Welcome to December ✨🤗 (Patreon)

Hi everyone!! 😊

Welcome to December! This year went by so fast and I can't even believe it's only a month until 2026. I really love this time of the year with all its festivities, Christmas lights everywhere and the cozy stay at home moments in between! ✨

This is my very first welcoming post up here. I chose to do this, because I would love to connect with you all a bit more. I love how this community is growing. So a big welcome to all of you who joined this November! 🥰

In this post you can read about:

What you can expect in December here on Patreon

An Overview of November here on Patreon

How am I doing?: Personal updates and Illustration work updates

✨ What you can expect in December

A little overview of the the content I will share with you in December. I made a content calendar, so you will have an idea when to expect which reward!

It depends on your tier, which reward you will get access to, so here is an overview of every tier! (With of course access to polls and our community chat for all tiers!)

Theme of the month

Of course the theme of the month is Christmas! We couldn't skip that one. I really love this theme, because we can draw some other subjects than I am used to, like the gingerbread man and candy cane of this week!

Post: Step-by-step Illustrations

Extra video tutorials

Last week, I ran a little poll asking what new tier rewards you’d love to see on Patreon. The clear winner was an extra tutorial each month!! 🤗

Starting in December, you can expect three video tutorials every month!

The additional tutorial will be included in:

The Creative Practice Boost tier

The Creative Practice Boost Plus tier

15% discount on each tier until the 4th of December

Because I know these months are crazy expensive, I am running a little discount until the 4th of December. You can join the tiers with a monthly or yearly membership. For the yearly membership, there is already a discount, and above that you will get 15% discount as well!

✨ November overview

I shared lots of content last month. We had 4 weeks of reference images and step-by-step illustration posts. I also shared:

An exercise with sketchbook ideas

A printable worksheet where you can learn to draw an Autumn Leaf

A video tutorial: How to draw a snowy mountain

A video tutorial: How to draw an Autumn Leaf

A blog post with my whole updated colourpallette

You can find all november rewards here: Complete November content collection

✨ How am I doing?

I also wanted to give you a little update each month what I've been up to in the previous month. So I have been doing a lot in November! You can read all about it down below.

Illustration work updates

Updating my website (finally)

Well this is one of the biggest things I postponed for such a long time! I have a website, called celyndesign.nl. It's the website I made for my stationery business. But I wanted it to be a combination of both Celyn Design & Celyn Art for so long. Maybe some of you know this, but making a website is such a big job!

But... I finally did it! I made a start! I have now two separate spaces on the website! One for my Celyn Design stationery business and one for Celyn Art. The Celyn Art part has to be filled in completely, which will be a project for another day.

My website

Doing a business photoshoot!!!

Wow, this was something I wanted to do for soooo long! But it was also something I found very scary! Just to afraid that the pictures wouldn't come out nice... But I followed the girl from Iepstudio for a long time now and I just saw how pretty all of her work was. When she posted an opportunity to do a small shoot. I was like, okay now I just have to do it!!!

And I am sooo proud of myself for doing this! Because I am so happy with all the photos she made, I really am myself on these pictures, which I love! 🥰

Starting my Youtube channel

I started my very first Youtube channel this month! But I'm still thinking about what kind of content I want to post there. If you have any ideas! Please let me know!

Personal updates

Singing lessons

I've started a singing solo together course which I wanted to do for sooo long! I went to the first four lessons and after every session I felt less motivated to sing. This made me realize that I actually didn't like the course so much... I talked with a friend about it and I realized that I didn't have to complete it. I am a person that if I am starting with something, I have to complete it as well. But this time I felt so much stronger letting them know I would quit, rather than keep it going while I didn't enjoy it.

So may this be your reminder, that you are the strongest when you listen to your feelings and choose what's the best choice for yourself! ❤️

Starting yoga again

Instead of doing the singing course, I decided to start yoga again! And I love it so much! I try to go each Monday at 19:00 and it is just the best start of the week! It makes me so much happier 😊

Well this was the little monthly update! Thank you so much if you've managed to read all the way through and I wish you all the best for December! 🤗✨

Celyn 🌸