Well, I thought I was going to take a break, but I couldn't help myself, and so here' s my first illustration for Drawrch 2023. I'll be posting a new drawing every day again, but this time they'll all be faces of various shapes, types, and styles.
This was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Syrup brush for linework, and the Hartz brush and Splatter spray paint brush for background texture.
If you'd like to see how I drew this one, you can watch the time-lapse below:
Here's my final illustration for Februdoodle: See the Moon!
This one was a suggestion from my mother-in-law, who thought this would be a neat idea for a drawing: me, my wife, and our son looking at the moon and stars (which is one of his recent obsessions).
It's nice to be done with this project. I know that I will miss doing it every day - and I should honestly keep doing more drawings just to keep up my skill - but I also need a little break to recharge.
As with the others, this was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Syrup brush for linework, and the Watercolor brush for background texture.
If you'd like to see how I drew this one, you can watch the time-lapse below:
If you've been following along with these, thanks for stopping by to see them all! I'm sure I'll have another project ready to start soon, so stay tuned!
For my twenty-seventh Februdoodle illustration, I drew an island paradise (inside a bottle).
I can't believe this project is almost over! I've been weighing continuing the effort into March over the last couple of days, but it took a lot to get this one done - and in the end it's still not quite how I would have liked it. I think my creative fuel tank is just running a little dry.
While I was drawing this one, I also realized just how much I've grown to like doing my "ink" work with the Sryup brush. I used to use the modified Mercury brush that I used for this illustration almost exclusively, in part because the clumpy nature of the texture it has reminded me of the gel pens I used to use when I'd draw on paper, and in part because the texture hides the imperfections in the lines.
I think that the Mercury brush variant I used to use had a more uniform thickness to it though, because I had a hard time controlling that with this one. In places where I wanted the lines to go thinner, I found the virtual ink running super thin and splotchy, which looked bad and made it harder to fill with color later on. Oh well!
Like all the others, this was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, a modified Mercury brush for linework, and the Hartz and Splatter spray paint brushes for background texture, with a few assists from the Soft air brush here and there.
If you'd like to see how I drew this one, you can watch the time-lapse below:
My twenty-sixth illustration for Februdoodle is a duckling wearing a fun human-headed inner tube.
I channeled all my years of watching DuckTales and reading Donald Duck/Uncle Scrooge comics for this one.
This was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Syrup brush for linework, and the Leatherwood brush for background texture.
If you'd like to see how I drew this one, you can watch the time-lapse below:
My twenty-fourth illustration for Februdoodle is a rooster leaning up against a wall, waiting.
I'm barely making it under the wire today, so I wanted to keep this one simple. I'm happy with how the colors turned out though, and I feel like I'm getting a little more confident with my color choices.
As usual, this was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, and the Syrup brush for linework/fills.
If you'd like to see how I drew this one, you can watch the time-lapse below. You will see a sketch I made at the beginning that I chose to abandon in lieu of the finished piece above!
For my twenty-third Februdoodle illustration, I drew a tea bag who is not very happy about being dunked into the hot water!
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 some masking, and the Splatter spray paint brush for background texture.
If you'd like to see how I drew this one, you can watch the time-lapse below:
My twenty-second illustration for Februdoodle is an Ice Cream Bar!
I'm sure I'm not the only out there who has fond memories of eating the old Chip 'n' Dale ice cream bars in the summer. The faces always ended up looking melty and droopy, and I couldn't tell you what the nose was. A knock-off M&M, maybe?
Anyway, I decided to draw my own knock-off version of that today. It turned out better than I thought it would, but it also took a lot more effort than I originally wanted to put in. Oh well.
As usual, this was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, a slightly modified Mercury brush for linework, the Soft air brush for detailing, and the Quoll and Hartz brushes for texture.
If you'd like to see how I drew this one, you can watch the time-lapse below:
My twenty-first illustration for Februdoodle is The Frog and the Scorpion.
I don't really like the story "The Scorpion and the Frog", and so I thought I'd remake it my own way. Nobody gets stung in this version.
This was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Syrup brush for linework, and the Hartz brush and Splatter spray paint brush for background texture. I'm posting each finished illustration at my website.
If you'd like to see how I drew this one, you can watch the time-lapse below:
My twentieth illustration for Februdoodle is... a thoughtful monkey.
Not pictured: the 20 minutes I sat staring at a blank canvas, trying to think of something to draw. I hate it when I can't think of anything!
As always, this was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Syrup brush for linework, and the Hartz and Larapuna brushes for background texture.
If you'd like to see how I drew this one, you can watch the time-lapse below:
