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Ideas for my Patreon feed!

I’m so excited about my Patreon that I couldn’t sleep last night 😄 I have so many ideas for posts! I also received first suggestion from my patron 😊 Feel free to send me messages or post comments with your ideas and suggestions, they’re very helpful! 

Here are some topic ideas for future posts:

  • How do I use hatching? Step by step process 
  • Line weight and quality. How to draw va...

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USEFUL ART TIP: Color theory for digital & traditional painting

Do you want your paintings to be more reach in colors and dimensions?
Here are some tips that helped me to improve my artworks.
They are useful for both - traditional and digital painting. 

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SKETCHBOOK UPDATE

Short movie with my current sketchbook update 😊

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STEP BY STEP TUTORIAL: How do I see face proportions

How do I see proportions?
How I draw a portrait from a reference photo?
How I know where should be an eye or a nose?

I get a lot of this sort of questions so I drew the answers for you 😊

It’s not a tutorial from any book or professional course. This is a visualization of my process. In this tutorial I show how I see and understand the proportions, angles and distances between face features. 

Usually I don’t draw all of these supporting lines, they’re ...

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TIMELAPSE: Complete process of drawing San from "Princess Mononoke"

I’m so excited! This is my first fanart! 🖤

Drawing made in Procreate on one layer and just one brush - "Dry ink".

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WIP: Deck of cards

Concept sketches & design made as a commission. The idea is a deck of cards with barber shop stylized characters. I like the vintage style they have :)

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TIMELAPSE: Full process of drawing ‘Lady in a vintage car’

Things that I like in this drawing:

- Most of colors
- Idea & vibe
- The way I painted the shiny mirror
- That I finished 

Things that I hate:

- Composition
- Proportions
- The way I painted everything but mirror
- That it took 2 days

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SECRET SKETCHES: Billie, Geralt and some other portraits

Billie Eilish, Geralt of Rivia and some other portraits — too messy to post & too vivid to match my Instagram content. I don't actually know why I don't share some of my drawings even tho they are not very bad. My Patreon will be a good place for them :) 

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SKETCHBOOK TOUR: Sketchbook #3 flip through

Hi Patrons! 🍀

Here‘s a little flip through my sketchbook #3.

Time: I started to use it in April and finished on September of 2019 (that is a little bit too long in my opinion but the most important is to just fill it, right?). 😄

Content: You can see there my whole ‘100 heads challenge’ drawings, some artworks that I posted on Instagram, very quick (even 5 min) sketches and finished artworks that took a lot of time (‘a lot of ti...

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STEP BY STEP: Tattoo design — commission artwork

Do you wanna know how to design tattoo in a proper way?
Here are some tips!

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Before we start — I'm not a tattoo artist so I'm not an expert it this area. However, I did create few tattoo designs and I have tattoos on my body so I know the basics. I keep in mind that my design can be changed a little bit by tattoo artist to adjust the technique and size but I try to prepare it with specific rules to avoid any big changes.


STEP BY...

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STEP BY STEP: Character design — from quick notes to the final artwork


Here are the essentials I've learned so far.
I'm going to update this type of Step-by-steps with more info in the future posts.



STEP BY STEP IN MY WAY OF CHARACTER DESIGN:

1. CHARACTER BACKGROUND: First I'm thinking about the personality of my character and take some notes. The story behind the character is absolutely essential. Otherwise the person you create won’t be realistic and unique. I’m writing few...

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STEP BY STEP: Digital portrait painting — commission artwork

I had a huge pleasure to create a portrait for this awesome man!

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On the pictures you can see the process. At first I make various pencil sketches to catch the character, then I start with:


1. RED LINE SKETCH:
I realized that it's easy to loose your first concept sketch when you add colours and blending. That's my way to avoid it – I use red colour to make a sketch (or other vivid shade that will not appear in final painting...

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Self portrait and self introduction

Hello everyone! I'm finally on Patreon and I can't be more excited!

For a good start I'm showing you my very first selfportrait.
Picture was made in Procreate App with Dry ink brush. I'm working on IPad Pro 12,9. 

It is not printed. I just combined it with mockup.


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