Today's Drawrch illustration got off to a rough start. So much so that I did something that usually only happens once or twice during the entire project: I give up on my drawing and start over from scratch!
The angle of this woman's face was a tough one for me, and on my first go, I was struggling a lot with getting the eyes the right shapes and at the right angle, getting the nose to look right, the shape of the lips, and finally the shape of the whole face.
When I started over, I took a difference approach: I started with the head shape first, then drew in the surrounding details, and finally moved onto the face. It was much easier to get the details in at the right angles that way, but it's just not how I usually do it. I'm glad it turned out well in the end though, and I was excited to try out a style that I'd done before in a previous Drawrch, albeit with a more stylized illustration.
Anyway, this was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Smooth Natural Nib brush for linework, and the Rough Dot Shader 45/Light and Grainy Dot Shader 45/Light brushes for shading.
The photo I used as a reference for this drawing is from SketchDaily.
Those brushes are from the Rusty Nib pack and the Beat Tones pack, by True Grit Texture Supply.