Drawrch 2026 #18: Subway

Martin · 15 hours (10:57 PM · Mar 18, 2026)
An illustration of a woman looking to the right. Her neck is slightly craned, and she is staring and frowning slightly away from the viewer. Her mouth is barely open. The woman has a light complexion, dark eyes, and brown hair. A large hoop earring is visible in her left ear. She is drawn in a slightly exaggerated way and is lit with a light that makes her skin appear yellow in places. The background is a blurry, noisy splash of light green, white, and yellow.

Today's Drawrch features a reference photo that I've been sort of hesitant to attempt. The woman in the photo and the angle of the shot made it feel like it'd be hard to recreate.

I've been leaning into a less realistic style for this project though, and so I figured that might help me a bit. I think that it did, though I had a hard time breaking away from doing the shading in a more realistic way (at least, relative to the underlying sketch).

It captures the essence of the reference though, I think. Someday I'll have to make a video showing all the references alongside the final art. 😎

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 Syrup brush to help with some fills, and the Old Brush paint brush and Soft air brush 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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