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New Organized Content! 📒✏️✨

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

Over the weekend I spent some time working on organizing my Patreon content for you guys, since there is sooooo much here now and I want to make it easier for you guys to browse everything! ☺️ Patreon created a new feature called Collections which allows me to create archives and feeds of any kind of content I want to organiz...

Tutorial Suggestions! 📮✨ What should we study together? ✏️💕

Hi again!! :)

I‘m going to start planning for our tutorial video this month, which means it’s time to get your suggestions for the video topic! ✨ Last month I made an eye t...

Sketching in a café ❤️🎧☕️ + other content I’m working on :)

Hello hellooo :) 

I hope you’re all having a happy Friday! Right now I’m in a cozy café and I’ve been spending the morning sketching and planning content for you guys 🫶🏻 So here is a sneak-peek of the sketch I’ve been working on! I want to try following the color palette of the reference for this one, which means lots of vibrant red and black 🖤❤️‍🔥 It’s been a loooong time sinc...

Early Look: Painting Study of John Singer Sargent 🦋✨ + filming a new draw with me video! 🎞️

Hello everyone! :)

A few days ago I let you guys vote for my next drawing, and you guys voted for a painting study of an artwork by John Singer Sargent! So here is the result 💗 I don’t think I mention it very often but I LOVE classical paintings and I used to paint studies like this with oil paint all the time when I was in art school, so it feels so cozy and familiar when I paint like this ☺️

I ...

Drawing more of my Followers! 🫶🏻 full process from sketch to finish 💌

Hi everyone! 😍

I hope you’re all having a lovely week so far :) Here is a new real-time process video for you that shows the full process of drawing more follower selfies! 💗 I posted the process for the first set of followers I painted 2023-09-12 14:08:37 +0000 UTC View Post

Drawing more followers! 💕 + new videos for you 🫶🏻✨

Hellooo everyone! 💗

We got back home from our trip last night so today has been a chill day of drawing and reading and cleaning 😌 I had some time to finish a few more follower drawings and here is the result! It was so much fun to draw the selfies they gave me and I got to practice some really interesting poses, expressions, and face types with these :)

The full real-time process ha...

Drawing my Followers! 💕 real-time process from sketch to finish ✏️✨

Happy Friday! 💗 

Here is a new real-time drawing video for you! This one shows the process of drawing a few of my followers from sketch to finish :) I wanted to try something new and asked my followers to send me selfies to use as references, and I got so many good ones!! I love connecting with people like this and drawing them as characters, it’s so much fun 🥰 It’s always good to practice differ...

Short Hair Rapunzel 🌞 + sketching more followers & poll results! 💕

Helloooo everyone 🥰

It’s currently a cozy rainy day and the weather has started to become more crisp and cool, it feels very autumnish 😍 Super perfect for working in a cafe, which is what I’ll be doing today:) I wanted to start with showing you a sneak-peek of short hair Rapunzel that I finished! I can’t decide if I like her more with short or long hair because both are so cute 🥲🥲

I also...

Vote for my Next Drawing! ✏️💕✨

Hello everyone!! I hope you’re all having a splendid day :)

It’s been a while since I let you guys vote for my next drawing! So here we go 🥰 I feel like drawing something elegant and improving my painting techniques, so I’m trying to decide between doing a master study of a painting by John Singer Sargent or p...

Early Look: Drawing my Followers! ✏️🌸 + what I’m up to this week ☁️

Hi again! ☺️

Yesterday I shared some sketch WIPs of drawing my followers and today I finished coloring them! 🥳 I asked my followers to send me selfies on my story and I got sooo many amazing photos to use as references, so I think I want to draw a few more 🥰 I hope you guys like these 3!! It was so much fun to turn these people into characters and study their features & styles 😍

I filmed...

September Wallpaper Pack! 💌📦✨

Hellooo everyone:) I hope your weekend has been going well! 💕

I wanted to share a new wallpaper pack with you today, so here is a pack with all my drawings from August! 💌 I made a lot of studies last month and fantasy things, inspired by all the books I’ve been reading lately ☺️ Many of these drawings were also recorded for real-time process videos or the draw with me video, as well as step-by-step ...

Sketch Sneak-Peek: Drawing my followers! ✏️💕 + recording the process for you 🎞️

Happy weekend everyone! :) 

I wanted to try something I’ve never done before and asked my followers on insta to send me selfies so I can turn them into characters! 👀💕so here are some sketches so far:) I didn’t realize how much fun it would be but omg I’m loving this process!! 

There are so many amazing selfies that people sent me so I want to draw more than just these three :) hope u...

Early Look: Rapunzel 🌞 + September Rewards! 🍁🍂

Happy September everyone!! 🫶🏻

This is my favorite time of the year because everything starts to turn fallish and cozy ☺️ It’s also a very nostalgic season for me because September is the month that I first started drawing digitally and began my journey as a digital artist back in 2018! 🧡 So I always feel so inspired during this time :)

I was feeling in a Disney mood yesterday and felt like ...

TUTORIAL: How to Draw Different Eye Styles ✏️💗✨

Helloooo lovely people! :)

Here is a brand new tutorial video for you! This one focuses on how to draw several types of eye styles & aesthetics from start to finish, with lots of tips and techniques of things you can add to your eye drawings to make them more unique :) Thank you all so much for your patience while I was working on this one, I had so much fun filming it for you all!! 🥰

Make sure to ...

All done filming the tutorial! 🥳✨ + new bonus video is up 🎥💕

Hello hellooo everyone! 🥰

Today I finished drawing, filming, and recording everything for this month’s tutorial video about eye styles! 🥳 So here are some more sneak-peeks from the video for you :) This video was fun to make because I cover the more subtle ways you can adjust your eye drawings to add more personality and uniqueness to them 💗 a big theme from the vide...

Bonus Video: Sketching & Painting Hand Studies 🍎✨

Helloooo lovely people :) 💗

Here is a new bonus video for you! I‘ve been a busy bee working on our tutorial video for this month but I managed to finish this video for you guys today 🥰 You all voted for a video showing how I draw hand studies, so I filmed my process from sketch to finish! ✨ I LOVE drawing hands, especially in elegant poses like these so I had a lot of fun filming this:) I hope you a...

Tutorial Progress! ✏️💕 drawing different kinds of eyes ✨

Happy Sunday everyone! :)

I wanted to show you some sneak-peeks of what I’ve been drawing for the tutorial video so far! ☺️ For the new patrons here, the video will be covering how to draw different styles of eyes, and we’ll be exploring how different brushes can affect the aesthetic, different ways to render irises and pupils, how to adjust shapes and angles for different looks, mascul...

Drawing Fantasy Outfits! 🦋🖤 Full Real-Time Process ✨

Hello hellooo! :)

This week I drew some fantasy outfits inspired by a character from a book called Once Upon a Broken Heart, and I recorded the full process for you from sketch to finish! 🫶🏻 I made a mood board with several outfits to use as inspiration while I worked, and the rest came from imagination based on how I think the character might look in the book :) I’ve never drawn a book character before...

Sneak-Peek: Hand Studies ✋🏼🍎 + new bonus video for you ✏️✨

Happy Wednesday everyone! :)

Last night I filmed a new bonus video for you! I posted a poll a few days ago for all Devoted Dragonfly patrons and the option that won the vote was a video showing how I draw hand studies, so here’s the result! 🥳

The video shows the process of sketching each hand PLUS all the rendering and coloring :) I tried to focus on capturing all t...

Bonus Step-by-Step Tutorial: Rendering Howl ✏️💕

Hello everyone! Happy Monday 🥰 

Here is a bonus step-by-step tutorial for you! Earlier this month I made a step-by-step about how to create a colorful lens flare effect in your art, and I wanted to make another step-by-step that covers some rendering process for you :) This one shows how I colored and rendered my Howl portrait!

I’ve attached the file at the bott...

Early Look: Fantasy Outfits! 🦋 + tutorial poll results 💗

Hello everyone! :)

We got back from our trip and I spent the evening getting cozy in my workspace and finishing up these fantasy outfits of Evangeline from the Once Upon a Broken Heart book series! 💗 I’ve never drawn a book character before and I thought it was SO fun to brainstorm what she might look like based on the descriptions in the story 🥰 She’s described to have rose gold hair so I tried to ge...

Vote for the Bonus Video Topic! 🎥✨

Helloooo everyone! :)

It’s time to vote for this month’s bonus video topic! 🎞️ As always, this poll is only for you Devoted Dragonfly patrons 🥰 Last month the bonus video was about drawing from imagination and I sketched a page of Kiki in different poses! It was so much fun ...

WIPs: Drawing Fantasy Outfits & Book Characters 📚💗✨

Hello everyone! 🥰

We’re currently on a mini vacation this week and I’ve been spending the last couple days drawing and reading :) I’ve been really enjoying fantasy books lately, and in the books there are descriptions of really beautiful outfits so I felt inspired to try drawing some! 💗

The first sketches are of a character named Evangeline from a book series called Once Upon a Broken Heart, ...

Vote for the August Tutorial Topic! 💌✏️✨

Hello everyone! 💕 I hope your day is going well :) 

Thank you to everyone who gave suggestions for the August tutorial!! 😍 I just finished going through all your comments and I've put together a poll with the most popular requests :) I think this is the most options we've had in a poll because there are 9 to choose from! 👀 You can vote for more than one topic, so ...

Sketch with Me! ✏️💗 practicing expressions 🫶🏻

Hi everyone! 🥰

Here is a new draw with me video for you! 💌 This one is a cozy sketching process where I work on my photobooth drawings :) I wanted to get some practice drawing expressions that I haven’t drawn before and these were so fun!! I’m usually partial to softer expressions and tend to avoid more extreme ones, but I want to get more comfortable with them so here we go :) So get cozy and I hope ...

Sneak-Peek: Howl 💗 + content plans for the week! ✏️🫶🏻

Happy Monday everyone! 🥰 I hope you all enjoyed your weekend :)

Over the weekend I worked on my webtoon a LOT and I also painted this screencap study of Howl from Howl’s Moving Castle! 💗 Portraits like this are such a cozy comfort zone for me and I loved painting him :) he’s such a beautiful character 👁️👄👁️

This week I’m going to start working on another s...