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Sketching braids & daisies 🌻 + what I’m working on at the moment! 💌✨

Hello everyone & happy Wednesday! 😍

Here’s a little sneak-peek of a portrait sketch I’ve been working on to practice drawing hair and braids! 😌 I’ve always felt like braids add so much detail & volume to a hair style and there are lots of ways to stylize them, so I decided to start working on a step-by-step tutorial for you guys about how to draw & stylize braids! 🥰 I used ...

Vote: June Tutorial Video! 💌✨

Hello again! 😌🌻

It's time to vote for this month's exclusive tutorial video! 🎉 We had sooo many amazing suggestions on our Feature Friday post and I loved reading them all 😍 I've included the most popular requests in this poll for you to vote on what you'd like to see this month! If the tutorial you want doesn't ...

Early Look: Kookaburras 🌾 + what I'm up to this week! ✨

Hello everyone & happy Monday! 😍

I hope you all had a restful weekend 😌 I spent the weekend relaxing, spending time with family, and also working on some exciting things for you guys! ✨ Yesterday I filmed this month's draw with me video, which shows the coloring & rendering process of my kookaburra studies! 🌟 They were sooo much fun to study and color, and you'll get to see it all come together in the video 😌 I ...

Bird Studies ✏️✨ + Tutorial Suggestions & Feature Friday! 💌

Hello everyone & happy Friday! ☺️⛱

This morning I felt like doing some animal studies because it’s been awhile since I drew some animals, and I realized I never draw birds! So here are some sketch studies of the kookaburra bird 🥰🐦 I’m planning on coloring these and filming the coloring process for this month’s draw with me video! 💛 I always find coloring animals to be so therapeutic and relaxing, so I’ll sh...

Real-time Process: Coloring a Scene ⛱✨ part 2! 🎞

Good morning everyone! 🥰

Here is part 2 of the process of drawing my jean jacket beach girl! 💛I meant to post the video yesterday, but uploading took soooo long since this video is a large file and 51 minutes! 🙈but here it is!! I hope it brightens up your Friday 🥰

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Sneak Peek: Jean Jacket on the Beach ⛱ Colored Version! 🌼✨

Hi everyone! 😌✨

Today I visited my favorite coffee shop to finish coloring the sketch you saw yesterday and continue screen-recording the process ☺️ and here is the finished product! ✨ It was definitely a challenge, but I had sooo much fun with it and I’m glad I kept going 💛

I also discovered that I really love drawing fluffy clouds!! They’re like soft little blobs of color & light 😍 Would you guys be interested in a c...

Real-Time Process: Sketching a Scene⛱✨ // part 1!✨

Happy Wednesday everyone!! 🌼How has your week been so far?✨

Here is the real-time process of sketching my jean jacket girl at the beach! ⛱ It's a 38 minute video that I screen-recorded in real-time so you guys can see my full screen while I draw, and at a much slower pace! I sped up the video by just a tiny bit so it wouldn't feel too slow, but kept it very close to my normal pace so you can see the process clearly 🥰

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Sketch: Jean Jacket at the Beach ⛱🌼✨ + steps & references! 💌

Hello again! 😌✨

Today I felt so inspired by all the possibilities of the things I can draw now that Mermay is over and I’m no longer drawing mermaids! 🙈 so I started a new sketch of a character with a beach background, using a couple references you saw in the mood boards from today’s newsletter! 💌☺️
It’s been a while since I’ve drawn a background with a character in it, so it’s going to be a bit of a challenge 😅 but as ...

Hello June! 🌼🍃 A Little Newsletter to You + my plans for this month 💌✨

Hello everyone and happy first day of June! 🥰🌼✨

Right now it’s a beautiful sunny day and I’m sitting in a cozy sun spot while I write this to you 💛 It’s supposed to be rainy & cloudy for the rest of the week so I’m enjoying the sunshine while it lasts ☺️✨

It’s a new month and Mermay is officially over, which means it’s time to get back to drawing lots of various subject matter again and explore new things! 😍...

PSD + Procreate File 💌✨ Mermaid Redraw! 🦋✏️

Hello again! 👋🏼🥰 I hope you’ve all been having a lovely Sunday 🌼✨

As promised, here is the PSD and Procreate file of my mermaid redraw! 🥳 With these files you’ll be able to download them into your program and browse all the layers! I grouped the layers and labeled them so it’s easier to navigate 😌 And as always, I included a little layer guide in the second slide of this pos...

Sunday Sketch: Ariel 🐠🐚✨

Hello everyone & happy Sunday! 🥰✨

Here’s a little sneak-peek of my last mermaid drawing for Mermay this year! 💛 I couldn’t let Mermay pass by without taking advantage of drawing this lovely Disney princess 🐚 My goal with this drawing was to work quickly and not worry about the details too much, which I really enjoyed! 🥰 It’s nice to let loose and be a bit messier sometimes 😌✨

In other news, yesterday I posted a litt...

Drawing Process: Mermaid Redraw 🌟✏️✨

Happy Saturday everyone! 😍🌼

Here's a little drawing process video for you to enjoy this weekend 💌 This drawing was sooo much fun but it was also a bit of a challenge! 🙈 I rarely do redraws so something I discovered while drawing is that it felt like I couldn't stray too far from the original, and I felt unsure of certain ideas and concepts I wanted to try out in case the redraw would end up looking too different. 😅 But then I realized ...

Early Look: Mermaid Redraw 🦋✨ + Feature Friday! 💌

Hello everyone! 🥰 I hope you’re all having a lovely Friday ✨

Here’s a little sneak-peek of my mermaid redraw! 🐠 The original is from exactly 1 year ago, and it’s so interesting to see how much my style has changed in just a year! 🙈 I used to have a much more painterly style, and now I’ve found that I really enjoy a sketchier drawing style with an emphasis on lines and pencil strokes 😌 Doing a redraw always makes...

Sketching & Lineart Tutorial! ✏️🎞✨

Hello everyone! I hope you're all having a lovely Thursday 🥰

Here is this month's tutorial video on sketching and lineart! 😍In this video I'll be covering my best techniques and tips on how to build up the layers of a sketch to create a detailed work of lineart, and I'll also share some of my favorite sketching tips! ✨I had so much fun creating this tutorial and I hope you all enjoy it and find it helpful! 🥰 

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Sketch WIP: Working on a Redraw! 🦋✏️✨

Hello everyone & happy Wednesday! 😍 I hope you’re all enjoying your week so far 😌✨

I posted a few of my older drawings from past Mermays on my Instagram the other day and asked everyone which drawing I should try to redraw, and there were a lot of people who wanted to see my blue mermaid redrawn! ✨ So here’s a little sneak-peek of my progress so far 🥰

I’m still really happy with the older drawing, but the...

Monday Sketch ✨ + All done filming the tutorial! 🥳💌🎞

Hello everyone! 💛 I hope you’ve all been having a lovely start to your week! 😌

We just got back from our little weekend vacation (which was sooo refreshing! I put some photos below for you guys 🥰) and now I’ve been spending the day getting work done! ✨

I’m super excited because I completely finished filming this month’s tutorial video and now all we have to do is edit! 😍 The sketch you see...

Mermaid with Fish Friends 🐠✨ Timelapse Process!🎞✨

Hello everyone & happy Monday! 🥰

We just got back from our little weekend vacation and now it’s time to get back to work, so here’s a process video to start the week! 😌✨ One of the biggest challenges of this drawing was the color palette, mainly because I rarely work with yellow/gold 🙈 So you’ll get to see how I play with the colors to eventually make it work! ☺️ I hope you all enjoy it and have a lovely start to your week!! ...

Studio Vlog #5 💌 // sketching ocean studies, mermaids, & flower shopping 🌻

Hello again! ✨

Here is the studio vlog for May! 😍 In this video I take you with me to a science museum to sketch some studies of fishies, draw some relaxing ocean studies, work on posts for instagram & artfol, and go flower shopping for our patio 😌🌻 It was such a relaxing vlog to film and I hope you enjoy it!! 💌

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Early Look: Sketches for the Tutorial Video + a Little Update & Feature Friday! 💌🍿✨

Hello everyone! 😍 I hope you’re all enjoying your Friday so far ✨

These past couple days I’ve been super busy editing the studio vlog and I also started filming this month’s tutorial video on Sketching & Lineart! 💌 I’m working on some sketches for it and these are what I’ve got so far 😌 I’m trying to cover as much detail as possible so it’s taking a littl...

Bonus Step-by-Step: How to Draw Fish! 🐠✏️✨

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday! 😌✨

I mentioned in my last post that I wanted to make another step-by-step tutorial for you guys and here it is! 🥳🎁 This one is a detailed tutorial about how to draw fish! It covers tips on how to sketch the fish, how to render them & more 💌  There’s also a little section on how to create some scaly fish textures which is also applicable for mermaid tails if you’re drawing mermaids this mo...

Sketching a Mermaid with some Fishy Friends 🐠✏️✨ + what’s happening this week! 💌

Happy Monday everyone! 🥰 I hope you all had a restful weekend ✨

This morning I’ve been sketching my next mermaid drawing and this time I’m going to incorporate some fish! 😍 I feel much more confident adding fish after studying them at the science museum last weekend (which you’ll get to see in the studio vlog this month! 🥳) so this is what I’ve got so far! I included the reference photo I’m using...

“Seaweed” 🌿✨ PSD + Procreate file with all my layers! 💌✨

Hello everyone & happy Sunday! ☺️

Thank you so much for all the positive feedback on the draw with me video I filmed for this drawing! 😍 I thought it would be helpful to share the PSD & Procreate file of this drawing as well so you can see all the layers that went into the process 💛✨And as always I’ve included a little layer guide in case you’re new to looking through files like these! ☺️

📎Here are the fil...