May 2025

I'm in love with the texture in your art style 😍 is there something special you do to not over blend or smoothen stuff out?

thank you!! honestly what i do is just use a brush with the blending setting adjusted to pretty low, so i do the blending by picking transition colors/gradients myself and sculpting the shapes with brushstrokes, rather than by letting the brush blend in the nearby colors. the latter is a totally valid technique though and works great for digital watercolors for example! all depends on what kind of effect you want to achieve.

Would you ever be willing to make art tutorials? Your facial proportions and posing are so organic and real, and your coloring is just so satisfying to see. Just stumbled on a tiefling comm u posted, hope you're having a good day!

hi, thank you!!

the answer to that is possibly! i’ve written some stuff about my process under the #zmeess art advice tag (some things are less current there), i’ve done a couple of speedpaints, and a short tutorial or two (the only one that i remember atm is a tip on drawing pointed ears). i’ve actually wanted to do a short tutorial on drawing collarbones for a real long time. right now i’m a bit busy with work & health stuff though, but fingers crossed i will have some time for tutorials in the nearest future!

Helloo would you consider opening a patreon? So someone like me who loves your art a crazy amount but cant commission can still support in some way.

Ps: your name is cool as hell

first of all: thank you so much for enjoying my art and wanting to support me!!

secondly: unfortunately, i can’t use patreon, but i have boosty! where you can chuck a tip at me any time (iirc the lower limit is super low, like below one us dollar), or subscribe to one of my support tiers: tip jar, which is around 4$ a month, and tip jar (supersized), which is around 8$. both also give you access to a bunch of sketches and wips that i upload to boosty with various levels of erraticness (some of which i’ve never posted on my socials), as well as the couple of speedpaints that i’ve done.

so yep, no patreon but you can still support me monetarily! also taking this opportunity to shout out the folks that are subscribed to my boosty, y'all don’t know how many times a monthly sub i wasn’t expecting has allowed me to buy some nice food when i was coasting on a big zero in my wallet until whatever paycheck was next. much love 🥰