Portrait Painting w/ Commentary + Announcement! 

Your sketch is like my final art after 3 days of working

Awkward commentary is best commentary! It makes you feel more human and makes me want to listen to you even more. Once again a very great job. Getting better and better with each video :D

One of the most informative video's I've seen, if this is anything to go by I'll be a patron very soon.

Before, I wasn't very interested in digital painting.. I'm more of the lineart + celshade person. But then after I found you and your works I was very inspired to make more digital paintings and I just wanted to say thank you bcs your videos really gave me a huge boost to start getting out of my comfort zone :)

I am so happy I found your channel. I love your videos because you take the time to explain things, and although I am not an artist, I enjoy watching art tutorial videos. Who knows, perhaps one day I will find the courage to try painting one of the awesome images I have in my mind. It would be great if you would make a video about more technical stuff, like where you find resources you use (brushes or references).

Id really appreciate a tutorial on the proportions of the face from a bunch of different angles and maybe tell us how and what you practiced to get so skilled as you are now. ♥️😊

Me personally i liked the tilted head, it gives the character a sense of curiosity.

Yessss she makes another one! Awesome stuff, thanks for sharing!

Your artworks are excellent I just love how you use colours and the softness of your brushes are exquisite. I don't often write comments but your work is so amazing I wanted to let you know that your sensitivity towards art is really gorgeous and fascinating! I can't get my eyes off of your work! I hope that with a lot of work I can be as good as you are now one day ^^ ! Keep going ♥

Oh my gosh i was just watching your last skin painting walkthrough the other day! I’m so excited to see more of my favorite artist’s process

Welcome back, we've missed you! Thank you for sharing this video with us.

All your works are so beautiful! I love that I can watch you create something so beautiful while also listening to some very helpful tips

absolutely love it! Astri, can you talk a little about how you control and use the brushes, in the next video, pleasezzzz!!!, the way you draw hairs is so stunning.

This is the first video I've seen of yours and the way you use colour and light is so beautiful!

I hope to become a patron in next couple of months because you inspire me much by your art and hardworking attitude, you're really nice and talented, best wishes to you, Astri!

your art is soooo beautiful. and thanks for the tutorial videos they're very helpful :D

I love it! Looks absolutely gorgeous!

Your art is absolutley gorgeous! :0 thank you for sharing your workflow.

It's sooo beautiful 😍 I love your artstyle

Beautiful work as always :D and best of luck with your Patreon. Your workflow is always fun to watch since you always end up bringing so much detail to your renderings :) The only thing I might have added is a bit more of something on the top corners, but since that is background stuff it probably is no big deal. Thanks for sharing the video, and yeah, I normally end up regretting it when I draw hair on my main layer lol

Your style and eye for composition inspires me!

hohoho, definitely my new teacher for digital painting. i'm still struggling with color especially in a certain ambience color. i usually so afraid whenever i want to draw in a certain scene that demand certain lighting. but i guess the best way to overcome that would be practicing with reference, mismatching color and so on. i'll try to absorb as much as possible from your painting, i really like your style

Omg so excited about the Patreon page! I’m definitely gonna become a patron once i get paid!

this is fantastic. all of your colors are so unique. but during the refining part of it, that color summary was going nuts lmao

This piece is killer. I really enjoy your work it has that X factor.

Your art is insanely gorgeous,good job :)

I like you for your personality.

whoa i love this! really got to learn a lot. thank you

My favorite digital artist!

This is amazing !

This is magical.

So enjoyed the commentary !

Sooooooooooooooooo beautiful! Great job, really really great job! :)

Just stumbled upon your channel great commentary learned a lot!!

you are an amazing artist thank you for the inspiering videos. as an sugesstion i think you should put some video ideas you get from youtube and let your patreons deside what they want to see. i would love to see how you come up whit interesting compositions personaly.

Lovely work

Love it!

Couple weeks ago, I did 2 drawings. The first - the usual way id do them. Next day i found one of your videos and thought "hey that looks good ill try pinch some techniques". The genuine difference in quality looks like over a year between the two. When i showed some family, they assumed somebody else drew the worse one and said "Yeah thats a bit shit, your one is better". It was a redesign of the same character and looked like two seperate artists had done it. I just wanted to say thankyou as watching a couple speed paint videos of yours have genuinely helped me a lot.

I knew something was off with the black colors in my piece, but I couldn't figure it out.. The white/black/grey tip was extremely helpful.

Even though I mainly do 3D art, I still find your videos helpful lol

this is so nice.

Beautiful

you style, lines, paintng render, for me this is perection, I LOVE videos with comment, and this is especial, i understand important steps come more for US

This is amazing! 💙💙💙

I love your vids mostly because they are not obvious like others saying "keep your lines clean" or "remember about layers"

I just subscribed. Your art is amazing!!! :D

kalista from league? this is fucking amazing thank you for being alive astri! made this gatwick airport chaos alot easier

I LOVED THIS ONE!!!!!!!!!!!

Awesome!

YOU ARR SO UNDERRATED

You have a beautiful voice!)

Hi, great video, I really hope u could make a tutorial about something like that armour study u did, It's probably one of my favourite piece of yours :) And good luck with patreon, hopefully one day my poor ass will be making money with painting and I'll be able to support you :)

By default in Photoshop you can change brush size by holding alt and right click, and zoom with alt+space+left mouse button, much faster than swapping between the tools for zooming and manual brush resize

This is a goldmine for artists, thank you for making it Which pack is that brush from? I'm looking at Ross's Gumroad and idk which one to pick to get it

as a starving artist im jealous what you become today keep it up

holy shiz thats rlly good

It's so pretty *-* trying to transmog my void elf into something similar XD

Even I didn't notice the head was tilted at first,😄, I have to start forcing myself to flip the layer like I forced myself to remember what layer I'm on

Your style is so unique and beautiful omg. I dont know if you have an answer for this but here it goes XD. i've been drawing for a year now and even though i improved a lot, i started to feel less and less happy with my style or art in general. At some point i felt like i was getting worse if it even makes sense. Any suggestions?

I love your videos, they help me so much. You don't think to do streams sometimes ? i think it's a good idea and very fun, you can show some tips about art and talk with us :D

Loved the eyes, gorgeous :D Beautiful voice. Do you have any kind of suggestions for concepts from subscribers or something like that? Like if someone had a way to upload a concept by text or sketch for you create a new version by your vision?

My dear You just earnd a subscriber :D

absolutly beautiful, I though the light you added under the tip of the nose at the end was to much, I think it was perfect before you add the tiny ligth, but is only my opinion, is a awesome work

@26:30 yes to both.. cheers :)

95% of my work is personal, 5% is client, I'd gladly swap places with you! I do love your work and vids though, thanks for making them 😃

Astri, can you teach about the color you use there? i mean. why they look so greyish blue , and almost nothing of them really saturated at all? i ever heard about gamut and still confused about it. is it what you apply in this painting? love the style so *much*

i can say only 1 thing, 3 words, 4 u> ITS SOOO COOL

I love her art so much!! Does anyone know if she has her brushes for sale?

I love it! where can we get your brushes?

Memo to self. If I ever fall back in to the WoW pit and really miss my Forsaken... This is the Artist I would like to commission to make the character art from.

Hi Astri, love the video and art! When you say 8:56 " I made some layers on hard light mode and clipped them back to the main group" Can you please elaborate?

Also do you use the chalk brush all the way through the detailed rendering? Great work btw :D Still studying Gurney and Loomis some more before trying a new digital painting. But your style is very much an inspiration.

I find a lot of really good digital artists draw right over the sketch. Ive been meaning to try this method more often, but am always so intimidated by the idea that itll be messy or mot flow together

Could you do a tutorial on the skin on the face , like the lighting or blend

Yeeeey void elves!

Love that piece and i want to find that second brush u used(not basic one) Can u give a link please or where can i find it?

Can you please talk about brushes and brush work? I've been drawing for years and I still struggle with finding the best brushes and using them correctly.

Wow ,your art is breathtaking, did you go to school for art or are you self taught? and how long did you study before you could start working? i'm trying to become a professional artist as well, but working dead end job and studying on the side means slooow progress, not gonna give up though!

Also.. Try and take a look at Dan Luvisi and his brush set. His stuff is based on more realistic looks and may be something you could find interesting :D

you know that your fist sketch was really more nostalgic and original?! But I mean i understand that you work for a client

Do you know where I can find Ross Tran's brush set? I've been looking for it everywhere but no results in google apart from your videos. Amazing work :D

That was awesome!! 🙏 Please make akali - girl with the neon jacket for K/DA

Might I ask which brushes you like to use best for your inspiring work?

8:55 uses hard light mode to tryout diff types of lighting as if she is on set setting up lighting or in a CG workspace setting up lighting less about the render more about the decision making here

Can these tools and tips be used in Krita as well? I'm mainly a traditional painter but I have done digital as well on Corel Painter Essentials and its not the best but it does get the job done but I wanted to try Krita wich is PS like from what I've heard. I want my work to look better and more professional so I want programs that can help me get there. So anything you can tell me is greatly appreciated.

When you say airbrush. Is that just a soft edge, low opacity round standard brush?

How to remove the line work perfectly? I have been working hard on this but the after result is not nice.

8:56 Use hard light layer mode for lighting.

I dont mean to sound as if I know any better, but the neck and shoulders really bug me anatomy wise, I bet you might have noticed it too or will notice if you take the color off, if possible and flip the image upside down to see that the neck seems too long as well as the shoulders that seem kinda too close to each other I'd say. I was drawing for years, probably since I was in my moms womb but I never made it a task for my self to master it, nor did I ever had good results when I draw digitally because of the view or the fact it feels very different from pen and pencil as well as the add fact I never used colors, maybe one color and made hues with it by pressuring the pen or pencil unto the sheet I was drawing on. I still have little understanding on how people get used to drawing on a wacom or other variations of it despite trying my self and never getting the hang of it, also how people are able to use colors and make their final piece look so naturally good. the final piece is still good, tho I dont have a plan or steps when I draw on my wacom, I usually do the first sketch than the second which is usually line art at that point and call it a day.

i just tried photoshop cc, and it would let me bind with any letters without using Shift as well.

so can you tell me about the brush what you uesd, i want try to make it like you, OK? or give me some your brush ,

Was anyone able to find the Ross Tran brush Astri is talking about?

can anyone please help me? i have a problem that i dont add enough details or my details look like they are in sketch phase. i just dont enjoy doing it but i love the look of such paintings (like this artist has) are there any tips how to add details faster/ enjoy it or should i just push myself to do it? thanks in advance ^^

TEACH ME HOW TO DRAW THAT WELL. I mean, PLS?

What types of brushes are you using

how do you get the triangle color wheel ?

how long time did you use on the second drawing?

can you do a tutorial on drawing "hot" woman/girls because you know its lucky when a beginner does a portrait with a woman/girl which turns out beautiful because most of the time it turns out ugly and unattractive which really repels and discourages the interest of beginners in digital art. Thank you!

Astri, what mic are you using?