loish blog

I love a good floppy leaf. The floppier, the better, am I right??

These creatures are the sole focus of my life, the source of my happiness, my obsession and fixation. And they don’t even have a single thought in their heads! Here’s some fan art of my cats to honor their clueless little souls 🖤

Drawing a face is one thing, but making a head look 3-dimensional is another challenge. The solution? Planes ✈️ Here are some of my thoughts on that!

This is a preview of my tutorial on drawing the planes of the face - check it out on my Patreon!

Jayce and Viktor gift art ~ that ending was phenomenal and I'm still thinking about it.

Some statue studies ~ I’m always amazed by how such a cold, lifeless material can feel so warm and alive!

If you like monthly drawing challenges, sign up to the flame tier and join us ~ we just got started on the March challenge, in which we’ll be studying leaves and dense foliage 🍃 The perfect topic for spring!

Honestly, Arcane was the first animation I’d seen in decades that made me so incredibly excited about what this medium is capable of. What a masterpiece! Here’s my favorite girl Jinx 🩷💙

Do you ever feel like your art looks like a bland copy of the original reference picture? I’ve got a couple of tricks that can help make your studies more interesting and eye-catching ✨

This is a preview of my tutorial on 6 simple tricks for stylizing your studies! Find the full video on my Patreon.

Some subsurface scattering studies! Say that three times fast 😂 I can’t figure out if the light or dark background works better, so I included both.

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ If you like monthly drawing challenges, sign up to the flame tier and join us ~ we just got started on the February challenge, in which we’ll be making master studies of sculptures and statues!

A gift for my amazing discord moderator Sabina, who has been helping me moderate my online communities for almost 7 years now and has a soft spot for magpies. I do too 🖤

Here’s my controversial opinion: winter is beautiful ❄️

A painting of some edible flowers ~

Some smoke and fire studies for last month’s challenge! Trying to capture that energy and intensity 🔥

If you like monthly drawing challenges, sign up to the flame tier and join us ~ we just got started on the January challenge, which is on subsurface scattering! 🩷

This painting is brought to you by my current obsession with ochre and dark purple 💜

I’d love to have a plant with pink leaves, but I’m not capable of keeping plants alive 😔 I even managed to kill a plant that’s known for surviving in extreme conditions, so for now, I’ll just draw them instead.

Taking a break from my years-long uninterrupted Hard Round Brush streak to try some textured brushes ~ it was an adventure!

Faces are hard enough to draw on their own, but stylizing them presents a bunch of new challenges. How much detail is too much? How can you get the features ‘right’ even though they’re not realistic? Here are some of my thoughts on the topic ✨

This is a snippet from a longer tutorial I made about drawing stylized faces! You can watch it on my Patreon ❤️

No girl returns 🩷🩵 It’s been a minute since I drew her! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I drew these for last month’s drawing challenge on drawing the same head from different angles! This is honestly SO HARD to pull off and I spent way more time on this than I planned, but I learned a lot - I made a video about that over on my Patreon! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ If you like monthly drawing challenges, become a Flame patron ~ we are about to get started on the December challenge, in which we will be practicing our special effect painting skills by drawing smoke and fire 🔥 It’s also the last day that you can get 30% off my flame tier, so be quick! Sign up here🩷