Drawrch 2026 #31: Self-Portrait

Martin · 22 days (10:45 AM · Mar 31, 2026)
An illustration of Martin Crownover - me! This drawing is a self-portrait of me looking up and to the right. In the illustration, I am facing to the right, at an oblique angle. I am smiling. I have a light complexion, light eyes, and dark hair. My hair is tied back in a short ponytail, and my hairline is high on my forehead. I have thin sideburns going down to the bottom of my ears, and I am wearing a t-shirt. The drawing is shaded in a posterized way, with each section of shading separated by a hard edge. The colors for the shading are the same as the famous Barack Obama "hope" poster, where the colors go from dark blue, to red, to light blue, to a pale yellow, dark to light. There is light horizontal line shading between the yellow and blue going down the center of my face and on my visible arm, on the right. The background is split into red on the left side and light blue on the right.

Today's Drawrch is the last one for this series, and as is customary, I drew a self-portrait for it.

I didn't know what style I was going to choose for this one when I started working on it, but as the sketch came along, I began looking more closely at the values in the reference selfie and thought it might be cool to give it a posterized look. And since I've never attempted a portrait in the famous Barack Obama "hope" poster style, I thought it'd be worth a try.

So here it is, my last drawing for Drawrch 2026. I'm pretty happy with how this turned out, though I probably could've spent another 30 minutes tweaking the sketch. It's good though, and my wife actually thinks it looks like me this time, so I mission accomplished, I guess. 😅

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, and the Vertical Line Shader Light brush for the line shading effect. The Vertical Line Shader brush is from the Beat Tones pack, by True Grit Texture Supply.

For some reason, the horizontal and vertical brushes in this pack are swapped for me... maybe I missed a pack update somewhere, or my Procreate is just weird.

If you'd like to see how I drew this one, you can watch the time-lapse below:

And you can re-watch all of the drawing time-lapses for Drawrch 2026 at my Drawrch 2026 YouTube playlist, or by scrolling through the other blog entries on this website.

Thanks again to everyone who followed along with and enjoyed the project this year! Looking back at all of the drawings I made, I'm proud of what I was able to make. I hope that you'll join me for the next one!

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