Martin Crownover

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. 😆

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:

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.

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:

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

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:

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! 😅

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:

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:

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! 😆

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:

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:

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:

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: