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SNEAK PEEK - Face expressions I drew for this month’s Real Time video ⛅️🎞

Hi everyone!  

These two references had very similar amount of votes so I decided to draw and film both 🥰 Must admit - I love drawing expressions and enjoyed the process a lot!
First one is a bit more detailed because I wanted to show you the process of drawing hair and number two was more quick, with symbolic hair, as in most of my sketches ✏️ 

I’ll share the video soon 🤞🏼🍿 

Hugs ☀️
Gaby 

SNEAK PEEK - Portrait studies of elderly people 👵🏽👴🏾 + Update 📝

Hi Everyone!

Today I’d like to share with you the studies I made yesterday in a train 🚆 I went to Warsaw to meet with people from Patreon and other Polish Creators. We had a brunch together and talked about our passions 🥰 People do so many creative and amazing stuff, not necessarily related to drawing! There was one person, who writes and directs the audio fantasy dramas about queer pirates! 🏴‍☠️ How cool is that! Someone else made their own comic books...

POLL - Which expression should I draw for this month’s Real Time Process Video? 🗳

Hi my Dear Potato Angels! 

It’s time for the new Poll! 🥁 This time I’d like to draw some expression studies. Help me to pick which one should I draw for you first ✏️ 

😚🤨🤪😄😕🫣

STEP BY STEP - Colored Pencils Portrait🍦

Hi Everyone! 

I'm back! 😊 It was an amazing and pretty crazy week! I'm very happy with the content we managed to film - it's gonna be a long course! 🎞 Today I wanna share with you my new portrait study made with colored pencils. I try to slowly come back to drawing for myself instead of focusing on the course and tight deadlines! 🧘‍♀️ 

MATERIALS

I still don't have my luggage so most of my favorite materials is somewhere in Europe �...

SNEAK PEEK - Greetings from Madrid! ☀️

Hi my Dear Potato Angels!

Who would have guessed that my trip to Madrid will take 36 hours 😂

But I’m here! I’m safe and glad after first day of shooting my second Domestika course ❣️
I love my colorful set so much! It looks like a palette made from my favorite shades of colored pencils 🧚‍♂️
Today we filmed lessons about documenting your work (taking photos and making reels) and tips about sharing them on social media. After that we filmed lessons about c...

SNEAK PEEK and UPDATE before my trip to Madrid 🫣✈️❤️‍🩹

Hi everyone!

Welcome in June 💕

Tomorrow, late at night, I'm flying to Madrid! I’ll be there till Saturday. On Monday I am starting to film the second course for Domestika (about portraits painted with colored pencils) and I am very excited but also stressed 😅 I want everything to be as good as possible! I have prepared a lot of material, so the course will be longer than the previous one. Let’s hope we will have time to do it as I imagined 👌🏼

The drawing in t...

SOCIAL MEDIA: Monthly Shoutouts of Your Art on my Instagram Stories ☀️

Hello everyone! 🤗

It’s almost the end of May!  🌱 Every month I share my Patrons art on Insta Stories as a big Thank You for their support!

✨ Here are the rules:

• Add your Intagram handle to the comments section under this post 🙌🏼

• Stories will look more or less as at the top of this post ☝🏼

• You can be featured each month - there's no limit! 🍪

• I’ll share all the stories on the first days of the ne...

VIDEO: Real Time Process - Watercolor Portrait Painting 🎨🍿🎞

Hi Everyone!

I'm so glad to share with you this video! It's a real time process of painting the portrait from the reference you have chosen in a poll. I enjoyed a lot painting it and I hope you'll enjoy watching! 😊 

Hugs 🧡 

Gaby 

SNEAK PEEK: Colored pencils studies 🛼

Hi everyone!

How are you? 😊 

Today I finally could draw something for myself. I painted few studies with colored pencils. It’s a very pleasant change after working the whole week on less creative projects 😌 For the first time I used a graphite pencil to make the initial sketch. Before I thought it will make my sketches looking muddy or dirty but if you erase the graphite before adding colors, it works completely fine ✏

Materials:

- Talens Art Creation sk...

SNEAK PEEK: Watercolor portrait based on the photo chosen in the last Poll 🌱

Hi Everyone!

I hope you’re having a good beginning of the week ☀️

Today I wanna share with you a portrait painted only with watercolors (I usually add some gouache, ink or colored pencils). I’m happy how it turned out, I hope you like it too! I filmed the whole process so I’m gonna share the Real Time video soon 🎞 🍿 

Have a lovely week! 🤗

Gaby 

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MATERIALS:

- Sketchbook - Ivory, Viv...

ART GUIDE: Dos and Don'ts for Beginners - Part 2 - "Line drawing" 🥨

Hi everyone!

This is the second post from a series based on observations of my students' exercises on Domestika. 

✍🏼 Remember that my comments and observations usually apply to people who are just starting their adventure with drawing. Therefore, I refer to these tendencies as "mistakes". Not because there is only one way to do art. It's just worth knowing the rules first in order to be able to break them effectively and consciously.

"Blue-Eyed Girl" Color Palette - ready to use in Procreate 🎨

Hi everyone!

I hope you’re all having a great day ☀️ 

Today I wanted to share with you my color palette from the "Blue-eyed girl" portrait. As with colored pencils - in digital art I usually use similar colors and their combinations. It’s probably a combination of my personal preferences, mood and period in art. Maybe someday I’ll have The Blue Period like ...

POLL - Help me to pick the photo reference to paint a portrait study 🗳✨

Hi everyone! 🌱

Please help me to pick one of these reference photos! I’d love to paint one with watercolors 🫠

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PDF - SCANNED SKETCHBOOK: My 1st 100 Heads Challenge + Reference photos 📌

May 16 UPDATE: For the last few days I was collecting reference photos I used for my 100HC in 2019. My brain hates me now 🫠 but I was able to find most of them! Here’s the Pinterest board - LINK 📌 If someone recognizes and has the photo that I used to draw the above portrait with flowers, I’d be very grateful if you could send it to me 😅

Interesting thing: I drew from this photo in both ...