Yamiyume

Digital portrait painter.

Portrait Paintings
Sketches & WIPs
Contact
FAQ

Portrait paintings

Digitally drawn portrait (shoulders up) of an Asian woman with long black hair. She is looking directly at the camera, her head is tilted to the left side of the image. Some stray hairs are flowing in the wind. She is wearing a white top of which only the shoulder strap is visible.

Portrait, 2023

A portrait I drew in Procreate using a pencil brush and a color palette inspired by the Polychromos colored pencils.

Digitally drawn portrait of an Asian woman (elbows up) looking directly at the camera with a neutral expression and a hint of weariness. She has short black hair with a blue tint and wears a single earring on her right that features a large dangling rectangle with an interesting red and yellow pattern. She is wearing a dark blue top and a cool black jeans jacket with some pyramid-shaped metal applications at the collar and the front.

Jeans Jacket, 2023

A portrait painted in Procreate using pastel brushes and a limited color palette.

Digitally painted portrait showing a girl (shoulders up) who rests her head on her right hand and smiles broadly. She has long black hair and wears a black top and a light pink jacket.

Smiling Girl, 2023

A portrait painted in Procreate using pastel brushes.

Digitally painted portrait of a woman (shoulders up) looking towards the right side of the image. She has dark blonde hair and is wearing a black turtleneck pullover.

Portrait, 2022

A portrait of a woman with a turtleneck pullover.

Digital portrait painting (shoulders up) of a woman with long dark brown hair. She looks to the left side of the image and has a neutral expression. Light is filtering through her hair and forming patterns on her neck.

Portrait, 2022

A portrait of a woman with long brown hair.

Digitally painted portrait depicting a woman (shoulders up) who looks directly at the camera with a neutral expression. She has long black wavy hair and is wearing a dark blue dress with a green and red flower pattern.

Portrait, 2023

A portrait of a woman with dark wavy hair wearing a dark blue dress with a flower pattern.

Digital painting of a person with many piercings and long black hair, smiling at the camera.

Piercings, 2022

A portrait of a person with a lot of piercings.

This was painted for the RedditGetsDrawn subreddit and was chosen by the moderators as a "Best of RGD" piece.

Digitally painted portrait (shoulders up) of a woman with flowy black hair and a pink dress. Her head and eyes are facing the left side of the image.

Portrait, 2023

Portrait painted in a style reminiscent of soft pastels.

Digitally painted portrait of a mother and her young son posing for the camera. The woman is wearing what appears to be some kind of traditional dress with a heart-shaped headpiece, a black and red skirt, and a silky top with a pelt and colorful applications at the neck and the wrists. The son is wearing a simple beige hoody. The mother is smiling and looking directly at the camera. She is holding the boy's hand in her right hand while resting the other hand on his shoulder. The boy is absent-mindedly looking somewhere towards the sky.

Mother and Son, 2023

Portrait of a mother and son.

Digitally painted portrait showing Japanese singer/songwriter Yuki Akira along with two dancers from her 'Applause' music video. Yuki Akira is wearing a black and yellow outfit with intricate ornaments and a necklace with a big red translucent stone. She is facing the camera with a neutral expression. The dancers are looking into the image from both sides, facing each other. They are wearing nonmedical face masks.

Yuki Akira and Dancers, 2022

A portrait of Japanese singer/songwriter Yuki Akira with two of her dancers from her "Applause" music video.

Please note: This is fan art, neither endorsed nor commissioned by Yuki Akira or her label!

Digital painting of a woman posing in front of a wall. The woman has her left hand on her chin and the other arm crossed in front of her torso, with the hand behind the other arm. She has long black, slightly wavy hair and wears a dress with blue and white stripes. The woman also wears a necklace with multiple cubes and stones as a pendant. There's a silver bracelet on her right wrist. The woman's head faces the camera, and she is smiling.

Akane-59, 2022

A portrait of a woman with a blue & white striped dress posing in the sun.

Digital portrait painting (shoulders up) depicting the following: A woman with a white hat and a white dress looks off to the right side of the image. Her long dark hair and the hat's blue ribbon are flowing in the wind. The right side of the woman's face and clothes are lit by an intense summer sun.

Woman with Hat, 2022

A portrait of a woman with a hat.

Digitally painted portrait (shoulders up) of a woman with a twist braid hairstyle. The woman is looking directly at the camera with a neutral expression. The painting is painted in a realistic style and has an abstract blue background.

Portrait, 2023

Portrait of a woman with a twist braid hairtyle.

Digital painting depicting the following: A woman with black hair and a white dress sits at a fountain on a sunny day. The woman looks at something in the distance (not depicted in the image), her head is tilted to the left side.

At the Fountain, 2022

Portrait of Emily sitting at the fountain. Emily is a narrative games developer, please consider following her Studio on Twitter.

This was painted for the RedditGetsDrawn subreddit and was chosen by the moderators as a "Best of RGD" piece.

Digitally painted portrait of an Asian woman looking absentminded at nothing in particular, likely daydreaming.

Daydream, 2022

Portrait painting of a woman who looks at nothing in particular, likely daydreaming.

Based on a computer-generated face.

Digital painting of a fantasy persona. Woman with horns, animal ears, bat wings, and a tail sits on a stone socket that is engraved with her name 'Zoey'.

Zoey, 2022

A full-body portrait of an online Persona called Zoey.

This was painted as a commission.

mgarcia96, 2022

Portrait of Reddit user mgarcia96, painted for the RedditGetsDrawn subreddit.

Portrait, 2021

Portrait of a woman, loosely based on a computer-generated face.

Portrait, 2021

Portrait of a woman, loosely based on a computer-generated face.

Portrait, 2021

Portrait of a man, loosely based on a computer-generated face.

Portrait, 2021

Portrait of a young girl, based on a computer-generated face.

Sketches, WIPs, and unfinished paintings

Digital painting of a woman posing in blue overall and a pink sweater. She is resting her head on her right hand, while the right arm rests on her bent right knee. She uses the other arm to prop herself up from the ground. Her head and eyes are facing somewhere to the right of the camera.

Blue Overall, 2023

Semi-realistic portrait of a crouching woman wearing a blue overall and a pink sweater.

Unfinished digital painting of two women in cosplay about to kiss and embracing each other.

Cosplay Couple, 2022

Unfinished portrait of a lesbian cosplay couple.

Painted for the RedditGetsDrawn subreddit.

Rick, 2021

Portrait sketch of Rick the Muse for the RedditGetsDrawn subreddit.

Gabrielle, 2021

Portrait of Gabrielle, painted for the RedditGetsDrawn subreddit.

Contact

Use one of the following options to get in touch.

I personally prefer Matrix & Discord (only texting, no voice calls!), but use whatever best fits your needs.

	Discord:	yamiyume.art
	Matrix:	@yamiyume:matrix.org
	eMail:	yamiyume@yamiyume.art
	Mastodon:	@yamiyume@mastodon.art
	YouTube:	@yamiyumeart
	Reddit:	artsneck

Frequently Asked Questions

Here's a few questions and answers about my work.

Do you do commissions?
Which apps and equipment do you use for your digital paintings?
How many layers do you use?

Do you do commissions?

Yes, I'm usually open for commissions.

If you're interested, let's talk via eMail, Discord or private message on one of my socials!

Which apps and equipment do you use for your digital paintings?

I almost exclusively use Procreate on an iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil. I love how simple and intuitive the UI is and how responsive and accurate the Apple Pencil works.

On the rare occassions I paint on a PC, I prefer Sketchbook Pro.

I sometimes use Affinity Designer (on Desktop) to prepare my references if Procreate isn't enough. I have the iPad app as well, but I feel the UI is too clunky.

For viewing my reference images, I use VizRef on my iPad and PureRef on Desktop.

How many layers do you use?

I get this question quite often when I post my art on Reddit. In almost all cases, the answer is one or two.

This answer seems to surprise a lot of artists. In my experience, most digital painters use tons of different layers for their artworks.

I prefer working on as few layers as possible. My workflow is rather reminiscent of traditional painting. You will find me using just one layer for most of the painting. Sometimes I will use a separate background layer in the beginning, but most of the work is done on my one main layer.

Not only is this way simpler to work with (I don't have to think about which layers to use), it also allows me to use all kinds of different edges and blend together all parts of an image in a natural way.

If you want to see me paint some of my portraits, check out my YouTube channel. It has some screen-recorded Procreate footage, not just the timelapse videos exported by Procreate.