Today's June Toons cartoon is my attempt at drawing a human from a picture of an animal - in this case, a red squirrel. The result is sort of grotesque, but I had fun making it. 🙃
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 gradients, and the Fat Nozzle spray paint 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:
Today's final Drawrch illustration for 2024 is, as seems to be tradition at this point, a self-portrait!
Though I'm quite ready for a break, I had a lot of fun doing this project, I am happy with the work that I made for it, and once again, I feel like I learned a lot (more) about how I see things and how to draw them.
I still wouldn't consider myself particular good at portraits, but I could definitely feel my ease with the process increasing as the project went on, and the underlying sketches came a lot easier towards the end.
What's next? I might have to try a month of just doing sketches, or maybe revisit some of the sketches that I did here and try for a different style for the finished part. I am also interested in putting together some videos where I analyze the sketches versus the references, and see how accurate I really got.
Anyway, thanks to everyone who watched these drawings unfold - and perhaps joined me for the few I did live on Twitch as well. I really appreciate all the support I get from everyone, and I hope you had just as much fun watching as I did making this time around.
As always, 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 Old Brush for some painterly shading, and the Soft air brush for additional shading/gradients.
Here's today's Drawrch illustration! This one is of a man looking how I feel right now: tired.
I started this one off with a loose sketch, still trying to veer off into caricature territory. So the proportions of the man are not right at all, on purpose. His nose is too big, mouth too wide, jaw too angular, and hand a bit glove-like. But then I got to shading it and I could get away from trying to do that more realistically.
So the result is sort of an uncanny valley between caricature and not, which looks better up close (like when I'm working on it) but pretty strange from afar. It was good practice, anyway - and only one more to go now! 😄
This was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Inka brush for linework, and the Old Brush and Soft air brush for shading. Additionally, I used the Rough Dot Shader 45deg/light for the halftone shading, which is from the Beat Tone pack by True Grit Texture Supply.
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:
Here's today's Drawrch illustration, a drawing of a woman looking back.
This was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching and the Soft air brush for the background gradients. Additionally, I used the Smooth Natural Nib from The Rusty Nib pack, by True Grit Texture Supply.
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 of a man laughing. Or at least, I think he's laughing. Maybe he's wincing? No, no, he's definitely laughing! 😅
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 Fat Nozzle, Splatter, and Flicks spray paint brushes 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:
Here's today's Drawrch illustration - a man covered in paint!
When I picked out the reference photo foir this one, I thought the guy in the picture was just having colored light bouncing onto his skin. When I actually sat down to draw it, however, I realized that he also seems to be covered in bits of paint here and there. I have no idea why.
This drawing was kind of an experiment and is a mashup of a bunch of different styles/techniques that I have used in other drawings in this series. It mostly works though, and I think I am getting some good practice in with the halftone shading.
This was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Inka brush for some underlying linework, the Soft air brush for shading, the Hard air brush for the very faint background Bokeh effect. Additionally, I used two brushes from True Grit Texture Supply: the Smooth Natural Nib brush from The Rusty Nib pack, and the Rough Dot Shader 45deg/light brush for the halftone pattern from the Beat Tones pack.
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 of a woman looking up!
I started out with this one with the intention of making something a bit loose and caricature-ish. But then I began coloring it in and it ended up looking a like many of the other drawings in this series. I don't dislike it, but I wish I would've been able to stick to my original plan. Oh well!
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 and Old Brush for shading, and the Fat Nozzle spray paint 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:
Here's today's Drawrch illustration: a guy in a hood looking rather cold.
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 shading, the Oil Paint brush for a little bit of the blending, and the Old Brush for the rest of the blending.
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 of a woman smiling at the viewer with her head cocked to the side, as if to say, "sure, I guess". This is the final week of this project!
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 light shading, the Fat Nozzle spray paint brush for texture, 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:
For today's Drawrch illustration, I drew a dude in a similar style as some of my other drawings from this project, but with a more colorful background.
Originally, I had planned on just having the drawing be plain red in the background, but at the last minute decided to try some color. After mulling over it a bit, I settled on this design. It's not perfect, but I like the messy background coloring bleeding into the shading of the subject. I think it makes it less mundane/safe.
This was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Inka brush for linework, and the Tarraleah brush for background texture/shading.
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:
