Sketches, Experimental Painting, + Tutorial Poll Results! 💌🫶🏻✨ (Patreon)

Happy Monday everyone!! ☺️ I hope your weekend was a lovely one :)

I spent the weekend reading, drawing, and being busy working on new content for you guys! 🫶🏻 There’s a lot of stuff so let’s catch up hehe ~

My current sketch I’m working on is inspired by a cat reference! I thought it would be really fun and interesting to turn an animal into a character, and specifically a cat! 🐱 Especially since cats have so much personality and their own unique aesthetic with their fur/eye coloring :) I got a lot of inspiration from Ramon on insta, and he has a ton of work where he turns animals into characters :) Here’s an example of his art:

I’m excited to start coloring the drawing now that the sketch is done! I’m going to try matching her color palette to the cat as much as possible; pale pinkish skin, icy blue eyes, and fluffy white hair 🤍

The other thing I finished was my experimental painting! 

This was soooo different for me! It started out as a warm-up sketch that I wasn’t really planning on coloring, but I decided to try doing a quick paint-over and here is the result :) I also used this drawing to test out several new painting brushes to see how I like them! I’m not sure if I’ll share this piece on insta, so for now it’s only for you guys 💜

The other thing I worked on over the weekend was finishing up a new draw with me video for you guys, and now it’s up for you to enjoy! 🥰

This one shows the painting process of my warrior girl, and in the video I share the book that inspired the drawing ☺️⚔️  Be sure to check it out!!

Lastly, our poll for this month’s tutorial video topic closed and now we have the result!! The option that won the vote was… How to Create a Dynamic Character Sheet! ✏️✨ You guys know that I make a loooot of character sheets because they’re one of my favorite things to draw, so I’m super excited to get started on thus video for you guys!! 😍 I’ll start planning it this week 💕

Ok that’s a long post!!! 👀 I love u guys! Have a happy day :)

~Lydia 💌