Xochi

I make art and often make videos doing such

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I make art and often make videos doing such. I love making portraits in an attempt to capture the unique natural beauty of everyday people. Currently enjoying working with alcohol markers, watercolor, acrylic paint markers, colored pencils, and gouache lately. Recently gotten into upcycling and drawing with puffy paint pens on clothes. 🍉🇲🇽🇮🇪

Will happily yap for an eon over art, music, PJO, Miraculous Ladybug, marine biology, and my recent hyperfixation on caring for houseplants.

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Made a lil pen comparison video if you wanna know what fineliners, fountain pens, gel pens, etc. will work best for any medium you use.

Absolutely nothing is sponsored. I wasted my money on all of these so you don't waste yours on a trendy new art supply that's not going to work with the mediums you use. I thoroughly tested each pen against various popular alcohol marker, watercolor, and gouache brands, as well as a variety of different types of papers and sketchbooks to see which pens are really worth the money, are surprisingly cheap but just as high quality, and most versatle for a variety of media.

I also have a sketchbook showdown and watercolor paper comparison on my channel, so if you're having trouble finding one that works best for you, please feel free to check them out as well. I don't get kickbacks from any of these videos. I'm brutally honest if I didn't enjoy something, and I just love to infodump about art supplies and decided to use my powers for good this month.

Reviews/Art Supply Showdowns

videos comparing and reviewing supplies to help both beginner and professional artists find affordable and high quality materials

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Here’s my latest video after a short hiatus from posting my art and making videos. If you’re sick of all the changes to social media and influx of AI everywhere, or a creative that’s struggled to find or feel success on Instagram and YouTube, and unsure where to go to post your art where it’ll actually be shared, prioritized, and enjoyed, I feel the same. It makes me so angry to see how many artists I’ve loved watching over the years quit YouTube lately because all the changes to the platform has done nothing to support small business and creatives anymore. Please feel free to share this with anyone you feel needs to hear it.

My assignment for everyone on my YouTube channel was to comment with their favorite YouTubers, artists or not, and share the people online that still bring them joy in spite of all the chaos surrounding us all right now. And share any channels that’s have left or quit, either lately or years ago, that you miss. If we don’t want to lose the people out there that make us feel a little closer to whole right now when platforms no longer support them, we have to use their algorithms against them and work around them to keep what we love alive. The easiest way to start to rebel against what’s going on lately is to hold onto what brings us hope or gives us a community, and refuse to let others feel we are helpless and alone. I want to extend this to anyone on Tumblr who comes across this. Feel free to share any Tumblr users that bring you a little light during these dark times. And if you’re a creative that’s struggling to find people to see your work, please feel free to introduce yourself. ☻

This was also a #drawthisagain challenge of sorts for myself. The piece I’m working on is a redraw of this portrait I did in my sketchbook 2 years ago. There was a lot of it that I kept rather than became overly critical of—something I’ve been working on doing less with my art. This redrawing was meant to hone back to when my process was just about having fun and enjoying the process of creating, rather than worrying if it’s worthy of posting. This is the original:

And here’s the redrawn version

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I've had this idea for a zine for the longest time and I finally made it! Inspired by and dedicated to all of my fellow fangirls* :')

As always, I'm sharing a high res pdf for standard A4-sized paper so you can print this zine yourself!

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Lil #wip of a new video in the works for my YouTube Channel. I’ll be trying out portraiture with my new Ohuhu alcohol markers, so anyone interested in getting some for themselves or hearing if I’d recommend them or not should stay tuned or come check my channel out in the weeks to come.

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Some ice cream sundae concept sketches for possible upcoming stickers once my online shop opens. I might make a full process video rendering these in my sketchbook for anyone interested. I’m currently finishing up filming studio vlogs of some portraits I’ve been working on, so stay tuned for those on my YouTube channel. I’m debating over finishing these up with gouache or my new Ohuhu alcohol markers. What do you think?

Should I finish these up with gouache or alcohol markers?

Gouache

Alcohol markers

Voting ended onMar 1, 2025

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A fun little portrait of the lovely @thegothicsprite on IG from one of my sketchbook sessions from a while back. I had a lot of fun playing around with my Copic gasenfude brush pen for this piece, and highly recommend giving it a try if you wanna experiment with brush pens in your lineart or artwork, especially if you work with alcohol markers and fineliners. Anyone interested in the full process of this piece can check out my YouTube video working on it in the link below.

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Something a little glam, a little punk I worked on a while back. Anyone interested in the full illustration process of this piece can check out my video working on the concept art for this piece in the link below. I’ve got three different versions of this piece, but my favorite version isn’t finished just yet, so I’ll attach the finished piece to this post once I’m done with it.

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A sketchbook spread from a while back that I had a lot of fun working on. Anyone interested in the full illustration process of this piece can check out my Youtube channel from the link below.

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A little puppy love this Valentine’s Day 💕 Practicing puppy portraits to prepare for accepting pet portraits in the future. Maybe expect some more doodles of dogs in the days to come 👀

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Some funky lil camera studies with my new Ohuhu alcohol markers, a wine Copic multiliner, and my favorite gel pen, the Uni-Ball Signo DX/UM-151 in 0.38 mm. Love this pen to death and wish more fineliners came in this color. I’ll be reviewing my Ohuhu 128-color set on my YouTube channel soon, so anyone interested can check out my channel in the weeks to come. I had a lot of fun doing this limited palette study and highly recommend picking only two or three colors and drawing something if you’re currently stuck in a slump of artist’s block 😉

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Some doodles of cute lil bentos I plan on turning into stickers soon. Should I finish these up with gouache, or my new Arrtx markers?

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Thought I’d share some redraws of two of my portrait practice sketches from just over a year ago today. Really happy to see the progress I’ve made with drawing digitally, but that’s only motivating me to make more ambitious goals for the new year. This is a sign for anyone who needs it to keep making art, even if you think it isn’t any good. You. Will. Improve. And don’t feel the need to always make it perfect. No one improves from never making any mistakes.

I’ll be making videos on my YouTube channel where I’ll be finishing these portraits up with my new Arrtx alcohol markers, ink, gel pen, and colored pencils, so anyone interested in seeing the full illustration process should stay tuned or subscribe there.

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Some of my favorite portraits and hairstyle practice studies from the past two years. This is your sign to get out of your comfort zone and try to study something new in your art, cause I have too much fun trying to break hair into repeated shapes and brushstrokes to not encourage others into trying it themselves.

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Shots from my latest video on YouTube where I work on depicting the lovely @philosofay (on IG). Please check her makeup looks out on Instagram cause working on this piece got me through a serious bought of art block. Anyone interested in seeing the full illustration process of this piece can check out my YouTube video through the link below.

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Some alcohol marker fish studies I did a while back in my sketchbook. Might turn some of these into stickers for anyone interested. Anyone who’d like to see the full illustration process of these fish can check out the video from my YouTube channel below.

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Some closeups from a limited palette challenge from my sketchbook last February. Very tempted to turn these into stickers for anyone interested. Highly recommend challenging yourself to a limited color palette study of something for anyone struggling with artist block rn. Anyone interested in seeing the full illustration process for this spread can check out the link below to my video of it from my YouTube channel.