Month in Review – July 2020

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

Man wearing hat

White Haired Man

Mustached bald man character design

Big nosed man digital painting

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

Man wearing hat

Guy with messy hair

Girl with sleepy eyes

Big nosed man

Pointy nosed old man

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

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).