June Toons 2025 #15: Father’s Day

Martin · 9 hours (1:02 PM · Jun 15, 2025)
A cartoon illustration of a large bird with a small bird standing on its back. The large bird is turning to look at the small bird, and both are smiling. The large bird is a turquoise color and the small bird is a similar shade, but a little more blue. Both birds have pale yellow beaks and stippled undersides in a darker gray-blue. The background is lavender with a light wash around the center, and the colors are distressed to look like the drawing has some age to it.

For today's June Toons illustration, I drew two birds, a dad and son, hanging out together and enjoying the day. Happy Father's Day!

As always, this was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil. For this one, I used a bunch of brushes: the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Rusty Nib 1 brush for linework, the Inka brush for highlights, the Pin Liner 0.5 Pressure Spray brush for stipple shading, the Plimsoll brush for line shading, the Old Beach brush and Soft air brush for background texture, and the Worn 1 Subtle and Worn 1 Bold brushes for the distress effect at the end.

The Rusty Nib brush is from the Rusty Nib pack, the Pin Liner brush is from the Stipple Studio pack, and the Worn Subtle distress brushes are from the Fast Grit pack. All of those are by True Grit Texture Supply.

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

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