Drawrch 2024

My third annual Drawrch! 😀

Drawrch is a project I started to practice drawing faces, where I draw a new face every day for the month of March. There are no style or theme constraints, so almost anything goes, as long as a face is involved.

I posted each drawing here throughout the month. If you’d like to read more detail about each one – and watch time-lapse videos of each – you can see those posts in the blog section of the site. You might have to dig for them if it’s been a while since this project began!

A retro-styled cartoon illustration of a man with a long face smiling and looking at the viewer. The man has a tuft of brown hair and is wearing a green shirt. The word "Drawrch" is written in chunky blue letters vertically down the right side of the image. The background is a textured yellow.
An illustration of a man wearing sunglasses and looking out into the distance. The man has a medium complexion and dark hair. He has a light mustache, goatee, and stubble. His face is lit brightly from the front, and the view of the image is from slightly below him.
An illustration of a woman looking to the left. The woman has a light complexion, blond hair, and hazel eyes. She has a green top and black necklace, and she is lit by bright lights of a city at night. The background is a blur of color and points of light.
An illustration of a woman wearing a scarf and hood. The woman is staring directly at the viewer, with an expressionless face. She has a light complexion, black hair, and green eyes. The sides of her face are shrouded in a hard black shadow. The scarf is light lavender and the hood is gray. The background is an olive green.
An illustration of a man wearing a red plaid shirt and a hat. The man is looking to the left, away from the viewer. He has a dark complexion, dark eyes, and black hair and beard. He has a look of mild concern. The background is a very light green that fades to yellow.
An illustration of a woman looking slightly sideways at the viewer, with her head turned and tilted a bit. She has a pale complexion, pink lipstick, blue eyes, and large glasses with round lenses. Her hair is brown and very curly. It is put up in the back, but many curls are falling down from her forehead over the side of her face.
An illustration of a man looking to the right. He has a pale complexion, dark eyes, short dark hair that's parted on the side and oiled down, and a stubbled mustache, beard, and goatee. He is smiling slightly, and his face has been stylized like a caricature. He is wearing layers including a blue plaid shirt and tan coat. The background is a warm brown.
An illustration of a woman looking up and to the right. The woman has a light complexion and dark eyes and hair. She is wearing a gray top and has large, closed headphones on her ears. There is a red cord coming off of the earcup nearest the view, which falls off the bottom of the image. The woman's hair has a few blond highlights in it, and it is curly and wavy around the bottom as it gets near her shoulders. The background is a splotchy red fading downward to light pink.
An illustration of a man looking down to the left in disappointment. The man has a light complexion and thin blond hair. He has a large beard that is dark at the roots and goes blond around his mouth and red up towards his ears. His mouth is slightly agape, and his face is in shadow. He has on a gray top and the background is just a dull, grayish-olive color with a faint, splattered glow.
An illustration of Princess Peach from the Super Mario Bros. universe. She is drawn as a cartoon with the traditional light complexion, blond hair, blue eyes and earrings, and pink dress. A small, jeweled crown rests on the top of her head, and she is looking away to the right mischievously.
An illustration of a man laughing. The man has a light complexion, dark eyes, short wavy brown hair, and a mustache and goatee with beard stubble. His face is pointed at the viewer, but his eyes are looking to the right. He is wearing a dark coat and top and is drawn over a light blue background.
An illustration of a woman facing to the left, looking back at the viewer. The woman has a light complexion, teal eyes, and dark hair. She has pink lipstick on and is wearing a dark leather jacket. Her hair has a bright orange highlight on the right, and the background is a blur of sunset sky and land. The drawing is done as a comic book style, with harsh black shadows and outlines.
An illustration of a man laughing. The man is facing to the right and has a medium-dark complexion, dark eyes, a shaved head, and light beard and mustache. His mouth is open and smiling, and his eyes are squinted nearly shut. He is lit by a bright orange light on the right. The angle of the image is from slightly below.
An illustration of a woman with a medium complexion, short dark hair up in a spikey do, and brown eyes. She is frowning slightly but her mouth looks almost like it might smile. Her head is resting on her hand and is looking directly at the viewer. She has on a dark top and the background is a light purple that fades to a faint gold at the bottom.
An illustration of a man looking down to the left, at an un-pictured monitor, drawn in comic book style. The man has a light complexion, hazel eyes, and brown hair. He has a mustache and beard, and is wearing a blue collared shirt. A bright light is illuminating the front of the man's face. The drawing is shaded flat, and given some dimension with halftone patterns. The background is an orange-red cut in the middle with a mustard yellow on top.
An illustration of a woman laughing. The drawing is done in a style where only the highlights and shadows are drawn over the background color, which is a medium-dark yellow. The highlights and shadows are pure white and black. The woman is facing to the right and has her mouth slightly open. Her eyes are squinted. She has multiple earrings in her ear, and her hair is up, with stray hairs sticking out everywhere.
An illustration of an old man with a long, distorted face. The man has a light, green-yellow complexion, red eyes, and scraggly blue hair with a bald top. He looks gaunt and has a neutral expression on his face. He is facing to the left and his head is distorted forward at the top. He is wearing a green and yellow polka-dot shirt that is open near the top, and a harsh light illuminates him from the left.
An illustration of a woman staring to the right. The drawing is in black and white and in a split style between caricature and comic book. The woman has a strong, square jaw, slightly pouted lips, and large hoop earrings. She has dark eyebrows and long flowing hair that fills the bottom half of the image. She has a serious look on her face. The shading in the image is accomplished through a halftone pattern.
An illustration of a man in profile, wearing sunglasses, and looking down, presumably at a cell phone. The man has a mustache and beard, and thick dark hair that is styled high. He is squinting slightly, and has a solemn look, but his expression is mostly unreadable. He is wearing a spotted shirt. The image was rendered in unrealistic colors, with the man in pink and purple and the background a very light green-blue.
An illustration of a woman looking downward and laughing. With her head pitched forward, her eyes are not visible except for a small glint of light in one eye. She has a stud nose piercing and large, fluffy hair. She is wearing a white top and overalls visible on one shoulder. The drawing is rendered with a single color and only pure black and white used for shadows and highlights.
An illustration of a man talking on a flip phone. The man is facing to the right and his eyes are looking to the right, away from the viewer. His left hand is holding a flip phone up to his head. He has a slightly concerned look on his face, and his mouth is slightly open and crooked to the side. He has a light complexion, blue-green eyes, stubbly brown facial hair and very short brown hair. His hairline is receding. He is wearing a light blue dress shirt. Three lines are emanating from the man's forehead. The background is a streaky light turquoise that fades to white towards the bottom of the image.
An illustration of a woman looking to the right. She has a medium-dark complexion, dark eyes, and long dark hair with an undercut, brushed down the opposite side of her head. She has a barbell earring through a septum nose piercing and large hoop earrings. She is lit from behind with a bright blue light and in a purple shadow on the left. The background is a light purple color.
An illustration of a man with his head turned slightly away from the viewer, but with his eyes still looking this way. The man has a long face and dark eyebrows and hair. He has on a pair of glasses and has a neutral expression on his face. The drawing is rendered with the man highlight and shadow over a messy background of gold, red, and purple, which overlap onto him and give him extra bits of shading on the left and right sides.
An illustration of a woman looking at the viewer. The woman has a slight smile and has her head cocked to the side. She has a light complexion, dark brown eyes, and long brown hair that fades to blond. She has light freckles on her nose. The background is a messy light and dark teal, split in the middle.
An illustration of a man wearing a dark blue hood, looking at the viewer. The man has a light complexion, blue-green eyes, and a tuft of blond hair sticking out from the opening of the hood. He has a small bit of stubble under his lip and on his chin. The shoulders of his sweatshirt are wool. The background color is a cold mix of light blue and some pink. The drawing is done in a painted, slightly stylized way.
An illustration of a woman looking up and to the left. Her face is angled toward the viewer and tilted slightly to the side, and her eyes are turned away. She has a light complexion, blue eyes, and brown hair. Her hair is up, but some strands hang down, framing her face. She has very thick eyelashes and is wearing a large, bejeweled earring. The style of the image is somewhat loose and painterly.
An illustration of a man looking to the right. The man has a light complexion, dark eyes, and bleached red/orange hair that is dark at the roots. His hair is being blown up and backward, and his mouth is slightly agape. He has bits of blue-green paint all over his neck and face, and he is wearing a blue shirt. The background is a blue of bright outdoor colors, but mostly turquoise and green. The man is drawn in a partial comic book style, and a lot of the shading is accomplished via halftone patterns in various colors.
An illustration of a man laughing. The man is facing the viewer with his head tipped backward and his eyes are squinted tightly shut. His mouth is open. He almost looks like he could be wincing. He has a hat on backwards and a dark shirt, both of which are dark blue. He is lit with a harsh pink light on the left and a blue light on the right, with black and white shadows and highlights giving the drawing a posterized effect. The background is a flat blue.
An illustration of a woman looking backward over her shoulder at the viewer. The woman has a light complexion, dark eyes, and sandy colored hair with highlights. She has dark red eye shadow and gray/red lipstick on. She is smiling and her curled hair is blowing slightly out from behind her head. She has on a lacey black top and is in front of a blurry outdoor background.
An illustration of a man looking to the right, with his hand on his head. He looks tired, and possibly deep in thought. He has a light complexion, blue eyes, and dark sandy hair that fades lighter towards the top. His hair is slicked back, and one of his fingers is stuck into it. The man is wearing a red plaid shirt and his shoulder are high, as if he is sitting and hunched over slightly. The background is a very bright sky blue that fades to white towards the bottom.
A self-portrait illustration of me! As pictured in the image, I am a man with a light complexion, dark eyes, and dark hair. I am looking up and slightly to the left, at an out-of-frame camera, and have my tongue sticking out of the right side of my mouth. My hair is long and pulled back into a ponytail, which you can see over my right shoulder. I have on a red shirt that is bunched up from my arm holding the camera, and the background is a pale yellow that fades to white towards the bottom.
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