June Toons 2026 #30: Detective Rooster

Martin · 11 hours (11:29 PM · Jun 30, 2026)
A cartoon illustration of a rooster wearing a Sherlock Holmes cloak and hat and peering through a magnifying glass. The rooster is squinting with one eye and leaning forward, like he's concentrating. He is looking at a tiny set of words through the magnifying glass, which read "THE END". The rooster is pink with a gold beak and red comb and wattle. His eyes are a dark green. His cloak and hat are brown with a darker grid pattern over it. He is light brightly form the right. The magnifying glass is gold with a dark green handle. The background is a muted blue with a large white ellipse behind the rooster and the words "THE END".

I'm closing out this year's June Toons with another cartoon inspired by my son. Detective Rooster was a thing we came up with while I was playing with him one day, with a couple of random toys, trying to tie all the toys together somehow.

Detective Rooster solves cases around the neighborhood park, and all the local kids are constantly asking for his help. He's not the best detective, but he always solves the case somehow! 😊

As always, this was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching and the Syrup brush for everything else.

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

You can watch all of the drawings from this project be created at this YouTube playlist.

Thanks to everyone who followed along with this project. I hope you had as much fun seeing each new cartoon as I did drawing them!

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