June Toons 2024 #6: Say What?

 Martin · 170 days
A cartoon illustration of a dog looking at the viewer with a confused look on his face, as if he's thinking, "What did you just say?" The dog is a bright orange with a round head, a very large collar, and a crooked tail. His nose and the collar are a dark blue. He is holding a juice box in one hand, but it is tilted away from him, as if he was interrupted while drinking it. The juice box is a light blue. The background is green with a green-yellow circle behind the dog.

Today's June Toons cartoon is a dog interrupted from drinking his juice box, by something you said. What the heck did you say?

This was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching and the Smooth Natural Nib from the Rusty Nib 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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June Toons 2024 #5: Cap’n Crunched

 Martin · 171 days
A cartoon illustration of the cereal mascot Cap'n Crunch hunched over a bowl of Crunch Berries cereal, with a spoon in his mouth. He looks concerned and lost. He has a light complexion, a large, curled mustache, and is wearing a blue admiral's outfit, which is in bad shape. It has a patch on the elbow, and his hat has a hole in it. The "C" on his hat is also falling off. There are bits of cereal laying on the table around him.

I barely got done with today's June Toons cartoon - whew! This one is of a dejected Cap'n Crunch. He's eating some Crunch Berries to console himself. We've all been there, haven't we?

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 background gradient.

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

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June Toons 2024 #4: Red Crayon

 Martin · 172 days
A cartoon illustration of a boy scribbling all over his drawing paper with a red crayon. The crayon and the hand gripping it are in the foreground, and you can see various scribbles on the paper below. The crayon has a small mouth on it that appears to be screaming. The boy is leaning into his work in the background, and has his tongue sticking out and up, as if he's concentrating. The boy has a light complexion, brown hair, and a stubby nose, and he is wearing a gray-blue shirt.

My June Toons illustration for today is a kid doing a LOT of scribbling with his favorite red crayon. 😆

I seem to be having some trouble getting these out on time this week, which is a bit of a bummer for the opening week of the project, but I'm hoping things will smooth out as things go on.

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 Fat Nozzle spray paint brush for some light texture.

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

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June Tunes 2024 #2: Twinkie The Kid

 Martin · 174 days
A cartoon illustration of "Twinkie The Kid", a mascot used for Twinkie snack cakes. This version of Twinkie The Kid has him hunched over slightly and squinting at an unseen adversary. He has on his signature white cowboy hat and gloves, and a blue handkerchief with red heard pattern tied around his neck. He is holding a six shooter in his hand, pointed upward. Smoke is coming out of the barrel, as if the gun has just been fired.

Here's my second entry for June Toons - anyone remember this guy? It's Twinkie the Kid, but with a little more grit than the old days. 🤠

This was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching and the Soft air brush for shading. Additionally, I used the Smooth Natural Nib brush for linework, from the Rusty Nib 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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June Toons 2024 #1: Triking

 Martin · 175 days
A cartoon illustration of a boy riding a tricycle toward the viewer. The boy has his tongue sticking out and beads of sweat flying off, and looks like he' struggling. The hot summer sun is hanging over him in the sky, and the words "June Toons!" float in the sky above and behind him. The boy has orange-reddish skin from the sun's shade and sandy blond hair. He is wearing a green t-shirt with a gold star on it, blue shorts, and a lime-green bike helmet and shoes. The tricycle is blue with chrome accents. The words "June Toons!" are a shiny pink with a dark outline.

Just when I'm getting used to having tons of free time every day, it's time for another illustration project: June Toons 2024!

As usual, this is a project where I create a new cartoon illustration every day of the month of June.

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 Fat Nozzle spray paint brush for background texture.

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

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Drawrch 2024 #31: Self-Portrait

 Martin · 237 days
A self-portrait illustration of me! As pictured in the image, I am a man with a light complexion, dark eyes, and dark hair. I am looking up and slightly to the left, at an out-of-frame camera, and have my tongue sticking out of the right side of my mouth. My hair is long and pulled back into a ponytail, which you can see over my right shoulder. I have on a red shirt that is bunched up from my arm holding the camera, and the background is a pale yellow that fades to white towards the bottom.

Today's final Drawrch illustration for 2024 is, as seems to be tradition at this point, a self-portrait!

Though I'm quite ready for a break, I had a lot of fun doing this project, I am happy with the work that I made for it, and once again, I feel like I learned a lot (more) about how I see things and how to draw them.

I still wouldn't consider myself particular good at portraits, but I could definitely feel my ease with the process increasing as the project went on, and the underlying sketches came a lot easier towards the end.

What's next? I might have to try a month of just doing sketches, or maybe revisit some of the sketches that I did here and try for a different style for the finished part. I am also interested in putting together some videos where I analyze the sketches versus the references, and see how accurate I really got.

Anyway, thanks to everyone who watched these drawings unfold - and perhaps joined me for the few I did live on Twitch as well. I really appreciate all the support I get from everyone, and I hope you had just as much fun watching as I did making this time around.

As always, 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 Old Brush for some painterly shading, and the Soft air brush for additional shading/gradients.

You can watch each time-lapse at this YouTube playlist.

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

Thanks again for watching, and I hope to see you soon, for a future project!

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Drawrch 2024 #30: Tired

 Martin · 238 days
An illustration of a man looking to the right, with his hand on his head. He looks tired, and possibly deep in thought. He has a light complexion, blue eyes, and dark sandy hair that fades lighter towards the top. His hair is slicked back, and one of his fingers is stuck into it. The man is wearing a red plaid shirt and his shoulder are high, as if he is sitting and hunched over slightly. The background is a very bright sky blue that fades to white towards the bottom.

Here's today's Drawrch illustration! This one is of a man looking how I feel right now: tired.

I started this one off with a loose sketch, still trying to veer off into caricature territory. So the proportions of the man are not right at all, on purpose. His nose is too big, mouth too wide, jaw too angular, and hand a bit glove-like. But then I got to shading it and I could get away from trying to do that more realistically.

So the result is sort of an uncanny valley between caricature and not, which looks better up close (like when I'm working on it) but pretty strange from afar. It was good practice, anyway - and only one more to go now! 😄

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 Old Brush and Soft air brush for shading. Additionally, I used the Rough Dot Shader 45deg/light for the halftone shading, which is from the Beat Tone pack by True Grit Texture Supply.

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:

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Drawrch 2024 #29: Looking Back 2

 Martin · 239 days
An illustration of a woman looking backward over her shoulder at the viewer. The woman has a light complexion, dark eyes, and sandy colored hair with highlights. She has dark red eye shadow and gray/red lipstick on. She is smiling and her curled hair is blowing slightly out from behind her head. She has on a lacey black top and is in front of a blurry outdoor background.

Here's today's Drawrch illustration, a drawing of a woman looking back.

This was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching and the Soft air brush for the background gradients. Additionally, I used the Smooth Natural Nib from The Rusty Nib pack, by True Grit Texture Supply.

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:

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Drawrch 2024 #28: Laughing 5

 Martin · 240 days
An illustration of a man laughing. The man is facing the viewer with his head tipped backward and his eyes are squinted tightly shut. His mouth is open. He almost looks like he could be wincing. He has a hat on backwards and a dark shirt, both of which are dark blue. He is lit with a harsh pink light on the left and a blue light on the right, with black and white shadows and highlights giving the drawing a posterized effect. The background is a flat blue.

Today's Drawrch illustration is of a man laughing. Or at least, I think he's laughing. Maybe he's wincing? No, no, he's definitely laughing! 😅

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 Fat Nozzle, Splatter, and Flicks spray paint brushes 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:

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