Loish
Loish is Dutch digital artist Lois van Baarle, known for expressive character paintings, artbooks, and tutorials that share how she draws.
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Lois’s happenings, collected from public sources, plus her backstory and Starbook, where fans write.
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Overview
- Name
- Lois van Baarle
- Born
- 11 October 1985, the Netherlands
- Based in
- Utrecht, the Netherlands
- Work
- Digital artist, character designer, author and teacher
- Education
- Animation at KASK in Ghent and HKU in Utrecht; graduated in 2009
- Book breakthrough
- The Art of Loish, published in 2016
Mini bio
How it started.
Lois grew up between the Netherlands, the United States, Indonesia, France and Belgium. At 15 she began exploring digital drawing with Photoshop and Oekaki. She later studied animation and graduated in 2009 with the short film Trichrome Blue.
Finding her audience.
By the time she began freelancing, she had spent about six years sharing her art online. Early jobs were uneven, so she kept making personal work and taking DeviantArt commissions. Her first artbook, The Art of Loish, arrived in 2016 after reaching its Kickstarter goal in under two hours.
Characters and books.
In 2013 she spent three months creating concept art for Aloy in Horizon Zero Dawn. Her books let fans see another side of that process: The Art of Loish collects finished paintings and sketches, The Sketchbook of Loish focuses on rough work, and The Style of Loish explores how an artistic voice develops.
Sharing the process.
Teaching has become a regular part of her work. She publishes monthly Patreon tutorials and offers free brushes, videos and drawing resources through Loish’s Digital Art School.
Creditschronological, newest first
Artbooks
- 2022The Style of LoishAuthor and artist
- 2018The Sketchbook of LoishAuthor and artist
- 2016The Art of LoishAuthor and artist
Games and animation
- 2013Horizon Zero Dawn: Aloy concept developmentConcept artist for Guerrilla Games
- 2009Trichrome BlueCreator of the animated graduation short
Awards
Quotes
try to draw what feels good to you, instead of getting too technical or over-thinking the drawing process.Loish, official FAQ
Her advice to artists looking for their own style.
Trivia
- She began digital drawing with a mouse at 15 and got her first tablet at 16.
- Ariel from The Little Mermaid was a frequent subject in her early fan art.
- Her website dates back to 2004; she first coded it in Notepad after her younger sister taught her basic HTML.
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