Today's June Toons cartoon is of a bear blowing bubbles!
This was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Smooth Natural Nib for linework, the Rusty Nib 1 and Soft air brushes for shading, and the Splatter spray paint and Rough Dot Shader 45/Light brushes for background texture.
The Smooth Natural Nib and Rusty Nib 1 brushes are from the Rusty Nib pack. The Rough Dot Shader 45/Light is from the Beat Tones pack. Both of those are by True Grit Texture Supply.
If you'd like to see how I drew this one, you can watch the time-lapse below:
I decided to do something a little less busy for today's June Toons cartoon, and I really like how it turned out! 🦊
This was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching and the Syrup brush for everything else.
If you'd like to see how I drew this one, you can watch the time-lapse below:
Today's June Toons cartoon is of a recently injured cat finding his true love. 😍
The feeling might not be mutual, though.
This was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Smooth Natural Nib brush for linework, the Inka and Rusty Nib 1 brushes for details, and the Fat Nozzle and Splatter spray paint brushes for background texture.
The Smooth Natural Nib and Rusty Nib 1 brushes are from the Rusty Nib pack by True Grit Texture Supply.
I streamed this one on Twitch! You can keep an eye out for other live drawing streams in the future at my channel there.
And finally, if you'd like to see how I drew this one, you can watch the time-lapse below:
My second June Toons cartoon is of a rabbit listening to a boombox!
I've been drawing this same rabbit across a bunch of my projects now, and I feel like he's almost as much of a staple as me drawing a robot. He's fun for me to draw though, and I like that I can make him so dynamic at times. Perhaps I'll draw more of him soon!
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, and the Fat Nozzle spray paint brushes for background texture. I also used the Rough Dot Shader 45/Light brush for the halftone shading.
That last brush is available in the Beat Tones pack by True Grit Texture Supply.
If you'd like to see how I drew this one, you can watch the time-lapse below:
With another June comes another June Toons, a month-long project where I create a new cartoon illustration every day of June!
Will I be able to keep up? We'll see! 😆
In the meantime, here's the first illustration, which will serve as the title card for the project.
This was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Smooth Natural Nib for linework, the Inka and Rusty Nib 1 brush for details, the Soft air brush for shading, and the Fat Nozzle spray paint brush for background texture.
The Smooth Natural Nib and Rusty Nib 1 brushes are from the Rusty Nib pack by True Grit Texture Supply.
If you'd like to see how I drew this one, you can watch the time-lapse below:
I'd love it if you'd follow along with me for June as I create all of these things, and I'm happy to answer any questions you might have about the process, my inspiration, etc. Join me!
Today's Drawrch illustration is the final for this series, and as is tradition, is a self-portrait!
My only takeaway from this one is that I probably need to go on a little diet and get away from the dad bod I've been working on for the last few years. 😅
This was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Rusty Nib 1 brush for linework, and the Rough Dot Shader 45/Light and Grainy Dot Shader 60/Light brushes for shading. I also used the Syrup brush for some of the fills, and the Worn 3 Bold brush for the grunge effect at the end.
The Rusty Nib brush is from the Rusty Nib pack, the Dot Shader brushes are from the Beat Tones pack, and the Worn/grunge brush is from the Fast Grit pack, all by True Grit Texture Supply.
Thanks to everyone who followed along with this project over the course of the month! I appreciate everyone who liked, shared, and dropped a comment here and there - all of that really helps motivate me.
I'll be back with another illustration project in June! 😊
If you'd like to see how I drew this one, you can watch the time-lapse below:
Today's Drawrch illustration is of a man yelling intensely. This is another reference image I've wanted to draw for a long time, but never got around to doing until now. I'm happy with how it turned out!
This was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Inka brush for linework, and the Fat Nozzle spray paint brush for background texture.
The photo I used as a reference for this drawing is from SketchDaily.
If you'd like to see how I drew this one, you can watch the time-lapse below:
I got started on today's Drawrch illustration pretty late, and guess what? I finished it pretty late too! 🥴
I like how it turned out mostly, but it doesn't look a lot like the reference to me. I tried to fix it a bit at the end, and it helped, but not enough. But it's done, and it was good practice and on to the next. Only two left to go!
This was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Inka brush for linework, and the Soft air brush for shading. The Syrup brush also made a brief appearance for helping me erase some things properly.
The photo I used as a reference for this drawing is from SketchDaily.
If you'd like to see how I drew this one, you can watch the time-lapse below:
Today's Drawrch is another cartoon, but I have a good reason for that!
This was one of the first nights in a long time that my wife and I had an opportunity to just hang out and catch up on some TV, and so I wanted to spend time with her while I did my drawing, instead of being cooped up in my office, like normal. And since I can't really concentrate on a complex portrait while I'm watching Top Chef (plus, I usually look at reference photos on my computer, which is in my office), I ended up just doing something basic and fun.
I like this one though, and in my opinion, it turned out better than the one I did of Jane Jetson a few days ago!
This was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, a small assist from the Soft air brush for the background gradient, and the Syrup brush for everything else.
If you'd like to see how I drew this one, you can watch the time-lapse below:
Today's Drawrch illustration is of a woman wearing glasses and a hat, which I have learned are two other things (in addition to beards) that I just don't enjoy drawing that much.
I suppose that I need to just suck it up and accept that a drawing project where I'm illustrating heads/faces is probably going to have lots of those things in them, because those are things that lots of faces have on them... but I like to complain. 😎
Anyway, this was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Inka brush for linework, and the Soft air brush for gradients.
The photo I used as a reference for this drawing is from SketchDaily.
If you'd like to see how I drew this one, you can watch the time-lapse below:
