Drawrch 2026 #8: Stare

Martin · 1 day (10:28 PM · Mar 8, 2026)
An illustration of a woman staring into the distance. The woman is in near-profile, facing the left, into a bright sunlight. She has a light complexion and green eyes. Her eyes are squinting and looking very slightly away from her face's direction, more toward the viewer. Her lips are almost entirely closed, but not firmly, and she is scowling slightly. Her red hair is tied up behind her head, going out of the upper right corner of the image frame. She is illuminated by the sun, with bright highlights on her face and indigo shadows on her neck and back. The woman is drawn in a slight caricature style, with her noise and eyes larger than they should be. The background is a blurry, noisy landscape of water and distant trees.

For today's Drawrch illustration, I went for another caricature-ish style, with a quick sketch and some exaggeration in the proportions.

I'm fairly certain I've drawn this woman before, for a previous Drawrch project. I made the nose a little heavier than it should be, and she has a little bit of a lumpy look to her. I have a harder time making drawings of women look like caricatures than men.

Still, I enjoyed making this piece, and I'm having a good time exploring doing this style of shading. I need to keep practicing!

This was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Syrup brush for linework, the Old Brush paint brush for shading, the Inka brush for some extra textured lines, and the Soft air brush for fading some of the other stuff.

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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