Drawrch 2026 #17: Not Impressed

Martin · 14 hours (11:55 PM · Mar 17, 2026)
An illustration of a man looking at the viewer. His body is facing slightly away, and his eyes are turned, looking to the right, toward the viewer. The man has a light or medium complexion, dark eyes, and dark hair. He has a serious look on his face, and the light in the scene is very dramatic, lighting up the left side of his face very bright, and fading to red and purple hues in the shadows on the right. The background is a blurry maroon color with indistinct points of light scattered around. The illustration has a painterly look to it.

After doing a pretty basic Drawrch illustration yesterday, I felt like I had to do something a little more complicated today.

So here's a drawing of a young man staring intently at the viewer, in some pretty dramatic light. I feel like I could've spent some time getting his face a little more like the reference - towards the end I did some fiddling with it, which is usually not when I do things like that. The reference is a lot more young/soft looking. It's not bad I guess.

Anyway, 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 Syrup brush for fills and other utilities, and the Old Brush and Oil Paint brushes for shading.

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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