For today's Drawrch illustration, I drew a woman looking upward.
This has been a really long week for me, and it was a moment of sadness when I realized that I hadn't done my drawing yet today. But I hunkered down and did it, and I'm happy with what I made. I probably need to think about that feeling more when it's time to start these drawings on harder days.
This was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Soft air brush for shading, and the Inka brush for just about everything else.
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:
Today's Drawrch illustration is somewhat stylized. In part because I wanted to try to get it done quicker than some of the others, and in part because it gets a little boring to just try to recreate photos, sometimes.
It's hard not to get caught up in the details even when you're trying to gloss over them, and at one point the addition of red made this start looking like the famous Obama "Hope" poster by Shepard Fairey. I wasn't trying to make something in that style however, so I'm glad I was able to veer away from that as I added more color and more details.
This was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Soft air brush for background shading, and the Inka brush for linework and just about everything else.
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:
For today's Drawrch illustration, I wanted to do something a little different. I focused a lot less on making sure the sketch was accurate and just worked on making angles that I liked and texturing things in an interesting way.
The result could probably use some refinement, but I think I capture the essence of the reference image, and overall, I like the way the face and colors turned out.
This was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Studio Pen brush for linework, the Soft air brush for shading, and the Larapuna brush for background texture.
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:
I've used this style for a few Drawrch illustrations in the past, and it is a bit hit-and-miss. For this drawing, I think it is mostly a success, though the shape of the man's face looks a little too angular to me after finishing the drawing and viewing it from afar.
To borrow a phrase from a famous author: so it goes! 🤪
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 Larapuna brush for fills and shading, and the Soft air brush for background gradients.
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:
I didn't wait long this Drawrch to bust out the Inka brush, but it's one of my favorites, so I have no shame in that. This illustration seemed like a good fit for it too, with the woman's hair slightly wind-blown and the bright highlights on the left.
The sketch looked good to me, but the finished drawing has the woman's face looking a little too wide compared to the reference. That's how these things go, though! 😅
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 Soft air brush for some extra shading, and the Tarraleah brush for background texture.
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:
It's not a great look to be just about late with my second Drawrch illustration but this is the first one I used a reference for this year, and I'm a little out of practice (which is sort of the point of this project).
So the sketch took a long time to finish, and then I didn't know what style I wanted to do for the final. As you can see, I ended up just going with the sketch, which I'm actually pretty happy with. I would have probably started off a little differently if I had planned on doing that, but in the end, it turned out fine.
This was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for just about everything, and the Inka brush for the white fill at the end.
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:
So begins another Drawrch, a project I created in 2022 to practice drawing faces. In this project, I draw a new face every day for the month of March, with no style or theme restrictions. Most of the time, I end up finding a reference picture and just drawing that in whatever style sounds fun for the day.
For the first day of this year's Drawrch, I drew a woman holding a small "Drawrch" sign. I feel like I don't draw women enough, so it felt like a good way to start this year's project. I was also still feeling the comic book style from my finishing illustration for Februdoodle, so I went with that here too.
This was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Rusty Nib 1 brush for linework, the Syrup brush for fills, the Rough Dot Shader 45/Light brush for shading, and the Worn 1 Subtle brush for adding some distress to the image.
The Rusty Nib 1, Rough Dot Shader 45/Light, and Worn 1 Subtle brushes are from the Rusty Nib pack, the Beat Tones pack, and the Fast Grit pack respectively, all by True Grit Texture Supply.
If you'd like to see how I drew this one, you can watch the time-lapse below:
On that last day of this year's Februdoodle, I realized that I hadn't done a robot drawing yet, so here it is!
I had the idea of doing a robot with his head flying off pretty early in my brainstorming, so I thought it might be fun to draw Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots. The problem is, I never owned those as a kid, so that felt a little inauthentic, and the thought of drawing two robots and then coloring them in monochrome felt boring.
So, I made up a robot instead! You can't see a lot of him, but just enough to get an idea for what the rest of him might look like, I think. In any case, I think he's a fitting end to this year's project!
This was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Rusty Nib 1 brush for linework, the Rough Dot Shader 45/Light brush for shading, the Worn 4 Subtle brush for adding distress. And although you can't really tell that I used it, I used the Syrup brush for a lot of the fills where I wanted to make sure the color was solid.
The Rusty Nib 1, Rough Dot Shader 45/Light, and Worn 4 Subtle brushes are part of the Rusty Nib pack, the Beat Tones pack, and the Fast Grit pack respectively, all by True Grit Texture Supply.
If you'd like to see how I drew this one, you can watch the time-lapse below:
And you can watch all of the drawings in this series be created on this YouTube playlist.
This project flew by, and as always, I had fun doing it! I hope you enjoyed seeing each illustration and perhaps even watching them get made. I'll be back tomorrow for another project: Drawrch.
Today's Februdoodle illustration is something I was thinking about earlier today: an unexpected situation drawn in the style of the old iPod commercials from the 2000's.
Initially, I thought it might be a cool idea to draw a person doing something deranged, like burying a body or something, late in the evening I had this idea and knew it would be more fun to draw, so I ran with it. I spent a lot of time learning to draw Sonic the Hedgehog back when we got a Sega Genesis for Christmas one year, so it was nice to find some of that old muscle memory and flex it for just a moment.
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 Studio Pen brush for the more uniform linework, and the Soft air brush for some very faint shading in the background.
If you'd like to see how I drew this one, you can watch the time-lapse below:
I like occasionally drawing people from absurd shapes, and that's exactly what I did with today's Februdoodle. I've done similar images for other projects before, with a very mis-matched man and woman together in a portrait, and I always end up making the woman tower over the man. Not sure why!
Anyway, 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 Soft air brush for shading, and the Fat Nozzle spray paint brush for texture.
If you'd like to see how I drew this one, you can watch the time-lapse below:
