Loish

ANNOUNCEMENT // kickstarter launch date & cover reveal

Hey guys! As promised, an update on the new artbook! We just pinned down the official kickstarter launch date: It's going to be on October 11th (my birthday)! I know I previously s...

EARLY ACCESS // environment speedpaints

In my last post, I talked a bit about how frustrated I’m feeling with my speedpaints lately. For these sketches, I really tried to push the sense of movement and work a bit faster. I usually feel...

PROCESS VIDEO // pink environment

Here’s the first 30 minutes of my process for this speedpaint. As always, you can speed it up or slow i...

EARLY ACCESS // pink environment

A quick environment speedpaint. Honestly, I was incredibly frustrated with the process of this one. I feel like I’m hitting a wall in terms of capturing movement in my environments, and also spen...

PROCESS VIDEO // poppies, part 3

Here’s the final part of my process for the poppies painting. Just like the last one, it’s sped up to...

PROCESS VIDEO // poppies, part 2

Here’s part 2 of the poppies process! This one is sped up to twice the original speed, but you can twea...

PROCESS VIDEO // poppies, part 1

Here’s the full process video for my Poppies painting that I posted last month! The whole thing took me...

EARLY ACCESS // little village

Another speedpaint inspired by my trip to France in June! This is a portrait of a little french village called Pagès. It’s one of those villages that is totally isolated and only has a few house...

UPDATE // goodbye, July!

This has been quite a rollercoaster of a month for me! It seems like everything is much more intense than usual! Has it been the same for you guys? 

Here's a little review of how this mo...

EARLY ACCESS // trendy girls

It’s weird seeing the fashion trends from my childhood become popular again with young people today. It’s even weirder to think it’s been 20 years since those days already. Time is going fast...

EARLY ACCESS // flow

Remember these thumbnails that I posted a long time ago? Most of you said that you liked the fourth one, so I...

EARLY ACCESS // sketches

I haven’t sketched in a while, so I decided to grab my sketchbook and do a little sketch session. I tried using a blending stump for the first time and I really enjoyed using this tool! I want to...

TUTORIAL // sculpting with color

Here’s this month’s tutorial, which is on sculpting with color! I demonstrate this process in 3 different ways, and talk a bit about how to create more 3-dimensionality, how to keep the colors ...

PROCESS VIDEO // moka

Time for a process video! I’m also working on a process video for a longer painting, but for now, here’s my process for the speedpaint I posted last week. As usual, I drew it in Photoshop with ...

EARLY ACCESS // heads

Trying to get back into the flow of drawing after not drawing for three entire weeks! When I stop drawing for a while, it’s hard for me to feel motivated again. I think it’s because every time ...

POLL // july tutorial

Hey lovely patrons! I'm making my July tutorial this week, and I'd love your input on which topic to cover. This month I want to make the tutorial more focused around a specific technique or challe...

EARLY ACCESS // moka

I spent the last two weeks of June on vacation in the south of France, in a remote area called the Cevennes. We had booked a little house on a property that was teeming with animals. There were chi...

EARLY ACCESS // exclusive kickstarter print

Here’s an exclusive sneak peek for you guys! This painting is going to be the exclusive print for my upcoming artbook, The Style of Loish. The kickstarter for the book will go live in September, ...

UPDATE // goodbye June!

June is almost over! I'm so excited for July because it's the month that I'm getting my first vaccine shot (on the 4th)! I'm honestly so emotional over it because it's the moment I've been anticipa...

EARLY ACCESS // car sketches

Time to step out of my comfort zone! I always struggle with things that have straight shapes and a heavy mass. My art tends to turn out very flowy and light, so drawing cars is very much the opposi...

EARLY ACCESS // happy dance

Some happy dance sketches of my character No Girl, who is feeling a  bit more positive these days. After more than a year of living in the pandemic, the situation seems to be improving around ...

EARLY ACCESS // cloud

I’m obsessed with intensely backlit clouds. It makes the cloud look so chunky, like it has the texture of a marshmallow! Those clouds probably taste super good, haha. Here’s a study that evolve...

EARLY ACCESS // jelly blobs

A blobby painting! When it comes to lighting, it helps me so much to think of all the basic shapes as blobs - basically breaking them down into soft, simplified volumes and imagining how the light ...

EARLY ACCESS // colorful skies

The result of a sketching session where I tried to push the colors way further than they were in real life, to try and capture the same feeling that I had when I saw that moment in real life. I fee...

EARLY ACCESS // weasels

You might recognize these from the animal tutorial I posted earlier this week! I wanted to do some animal sketches to get into the right mindset for the tutorial. Weasels are very cute and have a f...

TUTORIAL // drawing animals

It’s time for this month’s tutorial: drawing animals! This is of course a very broad subject so I focused mainly on the challenges that I experience when drawing animals. Topics covered in this...

DEMO // pixiv drawfest

A few weeks ago I participated in Pixiv’s drawfest! The idea was for artists to demonstrate their process so others could draw along and post it to social media in the end, which is why I mention...

EARLY ACCESS // scream

I did inktober back in 2018, and created a drawing for ‘thunder’ showing someone with strong emotions and clouds all around them. I didn’t like how it turned out in the end, because I really ...

UPDATE // hello June!

The last day of May is here. It was the rainiest May I've ever experienced in my life! But now the weather is sunny and it's starting to feel more and more like summer! Here's a little review of ho...

WIP // flow thumbnails

Some thumbnails for an upcoming painting! I want to make an underwater piece that has a high focus on flowing elements that add movement. I’ll be finalizing one of these in the coming months! Whi...