Drawrch 2025 #15: Sunglasses

Martin · 15 hours (9:20 PM · Mar 15, 2025)
An illustration of a woman in profile. The woman is facing right and is wearing a pair of sunglasses. The woman has a light complexion, pink lips, and green eyes. She has blond hair with a darker brown underneath and towards the bottom, and it is tied up behind her head. She is wearing a silver hoop earring in her visible ear. The sunglasses are a transparent brown with dark blue lenses. The woman is drawn in black outlines with painterly shading. The background is a purple that fades a little darker as it goes from top to bottom.

The more I work on Drawrch illustrations, the more I find myself sitting there thinking, "man, I hate drawing _____". First it was beards. Then hair. Now sunglasses. And yet every time I get done drawing them I take a step back and things weren't really so bad. I didn't actually have that bad of a time illustration these things. I think I just find them sort of tedious.

It's especially egregious with hair, since I feel like this project often makes me spend more time on that than anything else, but it's all in service of practicing, so I can't complain too much.

By the way, this drawing marks the halfway point for this project - just 16 more to go! I hope you'll join me tomorrow for the start of the second half of Drawrch! 😊

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 Old Brush for shading, and the Soft air brush for a few fades/gradients.

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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