Februdoodle 2026 #17: Summer Snake

Martin · 16 days (10:46 PM · Feb 17, 2026)
A cartoon illustration of a snake wearing a hat and sunglasses and holding a bottle of beer with his tail. The snake is smiling and his forked tongue is hanging out of his mouth. He is green with a lighter belly. His hat is blue and his sunglasses are shiny and black. The beer bottle is brown and being held at an angle. It has an obscured tan label on it and the beer can be seen sloshing around inside. The background is orange with a cut to yellow orange going across diagonally from top left to bottom right. There is a circle drawn in the upper region, behind the beer bottle and snake's head, to imply a sun.

For today's second Februdoodle, I drew a snake trying to stay cool for the summer. I'm finally caught up with my Februdoodle drawings - wahoo! 😄

If you watch the time-lapse below, you'll see that I had a couple of misfires before finally settling on this idea. I think I just felt a bit creatively spent after a full day's work plus doing a drawing earlier. My ideas for these aren't always the greatest, but they often take quite a bit of mulling over before I'm happy with a subject.

This was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Chisel Nib Cleaner brush for linework, the Rough Dot Shader 45 Light brush for halftone shading, the Soft air brush for smooth shading, the Syrup brush for fills and other utility, and the Old Brush paint brush and Worn 2 Subtle and Worn 3 Bold brushes for background texture.

The Chisel Nib brush is from the Rusty Nib pack, the Rough Dot Shaer brush is from the Beat Tones pack, and the Worn brushes are from the Fast Grit pack. Those are all by True Grit Texture Supply.

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

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