Thanks for all the inspiration I get from your videos. Your way of doing portraits always makes me get up and pull out my supplies. It's so much fun and I learn from you.
Lots of great information. The portraits are incredible and I nerded out a bit seeing some of my favorite characters being drawn from games I love to play. ADHD can be wonderful and difficult when it comes to art, its great to get lost when hyperfocusing, but staying focused and getting on track can be a challenge sometimes, I have learned that watching speedpaintings or having gameplay in the background helps me a lot.
Nerding out was exactly what I was doing while drawing! :) Gave me lots of energy to finish these sketches! And true, the ADHD hyperfocus can do amazing things for me once I reach it. I love watching Let's Plays as background noise. Speedpaintings I want to actually watch so I get distracted 😂
The soundtracks are also great for painting! At this point I have the Emerald Grove theme on a loop 😆 Also started playing Dragon Age Veilguard over this weekend and spent 2 hours in the character creator....
This was such a fun way to finish up the year 🤍 it feels a bit surreal!! I loved your lesson on art study notes. I've always loved taking notes but I never thought of taking notes on my art studies. I'm excited to try this. Your portraits are so beautiful, as always. It was a pleasure to work with you on this project 🤍🤍
I loved all your lessons. I need to keep a lot of these in mind and I'll definitely be coming back to this video as a reminder. The flp through at 24.49 is so satisfying 😍
Thank you for doing this with me! ❤️ I think without this exciting idea and the collab aspect, I wouldn't have gotten any video done at all over these busy days 😂 btw, my cat seems to like your voice, he got really interested when I watched yours. 🤍 (And yes, study notes for art are so helpful. I have a bad memory when it comes to names, too, so I also write down artist names I saw in museums or books so I can find them again...)
Going back to fan art is always so nice. These portraits are wonderful! Also I'm excited to watch that sketchbook tour of Donato Giancola! I met him a few weeks back at Dragonsteel con in Salt Lake City. He was very kind and I bought a print of his. So fantastic. I might have to get some craft paper to sketch on now too . . . Going to check out Annabelle now!
Oooh you met Donato? How amazing! If I lived a bit closer I'd love to visit one of these cons 😭 half a globe away... I imagine that print looks amazing! And yes, whenever I want to practice but don't feel like "proper" master studies, I come back to fanart 🥰
@@evydraws-art I did! He's a very down to earth guy. He had his childhood sketches and art in a binder on the table, it was very cool to look through. (So much comic book stuff, haha!) And yes! Fanart is great for that. ... I also need to get into Master Studies though, for sure!
I noticed that you create a lot of portraits... I have the same "problem", I love them, but I have to focus on drawing the architecture and background (for my comic book). Do you have any advice on how to get started?
I just love portraits so much, so I end up sketching and painting them a lot in my free time. I do often have to include architecture and such for work - just not sharing much of that on UA-cam. 😊 I still struggle with backgrounds! But I've found that when I make the background something to enhance the characters, giving them a beautiful space or telling their story through it, I'm much more motivated to paint them. So maybe seeing backgrounds as a way to frame your portraits might be helpful? ❤️
@@evydraws-art Perhaps that's why it's so difficult because I often don't paint full illustrations, I just settle for a sketch; I have to think about it; thanks for the answer, it's good to talk to a kindred spirit sometimes ;)
Awesome video and I enjoyed your tips a lot! I will be checking out Annabelle's video soon (did not know her channel yet). I also find myself inspired greatly by the media I consume (video games and tv shows/movies). I find it more enjoyable to draw or paint people that I have some kind of emotional connection to, although it also makes me obsess over getting the likeness right. Loved your sketches here and the characters are all very recognizable. I personally like your vibrant color palettes a lot, and admired how you handled Minthara's color palette here. Had to smile a bit about your tendency to draw the noses too long - that is one of mine as well. I also tend to make the eyes too large. Being aware of such quirks can be super useful, as you mentioned. How did you mix the skin tones in Gouache for the three portraits on the left page? (If you still remember.) I have the same sketchbook by Hahnemühle, just in the square format. So far I have been neutral about it. I don't like how much my watercolors fade on the paper, and they also don't seem to lift well. But I did sketch on it with a watersoluable pencil and loved how it turned out. Might need to give it a try again soon. I've been wanting to sign up for art classes just so that I can carve out a regular time for art, but the local ones never meshed too well with my work schedule, unfortunately. Now I'm looking ahead to next year. We are expecting a baby, so I will probably need to carve out those little pockets of time in-between that you mentioned, and work with those rather than larger painting sessions. I got some colored pencils for Christmas that I hope will come in handy (Derwent Drawing Set of 24 - you actually might like the color palette as well). Happy New Year, Evy! 🎆 Thanks for the tons of enjoyable videos this year!
Thank you so much! And yes, I think our lessons balance each other well, so I hope you enjoy both videos together :) Good point about obsessing with the likeness! Sometimes, going for an unknown quantity can be freeing in that sense, but I really just love sketching movie scenes so much BECAUSE I have that ambition and love driving me to get it "right" haha. Glad I'm not alone when it comes to noses. I might have to sit down and just practice drawing noses one morning. :'D And then, I also like long, hooked, intense looking noses aesthetically, so it's an interesting balance to get right. My gouache palette is very limited - just a modified Zorn palette, with Flame Red and Yellow Ochre, as well as Ivory Black and Titanium White doing most of the heavy lifting. I then mixed in cyan blue and some ultramarine blue for cooler shadows and color variety. I actually like the paper of the Hahnemuehle a LOT for my mixed media approach. There are better watercolor options out there - Arches paper is hard to beat - but I find that this one goes well for this mix of gouache (less water), colored pencil (which I find really unpleasant in my Arches sketchbooks), and then watercolor, though I haven't tried a true wet-on-wet approach yet. So I think I accidentally stumbled across the perfect paper for my mix of techniques and materials. :D Congrats on the pregnancy! That really is such a big change, and I wish you all the best and good health. That for sure makes scheduling even more difficult, so I hope those little pockets of time still happen for you.
@@evydraws-art Thank you so much for your detailed reply and sorry for getting back to you so late! In the meantime I watched Annabelle's video and also enjoyed it a lot. I think what stuck with me the most is her "it doesn't have to be a masterpiece" advice. It is something I often need to remind myself of as well, especially because I always feel that have little time to paint and then want to make it perfect. But in the grand scheme of things, I will have years and years to paint, so getting too precious about it will only hold me back. I did some painting with a modified version of your modified Zorn palette in my Hahnemühle sketchbook today. Modified because I don't have the same blues as you do, but it seems to be close enough. I'm not very experienced with color mixing and also a bit lazy when it comes to mixing, so I was suprised by the range of colors I could achieve. But holy moly - Holbein's Flame Red is something else! 😂Need to add that one super carefully. The Hahnmühle paper was...interesting. I liked it when my paint was opaque enough, but not when it was watered down. I do very much like that the Gouache seems to cling to the paper a bit more than on other papers, making it significantly harder to lift underlying layers of paint by accident. (One of the big struggles when working with Gouache!) When the paint was watered down, the paper looked a bit "fuzzy", which wasn't my cup of tea. Think I will use this paper some more for Gouache studies! Thank you for your kind words about my pregnancy! My husband and I have talked about how we can still give each other little pockets of free-time for our hobbies once our baby is here. I hope we will be able to make these happen! Hope 2025 will be a wonderful year for you! 🤗
I knoooow! 😂 But I played it as a child before learning English and "x" just sounded so much better to me than the German "zehn". Weirdly, I call all the others by their proper number 😭
@evydraws-art hm. I'm also German and I always called it well... 'zehn' because it came after IX. But oh well. 10 was the last FF game I really enjoyed.
I actually played X first (didn't have a console before that) so I had zero context :) then went back to play the older ones, but the last one I enjoyed was probably XII... so same 😔
Thanks for all the inspiration I get from your videos. Your way of doing portraits always makes me get up and pull out my supplies. It's so much fun and I learn from you.
I'm so happy if I can inspire others! I hope you had a great time with your own supplies and sketches 🥰
@@evydraws-art you absolute do inspire me.😁
I'm a 77 yr. old artist who is probably an unlikely fan of yours, but I love the way you draw and paint faces (not so much the pointy ears, but...)
Thamk you so much! And not so unlikely :) and I now realize that the elf character quota is high on this spread...!
Lots of great information. The portraits are incredible and I nerded out a bit seeing some of my favorite characters being drawn from games I love to play.
ADHD can be wonderful and difficult when it comes to art, its great to get lost when hyperfocusing, but staying focused and getting on track can be a challenge sometimes, I have learned that watching speedpaintings or having gameplay in the background helps me a lot.
Nerding out was exactly what I was doing while drawing! :) Gave me lots of energy to finish these sketches!
And true, the ADHD hyperfocus can do amazing things for me once I reach it. I love watching Let's Plays as background noise. Speedpaintings I want to actually watch so I get distracted 😂
I got so excited when you started mentioning the games you play!! Baldur's gate is amazing, and I can't wait to play the witcher
The soundtracks are also great for painting! At this point I have the Emerald Grove theme on a loop 😆 Also started playing Dragon Age Veilguard over this weekend and spent 2 hours in the character creator....
@@evydraws-art right?? the best part of rpg games is creating our tavs
Truly enchanting since the art is so skilled and expressive creating quite a magical experience that inspires!
Thank you so much 💖 Magical is a wonderful compliment!
This was such a fun way to finish up the year 🤍 it feels a bit surreal!! I loved your lesson on art study notes. I've always loved taking notes but I never thought of taking notes on my art studies. I'm excited to try this.
Your portraits are so beautiful, as always. It was a pleasure to work with you on this project 🤍🤍
I loved all your lessons. I need to keep a lot of these in mind and I'll definitely be coming back to this video as a reminder. The flp through at 24.49 is so satisfying 😍
Thank you for doing this with me! ❤️ I think without this exciting idea and the collab aspect, I wouldn't have gotten any video done at all over these busy days 😂 btw, my cat seems to like your voice, he got really interested when I watched yours. 🤍
(And yes, study notes for art are so helpful. I have a bad memory when it comes to names, too, so I also write down artist names I saw in museums or books so I can find them again...)
@@evydraws-art nawww I love Hedwig too 🥰🥰
Going back to fan art is always so nice. These portraits are wonderful! Also I'm excited to watch that sketchbook tour of Donato Giancola! I met him a few weeks back at Dragonsteel con in Salt Lake City. He was very kind and I bought a print of his. So fantastic. I might have to get some craft paper to sketch on now too . . .
Going to check out Annabelle now!
Oooh you met Donato? How amazing! If I lived a bit closer I'd love to visit one of these cons 😭 half a globe away... I imagine that print looks amazing!
And yes, whenever I want to practice but don't feel like "proper" master studies, I come back to fanart 🥰
@@evydraws-art I did! He's a very down to earth guy. He had his childhood sketches and art in a binder on the table, it was very cool to look through. (So much comic book stuff, haha!)
And yes! Fanart is great for that.
... I also need to get into Master Studies though, for sure!
Lovely video, beautiful art, great tips and I love the collab aspect ❤
Thank you! I loved doing this as a collab ❤️
Love the dragon age fanart!!!
Thank you, I was so excited to paint those two!
Won me whe I saw my beloved Leliana being sketched
I loved her so much in Origins, so I was EXCITED when she showed up in DAI!
I noticed that you create a lot of portraits... I have the same "problem", I love them, but I have to focus on drawing the architecture and background (for my comic book). Do you have any advice on how to get started?
I just love portraits so much, so I end up sketching and painting them a lot in my free time. I do often have to include architecture and such for work - just not sharing much of that on UA-cam. 😊 I still struggle with backgrounds! But I've found that when I make the background something to enhance the characters, giving them a beautiful space or telling their story through it, I'm much more motivated to paint them. So maybe seeing backgrounds as a way to frame your portraits might be helpful? ❤️
@@evydraws-art Perhaps that's why it's so difficult because I often don't paint full illustrations, I just settle for a sketch; I have to think about it; thanks for the answer, it's good to talk to a kindred spirit sometimes ;)
Awesome video and I enjoyed your tips a lot! I will be checking out Annabelle's video soon (did not know her channel yet).
I also find myself inspired greatly by the media I consume (video games and tv shows/movies). I find it more enjoyable to draw or paint people that I have some kind of emotional connection to, although it also makes me obsess over getting the likeness right. Loved your sketches here and the characters are all very recognizable. I personally like your vibrant color palettes a lot, and admired how you handled Minthara's color palette here. Had to smile a bit about your tendency to draw the noses too long - that is one of mine as well. I also tend to make the eyes too large. Being aware of such quirks can be super useful, as you mentioned.
How did you mix the skin tones in Gouache for the three portraits on the left page? (If you still remember.)
I have the same sketchbook by Hahnemühle, just in the square format. So far I have been neutral about it. I don't like how much my watercolors fade on the paper, and they also don't seem to lift well. But I did sketch on it with a watersoluable pencil and loved how it turned out. Might need to give it a try again soon.
I've been wanting to sign up for art classes just so that I can carve out a regular time for art, but the local ones never meshed too well with my work schedule, unfortunately. Now I'm looking ahead to next year. We are expecting a baby, so I will probably need to carve out those little pockets of time in-between that you mentioned, and work with those rather than larger painting sessions. I got some colored pencils for Christmas that I hope will come in handy (Derwent Drawing Set of 24 - you actually might like the color palette as well).
Happy New Year, Evy! 🎆
Thanks for the tons of enjoyable videos this year!
Thank you so much! And yes, I think our lessons balance each other well, so I hope you enjoy both videos together :)
Good point about obsessing with the likeness! Sometimes, going for an unknown quantity can be freeing in that sense, but I really just love sketching movie scenes so much BECAUSE I have that ambition and love driving me to get it "right" haha.
Glad I'm not alone when it comes to noses. I might have to sit down and just practice drawing noses one morning. :'D And then, I also like long, hooked, intense looking noses aesthetically, so it's an interesting balance to get right.
My gouache palette is very limited - just a modified Zorn palette, with Flame Red and Yellow Ochre, as well as Ivory Black and Titanium White doing most of the heavy lifting. I then mixed in cyan blue and some ultramarine blue for cooler shadows and color variety.
I actually like the paper of the Hahnemuehle a LOT for my mixed media approach. There are better watercolor options out there - Arches paper is hard to beat - but I find that this one goes well for this mix of gouache (less water), colored pencil (which I find really unpleasant in my Arches sketchbooks), and then watercolor, though I haven't tried a true wet-on-wet approach yet. So I think I accidentally stumbled across the perfect paper for my mix of techniques and materials. :D
Congrats on the pregnancy! That really is such a big change, and I wish you all the best and good health. That for sure makes scheduling even more difficult, so I hope those little pockets of time still happen for you.
@@evydraws-art Thank you so much for your detailed reply and sorry for getting back to you so late!
In the meantime I watched Annabelle's video and also enjoyed it a lot. I think what stuck with me the most is her "it doesn't have to be a masterpiece" advice. It is something I often need to remind myself of as well, especially because I always feel that have little time to paint and then want to make it perfect. But in the grand scheme of things, I will have years and years to paint, so getting too precious about it will only hold me back.
I did some painting with a modified version of your modified Zorn palette in my Hahnemühle sketchbook today. Modified because I don't have the same blues as you do, but it seems to be close enough. I'm not very experienced with color mixing and also a bit lazy when it comes to mixing, so I was suprised by the range of colors I could achieve. But holy moly - Holbein's Flame Red is something else! 😂Need to add that one super carefully.
The Hahnmühle paper was...interesting. I liked it when my paint was opaque enough, but not when it was watered down. I do very much like that the Gouache seems to cling to the paper a bit more than on other papers, making it significantly harder to lift underlying layers of paint by accident. (One of the big struggles when working with Gouache!) When the paint was watered down, the paper looked a bit "fuzzy", which wasn't my cup of tea. Think I will use this paper some more for Gouache studies!
Thank you for your kind words about my pregnancy! My husband and I have talked about how we can still give each other little pockets of free-time for our hobbies once our baby is here. I hope we will be able to make these happen! Hope 2025 will be a wonderful year for you! 🤗
I don't know how you do it, but thanks for the Spanish audio track! A video I will definitely watch again
I think that's a new UA-cam feature to do auto dubbing! I hope the quality was okay, I hadn't checked those out yet 😌
Strange, hearing someone say Final Fantasy 'ex'. Did you ever hear about Final Fantasy ve-i-i-i or x-i?
I knoooow! 😂 But I played it as a child before learning English and "x" just sounded so much better to me than the German "zehn". Weirdly, I call all the others by their proper number 😭
@evydraws-art hm. I'm also German and I always called it well... 'zehn' because it came after IX. But oh well. 10 was the last FF game I really enjoyed.
I actually played X first (didn't have a console before that) so I had zero context :) then went back to play the older ones, but the last one I enjoyed was probably XII... so same 😔