For no particular reason, I drew a dejected clown for my twenty-sixth June Toons illustration.
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:
Here's my twenty-fifth illustration for June Toons - a life guard, on duty!
Today, my wife gave me the idea of doing a cartoon of the beach, but I don't think this is what she had in mind. 😆
I like the idea of this one more than my execution of it - it just ended up a little busy for me. I also worked on this one outside as the day got a bit hot, and it made it difficult for me to concentrate on my pen pressure/line width. I like the colors though!
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 Tarraleah brush and Splatter spray paint brush for background texture.
If you'd like to see how I drew this one, you can watch the time-lapse below:
For my twenty-fourth June Toons illustration I drew an Artist! This one is a bit more like my usual cartoon style but has a retro vibe to it with the basic character shape and sharp edges. I don't really like calling it my usual style because it is always evolving, but if you've seen the things I've made in the past, you'll probably get what I mean.
I left this one with no shading because I thought the retro look fit nicely with flat colors.
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 Oil Paint brush and Soft air brush for background texture.
If you'd like to see how I drew this one, you can watch the time-lapse below:
For my twenty-third June Toons illustration I drew a genie!
This one was a bit of a rollercoaster for me. I started off liking the idea, but then hated how it looked after finishing the initial "inking". I began to like it again after I got the colors started and it ended up in a pretty decent place.
This was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Syrup brush for linework, the Soft air brush for shading, and the Splatter and Flicks spray paint brushes for background texture.
If you'd like to see how I drew this one, you can watch the time-lapse below:
This is my twenty-second illustration for June Toons: a potted cactus!
I really struggled to get started with this one, and I can feel myself running out of gas, creatively. It's been a long week in my personal life, so my time for drawing has been extremely limited, and I feel like that's catching up to me. Thankfully, I will have more time after today, and I hope I can finish out this project with a bang.
As always, this was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Syrup brush for everything else. If you watch the time-lapse, you'll see that I experimented with the Soft air brush a bit for some gradients, but ultimately abandoned that idea towards the end.
If you'd like to see how I drew this one, you can watch the time-lapse below:
This is my twenty-first illustration for June Toons: Bone Dog.
Once again, I was trying to get back to loosening up my drawing style with shapes and forms that are a bit outside my norm with this one. Was it successful? I guess. In any case, that's three weeks of this project in the books!
This was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Syrup brush for linework, the Soft air brush for gradients, and the Flicks spray paint brush for background texture.
My twentieth illustration for June Toons is a chameleon on a colorful shoe!
This one started off a lot different from where it finished; originally it was going to be two pencil people, one young and one old, with the distinguishing characteristics being the amount of eraser they had left. After sketching it out though, I just didn't like it and pivoted to the chameleon idea instead.
I also wanted this one to be a shorty, because I have very limited time to work on these right now, but I ended up spending almost two hours on it. Yikes!
This was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Syrup brush for linework, the Soft air brush for gradients, and the Old Beach brush for background texture.
If you'd like to see how I drew this one, you can watch the time-lapse below:
Yesterday I did a cartoon for Father's Day. For today's June Toons, I present a Dad Joke: say hello to "Baby Shark"!
I can practically hear all the groaning. 😆
This was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Syrup brush for linework, the Soft air brush for gradients, and the Old Beach brush and Splatter and Flicks spray paint brushes for background texture.
If you'd like to see how I drew this one, you can watch the time-lapse below:
For my eighteenth June Toons illustration, I draw a father and son giraffe. Happy Father's Day!
As always, 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 Old Beach brush and Soft air brush for background texture. I'm posting each finished illustration at my website.
If you'd like to see how I drew this one, you can watch the time-lapse below:
My seventeenth illustration for June Toons is a very excited purple bunny! 🐰
I had a tough time getting the shading where I wanted it with this one, since the form of the bunny's face is so nonsensical. I like how it turned out though, and I'm glad I took some extra time at the end to tweak it a bit.
As usual, this was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Syrup brush for linework, the Soft air brush for gradients, and the Flicks spray paint brush and Old Beach brush for background texture.
If you'd like to see how I drew this one, you can watch the time-lapse below: