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EARLY ACCESS // waterfall

I finally got around to finishing the waterfall painting that I first made a rough version of in January! ...

EARLY ACCESS // zoo sketches

Here’s some stuff that’s far outside of my comfort zone! Together with some fellow art friends, we went to the zoo and drew some of the animals from life there. I totally cheated with these ske...

DEMO // turning scanned lines into a transparent layer

Here’s a little demonstration of how I turn scanned linework into a transparent line layer, which is something I did when c2022-06-01 09:02:01 +0000 UTC View Post

PROCESS VIDEO // ariel

Here’s the process for my Ariel painting from last month! It’s sped up a little under twice the origi...

UPDATE // It's not gonna be May anymore

June is around the corner and the summer is about to begin! Usually I post this on the last day of the month, but I'll be travelling tomorrow, so I'm posting it up two days early. Here's a little r...

EARLY ACCESS // desert dreams

I’m done with mermaids and back to landscapes! This one started out as a speedpaint of a desert setting, and became a slightly surreal piece. I’ve been really into iridescent colors lately and ...

TUTORIAL // creating light & flowy sketches (subtitled)

As promised, the version of the sketching tutorial with the subtitles baked in to the video. Please do check out the 2022-05-23 08:12:11 +0000 UTC View Post

TUTORIAL // creating light & flowy sketches

It’s time for this month’s tutorial! It’s about sketching, and specifically about how to keep your sketches from becoming too heavy or stiff. In this video, I talk about:

• Which tool...

EARLY ACCESS // ariel

To finish off the #mermay themed art for this month, I had to draw my favorite one: Ariel. I’ve drawn her so many times and wanted to tackle her with my current skillset! This one started as a sk...

EARLY ACCESS // mermaid sketches

Geting sick of mermaids yet? 😂 Sat down to do a mermaid sketch session for MerMay. I was surprised to discover that my old sketchbook is now completely full, so I had to break in a new one for t...

QUESTION // sketching struggles

Hey patrons! Next week I want to create a tutorial on sketching, and specifically around common struggles that people have while sketching. The first things that came to mind were how to shade in a...

EARLY ACCESS // another mermaid

Here’s another mermaid! I really enjoyed the rougher, more expressive workflow of the 2022-05-13 10:30:48 +0000 UTC View Post

PROCESS VIDEO // mermaid (sped up)

Here's a sped-up version of the mermaid process video I just posted! It's sped up 5 times and probably more interesting to watch for those who don't want to see every tedious detail :') Hope you en...

PROCESS VIDEO // mermaid

Here’s some of the process for my recent mermaid sketch! Unfortunately the video stopped working at a certain point and a chunk of the process is missing around 40 minutes in, but most of it is t...

EARLY ACCESS // mountains

Next month I’m going on vacation to the Alps. This is always something I look forward to because I live in a super flat area of Europe, and I just crave being around mountains sometimes. It gives...

EARLY ACCESS // mermaid

It’s May, the month of the MerMay challenge! I won’t be participating each day but I might just draw a mermaid from time to time, starting with this one! Here’s one where I tried a more messy...

UPDATE // it's gonna be May

The annual moment to post this meme has rolled back around:

Are you all enjoying the spring as mu...

EARLY ACCESS // character sketches

A page from my sketchbook that I hadn’t shared yet! These girls are actually re-draws of characters I drew a long time ago, around 2003-2004. I wanted to see how I would approach them in my curre...

EARLY ACCESS // expressions

I felt compelled to do some quick expression sketches, using a bit of a chunkier drawing style! It was fun, it felt quite freeing. Hope you like ‘em!

EARLY ACCESS // smoke (again)

Another smoke painting! (Here's the first one I posted earlier this month.) When I made the 2022-04-22 09:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post

EARLY ACCESS // seafoam studies

I saw some gorgeous seafoam/wave sketches by 2022-04-20 08:22:19 +0000 UTC View Post

TUTORIAL // using your creative spark to generate ideas (subtitled)

Hey patrons! As promised, the version of this tutorial with the subtitles baked in to the video. Please...

TUTORIAL // using your creative spark to generate ideas

Here it is: this month’s tutorial! Some of you have asked me how I come up with ideas, or requested an idea generation tutorial. So for this month I wanted to make a tutorial that talks about how...

EARLY ACCESS // smoke

I finally got around to finishing one of the WIPs I posted in January! This one felt really satisfying to ...

EARLY ACCESS // portrait sketches

Last month I posted some portrait sketches from a small sketchbook I started using. Here are some more fr...

PROCESS VIDEO // forest (phone recording)

Here’s some more snippets of the process for my forest painting, this time filmed vertically with my ph...

PROCESS VIDEO // forest

I put together the process video for this painting! The whole thing took me a little over 3 hours to do, ...

UPDATE // subtitled videos

Hey Spark Patrons! Because Patreon’s video functionality doesn’t yet support subtitles, and because many of you are still reporting issues with the video playback, I wanted to make a list of ex...

UPDATE // Easter season is coming!

Another month has passed! Here in the Netherlands, we've had a lot of sun, and the green buds are blossoming into beautiful fresh leaves. There are some fluffy ducklings wandering around too! I alw...

TUTORIAL // creating interesting & flowy shapes (subtitled)

Hey lovely patrons! As promised, I've uploaded a version of this tutorial with the subtitles baked in t...