I've been playing around with the pieces I made for the Modular Park renders back in 2016, adding some stuff, editing some others, and trying to just build up a collection of parts to make more pleasant places with. I made this test render today just to see how things are shaping up.
Still some work to do, but I do enjoy making cozy little outdoor spaces with these parts. 🙂
I was looking through my photos the other day, searching for some paint color images, and I found a picture I took of an alley that I thought might be fun to do as an illustration. So I made this!
This is partly just some general illustration practice, and partly practice for an acrylic painting I want to do later this year. That painting won't be the same subject, but it's good to practice colors and form.
As with other recent illustrations, I used Procreate to make this. Sketched with the Procreate Pencil brush and painted with the Inka brush.
Here's a time-lapse, if you'd like to see how it all came together:
Here's my thirty-first illustration for Drawrch - the last in the series, and fittingly, a very tired-looking me in a self-portrait. It's not my best work, but it's what I did tonight.
For this one I used the Procreate Pencil brush to sketch, and the soft Airbrush for some fades here and there.
I really enjoyed this project, and I learned a lot of stuff. I'll probably write up a blog post about all that tomorrow. Now, it's time for a break!
Here's my thirtieth illustration for Drawrch - only one more to go!
I wanted to spend some more time playing with a rough brush, so once again I've used Procreate's Inka brush for most of the work. I used the Procreate Pencil brush for the sketch, and the soft Airbrush for the background.
Based on a reference photo from SketchDaily, though I had to improvise on the lighting/shadows a bit. The limited color palette made the more complicated shadows of the photo quite hard to reproduce properly. You can see my struggles with it (and how I eventually resolved things) in the time-lapse below!
Here's my twenty-ninth illustration for Drawrch, and I barely made it under the wire with this one!
I had some work to get done this evening, and wasn't ready to start drawing until 10 PM. I though I might do something simple, and once again, I got into the flow, lost track of time, and next thing I knew an hour and a half had passed. I'm happy with the result though!
I sketched this one with the Procreate Pencil brush, then colored it with the Inka brush. I really like the rough edges of Inka - I'll have to play with it more after I'm done with this project.
This is my twenty-eighth illustration for Drawrch - almost at the end!
Once again, I used the Procreate Pencil for sketching and the Syrup brush for everyone else. I still need to practice using different line weights, but it's coming more naturally to me now.
For this one, I tried a different lighting technique where most of the character is in shadow and only the edges of him are lit by a backlight. I really like how it turned out!
Here's my twenty-seventh illustration for Drawrch. It's an old lady with her cat!
This was a little bit of a quickie cartoon. As always, I used the Procreate Pencil brush for the sketch, and my new favorite, the Syrup brush, for everything else.
For this one, I used the Procreate Pencil brush for the sketch and the Syrup brush for the lines and everything else. I also made use of Procreate's symmetry drawing guide.
This one had problems from the start. First, I had a hard time getting my sketch to look close to the reference image. Then I had a hard time deciding whether or not to color the lines (I chose not to, in the end). I screwed up the teeth a bit, which should include some clue that there's a bottom set. Finally, I tried and failed multiple times to get a glow on the guy's skin without making him look oily - another failed experiment.
In the end, I just ended up doing a quick gradient over large parts of the colors, which looks decent enough. I just with it could've been better.
Might be time to go back to cartoons for some of the last drawings this month!
I used the Procreate Pencil to sketch, the Syrup brush for the linework, and the soft Airbrush at the end for some highlights. The reference image was from SketchDaily.
I had to have oral surgery today. It was a necessary thing, but my mouth is low-key hurting right now. Maybe that's why I liked this image for today - because there's a happy mouth?