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!