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.
Reference image came from SketchDaily.
Time-lapse below!
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!
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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!
This is my twenty-sixth illustration for Drawrch!
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.
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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!
Here's my twenty-fourth illustration for Drawrch!
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?
Based on a reference image from SketchDaily.
As always, time-lapse below:
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.
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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.