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COLORING PAGES - Ink drawings from my Sketchbook 🖋

Hi Everyone 🧡It's Friday! I hope you all had a good week 🍂Today I have for you scanned, ink drawings from my sketchbook, that can be used for practice - as coloring pages or to practice shading & cross-hatching - whatever you like! 🖌 You can print them or use digitally 😉 There attached at the end of this post 📎I made them yesterday with acrylic ink from Liquitex and finished with Promakers and Karin markers. (Today you'll s...

STEP BY STEP - The New Little Mermaid Fan Art 🧜🏾‍♀️

Hello my Dear Potato Angels!Today I wanted to share with you my new artwork made with colored pencils. I worked on it the whole Sunday and it’s my more complex character painted with colored pencils so far 🧡I’m absolutely delighted that Halle Bailey will be the new Little Mermaid! Heard the music of Halle and her sister Chloe for the first time in 2016 and felt very happy when Disney announced that one of them would be their new princess! ...

REAL-TIME VIDEO: Architectural studies 🏡

Hi everyone!Hope you’re all having a peaceful weekend 🧡 Today I am sharing with you a video made for the August “Draw with me” session but in a Real-Time version 🤗 I know many of you appreciate this type of footage.You can speed it up, skip to certain moments, that cause you troubles or just draw everything with me ✏️ 🎞 Hope it will be helpful!Hugs,Gaby

SNEAK PEEK - Sketchbook Studies of the Sea Creatures 🐙 / Mixed media

Hi Everyone!I hope you’re having a good week so far 😊The sea animals won in the last vote, so I spent the whole Tuesday drawing them and recording the whole process 🎥I'm not sure how I feel about them... It seems to me that I have approached the challenge too ambitiously and using too many media (colored pencils, acrylic inks, watercolor and gouache). The colors seem a bit too saturated to me, but it may be because I decided to paint ...

STEP BY STEP - Interior study painted in Procreate 🛋🐱⏰

Hi everyone! ☀️I hope you’re all feeling good today 😊For a long time I have been planning to learn how to draw backgrounds for my characters. I love seeing inspiring interiors and I really want to learn how to draw them. Yesterday I took this step! The illustration is not exactly what I planned it to be, but I will get there in small steps. I would like to learn, how to better simplify elements of such an illustration and find my own lan...

POLL 🗳 - Help me to pick the board with references for the "Draw with me" video 🐶🐱🐦🦈

Hi Everyone! 🧡Some time ago I gave you a few boards with animal references to pick from, and you chose foxes (I drew them in November 🎞) but the competition was very fierce. There are boards left from the poll, and since some of you recently suggested me to draw animals, we're back to this topic! I added sea creatures instead on foxes this time (also your suggestion) 🐙Help me to pick one board from these references 🧶Also - feel we...

FLORAL HAIR 🐝 - Colored pencils portrait / Step by Step

Hi Everyone!I hope you're having a pleasant Monday 😊Here's the quick Step by Step of my last portrait. As you can see, I still can't say goodbye to summer vibes 🌸🐝 Materials: I used Talens Art Creation sketchbook (A4 size), red Col-Erase pencil, Holbein Artists' and Prismacolor Premier Soft Core colored pencils ✏️Have a lovely week!Gaby

UPDATE - Hello September! 🌻

Hi Everyone!Hello, at the turn of summer and fall 🍃 I really like those moments when autumn is warm and golden, full of fruity scent and gradually lighter, colder air. It's also nostalgic because it reminds me going back to school, saying goodbye to summer friendships and starting new ones. Do you like this time of the year?SEPTEMBER STICKER:The sticker for September is with one of my favorites drawings I ever made. It's a on a matt ma...

✖️ CLOSED // SOCIAL MEDIA - Shoutouts of Your Art on Insta Stories 🥨

Hi Dear Potato Angels! 🤗It’s almost the end of August! 🌻Every month I share my Patrons art on Insta Stories as a big THANK YOU for your support!✨ Here are the rules:• Add your Intagram handle to the comment section below this post 🙌🏼 Your Instagram has to be public and active ✅• Stories will look more or less as at the top of this post ☝🏼• You can be featured each month - there's no limit! 🍪• I’ll share all...

DRAW WITH ME VIDEO 🎙 - Architectural studies 🏡 🏄‍♀️ 🌵

Hi my Dear Potato Angels! ⭐️I'm so excited to share with you this "Draw with me" video! 🍿 It's been a while since you heard my voice on the video so I felt quite nervous but it was also such a great fun! I must admit that I got lost in staring at the process of my own drawing while editing 😂 I hope you will enjoy it and hopefully will draw with me! Attached you'll find all the reference photos 😊 Here are the mater...

UPDATE - September rewards 🌻

Hi everyone!I hope you’re all having a pleasant Friday 😊I wanted to share with you the art print I planned as a reward for September. It‘s the tattooed girl illustration in a minimalistic style, inspired by Japanese art. I think it nicely matches the artwork from August 👌🏼I also ordered several samples of stickers 🚚 I’m gonna share the update as soon as I’ll receive the package! The print is available in the “Brotato Angel&#...

ART GUIDE - 10 effective exercises to fill your sketchbook, have fun and develop your skills ✏️

As for what you can create in your sketchbook, sky's the limit... ☀️ You can draw what you like, what is difficult for you, what you are currently learning, create a diary,scrapbook or even cut out various patterns from its pages.In this post, however, I want to list 10 examples which I think are very effective when you want to do both: quickly develop your skills and have fun at the same time.1. Perspective studiesThey don't have to ...

SNEAK PEEK - Portrait of Devi from "Never have I ever" 👑

Hi everyone!I hope you’re having a pleasant weekend. Sunday was pretty gloomy here so I could just stay at home and draw 🤓 Recently I finished watching 3rd season of “Never have I ever" and decided to draw Devi. She’s such an amazing character 🧡It was very difficult to capture her subtle smile. I haven't drawn such a detailed portrait with a pencil for a long time, so I hope that I will still like it tomorrow 😅Have an amazi...

PDF - Scanned Sketchbook #8 (2021/22) 📚✨

Hi everyone!Today I would like to share with you a PDF file of my last sketchbook. It's my 8th so far (and a few others are almost finished). I share the sketchbook in such a format, so you could feel as holding it in your hands, turning pages at your own pace and looking at every detail, brushstroke and mistake that makes this and every sketchbook unique 🧡In the sketchbook you will find:🍓 Scanned, non edited drawings in pencil, coloure...

SNEAK PEEK - Architectural studies with markers 🏄‍♀️ + Ideas for the voiceover🎙…

Hi everyone! 🧡How are you?! I’ve been absent for a few days because I went on a short vacation to the seaside, to recharge my batteries ☀️ I had an introduction to the kite surfing and absolutely loved it!!! Can’t wait to do it again and learn more 🥰Our camping was totally in my style! Surfing aesthetic is so pastel and hip 🏄‍♀️You've asked for a video with the process of drawing architecture, and I couldn't decide ...

ART GUIDE: Dos and Don'ts for Beginners - Part 5 - "15 common mistakes in drawing heads, facial contours and hair"

Hi everyone!This is the fifth post of a series based on observations of my students' exercises on Domestika.You can find previous guides here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4__________________________________In today's post I’m going to focus mainly on the head form, angles, face contours and the hair.MISTAKE NO 1: NOT BEING AWARE OF THE ACTUAL HEAD ANGLEIn my Domestika course, students are asked to draw three portraits: in profile, in 3...

AUGUST REWARDS - This month’s Art Print and Sticker🍦

Hi my Dear Potato Angels!I hope you had a pleasant beginning of the week ☀️It’s just a quick post to share with you the rewards prepared for August. These two are definitely one of my favorite artworks and I feel very attached to them 🌸Soon I’m going to share also the rewards I plan for September. I wanna share them with you before the next billing cycle, so you could decide if you wanna join ✏😎 Print is available in the "Brot...

STEP BY STEP - Digital Pastel Painting (Procreate) 🍭

Hi everyone!I hope you're all having a pleasant Weekend 🧡Today I'm sharing with you the Step By Step process of my last digital painting. I hope it will be helpful 😊🍿 ICYMI, here's the Timelapse Video of the process.🖌 Here’s a list of my favorite brushes with short description about how I use them:Most of them is originally from Procreate but here are links for: Fine liner & watercolor round brush - free download Comic M...

TIMELAPSE 🍭 - From sketch to final character

Hi everyone!I hope you’re all having a good week so far 🧡 Lately I’m trying to focus on relaxing and developing my skills but there’s a thin line between gentle motivation and pushing yourself too hard, and too far from your comfort zone 🫠I decided to pick the first photo reference that will look inspiring to me and just let myself draw without thinking too much. I used Procreate and my IPad to not be too overwhelmed or stopped by pos...

CONTENT SUGGESTIONS 💌

Hi my Dear Potato Angels! 🧡 Welcome in August.THANK YOU ALL for your amazing support! Thanks to you I’m able to develop my skills, explore art, learn a lot about myself and my process, experiment with new topics and media, challenge myself and feel safe about sharing it with you ☀️In this post I’d like to ask what would you like to see on my Patreon soon. What do you like and what isn’t necessary? I like to create various content so ...

✖️CLOSED// SOCIAL MEDIA - Monthly Shoutouts of Your Art on my Insta Stories 🥨

Hi Dear Potato Angels! 🤗It’s almost the end of July! 🥥 Every month I share my Patrons art on Insta Stories as a big THANK YOU for your support!✨ Here are the rules:• Add your Intagram handle to the comment section below this post 🙌🏼• Stories will look more or less as at the top of this post ☝🏼• You can be featured each month - there's no limit! 🍪• I’ll share all the stories next month!✨ (eg: leave comment u...

REAL TIME drawing process - 4 messy hairstyles ✏️✨ 🎞

Hi everyone!I hope you’re all having a good week so far! 🍦Today I’m sharing with you the real time video with the process of drawing different hairstyles you’ve picked in the poll 🗳 I usually draw much less detailed hair so it was challenging but very pleasant. I hope you’ll enjoy it as well 😌💡 The contrast on the video is a bit higher so you could see even very subtle pencil strokes. This is how the final drawings look like w...

ART GUIDE: Dos and Don'ts for Beginners - Part 4 - "15 Most common mistakes in drawing Noses, Lips and Ears" 👃🏻 👄 👂🏼

Hi everyone!This is the fourth post of a series based on observations of my students' exercises on Domestika.✍🏼 My comments and observations usually apply to people who are just starting their adventure with drawing. Therefore, I refer to these tendencies as "mistakes". Not because there is only one way to do art. It's just worth knowing the rules first in order to be able to break them effectively and consciously.🍓 When I...

STEP BY STEP - Colorful architectural study 🏡☀️

Hi Everyone!I hope you’re having a great week so far! ☀️ This time I wanted to share with you something special 🦄 I scanned each step during the process of drawing an architectural study, and explained them in this step-by-step guide ✏️I’m definitely not an expert in drawing architectural studies but I enjoy them so much and you left so many nice comments under my last post, that I decided to share with you my process. It will sure...

SKETCHES BASED ON YOUR SUGGESTIONS - Architecture/ Environmental Studies 🏚🎨🏞

My Dear Patrons!I need to thank you again for challenging and inspiring me 🥰 For the last few days I‘m having a blast with drawing and painting different environments!So far I’m experimenting with brush pens, fine liners, markers (Promarkers, Karin and Ecoline), colored pencils and gouache… I want to prepare a step by step for you but my process has been very messy and spontaneous so far. I think I’m starting to feel what will be the b...

SNEAK PEEK - Hairstyle studies for this month’s Real Time Video ✏️ 🎞 💇🏻‍♀️

Hi everyone! 🧡Today I drew the hairstyles that won in the last poll. They were quite challenging but I’m glad you motivated me to push my boundaries! I usually avoid drawing too complicated hairstyles because I’m so impatient 😅 The whole process is filmed and I’m gonna share it soon.Have a lovely weekend! 🌴Gaby

POLL 🗳 - Help me pick the Hairstyles to draw in this month's Real Time Video 🎞

Hi my Dear Potato Angels 😇Please help me to pick a few photo references. I'd like to draw them in this month's Real Time video. Vote for the ones that you'd like to see the most 🗳

SECRET SKETCHES based on your suggestions - Unusual head positions 🙃

Hi everyone!Here’s the first portion of sketches based on your suggestions ✍🏼 They’re a bit unusual because I‘ve been practicing drawing without a pencil and eraser recently. It helps a lot with drawing more committed lines and has its own charm because you can’t erase your mistakes. You need to keep drawing, change a mistake into some other element of the drawing or just live with it 🥸I received a few suggestions about drawing di...

SECRET SKETCHES SUGGESTIONS - Tell me what to draw 🗳

Hi Everyone!I hope you’re having a great Sunday! ☀️ I realized we didn't do it for quite a long time so:Please let me know in the comments what type of quick sketches would you like to see this month 🥰 Any ideas are welcome!🧡Gaby

SKETCHBOOK UPDATE (PDF) - People of different age - 28 studies 🌝

Hi Everyone!I hope you're having a good week so far 😊Today I finished my studies of people of different age so I'm sharing with you scanned pictures of these 28 portraits. Not all of them turned out as I wanted but I'm still very glad I pushed myself to draw them. It's a very good practice to avoid getting stuck in "one face" type 👌I hope you like them and maybe they will inspire you to study faces of different age a...