Creative Portrait Illustration with Procreate
Course final project
A course by Samuel Rodriguez , Artist and Illustrator
About the final project for: Creative Portrait Illustration with Procreate
Creative Digital Portrait Drawing with Procreate
“We have reached the end of the course and I hope I could teach you everything you need to show the best stories behind a vibrant portrait. With this course we have developed together a portrait full of life using the procreate app combining the lettering, portraiture and abstract shapes to make a cohesive layout and a unique portrait. Working first on the thumbnail sketches and finishing adding shadows to the portrait and shapes. There are many ways to approach portraits and I hope that you can find your own style through this process. I use my portraits to show my interests in present society, history, and ongoing cultural hybridity to the world. Show your vision of the world through your portraits, get inspired, and be creative!”
Partial transcription of the video
“FINAL PROJECT This is it, we've reached the end of this course. I hope I've shared with you enough tools for you to create a vibrant portrait on your own. Before parting ways, I'll review the steps we took together so that we can arrive at your final project. We started by talking about the app that we're primarily using during this course, which is Procreate, and also how to navigate throughout this app and the iPad Pro. Then we did some research and I showed you different methods of gathering information that we can reference and guide us when illustrating our portrait throughout our proj...”
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Course summary for: Creative Portrait Illustration with Procreate
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Software
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Areas
Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Drawing, Portrait Drawing, Traditional illustration

Samuel Rodriguez
A course by Samuel Rodriguez
Samuel Rodriguez started off his artistic journey as a self-taught graffiti artist in California, which led him to study Fine Arts at California College of the Arts. Now he is an artist with over 25 years’ experience, in many artistic professions, and on numerous types of projects ranging from murals for public art spaces to illustrating for clothing apparel, editorials, and more.
His colorful, abstract portraits reflect the cultural hybridity he observes all around him, looking at society, history, and all aspects of culture as his main source of inspiration. Samuel is a referent artist in the Bay Area art scene, and is a full-time self-employed artist, exhibiting for galleries such as Thinkspace, and working for major brands such as Puma, Samsung, Hero, and more.
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