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Domestika

Creative Portrait Illustration with Procreate

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Overview

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Learn how to combine lettering and abstract elements in your digital portraits
  • Introduction
  • Preparation and Research
  • Thumbnails to Refine Sketch
  • Finalizing the Illustration
  • Post-Production
  • Final project
Procreate has changed the game for artists today, gone are the days when you had to wait for paint to dry before adding on a new layer, now it’s all in your hands. Samuel Rodriguez, renowned artist in the California art community, has leveraged this app’s full capacity, creating stunning digital portraits. He depicts the diverse mix of cultures around him with creative flair, balance and style.

Delve into his world, where he combines his graffiti background and studies in Fine Arts, to seamlessly infuse abstract art into digital portraits. In this course, you’ll harness the power of Procreate to give your portrait illustrations a creative, abstract twist by using color, lettering, and shapes. Learn through his own methodology to compose your creative digital portraits from start to finish.

Syllabus

  • Introduction
  • Influences
  • What We Will Do on the Course
  • Procreate Basics
  • References of portraits and faces
  • References of Typography, Shapes and Color
  • Combining Lettering, Portraiture, and Abstract Shapes
  • Final Thumbnail Sketch
  • Color
  • Narrowing Color Choice
  • Portrait 1
  • Portrait 2
  • Portrait 3
  • Adding Color to the Portrait 1
  • Adding Color to the Portrait 2
  • Adding Color to the Portrait 3
  • Adding Typography and Shapes 1
  • Adding Typography and Shapes 2
  • Adding Typography and Shapes 3
  • Adding Typography and Shapes 4
  • Merging Everything 1
  • Merging Everything 2
  • Merging Everything 3
  • Merging Everything 4
  • Merging Everything 5
  • Merging Everything 6
  • File Usage and Timelapse Recording
  • File Export, Final Touches, File Preparation and Saving Files
  • Creative Digital Portrait Drawing with Procreate

Taught by

Samuel Rodriguez

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