August 31 is finally here, and so Drawgust "draws" to a close. Here is my final illustration, a colorful deck platform, partly inspired by my own backyard.

I'm happy to have the time back in the coming days, but also a little sad that I won't have some new work to show each day. I'm hoping I can keep up the sketching/artwork, however - and make some more art that isn't bound to being done in just one day.

Anyway, I hope everyone out there has enjoyed watching me do these. Thanks for taking a look!

Here's a man eating cereal in peace. For now.

This is my thirtieth illustration for Drawgust. Almost done!

Here's a quick little gator for my twenty-ninth Drawgust illustration!

I wanted to do one more complex illustration before closing this Drawgust thing out, and this is it - a colorful forest path.

I had fun working on this drawing, but it took a long time to complete... more than I normally have in a day to work on these. Still good practice, of course! Only three more to go!

I feel like I draw a picture of some random fast food every time I do a project like this, so why not continue that tradition? Here's a set of food from... WackDonald's, I guess?

For my twenty-sixth Drawgust illustration, I created a night scene in a narrow city street. I wanted to experiment with the purple/pink shadows versus the buttery yellow light, and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

If I had to change anything, I might have worked on the water and reflections a bit more. It's not bad, though!

I enjoy doing cartoons for my Drawgust illustrations because they're just easier - and I often don't have the time to spend on something super-detailed, so they help in that regard as well.

Still, sometimes I want to do one that's a little more advanced, so today's illustration is a more realistic origami paper crane.

I'm hoping that once this project is over and I have cast aside the time constraints imposed by doing a drawing a day, I can create some work that's a little bit more advanced. Until then, this is probably as close as I'll get!

It's a rainy day on the road for my twenty-fourth Drawgust illustration! Based on a drawing I did in 2018 for Inktober.

Today's Drawgust illustration is a chef who made a small mistake. Careful with your knife work!

Here's my twenty-second illustration for Drawgust, featuring Nyan Cat meeting the edge of the canvas!

This week I'm open to using whatever colors I want, though I'm probably not going to be using as wide a range for each illustration as I did for this one. I was struggling for ideas for my first full-color drawing, and for some reason, Nyan Cat popped into my head - probably because of the rainbow.

Anyway, this is the final week (along with a couple of extra days) for Drawgust. I'm hoping I can finish strong!