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TUTORIAL: How to Design a Book Couple ✏️📚🥀

Hi everyone and happy Friday! 🫶🏻And also happy Halloween!! 😍 Here is a brand new tutorial video for your weekend ❤️ The tutorial topic came from our list of top requested videos, and it’s about how to design a book a couple from start to finish 📚✨This past year I’ve been doing a lot of book commissions, so in this video I’ll be showing you my process of how I design book ch...

Ophelia and Prince Hamlet 🏰🥀🖤 drawing process ✨

Hello everyone! :)Here is a bonus video just for you devoted dragonflies 🥰💌 I filmed my painting process for my Ophelia and Prince Hamlet piece, and I had so much fun with this process!! This was an especially difficult composition and you’ll get to see how much this drawing transforms 🙈I hope you all enjoy! :)I’m also excited to announce that our tutorial video is officially done and...

Draw with Me ✏️🏛️ finishing a scene study! ✨

Hello everyone! 🥰 I hope you all had a lovely weekend :)Finally sharing the second half of this scene study process! In this video I’ll be rendering the bottom panel, and it’s my favorite because the lighting is super bright and soft ☺️ I hope you all enjoy and find it helpful 💗This week I’ll also be posting the FULL drawing process of my Ophelia and Prince Hamlet piece! 🥀🏰�...

Early look: Ophelia and Prince Hamlet 🥀🏰🖤 + new videos for you! 🫶🏼

Hi everyone! 🥰 Here is an early look at the drawing I made for this month’s bonus video! 🖤 Devoted dragonfly members voted for me to draw Ophelia and Prince Hamlet, inspired by this mood board:I’ve been loving The Fate of Ophelia by Taylor Swift, so I wanted to create a drawing that captures the vibes it gives me! 🥰It also made me curious about Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, so I read a...

Vote for the bonus video topic! ✏️🌹✨

Hello everyone! :)I’m filming our bonus video this week, and I’m going to let you guys decide what I’m going to draw! ✏️✨ As always, this poll is just for you devoted dragonflies 🫶🏻I’ve been obsessed with the song The Fate of Ophelia by Taylor Swift lately, and I want to create a drawing inspired by it 🤭 The drawing will feature Ophelia from Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, but ...

Early Look: Greek Inspired Hairstyles 🏛️✏️✨ + new real-time video for you! 🌹

Hii everyone! :)Here’s an early look at some Greek inspired hairstyles! This is actually an old drawing that I abandoned many months ago, and I decided to finish it 🥰 This is what the drawing looked like before:I’m not sure why I gave up on it at the time (I think I just got bored 🙈) but I had a lot of fun finally finishing it! ✨In other news, yesterday I posted a new real-time video f...

Real-Time Rendering Process: Amren + Mor ✏️🥀🖤 (rendering tips in caption 💌)

Hellooo everyone! :)Here is part 2 of my drawing process of Amren and Mor from ACOTAR! 🌹 Part 1 showed how I sketched the poses and put down the line art + base colors, and this video is the next step: rendering! ✨It’s totally possible to feel confident with your line art skills and then feel stumped when you reach the rendering phase (I remember feeling that way all the time 🙋🏻‍♀...

Sneak-peek: Mor & Amren 🥀 + new real-time video for you! 🎥✨

Hello everyone! :)Here is a sneak-peek of Mor and Amren from ACOTAR! I love this friendship duo from the book series and had so much fun drawing them 🥰🫶🏻✨I recorded the full rendering process and I’ll be posting the real-time process for all big-hearted butterflies and devoted dragonflies soon!! And if you want to see part 1 of the process (showing the sketching and base colors) you c...

Atonement ✏️🌤️ + Happy October + San Diego Trip! ✈️✨

Hellooo everyone and happy October! 😍Starting off the month showing you my finished mini comic from the movie Atonement! The top panel was completely sketched and rendered in last month's tutorial, which is about how to create cinematic art 🎥✨Check it out if you want to learn how to create a more cinematic feel in your work! :) 🎥🎞️AND I filmed the process of the bottom panel fo...

TUTORIAL: How to Make Cinematic Art 🎥✏️✨

Hiii everyone! 🥰I’m back from my trip to San Diego and have a bunch of new content for you! 😍 First, here is a brand new tutorial about how to create cinematic art! 🎥✨This video topic has been highly requested for a LONG time, so I’m really excited to finally be sharing it with you 🫶🏻Here are some links to other content to help with this topic! ✏️How to Paint Dramatic Ligh...

Drawing ACOTAR Fanart 🥀🖤 bonus video! ✨

Hellooo everyone! 😍I just got back from my trip to San Diego (and I have SO much to share with you guys!!) but first, here’s a new bonus video for you devoted dragonfly members 🥰🫶🏻It’s a cozy drawing process of Mor and Amren from ACOTAR! You’ll get to see how I planned out the composition, the sketching and base coloring :) I love this friendship duo so much! 🖤 I’ll be recor...

WIP: Mor & Amren 🥀🖤 + new bonus video for you! ✏️✨

Hi hi everyone! :)Here is a sneak-peek of my current work in progress! 🖤 it’s been a while since I made some ACOTAR fan art, and these are two of my favorite characters — Mor and Amren 😍You’ll get to watch the drawing process in a new bonus video I’ll be posting for all devoted dragonflies! 💌 Normally I post a poll for bonus videos, but since I’ll be in San Diego next week and n...

Draw with Me! ✏️🖤 working on a commission ✨

Hellooo everyone! :)Here is a new draw with me video for you! In my last post I talked about getting the fun opportunity to work on a commission for Tina Marshall and her new upcoming book, This Wretched Alchemy 😍 So in this video I talk more about it and show you how I get started on the drawing 🥰I hope you all enjoy!! 🫶🏻 This week I’ll also be working on our bonus video for the mon...

Sneak-Peek: Commission Work! 🤭 + new draw with me video coming ✏️✨

Hi hi everyone! :)Surprise — you get the very first look at a special commission I’ve been working on for Tina Marshall! 🥰 This is for her debut book called This Wretched Alchemy, coming out in fall 2026! If you haven’t heard about Tina, she’s one of my favorite bookstagram girlies (she always posts the most amazing book recommendations and other book related content!!) so when she reac...

Real-Time Process: Painting Flynn Rider ✏️☀️✨

Hellooo everyone! :)Here is the second part of my painting process for Flynn Rider! 🥰 This video picks up where part one left off, so if you want to see the rendering of his smolder pose, go check out this video:I hope you all enjoy!! :)Stay tuned for a new draw with me video I’ll be filming this week too! I’ll share sneak-peeks with you soon 🤭✨Love,Lydia 💌

Flynn Rider ☀️✨ + new real-time video for you! ✏️

Happy weekend everyone! 😍Here is my finished character sheet of Flynn Rider! 🥰 I had so much fun drawing him and working with this color palette, especially since I rarely use gold or turquoise 👀 I recorded the rest of the rendering process for you, so you’ll get to see how I painted him from start to finish! I’ll start editing that video for you this weekend :) It will be posted for ...

Happy September! 🍁 new tutorial + plans for this week + I’m going to San Diego this month! ✈️

Hellooo everyone and welcome to a new month! 😍I just shared a new tutorial about male anatomy, and here is the result from the video! ☺️ I cover the various muscle groups in the torso and arms, how to draw hips on a male figure (because honestly I was so confused about male hips for the longest time LOL) and there is both sketching and rendering process for you to watch! 🖤I hope the vide...

TUTORIAL: How to Draw Male Anatomy ✏️🖤✨

Hi everyone and happy weekend! :)Here is a new tutorial for you! 🖤 This one is from our list of popular requests, and I was so excited to dive into this topic 😍 In the video I’ll take you through my process of sketching and rendering the male body, and share tips on how the muscle groups work together in the torso and arms! Yep, it’s dadIt’s a slower paced video so you can study along ...

Drawing Flynn Rider ☀️✨ BONUS VIDEO! ✏️

Hello again! :)Earlier today I shared a sneak-peek of my Flynn Rider WIP, and here is the drawing process for you! 💌 Thanks so much to everyone who voted in our poll, I had so much fun with this 🤭💛I also announced our tutorial topic for this month, which you can see in this post! Very excited to dive into some male anatomy studies with you guys 😍 I’ll start working on the video tomor...

WIP: Flynn Rider ☀️ + August Tutorial Topic! ✏️✨

Hiii everyone! 😍 I hope you’re having a lovely week so far 🥰Yesterday I started filming our bonus video for the month and here is the result! You guys voted for me to draw Flynn Rider from Tangled, and I’m having sooo much fun drawing him 🤭 The video shows the sketching process of all three poses, plus the full rendering process of the third pose (from the scene where Rapunzel ties hi...

Draw With Me: Stardust Fanart ✏️🌟💫

Hi hi everyone! :)Here is a new draw with me video for you! I wanted to practice drawing expressions of laughter between two character characters interacting, and I thought this scene from the movie Stardust was a perfect reference 😍 Yvaine and Tristan banter sooo much, and I wanted to capture one of their cute moments! So grab your sketchbook or tablet to draw along with me, or just cozy up an...

Poll: Vote for the Bonus Video Topic! ✏️💌✨

Hello everyone and happy weekend! 😍It’s time to vote for this month’s bonus video topic! For all the new members here, each month I film an extra video just for devoted dragonflies, and you guys get to vote for what I should draw! 🥰Below is a list of characters I’ve been wanting to draw for a while now ~ which one should I draw? I’ll film my process for the option that wins the vote ...

Sneak-Peek: Finished Stardust Fanart 🌟💫 + new draw with me video! ✨

Hellooo everyone! :)Here’s a sneak-peek of my finished Stardust fan art! 💫 This was a fun piece because I don’t normally draw two half-body characters on one canvas together (the composition is always a bit challenging!) but I’m really happy with how it turned out! 🥰🌟I filmed a new draw with me video showing some process for this drawing and I’m almost done editing it! 😍 The vi...

WIP: Stardust Fanart 💫✨ + new draw with me video! ✏️💙

Hellooo everyone and happy monday! :) Here’s a sneak-peek of a WIP I made while filming a new draw with me video for you! 💙 It’s fanart from one of my favorite movies ever, Stardust 🫶🏼 I wanted to study a scene where Yvaine and Tristan are walking and laughing together BECAUSE IT’S SO CUTE 🥲💕 And I love character interactions like this 🥰 Currently editing the video and I�...

The Knight and the Moth 🦋 real-time drawing process! ✏️✨

Hellooo everyone! :)I hope you all had a happy weekend 🥰 I wanted to start off the week with a real-time drawing process video for you! 💌Prepare yourselves… it is almost 5 hours 🙈 But that’s because I recorded the full process for you from sketch to finish! I also included some bonus sketches I made but ended up scrapping so you can see some of the ideation process:) I hope it’s hel...

Early Look: The Knight and the Moth 🏰🤍🗡️ + new video for you! ✨

Hi everyone! :) I hope you’re having a lovely week so far 🥰I wanted to share a sneak-peek of my finished character sheet for one of my favorite reads this year: The Knight and the Moth 🤍YA’LL NEED TO READ THIS BOOK 😩 The male lead is Rory (a knight who wears kohl on his eyes and literally blushes all the time) and the female lead is Sybil (a Diviner who sees visions when she drowns, a...

Happy August Newsletter! 💌 drawing plans, my current book, + question for you ✏️✨

Hello everyone and welcome to a new month! 😍It feels like July went by so quickly! It was my first month getting back into regular Patreon content after taking a break due to my hand injury, and I’ve loved being back at my desk again 🥰 I wanted to start the month by posting the artwork that I made in our newest tutorial about how to create dramatic lighting ☀️ I had so much fun filmin...

TUTORIAL: Dramatic Lighting 💛✨ process + tips! ☀️

Hello everyone! 😍 Here is a new tutorial for you! 💌 In this video, I walk you through my process of painting portraits with dramatic lightHello everyone! 😍Here is a new tutorial for you! 💌 In this video, I walk you through my process of painting portraits with dramatic lighting ✨ We’ll be covering the importance of heightening the contrast in your values to keep your light and shad...

Kpop Demon Hunters Scene Study 🔥 + new bonus video + July Tutorial Topic! 🎥✏️✨

Hello everyone!! I hope you’ve all had a lovely weekend :)This past week our bonus video poll closed, and the option that won the vote was another scene study from kpop demon hunters — so here is the result! 🔥🗡️ This is one of my favorite scenes from the movie, I just love Rumi’s unhinged expression and Jinu’s toothy smirk 🤭🤭🤭Swipe through the photos for a phone wallpaper ...

Draw with Me: Kpop Demon Hunters Fan Art ✏️💗✨

Happy weekend everyone! :) Here is a new draw with me video for you! 💌 I filmed and recorded my process of drawing a scene study from Kpop Demon Hunters, and you’ll get to watch both the sketching and the coloring 🥰💕 Also, our bonus video poll closed today and the option that won the vote was another scene study from KPDH, but this time it’s Jinu + Rumi’s fight scene 🤭🗡️✨ ...