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How to draw underwater settings: make everything floaty and weightless. Done! ✅ Unless you're a geek like me and want to learn all about how to paint the lighting: the highlights of the ripples, the bluish glow, the reflections.. there's a lot to think about but it's so satisfying once you get it right!

I painted these for last month's Patreon challenge on underwater lighting! If you like drawing challenges, join us: we’re studying wrinkles and folds this month. It's time to walk away from those face-smoothing filters and draw some textured skin!

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Smudging charcoal on paper with my hands gives me the ICK. I just can’t handle the feeling. I got goosebumps just thinking about it 😓But I love the style so I drew this on my iPad, and my hands feel clean and moisturized. Yay! ✨

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Sketching out some ideas for a whale-themed painting I will one day create.

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I like how this girlie turned out, even though she’s clearly side-eyeing me.

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I’ve been dabbling in riso printing! I’ve been trying to figure out how I can translate my soft digital style into a risograph by separating all the color channels. I have not printed them yet, so I have no idea if they’ll work ~ I still need to pick the final colors!

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I’m a character artist. I’m used to painting skin and hair and clothes... soft textures, basically. I found out the hard way that this approach does not work for rocks. Unless you want them to look like weirdly shiny flesh blobs instead 🤔 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ That’s why I try to practice rendering other surfaces from time to time. These were drawn for last month’s challenge on painting gems and colorful rocks!

If you like drawing challenges, join us! We’re studying underwater lighting, which is perfect for those of you who are also doing MerMay. Check it out here!

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Remember when it was winter? It feels like a million years ago now. We had a lot of snow here in the Netherlands which was a rare experience. Here’s some paintings inspired by that special time ❄️ Done in Procreate!

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I’m not sure, but I think that tree might be haunted 👀 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ This started in my sketchbook and became a painting ~ painting twisty trees is so soothing!

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Fabric folds are so hard. At least for me. The more detail I add the more they start to look like frosting on a cake. Crispness does not come naturally to me. But I try!!

I drew these for my Patreon challenge. This month, we’re drawing gems and colorful rocks - join us!

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My second favorite thing to draw 🌳

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Continuing my colored pencil adventures. The most satisfying part is adding the bright yellow. The glow it gives 🤌

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A gift for Beanie, one of my incredible discord moderators! They requested something with critters and something spaced themed, so it naturally followed that I had to draw space raccoons.

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Why is it so hard to find good pose reference to convey tension? Good thing I've got my own extensive experience to draw from. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

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After lying around untouched for over 20 years, I finally tried out my ancient set of colored pencils. And now I’m wondering why I didn’t use them for so long - I love drawing with these!

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Dynamic poses! 🏃‍➡️ As someone who loves drawing gentle and flowy poses, I really have to push myself to capture more intense, forceful movement sometimes. That’s why challenges like these are super helpful to do from time to time! I drew these for last month's Patreon challenge ~ this month, we're studying drapery and clothing folds! Join us!

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That feeling when you're going through it 💧

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As a person with acne, this helps my self-image: studying the faces of people who have it, and realizing they are still beautiful even though their skin has imperfections.