This month I worked on techniques for more painterly style caricatures in Procreate. Illustrating without hard outlines to define features within the face is not my strong suit at all, however playing around with this style is a lot of fun even if the end result is someone messy and unfinished looking. I’ve been watching various oil portrait painting demos on YouTube to help understand the traditional portrait painting process.

Freckled man digital painting

Freckled man digital painting

 

Man wearing hat

Man wearing hat

White Haired Man

White Haired Man

Mustached bald man character design

Mustached bald man character design

Big nosed man digital painting

Big nosed man digital painting

Sassy granny

Sassy granny

Sketching Faces in Procreate

Here are some sketches I did in Procreate. Along with traditional painting techniques, I also focused quite a bit on sketching faces from scratch digitally. I have an “Interesting Faces” board on Pinterest which has some great subjects for this exercise.

Girl with big eyes

Girl with big eyes

Man wearing hat

Man wearing hat

Guy with messy hair

Guy with messy hair

Girl with sleepy eyes

Girl with sleepy eyes

Big nosed man

Big nosed man

Pointy nosed old man

Pointy nosed old man

Young woman

Young woman

Celebrity Caricature

I don’t draw celebrity caricatures a whole lot these days, but saw a picture of ESPN commentator Marty Smith and was immediately intrigued by the hourglass shade of his head.

ESPN personality Marty Smith

ESPN personality Marty Smith

Minnesota Sports

Last month I mentioned that the creators of a mockumentory series called WHEN-ESOTA contact me about using my Vikings Love Boat illustration for their newest video. Well, it’s now available for your viewing pleasure on YouTube! You can see my art around the 14:00 mark. And I suppose it would be apropos to share these two throwback cartoons of a pathetic, sad Minnesota sports fan who always get’s his hopes up only to be let down (basically self-caricatures).

Sad Minnesota Sports Fan

Sad Minnesota Sports Fan 1

Sad Minnesota Sports Fan

Sad Minnesota Sports Fan 2

Post-it Doodles

The end of July marked an exciting milestone for my @idoodlefaces Instagram account, as I passed the 5,000 follower mark!

Post-it Doodles

Post-it Doodles

That’s all for now. See you again next month!

Previous Month in Review

Welcome to my first Month in Review! Each month I plan on posting a brief recap of what I worked on over the past month, as well as some throwback drawings. Make sure you subscribe to my newsletter below so you don’t miss out on future artwork, updates or promotions.

Big Ed

I recently joined TikTok as a way to help promote my artwork, and have seen quite a few clips of Big Ed from 90 Day Finance. Although I’ve never watched the show, that face is too good to pass up. I mean, are these even really caricatures?

Big Ed Mayonnaise Caricature

Drawn in Procreate

Big Ed Caricacture

Drawn in Procreate

Adobe Stock Drawings

One of my new favorite things to do is browse through Adobe Stock’s huge collection of images and pick some random faces to draw. The goofier the expression the better! I have many rough sketches that I’m hoping to polish up soon, so stay tuned. Below are the two drawings I ended up finishing this month.

Funny Winking Face

Drawn in Procreate

Funny Face

Drawn in Procreate

Never Stop Smiling

Now this looks like a couple that knows the formula for keeping marriage healthy and strong! Drawn from my imagination, inked traditionally and colored digitally.

Inked traditionally with brush pens, colored in Procreate

Thank You Teachers!

A drawing I did of my oldest son’s fourth grade teacher. This was done as a token of my appreciation for being great all year long, but especially while helping us get through homeschooling during lockdown. And that was no easy feat! Getting accustomed to working from home full-time and helping with schoolwork was stressful and exhausting to say the least. I made sure to make time to do a drawing for him, and went old-school for this one using pencil and paper.

Drawn with paper and pencil

Throwback Artwork

I was recently contacted by the creators of a mockumentory series called WHEN-ESOTA, centered around the heartbreak and misery of Minnesota sports, to use my drawing of the Vikings Love Boat scandal for an upcoming episode. I said heck yeah! This was done many years ago, but I still really like the end result. Below is that illustration, along with some other Vikings related caricatures I’ve done throughout the years.

Vikings Love Boat

Vikings Love Boat parody featuring Daunte Culpepper and Fred Smoot

Randy Moss Caricature

Randy Moss

Jared Allen Caricature

Jared Allen

Adrian Peterson Caricature

Adrian Peterson

Christian Ponder Caricature

Christian Ponder

Post-It Doodles

Finally, I’d be remiss if I forgot to mention that June 23rd marked six months of posting one drawing each day to my @idoodlefaces Instagram account. It’s been a fun ride thus far and I’m just getting started! These are so fun to do, and it’s really cool that this little niche seems to be resonating with people. Here are a few of my favorites so far.

I took a couple of them into Procreate to use for coloring practice:

Stabigail Illustration

We shall call her Stabigail

Bald Woman Illustration

Bald is Beautiful

That’s all for now. See you next month!

A collection of my post-it doodles. Created using a red sharpie.

Postit Doodles

A collection of photos I’ve taken at both the Minnesota Zoo and Como Zoo.

Kevin Durant Caricature

“I’m always hungry. I want to be the best.” -Kevin Durant

It’s hard not to like Kevin Durant, and quotes like this are the reason why. He wants to be the best, and knows he has to stay hungry to be mentioned with the all-time greats when it’s all said and done. Durant is extremely humble, and I think that’s part of the reason he continues to get better. He knows there’s always some aspect of his game that could use improvement. One of the most frustrating things as a sports fan is seeing athletes with a ton of talent who don’t put in the work to live up their potential. Durant gets it.