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✨New Art//Fitz (Keeper of the Lost Cities Commission)

Revealing the next character portrait from Keepers of the Lost Cities!

Say hello to the handsome Fitz Vacker! He is Biana's older brother and is, at least on the surface, known as a kind of a golden boy.

I have to admit I struggled a bit with this one.

The author liked this straight-on portrait for him, and while that is usually totally my cup of tea, for some reason, I struggled with some parts of his face looking asymmetrical or crooked despite them being 100 percent symm...

Signed Books now Available!

Hello lovelies! I wanted to let you guys know first!

A limited number of signed books are now listed in my shop! (I have just a little over 15 copies!) These copies were quite late in arriving, so it took me so long to get them listed, but they are there now! Sorry for the wait!

Grab a Signed Book!

I also made a fun sticker sheet ...

✨New Art//Full Moon

⁤🌕 The "Full Moon" radiates powerful energy in the lunar cycle. ⁤⁤It is a time of culmination and clarity, where intentions set during the new moon can come to fruition. ⁤⁤The full moon is perfect for manifestation, celebration, and gratitude. ⁤⁤It serves as a moment to release what no longer serves, celebrate achievements, and notice a heightened awareness and intuition as the lunar cycle peaks. 

Once again, I am late for the moon...

🎬Speedpaint//Linh

Hello hello!  Here is the time-lapse speedpaint🖌️ with music for : Linh

A little about the process

Do you ever watch your tiimelapse processes and feel like you spend most of your process in the "ugly phase"? lol! I feel like that quite a bit for these portraits. It felt like once I started coloring, they spend a lot of time not quite coming together until finally near the ver...

🎬Speedpaint//Biana

Hello hello!  Here is the time-lapse speedpaint🖌️ with music for : Biana

Edit: the video should be available now!!

A little about the process

As I mentioned in the art post for this one, I felt like it flowed quite well, and the process went pretty smoothly. The pretty smile, hair, and eyes are all within my wheelhouse! Do you think that she looks a little bit like how I draw Persephone? LOL. I'll admit that while I didn't copy anything, I did referen...

🖼️September Print Vote🗳️

Hear ye! Hear ye!! 'tis time to cast your votes for SEPTEMBER print votes!!

• Multiple Choices are not allowed. (it's not my fault this time. The post bugged when I hit publish and it disabled multiple choice. Grrr! You must choose your one true favorite!) 

• Voting Ends August 30th! 🌟

• FYI for those of you in the STICKER and SPICY guilds ...

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🖋️TUTORIAL//Fantasy Anatomy: WINGS

Have you ever felt a little overwhelmed about drawing wings on a character? They can seem like complex structures to draw!

In this tutorial I will break down the basics of how to draw wings! We'll go over: Fairy Wings, Demon Wings, and Feathered/Angel Wings! Let's Fly!

Also, I mention it at the end of the tutorial, but if you guys are interested in a WING POSES tutorial, let me know. This tutorial gives us a good foundation for drawing wings, but we could ex...

Art//Keeper of the Lost Cities Portraits (1st batch)

I'm so excited that I can finally start revealing to you some character portraits I've been working on for the lovely author Shannon Messenger for her series, Keeper of the Lost Cities.

Here is the first batch that has been released!

Here are the characters in order:

Sophie: our main girl! She was raised by humans in the modern world but finds out that she is ac...

✨New Art//Biana (Keeper of the Lost Cities Commission)

Introducing the beautiful Biana Vacker! She is part of the prestigious Vacker family and while she is very much a girly girl, she also proves to be formidable and resourceful in a fight as the story progresses! I won't spoil her ability since she develops it later in the book, in case any of you decide to pick up the series.

This character probably came the easiest to me initially. Considering my comfort zone is pretty girls, I guess that isn't a surprise! haha

If you aren't fa...

🎬Speedpaint//Tam

Hello hello!  Here is the time-lapse speedpaint🖌️ with music for : Tam

A little about the process

 I feel like this portrait had a pretty good flow from the beginning. I'm not sure if it's just the brooding character that spoke to me, or what! haha! But I found drawing Tam's portrait especially fun.

Looking at how much the features and everything change from th...

✨New Art//Linh (Keeper of the Lost Cities Commission)

Ahh! Here is lovely Linh! She controls water and is Tam's twin sister!

It was interesting working on her because she flowed quite easily at first, but then when we (me and the author) sent the complete version to the publisher, they came back with a bunch of facial changes that had me going back and repainting some features. It was a little odd that so many changed came back when versions prior to shading had been approved, but I guess there were just things that were revealed after sha...

🎬Speedpaint//Sophie

Hello hello!  Here is the time-lapse speedpaint🖌️ with music for : Sophie!

A little about the process

 These portraits, in total, took months from start to finish because of all the feedback and approvals I needed throughout the process. I had expected the project to be fairly simple (just a few portraits!).. but it became much more involved.

 It was definitely a learning e...

🌟September Sticker Poll

Hear ye hear ye! 'tis time for the September sticker vote!

I have my GUESS about which will win this vote but I'm so curious to see if I'm correct in which you guys will choose! haha! Looking forward to the results!!

Multiple choice is enabled, so you can vote for multiple options!  (if the multiple choice isn't working for you, try refreshing or voting on your PC instead of mobile.  Mobile has some bugs with multiple choice voting sometimes)

Voting end...

✨New Art//Persephone of Underworld (NSFW on some images)

Do you guys remember the Persephone of Spring portrait???🌸🍃 Well now we finally have a Persephone of the Underworld portrait!

I have vaguely had the idea to draw the 'dark' counterpart of the spring portrait for her but it came back to the front of mind when Diamond Art Club released the Persephone of Spring diamond painting recently! So I just decided to go ahead and tac...

✨Art//Dark Moon

🌑The "Dark Moon" or "New Moon" holds a calm and mysterious energy in the lunar cycle. It is a powerful time for inner work and transformation. It provides a time to reset and refresh with new intentions and new beginnings. The dark moon is also perfect cleansing and divination to seek insights into what is to come in the upcoming lunar cycle.

So the FULL moon is actually coming up, so the timing of sharing this one s a little off but I created it bac...

✨New Art//Tam (Keeper of the Lost Cities Commission)

Say hello to Tam, the next portrait from Keepers of the Lost Cities!

He is a "shade", meaning he controls shadows and darkness.

I love how this one turned out. I had initially painted his shading a tiny bit more dramatic, but was given feedback that all of these portraits shading needs to be a bit softer, sooooo I had to lighten it up a bit. But I still love how he turned out. Maybe I just love those more dark and angsty characters. haha

Keep an eye out for his sister soon!<...

✨New Art//Sophie (Keeper of the Lost Cities Commission)

Hello hello! It is finally time that I can reveal to you some character portraits I've been working on for the lovely author Shannon Messenger for her series, Keepers of the Lost Cities.

Here is our main girl Sophie! She was raised by humans in the modern world but finds out that she is actually an elf and belongs in the hidden elven world! Not only is she an elf but she was created as part of "project moonlark," and is one of the most powerful elves their world has ever seen. While try...

🖋️TUTORIAL//How I draw TEETH and FANGS

Welcome into this little BONUS tutorial! How I approach drawing TEETH and FANGS. This tutorial was originally meant to go along with the ears and horns tutorial, but that tutorial already felt too long, so I decided to separate this topic into its OWN tutorial.

In this tutorial, I show you how I draw teeth, what I keep in mind, and how I keep things simple so that the teeth don't look too uncanny. I also show you how to add things like fangs and orc lower-tusk-like teeth.

I ...