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UPDATE: New Project!!!

First off, thank you everyone for your continued support on my Patreon! For those of you who have sent me a message for your print, you should have received the package by now, but please let me kn...

PROCESS: Dzaya process with commentary

Good morning everyone–I thought I would do something different for this month’s process video. I’ve added an accompanying video where I provide my thoughts and reactions to my procreate repla...

WIP: Evgenia Character Design

There are some exciting things coming up this year that I’ll be mentioning later, and because of the aforementioned exciting thing, I wanted to update my Evi character designs from 2018*. And the...

EARLY ACCESS: Dzaya character study

After a bit of a break in 2021, I’m back on the character design train. Here’s a warm up–practicing with my new D&D character, Dzoldzaya Ögedei Chuluunbatar, or just Dzaya.

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PROCESS: Portrait from sketch to finish

Here’s my process for my semi-realistic portrait of Tanya. The video’s a bit long–the interesting bits are probably in the first 5 minutes, and the rest is me going back and editing/checking ...

BEHIND-THE-SCENES: References & Props

Oscar Wilde once wrote, "Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life". And in this case, it may be true! I wanted to share some stuff that goes on behind-the-scenes when it comes to creating ...

EARLY ACCESS: Realistic Tanya Portrait

Happy New Year everyone! Like the title says, I wanted to try to do a somewhat realistic painting of Tanya. It’s based on one of the expressions I did a couple years back which I’ve included he...

EARLY ACCESS: Leyendecker holiday study

Happy Holidays everyone! Here’s the finished piece (and a vintage monochrome one)–I think I like how it turned out! Well, at least it was fun to do while listening to some Marlene Dietrich. Tha...

WIP: Leyendecker holiday study

It’s that time of the year again where I do a riff off of a Leyendecker piece–so here are the works in progress! I’ve included the original as well. For this one I felt like taking more artis...

NEW YEAR’S POSTCARDS + Q&A

Happy Holidays lovely patrons! Welcome if you're new!

Can you believe it’s already the middle of December? I wanted to do something fun and thank you all for supporting me here and mail out...

WIP: Jinx

I recently finished Arcane and the art was so amazing!! If you haven't seen it, I totally recommend it--it's definitely one of the most visually beautiful things I've seen in a while. 

A...

EARLY ACCESS: Taking aim

The stock jutted into her shoulder. Steady... She took a breath, willed her arms to stop shaking under the weight of the rifle, and exhaled...

Yelena Process

Hello! Here's a quick process video for my recent studies--it's a bit of insight into how I paint! As you see it's not a super clean process, I use a lot of layers and cut/paste to try to capture t...

EARLY ACCESS/STUDIES: More Faces!

Do you guys have a favorite Marvel character? Here are some more head studies I've been working on--my favorites from the many I did for a class! Honestly these studies are pretty relaxing to do. T...

BEHIND-THE-SCENES: Face muscles

Happy Halloween! Having some skulls and muscles on my mind! These are from some head/facial anatomy studies I did this month--can you tell who they are?

I'm excited to be sharing more of the ...

EARLY ACCESS: Autumn Pinup

Eyyy fall is here and I'm starting to get back into the creative stuff! It's still a slow process of returning right now--perhaps more on that later--so I will be pausing October's payment as well ...

EARLY ACCESS: MHW Celebration

I finally got a chance to finish this piece from my digital illustrations class at Brainstorm! I know the premise is silly but I had fun and I would say I learned a bit about composition and perspe...

Update!

Hi wonderful patrons! Just another quick update to remind everyone that billing should still be paused for September. Still in the thick of things, but hopefully going to get back to creating soon-...

Quick update!

Hey everyone!

Just letting you know that I'm going to be pausing your billing for August and September. If you have been charged, let me know and I will send you a refund!

Basically, I'...

WIP: MHW Celebration

Hello, how’s everything going? Here’s a work in progress for an illustration I’m doing, practicing perspective and composition. I’d like to try some different color variations and maybe get...

PROCESS: Chibi Tanya

So June has flown by in a whirl! As always, thanks so much everyone for being a part of my patreon! I wanted to start July with some process images of my little chibi. Side note--let me know if any...

BEHIND-THE-SCENES: Gestures

If you’ve been looking into how to get better at drawing, you've probably come across the advice, “Do your gestures and studies!” Admittedly, that’s something that’s fallen by the wayside...

EARLY ACCESS: Chibi Tanya

Heyo! Here's a little chibi Delta Force Sniper Tanya I made for my Digital Illustrations class. The assignment had us design a chibi character (so I reused one of my sketch design) and render. I th...

Q&A: June roundup + update

Hey lovely supporters! Hope you’re somewhere enjoying the nice summer weather! Again, here’s an opportunity to post any questions you may have, so leave your notes below (or feel free to give a...

EARLY ACCESS: Tanya x Halden

Never enough time…

A continuation of drawing some of my otps before things get super hectic and back to skills/portfolio building! Playing around with values and brightness/darknes...

Q&A: May roundup + learning digital art

Hi wonderful peeps! It’s the middle of the month again, so time for a check-in with Q&A. Post any questions you may have for me below! In response to last month’s questions about getting in...

PROCESS: Eagle Huntress

Hi there! Here's a little experimental process video I created to show how I typically arrive at a sketch--finished or rough.

BEHIND-THE-SCENES: Color and detail designs

EARLY ACCESS: Evi x Irina

With you, I'm home.

Here’s the finished piece for Evi x Irina! I’ve polished the painting (smoothing out some of the rougher linework) and adjusted the colors. I’m actually hav...

WIP: Evi x Irina

Hey guys! Hope you’re all doing well! Here’s a piece I’ve been working on this week--a little Evi x Irina drawing. Evi is the blond character, and Irina is Tanya’s wayward sister... what ca...

Q&A: April roundup

Hello everybody!

I’m so honored that you’ve joined my Patreon--your support really means the world to me! Thank you very much! Since this is my first time using the platform, please bear ...