Here's my fifteenth illustration for Drawrch!
I've really been digging Procreate's Syrup brush, and I did the entire thing with it. The linework was fun to do, and I'm happy with how the lighting came out. As of today, I'm halfway done with this project!
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This is my fourteenth illustration for Drawrch!
Sometimes, you have a day where you have tons of time to do whatever you want. Today was not one of those days for me. After getting in a good amount of Massive Catapult work in the morning, I got sidelined to help wrangle some contracting work at our home, and next thing I knew, it was 7 PM and I hadn't eaten dinner yet.
Anyway, for this one I used Procreate's Baskerville brush for most of the lines, with an assist here and there from the Syrup brush (particularly in the coloring).
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Here's my thirteenth illustration for Drawrch!
Once again, I used Procreate's Syrup brush for almost everything, with a little soft Airbrush at the end, to color the lines and the background.
The reference photo I used was from SketchDaily.
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Here's my twelfth illustration for Drawrch: the last thing a fly sees before its untimely demise.
For this one, I used Procreate's Syrup brush for the line work, and the Tarraleah and Hartz brushes for the background splatters.
It took me a second to get warmed up with the Syrup brush, to get comfortable adjusting the pressure, but I did get into a good stride towards the end. You can see how it all unfolded int he time-lapse below.
This is my eleventh illustration for Drawrch.
For this one, I wanted to try to stick to a single hue for the woman, which I mostly did. The only exceptions are the whites of her eyes and the glasses lenses. It helped that the reference photo, which I found on SketchDaily, featured a woman who was very monotone anyway.
I used Procreate's Syrup brush for almost all of it, with some light Airbrush on the lenses and the background.
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My tenth illustration for Drawrch!
This one unintentionally ended up looking like a Grand Theft Auto box art portrait, but I don't hate that. The background and colors don't help taking it away from that look.
I also made the eyes a bit bigger than my reference photo, but I guess it gives it some character.
Time-lapse video here, if you'd like to see how it came together:
This is my ninth entry for Drawrch - another more realistic portrait, rendered a bit blurry with a painterly brush.
I wanted to challenge myself to work quickly tonight, partly for the practice, and partly because the night kinda crept up on me. I would've liked a little more contrast in the tone of the skin, but otherwise I'm digging it. The white lines I added at the end probably weren't necessary, but I felt like the brush I'd used for the rest of it just left the edges a little too jaggy. Oh well!
I used Procreate's Tarraleah brush for the colors, and the Tinderbox brush for the linework on top. The image I used as a reference was another from SketchDaily.
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My eighth illustration for Drawrch is back to cartoons. I wanted to do something simpler than last night, but it still ended up taking a fair amount of time to finish because I spent so much time brainstorming.
I really like the colors for this one. They came out just how I wanted as the vision came together.
And yeah, I know drawing someone in a VR headset is kind of a cop out for a month-long drawing challenge about faces, but hey, it's my project. I'll do it how I wanna!
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My seventh illustration for Drawrch, and the last for the first week - whew!
I started working on this one with the intent to just scribble some lines to layer values and get it done quick, but then I got caught up in painting it and next thing I knew, I'd been working for over an hour. It's not the best portrait I've ever done, but for not having done a portrait in probably 20+ years (and the first one I've done in Procreate) I don't think it's too bad.
The proportions are a little off... the eyes are too big and the mouth is too small. It was good practice, anyway.
I used varying sizes of the Parapuna brush for everything but the underlying sketch. The image was a random image from SketchDaily.
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This one's meant to be something like the Monopoly Guy (Rich Uncle Pennybags) - getting the last laugh as you land on his expensive hotel-laden property.
I originally wanted to do something a little more realistic and a bit more experimental, but as the day wore on and I slowly got through all the other things I needed to get done, I ended up settling on something a little more in my comfort zone.
The tapered Baskerville brush is back, and I'm a lot more comfortable with it. I ended up working around some of the weird chunkiness that can happen with shorter strokes by just planning it out better, and really only had to worry about it in the teeth.
Time-lapse of this drawing getting made below!