Februdoodle 2026 #10: Big Backpack

Martin · 22 days (11:35 PM · Feb 11, 2026)
A cartoon illustration of a small child with a large head struggling to hold up a massive backpack. The child looks like a boy and has a large elliptical head, a tuft of red hair, and eyes bugging out. He looks upset and slightly sad. His arms are holding the straps of the backpack and he is hunched over. He has a pale complexion and green eyes and is wearing a bright blue shirt and lavender pants that hang over his shoes. His shoes are a light purple gray. The backpack is a bright red orange with dark red straps and gold zippers. It has a pocket with a blue water bottle in it on the side. It is nearly double the size of the boy. The background is a bright yellow gold color, with a white triangle shape behind the boy. The entire image has a faded grit effect over it, like it was printed on a t-shirt.

Today's Februdoodle is a drawing of a kid holding a backpack that's way too big for him. There's always at least one kid like that.

This was a long day, and I needed to do this drawing quickly but still wanted to make it something fun, so I experimented a bit with a slightly looser style than my usual. I like drawing like this, but it's really hard for me to stick with it from start to finish. Usually, by the time I'm done with the sketch, my brain has faded back into my normal drawing conventions, and I start getting hung up on all sorts of technical details that don't really matter. But I like how it turned out anyway! 😅

This was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Syrup brush for linework, the Soft air brush for shading the lines, and the Worn 1 Bold brush for texture.

That last brush is from the Fast Grit pack, by True Girt Texture Supply.

If you'd like to see how I drew this one, you can watch the time-lapse below:

153 21 0

Leave a Reply

Note: Your name will appear alongside your comment. Your email address will not be published. Comments that include links will need to be manually approved before they appear on the page.