Februdoodle 2025 #3: Flowers

 Martin · 20 days
An illustration of a black vase, drawn in a mostly flat style, with a large cartoon skull on it. A thin, white, halftone highlight goes down the left edge of the vase. There are two flowers that look like daises in the vase, one large and one smaller, with black stems and leaves hanging out of the pot. The petals are white, and the pollen is yellow. The background is a salmon red-orange.

Here's my third illustration for Februdoodle!

Not really sure what inspired this one, but I was feeling Grim Fandango vibes while I was sketching it.

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 brush for shading.

Those brushes are from the Rusty Nib pack and 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:

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Februdoodle 2025 #2: The Wild Box

 Martin · 21 days
An illustration of a small bear wearing a folded paper hat sticking out of the door on a large box, smiling and waving at the viewer. The box has doors around the other visible sides, each with a simple lock. The words "The Wild Box" are stacked vertically to the right of the bear. A burst of pastel confetti is bursting out of the box behind the bear. The hat is white, the bear is tan, the box is black, and the lettering is white with "wild" in multiple pastel colors. The background is a bold sea green.

Here's my second illustration for Februdoodle: The Wild Box!

My son has a small puzzle box with various locks on each side. He likes to keep a small teddy bear in there, along with a collection of little origami I made for him.

For reasons we are still trying to figure out, one day he started calling it "the wild box", and I think it's funny and cute. 😄

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, the Rough Dot Shader 45/Light brush for shading, and the Fat Nozzle spray paint brush for some extra pizzazz.

Many of those brushes are from the Rusty Nib pack and 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:

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Februdoodle 2025 #1: Uh Oh

 Martin · 22 days
A black and white illustration of a cartoon rabbit staring intently at his phone. His eyes are wide, his mouth is closed, and his nose is hanging down. He is slouched slightly, and he has a very concerned look on his face. The background is splattered with paint and has a dark streak going across the bottom, arcing up behind the rabbit. The word "Februdoodle" runs across the bottom in large, bubbly cartoon lettering.

Well, I almost forgot, but today is the start of yet another Februdoodle - a project where I draw a new thing every day for the month of February.

This is my first drawing, which is just sort of the mood I'm in right now. I wanted to draw something a little crazier, but my son really likes seeing my drawings and he's just a little guy, so... I have to keep it a little PG. Most of the time, 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, the Soft air brush for shading, and the Fat Nozzle spray paint brush for background texture.

The halftone pattern shading was created using the Rough Dot Shader 45/Light and the Grainy Dot Shader 60/Light. Those brushes are from the Beat Tones pack, by True Grit Texture Supply.

Each day, I'll be posting a new image here on the blog, and adding it to the Februdoodle page.

Oh, and if you wanted to see how this one got made, check it out below:

Thanks for joining me on another illustration journey! 😊

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Inktober 2024 #31: Landmark

 Martin · 115 days
An illustration of a flea looking at a map and scratching his head. The flea is standing on what appears to be skin, with a giant nose and bulging eye in the background, just on and over the horizon. The flea is a tan brown with flicks of darker color. He has a confused look on his face. The map he is holding looks like it was previously folded and features a non-descript topological map on the side facing the viewer. The skin in the background is light in complexion and speckled with darker spots, like freckles. The nose is on the right, with nostrils facing the viewer, looking like two round caves. The eye is on the right, just behind some long eye lashes. It is dark green. The background is a bright green with noisy paint splotches.

We're finally here: my last illustration for Inktober 2024! Today's drawing is for the prompt "landmark".

That's supposed to be a flea looking at his map. I originally wanted to make him standing in front of a giant pimple, as if the unexpected zit mountain threw him off his navigation, but it felt like it would look too much like a nipple, and I wanted it to be more recognizable.

Anyway, as with all the others, 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 Fat Nozzle, Splatter, and Flicks spray paint brushes for texture.

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

And you can watch all the other drawing time-lapses from this project at this YouTube playlist.

Thanks to everyone who followed along this year and enjoyed seeing the drawings get made! 😊

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Inktober 2024 #30: Violin

 Martin · 116 days
An illustration of a ghost playing a violin. The ghost is a classic ghost shape, with a rounded top and long swooping body to a ruffled sheet tail. The ghost is curved to the right, leaning into the violin. It is holding it under its chin and playing it in a classic style. The ghost is a pale blue speckled with white spots that look like spray paint. It has its eyes shut in admiration for the music, with a slight smile on its face and pale red spots on its cheeks. The violin is brown, with gold highlights on the edges. Music notes hang in the air above the violin. The background is a dull purple, with a splotch of dark spray paint right behind the ghost and violin.

For my thirtieth Inktober illustration, I draw a ghost playing a violin, for the prompt "violin".

I'm not sure why I thought of this idea for the prompt, but I like the simplicity of it, and it was a good excuse to use the Inka brush once more. This time, I used it to make more outlines though, instead of just broadly defining shapes. I really like the texture I was able to add with the Fat Nozzle spray paint brush as well!

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 shading, and the Fat Nozzle spray paint brush for shading and texture.

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

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Inktober 2024 #29: Navigator

 Martin · 117 days
An illustration of the character Guybrush Threepwood from the Monkey Island series of games holding up a severed, shrunken head known as the Head of The Navigator. The head is from the first game in the series, The Secret of Monkey Island, and it guides Guybrush through a hellish underground maze. The characters are drawn in the style of the third game in the series, The Curse of Monkey Island, with thin, even lines and large blocks of solid colors. Guybrush has a pale complexion, long face, and a large swoop of blond hair and ponytail. He is wearing a white shirt with puffy sleeves and a brown vest. He is looking ahead with a concerned expression. The Head of the Navigator is green and has large, strained eyes, sunken cheeks, yellow teeth in a permanent grit, and scraggily hairs scattered around his head. There is a ghostly turquoise glow emanating from him. His neck is cleanly cut just below the jawline, and two vertebrae are sticking out. He is being held up by Guybrush with a necklace with red beads and eyeballs attached. The background is a swooshy red and yellow that gets darker towards the top.

For today's Inktober illustration, I drew one of my favorite video game characters of all time, Guybrush Threepwood, holding the "head of the navigator", which guides him through a hellish underground maze in The Secret of Monkey Island. This was for the prompt "navigator". 😆

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 Inka brush for effects, and the Soft and Medium air brushes for shading and other effects. This is also one of the few drawings I've done for this series that also uses Procreate's built-in effects tools, like Gaussian Blur.

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

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Inktober 2024 #28: Jumbo

 Martin · 118 days
An illustration of a small car driving in tandem with a massive pickup truck. The car is drawn in white and is being driven by a woman with short white hair and a white shirt. She is smiling. Directly behind the car, perfectly aligning with the bottom, is the large truck, which is drawn in black. It is twice as tall as the car and has fence-like boards put in the sides for holding cargo in the back. A heavy-looking man is driving the truck. He is smiling. He is wearing a small black cap, has zig-zag hair, and has his arm resting out the window. The cars and people are drawn in a flat, retro cartoon style. The background is a bright orange speckled with black and with faded white lines streaking across, indicating that the cars are in motion.

I really liked the style I used for yesterday's Inktober drawing, and I had a good idea for it that fit today's prompt, so I decided to revisit it for a second day. This one is for the prompt "jumbo".

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 Grain Builder 1 and Worn 1 - Bold brushes for the background texture. Those last two brushes are from the Grain Shaders pack and Fast Grit pack respectively, both by True Grit Texture Supply.

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

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Inktober 2024 #27: Road

 Martin · 119 days
An illustration of a man driving his car down a road, towards his home. The man and car are drawn in a retro cartoon style with an oversized cab on the car and everything in silhouette. They are in the lower-right corner of the picture. The road is drawn flat, without perspective, and travels left from under the car, up, right, down, and left again, making 90-degree turns and diminishing in size each time. There is a small cartoon house on an oval at the end of the road, with a door, square window, and angled chimney with smoke coming out. To the right of the road and above the car are pine trees, and the central area around the road is peppered with stylized grass drawn in 3-blade tufts. The background of the image is a bright blue that gets lighter in the middle, with bits of darker blue grit.

I was sort of happy to see today's Inktober prompt, "road", pop up on the list, because it felt like it could go in a number of places.

For a while, I'd settled on the idea of drawing the Rainbow Road from Super Mario Kart, but when I sat down to actually draw, I looked up reference images for it and just felt uninspired. So I went with a sort of retro-style illustration instead, and I kind of love the simplicity 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, the Soft air brush for shading, and the Worn 1 - Bold brush for background texture.

That last one is from the Fast Grit brush pack by True Grit Texture Supply.

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

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Inktober 2024 #26: Camera

 Martin · 120 days
An illustration of a ceiling-mounted security camera. The camera has three logos on the side of it, in circle stickers: the OpenAI logo, the Meta logo, and the Gemini logo. The camera is hanging in a corner facing down and outward, partly towards the viewer. It has a large lens and a red light on the front. A blue wire extends from the ceiling mount to the back of the camera. The camera is a pale beige with a green tint. The lens is reflecting a rainbow of color, from pink to light blue. It is casting a hard, dark blue shadow on the red wall behind it.

I wasn't sure what to draw for today's Inktober illustration, but felt inspired after sitting down and thinking about it for a while. We artists are fueling the AI machine, mostly against our will and without any compensation, and a spying security camera seemed a good way to illustrate that idea.

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 air brush for shading.

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

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Inktober 2024 #25: Scarecrow

 Martin · 121 days
An illustration of two crows laughing hysterically at a sad scarecrow in the background. Behind them is a field that extends to the horizon where a barn, silo, and windmill with water trough rest. The crows are a dark, gray blue, with yellow beaks and open, laughing mouths with squinted eyes. The scarecrow has a plaid shirt, red handkerchief, round head, and orange hat. His head is tan with a triangular orange nose, sad blue eyes, and a downturned, slightly open mouth. You can see the pole that he is staked to the ground with below him. The field is a pale green near the viewer, and a darker richer green beyond. The bard is a dull red, the silo is gray, and the sky is a light blue that fades to white near the horizon.

Back to cartoons for this Inktober illustration! These crows are laughing at the poor scarecrow. I kinda feel sorry for him... he had one job, and he just couldn't do 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 the Soft air brush for shading.

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

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