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UPDATE // the summer is almost over!

... and honestly, I'm relieved! We had a brutal heatwave here and it made it kinda hard to focus on drawing, haha. Not to mention, fall is my favorite season! Here’s a quick review of how this month went for me: 

ENVIRONMENTS

This month I jumped back into doing more environments. I usually draw them from reference and think of them as studies, but this time I wanted them to have more of an illustrative, storytelling feel. I feel like that really helped me t...

PROCESS VIDEO // ocean

Hey patrons! Hope you’re having an awesome weekend. Here’s the process video for my ocean speedpaint! It’s real-time, and the total process is about 2.5 hours. If you want to watch it at a faster speed, just click the gear icon and choose the spead you like! As usual, I used mostly the lasso tool and gradient to set up this painting, and then used a hard round brush at the very end to do most of the paintwork. More info about how I use the lasso tool to paint 2020-08-30 13:50:48 +0000 UTC View Post

EARLY ACCESS // pull

This one got the most enthusiastic response on my WIPs post earlier this month, so I finally sat down and finished it! Hope you like the end result ~ it was nice to get into underwater imagery again!

PROCESS VIDEO // sketch: underwater

Here’s another sketch process video, this time with no white balance issues, but I do dip my head into the frame a few times which caused some focus issues! If you guys have any tips for filming, please let me know, it’s constant trial and error for me haha.

As usual, it’s real-time but you can speed it up with the gear icon if you like! Hope you enjoy! 

PROCESS VIDEO // sketch: poses

I filmed the process for the sketches I posted earlier this month and edited them together into a video! It’s filmed in real-time but you can speed it up by clicking the gear icon if you like. Unfortunately the white balance was set to auto which resulted the color constantly changing, which is why I desaturated it! I need to work on making a better, more reliable setup for filming sketches. I hope you still enjoy this video despite those issues! Let me know if you have any questions!

EARLY ACCESS // travel: river

The third in the series in which I travel through my art. This one is inspired by photos of Erawan Falls in Thailand. I love beautiful rivers passing through dense forests, there’s something fairy-tale-like about that! This one was harder to wrap up quickly as there were so many details, but it was lovely to let my mind wander as I painted! 

EARLY ACCESS // travel: mountain

Another travel fantasy piece! Trying to draw these fast, within 2-3 hours, to improve my landscape painting skills. This one is based on the Hardergrat trail in Switzerland. I think this one would be a challenge for me to hike, as I struggle with heights, but it seems so worth it for the majestic view! 

POLL // next month's tutorial!

It's time to pick a topic for next month's tutorial! Please vote below and if the option you're interested isn't included, feel free to drop it in the comments :) Thanks so much!!

EARLY ACCESS // travel: ocean

Since I’m avoiding travel this year, I will try and travel through my art. Here is a place that I’d love to visit one day! It’s inspired by some photos I saw of the Injidup Natural Spa in Western Australia. I’ve never been to Australia and am fantasizing about going there when this whole covid nightmare is over! 

TUTORIAL VIDEO // constructing faces & expressions

Here it is: the third tutorial I’ve created exclusively for you patrons! This one is about head construction and expressions, and talks about the basic construction, different angles, squash & stretch, and scanning reference images for expressions. I hope you guys enjoy it! 

Some stuff I refer to in the video:

• I talk a bit about some principles from my first tutorial on pose construction. If you haven’t seen that yet, watch it here: 2020-08-12 10:46:40 +0000 UTC View Post

EARLY ACCESS // sketchbook studies

Some drawings from my sketchbook! I spent an afternoon sketching and also filmed the process for these. I’ll upload the videos soon! For now, hope you enjoy these! 

Also, tutorial #3 is rendering now and will be posted this week :) 

WIPS // august works-in-progress

Today I spent some time looking through my unfinished paintings and spending some time fleshing them out a bit more! I’m definitely in a swirly phase right now haha. I'd love to hear from you guys: which one do you like the most and should I finalize first? 

UPDATE // July has passed by!

The month has almost come to an end! Time to let you guys know how this month has been for me: 

PERSONAL LIFE

July was a rough month for me, sadly. Me and Arjen got sick which was kind of scary, but we both tested negative for covid so that was a relief! I had to take a week off to recover though, and soon after that I heard that my mother and stepfather had tested positive for covid. A couple days after that, I lost my grandfather. He was very old and we kne...

PROCESS VIDEO // grapefruit girl

I found some time to put together the process of the grapefruit girl! Just in time for the end of the month. My starting point was the drawing I made for my color choices tutorial which you can watch here. I basically just took it from there and painted over it until I liked what I saw! I used procreate on the iPad to do that.

The brushes I used were mostly Maxpacks Gouache:   2020-07-31 12:28:14 +0000 UTC View Post

EARLY ACCESS // grapefruit girl

I took the art that I drew during the color choices tutorial and finalized it on the iPad! I made some screen recordings while painting it so you can see my process, but I just need to assemble them into a video before I can post that. So that’s coming soon! For now, hope you like this one ~ and if you haven’t seen the color choices tutorial yet, definitely 2020-07-30 13:37:03 +0000 UTC View Post

VIDEO // business Q&A - part 3

Here’s part 3 of the Q&A videos about the business side of being an artist! Again, some people walk by in the hallway behind me, sorry about that. 

 In this video I talk about: 

• Planning and organizing: particularly about weekly / monthly self-reflection to figure out where you’re at and check the balance between client and personal work. 

• Budgeting for fluctuating income 

• Maintaining passion for your art.

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VIDEO // business Q&A - part 2

Here’s part 2 of the Q&A videos about the business side of being an artist! My office is situated right next to the building’s communal kitchen, so my apologies for the weird silhouettes passing by on the left side! I didn’t realize it was in the frame haha. 

 In this video I talk about: 

• Pricing: what factors determine pricing, and managing payment.

• Contracts: whether I use them, negotiating the terms, dealing with unexpected twis...

VIDEO // business Q&A - part 1

Hey guys! So I tried to cover like 90% of the topics addressed in the questions you guys posted, which ended in - predictably - some super long videos! I tried to keep the production value really simple, just taking my phone and talking freely. The audio might be a bit off but hopefully it’s manageable to listen to!

I sometimes feel super embarrassed about how I talk when I improvise like this, but I figure it’s just a more honest and open way of talking about these things. My apolo...

REQUEST // submit your questions!

I posted a poll earlier today about answering your questions about the business side of art - freelancing, rates, finding clients, etc! Thanks so much to everyone who voted! You guys voted to ask questions in advance, which I will then use to make a video answering the questions. That's the most ideal option for me as well, so that's what I'm gonna do!

Because of that, a request: please post your questions about freelancing and the business side of art in the comments below! If you want...

POLL // business & freelance questions

Hey guys! I haven't been able to draw as much this month because I got sick, I feel kinda bummed about that! As a way to compensate, I was thinking of doing a Q&A session for business and freelance related questions. I got a lot of questions on the comic cover walkthroughs (here's part 1, here's part 2 2020-07-24 12:45:46 +0000 UTC View Post

WALKTHROUGH // comic cover - part 2

Yesterday I posted a detailed walkthrough for my first Horizon Zero Dawn comic cover! I wanted to quickly go through the other two as well, so you could see the same process applied to two different pieces.  

PART 1 // COMIC COVER #2

The process for cover 2 was quite similar in essence! I’ll show you guys the steps a bit more quickly and briefly so you can see how the same process applies to a different drawing. For this issue, Talanah was on her own, but t...

WALKTHROUGH // comic cover - part 1

Hey guys! You might have seen the comic covers I made for the Horizon Zero Dawn comics that I posted on my socials. Here’s an overview of the ones that have been released:

I get a lot of questions about the process behind my client work, so I decided to put together a little walkthrough of the process for these comic covers! This was a job for Titan Comics and Guerrilla Games, alt...

EARLY ACCESS // cloud speedpaints

Hey guys! I’m recovered from my (non-covid) cold, so I’m back at it this week! Thanks for your kind words on my last post! Here are some super quick studies of skies in photoshop, based on reference images taken on my phone. Trying to challenge myself to draw quickly and not get stuck on the details. I want to do more of these and improve my skills with these quick speedpaints. I always find clouds to be difficult, I usually end up over-rendering them! Hope you like these. 

UPDATE // presentation & interview with Patreon

Hey guys! Sorry I haven't been posting as much this week, I've been feeling under the weather this past week. I wanted to let you guys know that I'm doing a presentation and short Q&A with Patreon tomorrow, on their livestream event The Show Up! Come join me if you're able to! More info here:  https://events.patreon.com/theshowup Hope to see some of you there!

POLL // next tutorial video!

Forgot to post this yesterday, but better late than never! What do you guys want me to cover in the next tutorial video? Let me know, and if the option you want isn't here, just drop it in the comments! Thanks so much guys! 

TUTORIAL // choosing colors

Allright guys, here it is: the second tutorial video for you, my lovely patrons! This one is about choosing colors. You guys actually voted for expressions but I didn’t want to do two tutorials about construction in a row - I wanted to try a different kind of subject as well, but I will definitely be doing expressions next month! 

So for now I made one on colors, or more specifically, using digital color adjustment tools to find colors intuitively. I use photoshop for this but th...

EARLY ACCESS // ladies

Some elderly lady character sketches! Just having fun and playing around. Hope you like :) Also, I’m starting on my second tutorial video today, can’t wait to share it with you guys once it’s done!! 

EARLY ACCESS // sweatpants

Hey lovely patrons! Today I bought a new pair of sweatpants, and thus felt inspired to draw a bunch of stripey sporty gym clothes inspired fashion. Comfy clothes are the way to go, am I right??  

PROCESS VIDEO // molten - part 3

Here is part 3 of the volcano painting process! It’s the final part. Part 1 can be found here, and part 2 can be found here. Again, it’s sped up 3x the real-time speed, and you can adjust the watching speed by clicking the gear button on the player. The total painting time was 12.5 hours. 

Some more info about the process ...

PROCESS VIDEO // molten - part 2

Here is part 2 of the volcano painting process! Part 1 can be found here. Again, it’s sped up 3x the real-time speed, and you can adjust the watching speed by clicking the gear button on the player. The total painting time was 12.5 hours. 

Some more info about the process of this video:

PAINTING ROCKS

Rendering rocks and chunky textures like this is so far outside of my com...