Sylessae

LAUNCHED: My 🎨 PAINTING 🎨 bootcamp is for you if you want to learn to: 💪 Create with your own skills, not AI 🖼️ Turn your ideas into art you can print & keep ✨ Use your portraits for TTRPG & storytelling 👥 Draw for friends ✏️ Design from your imagination

I'll be taking this painting bootcamp and would love having some familiar faces as art accountability buddies! Sylessae's portrait bootcamp helped me tremendously with face construction, so I'm very excited to finally get some structured painting guidance. 🙏

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Just under 3 days left to preorder!!

All of these treats are cured and now for sale, my studio is starting to get overrun by sweets 👇🍭

What's the best thing about making art?

Autumn is the best time for sketchbooking at the coffee shop

My philosophy to teaching & creativity for those who have joined my latest bootcamp:

5 days left to preorder your spot!

Got distracted and scribbled my partner today

My philosophy to teaching & creativity for those who have joined my latest bootcamp:

Another on board for live enrollment!! 21 slots left :D

Our portrait painting bootcamp preorder ends in 6 days and then the STUDYING BEGINS.

Any time a painting feels scary or impossible, I have a hack I use to get through that feeling. Paint it badly. As many times as possible & as quickly as possible. By the 10th time, you start to realize nothing about the concept is scary enough that you can't at least try.

Another person joined us for the live enrollment today!! Down to 22 slots left.

You are an artist regardless of skill level. You are an artist regardless of skill level. You are an artist regardless of skill level. You are an artist regardless of skill level. You are an artist regardless of skill level. You are an artist regardless of skill level.

7 days left to preorder!!

Unfinished WIP or something

Prepping for @sylessae.bsky.social ‘s portrait painting course by doing lots and lots of portrait sketches… gotta make sure I didn’t forget everything I learned in her portrait bootcamp! These are three of my favorites. Various @trueref.bsky.social references.

I've been leaning hard into doing more of what I want specifically with my art and I just want to take a moment to really appreciate the folks who seem to be on board with that. I keep making stuff I love because you guys keep showing up for it. So thank you.

Omg only 8 days left to enroll!!

The answer is less about deciding what to create, and just start making something. A scribble, a rip in the paper, a smudge of paint. You'll find something in the uncertainty.

I lost focus on the faces and hyper focused on a juicy peach in today’s sketchbook episode

Feels like being watched 👁️

What's the thing that actually keeps you returning to making art even when it's challenging?

10 days left to enroll!!

Leave one important reason to keep making art in the comments. I want this thread to be something to return to when someone is feeling like quitting. 👇 🧵

11 days left to preorder!!

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Every portrait feels like a memory. Not just of the person or character I was painting, but who I was at the time.

Refueling for art (and I might paint it later)

Hey #PortfolioDay! For recent paid work, I'm pivoting to original oil paintings of delicious treats and meals. 🧁🍭 👉 ✉️ info@sylessae.com

If you don't know what to practice drawing, use this system: - Avoid overthinking (or journal your concerns) - Warm up with automatic drawing - As your drawing develops, ask yourself: Where do I lack confidence in this drawing? - Take note, study that specific topic later

Sad update, my giraffe pen ran out of ink