UPDATE // summer is officially here!

Loish

it's a link that you get through DMs every month. if you click on it you'll see a list of the files that were generated that month.

Nic

What’s a ‘google drive folder’? I’m new to Patreon so still learning how to navigate

Loish

thank you so much petr! such kind words :) i think your comment is really interesting because it shows how a 'reset' can be inspiring and boost creativity. sometimes bad things in our lives can do that for us.

Petr Macháně

To me it helps to let it like it is. Sometimes i am so without ideas and motivation that i just can lay in bed and do nothing. It helps me to get drunk and restart my mind with friends. Also i got blocked always once i got too analytical in approach. After COVID almost killed me in hospital i came back home and felt like intuition and feeling is my new life setting. It must be much harder for you when you make money out of your production, remember we love all your outcome. It doesnt has to be perfect or better than other patreon creators, we love the style of Loish, not the perfection of Loish. We love the way you see the world and the way you make tutorials and art. Its enough and it will be. You are original as you are.

Lima

Thank you! Yes it is so far a lot!! I am able to work on real projects and storyboarding. It's absolutely exciting having so much responsibility. But I slag off in painting atm... I had to rewatch your procreate flow tutorial again because I forgot to paint... ahahaha...

Loish

those are great tips! thank you :)

Loish

congrats! sounds like it will be a great learning experience!

Lima

That looks sooo good! I wish I could go on Vacation but I just started an internship for a tiny animation studio in Leipzig... so I hope I can at least manage to go on the weekend into the woods and just draw.

Cherice

Your vacation looks enchanting! 😍 It's great to hear that you got to visit and enjoy Italy. I definitely understand the art block. Two things that get me thru it: photography (zoo trip or hiking) and automatic drawing/doodling. I hope it passes quickly for you. Good luck!

Anne-Claire

Oh that’s interesting and also makes a lot of sense! I take a lot of photos, and one of the things that makes me want to draw is when the photos don’t give the feeling/landscape justice and I want to change things… when I’m burnt out with photography (which is ma passion and my full time job), I take breaks, do other creative things. I know I always come back to it but sometimes you have to go another direction to learn new things that you can later incorporate to your other passions/hobbies. Like drawing, calligraphy, composition, storytelling… I love how you feel like you learn other things sometimes and it end up being a piece of the puzzle of the original passion.

Lauri Panopoulos Lauridesign.com

Very glad you enjoyed your vacation. So much charm and majesty...the eggplant looks really good too! Thank you as always for sharing your journey with us.

Loish

that sounds like a fun exercise!

Loish

that sounds amazing! i loved tuscany, but it didn't make me want to draw. when i'm travelling, i'm just more focused on being in the moment or taking lots of pictures. for me drawing is something i do to get away from the world around me, and when i'm travelling, i want to really be there!

Anne-Claire

When I can’t create, traveling always helps :) new lights, scents, colors, sounds… new music also, it often recharge my batteries and I can go back to being inspired and motivated. Tuscany is a wonderful place - didn’t it make you want to draw?

Anska

I am glad you had a great holiday and thank you for sharing so much of it with us on instagram. When I am stuck, I usually first take it as an incentive to clean my desk 😅 and then pick up something to read or watch or do that is slightly outside of my usual interests to get some fresh input. But since you just were on a holiday you probably already have a lot of new impressions and ideas, so maybe something inspired by the holidays? Artistic impressions of all the delicious food you showed perhaps. =)

I’m glad you had fun! I loved watching your vacation IG stories! For me, when I need to get back in the swing of art after a while I’ll draw some funky blobs, and then see what kind of creatures/faces I can make inside those shapes! It’s a fun way to doodle and push the limits of what looks right

Loish

good advice! i try to take a morning walk a few times a week, it usually helps to get my thoughts going!

Loish

hey chei! thanks so much! i'm not doing mentoring at all but i have been working on a discord, just haven't had time to really take the next steps yet. but you'll probably see one in the future!

Loish

good tips! i'm also just drawing some faces and getting back into the flow of digital art. fictional podcasts for inspiration is actually such a great idea. i have that with music too sometimes!

Loish

yayy!! thanks for considering this patreon to join :) be sure to wait until the end of the day or maybe even july 2nd to avoid being double charged, sometimes patreon still charges twice if it's too close to the previous month ^^;

Ahh! Your vacation looks like it was lovely! I hope you had fun! For me the only thing that helps art block is going on walks!

I'm so glad you had a break, must've been amazing just looking around and just chilling 🙌 can't wait for the next few poses... will you ever do mentoring or a discord?

Cezary Łobiński

I saw everything on your IG stories and I'm so jealous! Wish to visit Italy next year 😁 whenever I have artblock I'm trying to get back to basics and sketching poses, faces, sometimes listening to stories in podcasts (mostly horror in my case) inspires me to draw a scene from the podcast 😁

vessdraws

I am waiting for tomorrow to come and I will finally become your patreon 😁 I am so excited!!! 🥺