Martin Crownover

Here's my sixth illustration for June Toons: a lady lumberjack chasing down a poor little tree.

I am definitely getting into a good rhythm with my line weights, but I'm also thinking more about that stuff as I make the underlying sketch, so it's hard to quantify the benefits of this practice. Still, I had fun drawing this - I usually draw my lumberjacks as squat, bearded men.

This was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, and the Syrup brush for linework. I used the Soft air brush, the Tarraleah brush, and the Splatter and Flicks spray paint brushes for the background texture.

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

For my fifth June Toons illustration, I drew a bear being entertained. 🐻🍿

It was good practice for color and line weight control, and I liked getting some texture in there with the hatched shading, which is something I used to do more with pen and paper (and a lot less with digital, for some reason).

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:

My fourth June Toons illustration turned a little dark (and got a little meme-y).

I wasn't sure what I wanted to draw, and after sitting there thinking about it for too long, I just started drawing a guy smoking. I wanted it to look more like some kind of henchman - with a heavier man and maybe less of a story, but after I added the hat, he started looking like a mobster, and that was it for me. I threw in a building in flames and some dramatic lighting and it was done.

I didn't intend for it to look like the famous Disaster Girl meme, but it's kind of funny that it does.

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 Soft airbrush and Tarraleah brush for background texture.

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

This rat wound up in a carafe, and he is not too happy about it! This is my third illustration for June Toons 2023.

I tried to loosen my style up a bit for this one and it was definitely more fun to make, but I want to keep working on that. Line weights remain my nemesis.

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 Soft airbrush 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:

This June Toon was inspired by a cat my son and I spotted earlier today on a walk. It seemed a bit hesitant about us at first, but then curiosity got the better of it and it bounded toward us to investigate. It was very friendly!

I liked the subject enough, but I wasn't really feeling inspired by this one at first (and you can see that I changed course drastically after the first version of the sketch). Once I got colors in, I started warming up to it. As this project progresses, I hope I can get a little more loose/wild with the linework, though.

This one was especially tough because I was working on it in between sets of my workout routine, and the slight sweatiness on my hands made it hard to make smooth strokes across the iPad screen.

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 Soft airbrush and Decimals brush for some detail work.

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

Here we go again with another month-long drawing project! This one is called June Toons, and it's a revival of an old project from 2019, by the same name.

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 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: