Drawrch 2025 #6: Scowling Man

Martin · 21 days (11:29 PM · Mar 6, 2025)
An illustration of an older man. He is drawn in a stylized, distorted way, with his head a bit too squat and wide, and the colors posterized. He has peach skin that turns orange, red, and maroon into shadow. His face has many wrinkles on it, and it gives the impression that there are likely many more hidden by the style. He appears to be scowling slightly, but that may just be his age affecting his appearance. He has a very closely shaven stubble going across his lip and chin. He is wearing a blue shirt with a gray collar, and a distance outdoor area is blurred in the background.

Today's Drawrch illustration is somewhat stylized. In part because I wanted to try to get it done quicker than some of the others, and in part because it gets a little boring to just try to recreate photos, sometimes.

It's hard not to get caught up in the details even when you're trying to gloss over them, and at one point the addition of red made this start looking like the famous Obama "Hope" poster by Shepard Fairey. I wasn't trying to make something in that style however, so I'm glad I was able to veer away from that as I added more color and more details.

This was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Soft air brush for background shading, and the Inka brush for linework and just about everything else.

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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