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✖️CLOSED / SOCIAL MEDIA - Shoutouts of Your Art on my Insta Stories ✏️
Hi Dear Potato Angels,Warm regards from the Italian Alps! 🏂 Thank you for your support and another wonderful month!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 ...
UPDATE - My short vacation and what you will find here in the coming week 💬
Hello everyone,Happy Friday! First of all, I came here to thank you for your support, because I'm going on a week-long holiday in the Alps tonight, and without you it wouldn't be possible 🥰 Thanks to Patreon, I can be financially independent, create art and share my passion with you!Durin...
VIDEO TUTORIAL - 9 TIPS for Painting Skin Tones With Colored Pencils 🍿
Hi Everyone!Exciting news! ✈️ The Art Retreat will be launched this Friday at 4PM CET. Here's a special link for you in which you can request an Early Bird spot before it will be live! https://trovatrip.com/trip/europe/spain/spain-with-gaby-niko-sep-2023?earlyBird=true You can also simply su...
ART RETREAT UPDATE! + Costa Brava Sketchbook Spread ⛵️
Hi Everyone!Today I was going to finish and publish a video tutorial but suddenly I received an update about my Art Reatreat project and I couldn't think of anything else! I had to put my thoughts on paper! ☀️Based on the completed surveys, I designed our Art Retreat in Spain! In the coming ...
Oil Painting WIP + What I’m currently working on 🎞
Hi everyone,How’s your Thursday so far? 🧡It was a beautiful, sunny day here, and also Fat Thursday, so the whole Poland was eating donuts. Such a sweet tradition! I ate only two but huge - one with rose filling and one with coconut 🍩I continue to work on an oil portrait study, but I'm no...
WIP - Oil Painting for the Art Challenge 🌇
Hello everyone,Happy Monday! 🧡🖌Today I started a portrait in the colors and mood chosen for our Art Challenge. I haven't painted with oil paints for a long time and I thought it was a great opportunity to come back to them.I used a block for oil paints and paints from Winsor & Newton. I wa...
PDF - Scanned Sketchbook Update 📖
Hi Everyone,Happy Saturday!Two days ago I posted a reel on Instagram with an update of my current sketchbook. It was a quick teaser, but these are not all of the drawings I had.I had to skip some pages so the reel wouldn't be too long and I wanted to show my artworks slowly enough. I have prepar...
SURVEY 📋 - Art Retreat! Where should we go? 🗺
Hello everyone,I have some exciting news: I got an offer to become a host at Art Retreat in one of the many amazing places in the world! ✈️For many years I traveled a lot working as a designer and it was an exciting time full of unexpected experiences. Being in remote corners of our beautiful wo...
UPDATE - Physical Rewards for February 💝
Hello my Dear Potato Angels!I hope you are all had a good start into the new week 😊Just popping in with a quick post to let you know about the rewards I have prepared for this month.You will receive these rewards in March if you join the "Brotato Angel" or "Sticky Spud" tiers unti...
REAL TIME Video - Karin Markers Portrait Study 🌸
Hello Everyone,Happy Sunday!Thank you for voting in the last poll ! 🗳 The idea for the tutorial which received the most votes is: How to Render Skin Tones with Colored Pencils. In this tutorial I will tell you how I choose pencil colors for drawing different types of skin tones + give tips on how...
POLL - Vote for the February Tutorial Video 📮
Hello everyone,I hope February has started pleasantly for you all 😊Today I would like to ask you to vote on the tutorial for February. Here are the options: ☝🏾☝🏼☝🏻How to Render Skin Tones with Colored Pencils - This is a tutorial in which I will tell you how I choose pencil colors ...
QUICK LINKS - Easy access to my content 📌
Hi everyone,Welcome in February!I have prepared a post for you, which will now be now pinned at the top of my Patreon wall because I finally managed to organize all the most important Patreon links on my website. You can find them here:> FULL LIST OF ALL THE MOST IMPORTANT PATREON CONTENT LINKS <You...
✖️CLOSED/ SOCIAL MEDIA - Shoutouts of your Art on my Instagram Stories ❄️
Hi Dear Potato Angels,Thank you for your support and another wonderful month!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 🙌🏼 Please check, if you wrote it corre...
DRAW WITH ME 🎞 - Ink and Gouache Sketchbook Session 🖌
Hello everyone!I hope you're all having a pleasant weekend.Recently, thanks to everyday drawing, I have gained more confidence in recording and I am capturing my process more often. In this way, I have already recorded several processes for real time videos, tutorials and the type of video that ...
SNEAK PEEK - Gouache sketchbook study (filmed for the DWM video) 🧡🖌️
Hi Everyone,Happy Friday!Yesterday as part of "daily doodles" I decided to dust off my gouaches. I'm getting more and more comfortable drawing while shooing the process (I'm starting to forget about the camera), so I filmed this painting and still had a lot of fun! I thought it would...
TIME LAPSE - Portrait of Ellie from The Last of Us 🧟
Hi my dear Potato Angels,Happy Thursday! 🧟🖤Today I wanted to share with you a time lapse video with a process of painting Ellie - the character from The Last of Us. In the video you can see the whole process, from start to finish, as well as the references I used along the way.Have a wonderful...
SNEAK PEEK - Portrait study filmed for the real time video / Karin markers 🦄✨
Hi everyone,Happy Tuesday! 🧡Today I filmed for you the whole process of painting a portrait study with Karin markers. I wanted to use them mostly as watercolors this time, so I used Arches hot-press paper. It handled Karin markers perfectly!Here are some frames from today’s shooting 🎥Next mo...
UPDATE - Physical Rewards ✨
Hello everyone,Happy Saturday! 🧡Just wanted to let you know that I've selected physical rewards for January.Since the sketchbook is my main source of inspiration and a safe place to create art, I thought that a print made of one of its pages (in a bit more messy form than usual) would well re...
SNEAK PEEK: Portrait of Ellie from "TLOU2" + Poll Results 🌇
Hello everyone!I've been drawing on my iPad for the last two days. I wanted to sketch a portrait of Ellie from "The Last of Us" because I really like the game (although I haven't finished it yet) and now the series based on it was released. I wanted to draw this character before I st...
POLL - The mood-board for the New Challenge + 3 Downloadable Color Palettes 🪐
Hello everyone,Happy Tuesday! 😊In the last post and on Discord I asked you about suggestions for a new challenge (and my next artwork). I really liked idea of @jaśka about choosing a one color palette for us all.I went a step further and created not only color palettes but themes and mood-boards...
NEW CHALLENGE? ✍🏼 Ideas and suggestions 💬
Hello everyone!Yesterday was the deadline of our last challenge proposed by Katrin - a watercolor portrait based on a one, specific reference photo. 🖌 Thank you so much for joining and sharing your work! In this post you can see my three favorite entries 🧡What do you think about the new challe...
STEP BY STEP - My process of working on custom illustrations ✍️
Hi Everyone!I hope you're having a good Saturday 😊 Today I have a special "step by step" for you.In addition to running Patreon and creating courses or content for social media, I also work on commissioned illustrations. Because many of you plan to work on their own commissions I thou...
STEP BY STEP - Day 22 of Daily Doodles - Colored Pencils Portrait 🦜
Hi everyone! 🧡I'm still drawing every day as I planned - it's been 12 days already! ⭐️I realized that for a long time I've been focusing more on documenting, filming, describing, analyzing drawings and sharing them on social media, instead on the essence itself - drawing without d...
SKETCHBOOK UPDATE: 6+ Days of Daily Doodles ✍🏼
Hi Everyone! 🥰I hope the New Year has started pleasantly and inspiringly for you! As you know my resolution is to draw more but without putting too much pressure on myself. I try to start each day by drawing in a pleasant daylight. Evening drawing also has its charms, but I noticed that the sun m...
WELCOME 2023! - Goals for this year 📚
Happy New Year everyone! 🎉I'm not the type of person to make New Year's resolutions. I am the type of person who decides on improving something almost every day. It's exhausting.Every day I tell myself that I should do something differently: I should do more yoga, walk instead of driv...
✖️CLOSED/ SOCIAL MEDIA - Shoutouts of your Art on my Instagram Stories ☃️
Hi Dear Potato Angels! Thank you for this wonderful year! 🎆 I can’t express how happy I am to share my work with this wonderful community. Thanks to you I can develop, learn, create what my heart dictates and share my passion with the world!I hope the New Year will bring you a lot of joy, fulfi...
REAL TIME VIDEO: Rendering Different Skin Tones with Colored Pencils 🎞
Hi everyone!I hope you are having a peaceful and warm holiday time with your loved ones 🧡 I wonder how you spend this time of the year. Feel free to share about it in the comments if you like 😊💬Today I am sharing with you a real-time process of rendering different skin tones with colored pe...
STEP BY STEP - Watercolor & Colored Pencils Portrait 🎨
Hi everyone,Happy Friday!Yesterday I painted this study and wanted to share with you a short step-by-step. I start to feel more comfortable with watercolors and can’t wait too see where it takes me. Hope you like the effect 😊Have a wonderful holiday time! ⭐️Love,Gaby
REAL TIME VIDEO - Pencil Portrait for Watercolor Study 📓
Hey everyone ⛄️Happy Tuesday! Today I decided to finish my watercolor study and start a new one. I wanna practice as much as possible so it’s important knowing when to stop and start a new study. I hope to paint the portrait chosen in a poll again after a while, to see if my skills improved du...
WIP - Watercolor Portrait Study🖌
Hi Everyone,Happy Monday! I hope you had a pleasant weekend.I started to paint the portrait based on the photo picked in a poll. I wanted it to be more stylized than the first, pencil study, and I like it better this way.It’s the first time I’m using my new Arches paper and I need to say it - th...
