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How to Pick Colours - Dec 2025 Tutorial

Tutorial on how to select colours for your paintings! This can be challenging to grasp but in this video I'll break it down into 3 main themes of hue, value, and saturation. You'll also learn of on...

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Beach pt 2 - Full Process :)

Wanted to make a follow up to a pice I previously drew. (You can see me reference my original piece for colours) I wanted to add the top two frames to make something a little more aesthetically ple...

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Angel - Full 5 Hour Process

This piece set a record for one of the longest process videos I've ever recorded, mostly due to the fact that I had to change some lighting and environment elements last minute. But this piece is b...

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New Wallpapers! :)

I really wanted to use the snow piece as my own wp so I painted a little extra to extend the top. You can use the punching one in case someone else tries to steal your phone :)

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Blue Jay - Full Process

One of my new favourite pieces! I based this off of a few references, one for the pose/lighting, and others for the texture and reflections of the armour on our knight character. It's very importan...

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Stylization 101 Tutorial - Nov 2025

An intro to character stylization! In this video I cover a few key things to look for when stylizing characters based off of a reference! Of course it's important to remember that there's no one si...

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Stop Scrolling - Full Process

This was a really fun and simple piece based off of a meme image I saw hahaha. I later ended up adding the caption "stop scrolling" to this piece for people on social media. It's been tons of fun j...

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Silk Dress Studies

Fun material studies! I dont know why but I gravitate a lot towards shiny textures hahahha. The painting process for silky clothing is very similar to armour, in that the material will really catch...

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Cheers! - Full Process

Process for one of my recent paintings! Continuing to explore more storytelling + humour in my work. Reference board attached below!

I've spoken about this a bit with some people I've met o...

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How to Draw Angled Faces - Tutorial

October tutorial is here! Here we cover the key tools and tips I use to draw angled faces. Combine this with all of the measurement and proportion videos I've done for portraits and you should be a...

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911 - Full Process!

Wanted to make something that'd look good as a wallpaper. ft one of my favourite cars. Tried to be a bit more strategic with my use of complimentary blues and oranges here, including the orange of ...

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Sam's Brushes!

My go-to brush set in photoshop as well as some modified brushes and recent favourites I've gathered in procreate! Hope you guys like them :)

Files are attached below for download, abr is p...

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Summer 2025 PNG + PSD collection

High res zip files of my work from june-sept attached below! I'll try to make these seasonal drops instead so as to not spam the patreon timeline with too much repetition! :) Hope you guys enjoy! L...

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Fish Store - Process Video! :)

a fun little three panel story that was initially inspired by a reference I saw of a girl standing behind a glass aquarium. For small fun stories like this I always find a source of inspo and then ...

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Digital Art Brushes 101 - Sept Tutorial 2025

This video covers the types of brushes I like to use as well as when to use them! I personally work in photoshop but this tutorial is not program specific so you can absolutely apply these concepts...

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Essential Measurements for Drawing Humans! - August Tutorial 2025

New tutorial! I wanted to compile all of the key proportions and essential measurements I use for drawing people, and have them all be accessible in one place! If you guys ever find yourself having...

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Sam does .. man????

Painting process! I actually painted this in late june but forgot to post it, will have it up on ig soon but you guys are seeing it first! :)

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Knight - full process!

3 pieces in one! references attached below! :)
Was inspired by some inspo I saw on pinterest and felt it would have been great as a goofy 3 piece series. The texture of the chainmail was pretty...

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Kpop Demon Hunters - Process

Really fun piece that took a long time to make hahahah. For anyone who hasn't seen this movie yet it's absolutely fantastic. Full of artistic inspiration! I wanted to inject some of the fun of the ...

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Water Tutorial! - July 2025

It's finally here after like 5 years hahahah. In this tutorial I break down the 3 main components to painting water and give you some theoretical knowledge along with a full walkthrough of a refere...

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Water Study Demo!

Expanding on our tutorial a bit from this month with another water study!

The key is to break water into layers: Bottom, body, and surface layer. Start from the bottom and work your way to ...

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Observation skills: X-ray Vision (June 2025)

Possibly the most underrated and least talked about methods for observation. This is a highly academic skill that I learned pretty early on, and it's something I always do subconsciously when obser...

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Flash Lighting Study - June 2025

Flash lighting direct study! Ref is attached below :)
With flash lighting I find it helps to make use of the airbrush in your earlier render stages. Usually if the flash is coming from the view...

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Aquarium - Full process!

Fun 2 panel comic page I did! References used are attached below :)
I don't think I put text bubbles in my work before so this might have actually been the first time, really fun experimentatio...

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Drawing in the Sand - full process!

Fun piece, pretty happy with this. I'm gonna do more of these multi panel pieces going forward and try to experiment a bit more with storytelling. I think the single panel vertical format might hav...

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Driving Dogs - full process! 🐶

Another fun 2 panel piece! I saw a reference initially of the lady on the bike, and wanted to imagine something from her point of view. (preferably something funny lmao) So I decided to have a dog ...

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Anatomy Stylization Tutorial! - May 2025

A quick and easy tutorial explaining the way I stylize anatomy for my characters! Hope this helps those of you who may be trying to understand stylization and shape language. It helps a lot to unde...

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Miyazaki studies - 1

Studies based off of some screenshots from an old nhk program, I kind of like the more mundane and subtle lighting here. Also fun experimenting a bit with adding in the subtitles from the ref. I mi...

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New 8K wallpaper! :)

Easily one of my favourite pieces. So you know I had to do this eventually hahah, I added in some cherry blossom trees to the sides because it felt a bit empty after being expanded. But I'll also i...

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Miyazaki Studies - part 2

Part 2! I'll attach the refs below for all my studies! feel free to check them out or use them for your own studies :)

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