Illustration Sketchbook

Drawrch 2024 #17: Long Face

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.

For today's Drawrch illustration, I thought I'd go without a reference and just do a cartoon, so here's a weird old man with a long face. πŸ˜†

I experimented a bit with distorting the face before drawing over the sketch. I think it helped accentuate the strangeness of it.

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 Soft air brush for background gradient.

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

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Drawrch 2024 #16: Laughing 3

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.

Today's Drawrch illustration is of a woman laughing (hard!), done in a style where the highlights and shadows are drawn over a single background color. Inspired by a print of Kurt Vonnegut that I have hanging in my office.

This was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching and the Inka brush for everything else.

The photo I used as a reference for this drawing is from SketchDaily.

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Drawrch 2024 #15: Working

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.

Today's Drawrch illustration is of a man working on an (off canvas) computer, drawn in a comic book style.

I picked up some new brushes and textures for Procreate yesterday, and thought I'd try them out for today's Drawrch!

This was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching and the Syrup brush for some color fills. Additionally, I used brushes from True Grit Texture Supply, including the Smooth Natural Nib for linework, the Grainy Dot Shader (45 deg/light) for shading, and the Halftone Stamp 7 for background texture.

The pen I used wasn't overall too different from one of my go-to brushes, the Syrup brush, but I like the softer edge and small amount of noise that it adds. It's a little pressure sensitive for me, but it didn't take too long to get used to.

The photo I used as a reference for this drawing is from SketchDaily.

You can find the brushes and textures used at True Grit Texture Supply.

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

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Drawrch 2024 #14: Skeptical

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.

Here's today's Drawrch illustration - a woman with her head resting on her hand. That's two weeks of this project done already! πŸ˜€

I'm starting to get a bit tired of the chunky hashed shading I've been doing on some of these drawing… I feel like it's introducing a lot of texture where I don't really want it to. And giving me Van Gogh vibes that I'm not trying to inject. I'll probably move away from that a but for the second half of the month.

This was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Inka brush for just about everything else, and Soft air brush for a little bit of background shading.

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:

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Drawrch 2024 #13: Laughing 2

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.

Today's Drawrch illustration is of another person laughing, but this time from a slightly odd angle.

As was the case with Drawrch #11, it was a little difficult getting the sketch right for this one. I had to pay careful attention to the angles and not let my mind go on autopilot while drawing. In the end, I think I got it pretty close, though someday I'm going to have to go in and do a test to see just how close these get to the references. Not today, though! πŸ˜…

As usual, this was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Inka brush for almost everything else, and the Soft air brush for a few gradients. I also added some noise to the background to push down the banding caused by my light usage of the air brush.

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:

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Drawrch 2024 #12: Looking Back

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.

For today's Drawrch illustration, I tried my hand at more of a comic style. This perhaps wasn't the best (reference) picture for it, since the lighting wasn't that harsh and I had to force it a bit, but I like how it turned out. It was fun studying/trying something adjacent to the type of stuff I normally do!

This was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Studio Pen brush for linework, and the Soft air brush for shading.

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:

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Drawrch 2024 #11: Laughing

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.

Today's Drawrch illustration is of a man laughing and looking to the side.

I had a hard time getting the skin tone right, and he looked quite pale for a lot of the time I was working on it. I also had to go in and fix the teeth at the end because I got the scale of them very wrong at the start. They were massive! πŸ˜†

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 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:

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Drawrch 2024 #10: Peachy

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.

Today's Drawrch illustration is a mischievous Princess Peach! I wanted to draw something for "Mar10" day, but figured the internet would be awash with pictures of Mario, so I figured, why not give Peach some love instead? 😊

I considered using some non-traditional colors at one point, but ended up going with the standard blond hair, blue eyes, and pink dress, since this is really the first time I've ever drawn her. Maybe I'll try something new in a future drawing.

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:

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Drawrch 2024 #9: Disappointment

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.

Today's Drawrch illustration is a blond, bearded man who looks quite disappointed about something.

Many of the reference images I've chosen for this and past Drawrch projects feature people with beards, and you know what? I hate drawing beards!

Anyway! This was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Studio Pen brush for linework, the Soft air brush for shading, and the Hard air brush and 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:

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Drawrch 2024 #8: Headphones

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.

Today's Drawrch illustration is of a woman wearing headphones! 🎧🎢

This was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Inka brush for linework, the Soft air brush for some light shading, 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:

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