All posts tagged illustration

Drawrch #28

Martin · 2 years

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!

Time-lapse below:

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Drawrch #27

Martin · 2 years

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.

Time-lapse below!

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Drawrch #25

Martin · 2 years

Here's my twenty-fifth illustration for Drawrch!

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.

As always, time-lapse below!

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Drawrch #23

Martin · 2 years

Here's my twenty-third illustration for Drawrch!

I'm keeping it simple for this one again because I've got a lot of work to do later on my iPad and I don't feel like spending a ton of time drawing on it right now.

Once again, I've used the Procreate Pencil brush for the sketch and the Syrup brush for the linework.

Time-lapse below!

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Drawrch #22

Martin · 2 years

My twenty-second illustration for Drawrch.

As usual, I used the Procreate Pencil to sketch, but I tried a new brush this time and did my coloring with the Inka brush. I really like the rough edges it leaves - I just wish it could have gone a little bigger for the background. My goal was to create a more realistic drawing in a short amount of time though, and it really helped with that.

The reference was from SketchDaily.

Time-lapse below. If you watch the beginning closely, you'll see a few misfires I had with another drawing. The reference photo was of a woman's face at an odd angle, and I just couldn't get the proportions right.

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Drawrch #21

Martin · 2 years

This is my twenty-first illustration for Drawrch - that's three weeks down!

For this one, I used Procreate's Syrup brush for the lines, the soft Airbrush for a couple of fades on the character and the background, and the Hartz brush for the noise in the background. Sketched with the Procreate Pencil brush to start.

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Drawrch #19

Martin · 2 years

Here's my nineteenth illustration for Drawrch!

I channeled the player character from Animal Crossing for this one, a little bit.

This one was done entirely with Procreate's Syrup brush, except for the painterly swirl in the background, where I used the Old Brush to add the brush strokes.

Time-lapse below, as always!

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