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

Happy Sunday everyone! :)

It’s time to get your suggestions for this month’s tutorial video topic! What would you guys like for me to cover in the video? Feel free to drop any of your ideas/suggestions in the comments, even if it’s a super basic concept :) All ideas are welcome and they help give me a good idea of what you guys are currently interested in too 🥰

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Early Look: Jude in Modern Clothes 🌹✨

Hi hi! 🥰

Here’s a sneak-peek of my finished painting of Jude! I saw this beautiful red velvet dress on Pinterest and thought it looked like something she would wear if she wore a modern outfit, so here we are 🤭 Also it was my first time rendering velvet fabric and it was so fun!! ❤️

I filmed the rendering process for you guys, so you’ll get to watch the real-time drawing video of how I painted her soon! 🥰 I cha...

Vote for the Bonus Video Topic! ✏️🎥💫

Hi again! 🥰

It's time to vote for this month's bonus video! As always, this poll is just for you Devoted Dragonflies :) For the new members here, each month I film an extra video in addition to the others I post throughout the month, and I let you guys pick the topic! 💗

Below are some drawing ideas I've been wanting to do a...

Sketch WIPs: Jude in Modern Clothing ❤️🗡️✨ + new video for you! 💌

Hello everyone :) I hope you’re all having a happy day so far! ☺️

I wanted to show you some sketches and base colors for a new drawing I’m working on! I am loving drawing book characters right now, and I wanted to return to one of my favorites: Jude Duarte from The Cruel Prince 🥰 I’ve drawn her in armor before to depict her fierce side, and now I want to draw her with a softer look! This is her with a modern outfit:) (gonna practice rend...

Draw With Me! ✏️ Drawing a Book Character 🌹✨

Hello everyone! :)

Here is a new draw with me video for you! I took my camera and my iPad to a cozy coffee shop to draw one of my favorite book characters — Cordelia Carstairs from the Chain of Gold series! 🥰 It’s been a while since I filmed in public and I missed the vibes 🥲💕

Don’t forget to adjust the video quality to HD for clarity with the gear button ⚙️ :)

I hope you all enjoy the video!! This week I’ll be putti...

Early Look: Cordelia 🌹🧡🗡️✨

Hi everyone! ☺️ I hope you’ve all been having a cozy weekend:)

It was a super busy weekend for me because of Father’s Day and my best friend’s birthday, but I finished this drawing of one of my favorite book characters: Cordelia Carstairs from Chain of Gold 😍✨

I’m also almost done editing the new draw with me video for you guys!! 🥳 The video is a cozy drawing session in a coffee shop, showi...

WIP: Drawing a Book Character! 🗡️🍁🔥 + filming a new draw with me video for you 🎥

Hello everyone! ☺️ I hope you’ve all been having a happy week:)

Yesterday I filmed a new draw with me video for you guys! I wanted to draw another book character and decided to draw Cordelia from Chain of Gold, one of my favorite book series 🥰🗡️

I love the way she’s described in the books (she’s half Persian with vibrant red hair, the color of autumn leaves) and she fights with a magical gold...

Early Look: Dating a Vampire Mini Story 🖤☔️🥀 + plans this week!

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

I’m starting the week with finishing part 3 of my Dating a Vampire series! 🥰 This is when Viktor and Rose meet for the first time 🖤

I liked the idea of Viktor having an umbrella wherever he goes during the daytime (and sunglasses too of course ☺️) and then I imagined a scene where he shares the umbrella with Rose when it starts to rain :)

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WIP: Dating a Vampire Pt. 3 🖤🥀✨

Happy weekend guys! :)

I wanted to show you another mini story I’m currently working on for my Dating a Vampire series! 🖤 I’m really enjoying making reels of these two on insta and expanding their story, and here is a sneak-peek of my progress on part 3! 🥰 So far I’ve finished 3 images for this scene and I’m going to make maybe 5 more :)

I’ve also decided on names for them: Viktor and Rose! 🥀✨ This scene is going to be abo...

Studying Red Lighting! 🚨❤️❣️ real-time process ✨

Hi everyone! Happy weekend :) 

Here is a real-time drawing video for your Saturday! 🥰 This one shows the process for my scene study from the kdrama Strangers from Hell ❣️I recorded both the sketching process and the painting process so you can watch it all from start to finish! :)

It’s all in real-time, so you can follow along if you want! Especially if you want to replicate how to draw rain with a dark background, high contrast ...

Early Look: Rainy Red Lighting 🚨🖤🌧️ + new video for you! 💌

Hello everyone! :)

Here’s an early look at my red lighting study! I showed you the sketches earlier this week and today I finished colored them! 🥰 It’s a scene from a kdrama called Strangers from Hell :)

I totally thought these studies would kill me LOL since I’m not used to drawing red lighting with really dark contrasting shadows, but after some experimentation I found a really easy way to do it! 😍❤️

The whole process ...

Sketch WIP: drawing a scene with high contrast lighting 🖤🥀🌧️

Hello everyone! 🥰

Last night we got back from our trip, so I’m finally back in my studio space! 😍 It feels so nice to be resuming my usual routine and getting back to a normal schedule :) I missed my lil workspace 🥲

Today I’m starting with a scene study from a kdrama called Strangers from Hell! It’s a very high contrast light...

Happy June! 🌸 vampire mini story + content plans! ✏️💌

Happy new month everyone! 😍🌷

June is one of my favorite months of the year because everything starts to feel summery again ☺️ The seasons usually affect my art quite a bit, and during warm months I love using brighter color palettes and drawing things that feel like summer! ☀️

Since there are a lot of new members here, I wanted to start the month with the content list so you know what to expect! :)

2024-06-01 17:13:59 +0000 UTC View Post

Step-by-Step: Holographic Fabric! 💿💕✨

Hi again! :)

Here is a new step-by-step guide for how to draw holographic fabric! 🫶🏻 Since our tutorial video is about how to draw clothes, I wanted to make some bonus clothing content and I thought it would be...

Holographic Clothing Studies 🌈💕 + new tutorials for you! 🥳

Hello again! ☺️

Here are some studies of holographic fabric I’ve been working on! I’ve gotten requests for a loooong time to make a step-by-step guide on how to draw holographic fabric, so I made one for you guys today! 😍 I’ll be posting the step-by-step for it later tonight so get readyyy:)

It goes perfectly with our new tut...

TUTORIAL: How to Draw Clothes! ✏️🎀✨

Hello everyone! ☺️ I hope you’re all having a happy week:)

Here is a new tutorial for you! 🥳 This one is an updated guide on how to draw clothing, so we’ll be covering how to sketch various outfits while maintaining movement and flow, how to draw ruffles and folds, how to render on top of a clothing sketch, and more 🫶🏻✨

The video is in real-time so get your sketchbook or your tablet to draw with me or just enjoy watching! �...

Clothing Tutorial Sneak-Peeks! 🎀✏️ + things I’m working on this week! ✨

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

I’ve been working on our new tutorial video and it is officially DONE! 🥳 So I wanted to share a few sneak-peeks from the video 😍

The tutorial will be a new and refreshed guide on how to draw clothes, so I’ll be showing you guys how to sketch and structure clothing in a way that maintains flow and mo...

Early Look: Expression Studies! 🍪🎀✨ + Tutorial Poll Results! 💌

Hi everyone! :)

Today I finished coloring these expression studies and here is the result! I recently started drawing with red line art again and I forgot how much warmth it brought into my art, I’m really loving these warmer palettes right now 🥰🌼 Which expression is your fav? 👀

Earlier today I posted a new bonus video showi...

BONUS VIDEO: Sketching Expressions! ✏️💗

Happy Wednesday! 💗 :)

Here is a new bonus video for you! This one is a cozy sketching session where I practice drawing expressions :) I love doing these kinds of studies because they really help me get more comfortable drawing different kinds of emotions for my characters! I wanted to draw some more complex expressions to challenge myself and they were so much fun ☺️

This one is a draw with me style video, so get your sketchbook and your...

Mini Story: dating a vampire 🧛☀️✨ + other updates ✏️

hello againnn! :)

I wanted to show you guys something I sketched for fun! 💗 Last night I had this sudden idea about a girl dating a vampire (ngl I loooove vampire stories 🤭) and I wanted to draw a cute scene of them!

After sketching all the little panels I think I love them and want to draw them again soon 🙈 Any ideas for names for them??

In other news, yesterday I also posted two new videos for you! 🥰

2024-05-20 21:35:53 +0000 UTC View Post

Poll: Vote for the Tutorial Video Topic! 💌📮✨

Hello guys! :)

It’s time to vote for the tutorial video topic! 🥳 Thank you so much to everyone who left suggestions over the weekend, I’ve saved all your ideas to use for future content! 🥰 Below I’ve put the most popular requests and a little info about each one, so keep reading! :)

Here are the options:

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Coloring Process! 💗 Painting Regina George 🎀✨

Hi again! :)

A little bit ago I shared the sketching video for this character page, and now here is the painting process video! 🥰 Originally I made it all one video, but I thought it would be nice to split up the sketching and coloring since the process was a bit longer for these :) You can watch the 2024-05-20 04:21:38 +0000 UTC View Post

Sketching Process! ✏️✨ Drawing Regina George 💓

Hello guys! 🥰💗

Here is a new real-time video for you! This one shows the sketching process of my Regina George character page :) I’ll be posting the coloring process right after this post, so be sure to check out that video too! I hope you all enjoy this one 🫶🏻😌

Love,

Lydia 💌

Tutorial Suggestions! 💬 what should the video topic be? ✏️💭

Hello again! ☺️

It’s time to get your suggestions for this month’s tutorial video topic! 📮✨ For all the new members here, each month I let you guys give suggestions/ideas for the exclusive tutorial video and then I create a poll with the most popular requests for you all to vote for what you’d like to see :)

So what should the video topic be? Fe...

WIP: Expressions 👀💗 + three new videos for you! 🎥✨

Hello guys! :)

We got back from our trip so I’ve been finishing up some new video content for you! 🥰 Earlier this week Devoted Dragonfly members voted for a bonus video where I practice expressions, and here are the sketches! 💕 I wanted to study some more challenging angles and subjects, and the whole process is filmed for you:) Currently editing the video now and I’ll be posting it for all Devoted Dragonf...

Early Look: Regina George 🎀✨ + photos from our trip! 🎒💘

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday! ☺️

Here is an early look at my finished character sheet of Regina George from Mean Girls! 💗 This is such a comfort movie for me and I love Regina’s sassy character so much lol 🥰 The full process (both the sketching and the coloring!) has been recorded and I’ll be sharing the real-time video with you soon! 😍

In other news, this week we drove to the mo...

Sketch WIP: Regina George 🎀✨ + new videos for you! ✏️💕

Hello guys and happy new week! ☺️

Today I started sketching Regina George from the movie Mean Girls! 💗 I love the Y2K aesthetic and wanted to draw something with that vibe, and this movie captures it so well 🥰 Regina has so much sassy energy lol it’s been so much fun sketching her so far! 😍

I’ve been recording the sketching process for a new real-time video, and I’ll be recording the coloring as well! I’ll ...

Poll: Vote for the Bonus Video Topic! 🎥💗✨

Hello everyone! 🥰 I hope you’re having a happy Friday so far:)

It’s time to vote for this month’s bonus video topic! For the new patrons here, each month I film an extra video just for Devoted Dragonfly members and give you guys the ability to vote for what you’d like to see :) I’m posting t...

Draw With Me! ✏️🚌 Kdrama Scene Study ✨

Hellooo! ☺️

Here is a new draw with me video for you! In this video I color and render a panel in a mini comic I’ve been working on :) It’s based on a scene from the kdrama Lovely Runner! 🏃🏻‍♀️✨ I absolutely LOVE this kdrama, it’s currently ongoing so while I’ve been waiting for the next episode I wanted to draw one of the scenes (because it helps me cope LOL)

Make sure you adjust the video qualit...

Sneak-Peek: drawing a kdrama scene & filming a new video! ✏️🚌🎧

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

This week I’ve been working on filming a new draw with me video for you guys, and I decided to film my process of drawing a panel for a mini comic! 💗 It’s been sooo long since I drew one of these, so here is some progress! ☺️

I felt inspired after watching the kdrama Lovely Runner (it’s ongoi...