawing th...

Vote for the Tutorial Video Topic! 🎥✏️💘

Hello everyone! :)

It's time to vote for this month's tutorial video topic! Thank you so much to everyone who left suggestions, there were SO MANY good ones I literally spent the last hour writing down a ton of new ideas lol! 😍 If you don't see your suggestion in this poll, don't worry ~ I have them all saved and I want to use them for future videos! There will also be a 2024-02-21 17:26:03 +0000 UTC View Post

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

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

I wanted to start off the new week with a tutorial suggestions post! 💕 Last month you guys voted for a full walkthrough of my pro...

WIP: Archeron Sisters 🌹 + filming a new bonus video! 🎥✨

Hello everyone! ☺️

Yesterday I went out to an adorable cafe and filmed a new bonus video for you guys! In the poll you voted for me to draw a fantasy book character, and I decided to draw three hehe 🙈💕 It’s Feyre, Elain, and Nesta from A Court of Thorns and Roses! 🌹

This is my first time drawing three characters together on one canvas (in a drawing that isn...

Early Look: Tiana Dress Designs 🐸🪷 + new mini vlog! ✨

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! 🥰❣️

Today I finished my drawings of Tiana! These were so much fun, I forgot how much I love designing outfits! 😍 Which one is your favorite??

Yesterday I posted a new draw with me video, and it’s also a mini vlog! 💕 It shows the drawing process for...

Mini Vlog: Drawing Tiana + Books I’m Reading ✏️🪷✨

Hello everyone! 🥰

For this month’s draw with me video I wanted to film a mini vlog for you! 🫶🏻 In the video I film pieces of my day ~ going to the bookstore to get a new book, showing you some other books that a lovely artist sent me, and drawing some dress designs for Tiana :) 

I hope you all enjoy this one!! Make sure you set the quality to HD with the gear button! 💕 You can browse 2024-02-13 18:05:47 +0000 UTC View Post

Vote for the Bonus Video Topic! 🎥💘✏️

Hello everyone! :)

This week I want to start working on a new bonus video for you guys, so here is a poll for you to vote for what you’d like to see! As always, this is a special poll just for you Devoted Dragonfly members 🥰 

Last month you guys voted for me to draw a scene from Howl�...

WIP: Tiana 🪷 + filming a mini vlog for you ✨

Hello everyone! :)

This week I’ve been working on filming a new draw with me video for you ~ but I decided to turn it into a mini vlog! ☺️ I filmed a day of going out to buy a new book, going to a cute coffee shop, and then I filmed my process of drawing and painting a dress design for Tiana, since she won the vote! 🐸🪷

I was also sent a lovely book series by ...

Drawing Vintage Guys 🖤 Real-Time Drawing Process! ✨

Hello again! ☺️

Here is a new real-time video for you! 💌 This one shows the full process of sketching my vintage male character sheet :) I wanted to capture a 1940s/50s aesthetic with these sketches, so I used some different techniques to get a scratchy textured feel inspired by the way old photographs look! 

It’s been a while since I rendered with just grayscale and I loooved it 😌 It’s...

Vote for my Next Drawing! 💕 Dress Designs for Rapunzel or Tiana 👑

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

I feel inspired to draw some pretty dress designs, and I thought it would be fun to let you guys vote! ☺️ I want to draw a detailed ballgown design for either Rapunzel or Tiana and I made two different mood boards that will be my inspiration for the vibe...

Early Look: Vintage Guys 🖤✨

Happy weekend! :)

Here’s an early look at my finished vintage sketches! 🖤 I changed my rendering style a little bit to try capturing a more vintage look for these, and I also incorporated more texture ☺️ It’s been a while since I rendered with just grayscale and I just love the simplicity of it:)

Full process for these is recorded for a real-time drawing video, so you’ll get...

Sketching Vintage Guys 🖤 + February Plans! ✏️✨

Hello and happy February everyone! 😍✨

I can’t believe we’re already in February but here we are! 🙈 I wanted to start off the month with some sketches, and right now I’m working on a sheet of vintage actors! 🖤

I’m going to be rendering them in black & white and using some effects to try capturing that vintage photographic look, so I’m really excited to start painting them 😍 So f...

TUTORIAL: My Full Drawing Process Walkthrough! ✏️💘

Hellooo! 🥰

Here is a brand new tutorial video for you! 🫶🏻 This month you guys voted for a special walkthrough-style video where I take you through my full drawing process from start to finish—all in real-time! So instead of a voiceover in this video, I’ll be talking with you while I work and explaining what I do in each step :) 

I loved filming this video and I hope...

Tutorial Sneak-Peeks! 🖤 + other content for you 💌✨

Hi everyone! ☺️ How is your day/night going?

Today I officially finished filming our new tutorial video for this month and it’s already almost done being edited! 😍✨ You guys voted for me to film a video showing my full process from start to finish in a walkthrough style tutorial, so in the video I talk and draw in real time while explaining everythi...

Drawing Howl & Sophie 💘 BONUS VIDEO ✏️✨

Hellooo everyone! :) I hope you’ve all been having a happy week so far 💕

Here is a new bonus video for you! 🫶🏻 I’ve been a busy bee working on new content this week and finally finished editing this video for you guys 😍 For this month’s bonus video you all voted for me to draw Howl & Sophie, so I decided to draw a scene from the movie that I love 🥰 In the video you get to watch the proc...