Creative Portrait Illustration with Procreate
Introduction
A course by Samuel Rodriguez , Artist and Illustrator
About the video: Introduction
Overview
“In this lesson, I will talk about my journey as a creative. I will talk about who I am, what I do, and some of the things that I specialize in. ”
In this video lesson Samuel Rodriguez addresses the topic: Introduction, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Portrait Illustration with Procreate. Learn how to combine lettering and abstract elements in your digital portraits.
Partial transcription of the video
“INTRODUCTION (ABOUT ME) Welcome to my course. My name is Sammy Rodriguez. I'm an illustrator. Before I talk about my lessons, I wanna share with you a little about who I am and what I do, and also my major influences, especially those pertaining to this course. What I specialize in is portraiture and typography, and really the mixture of the two. Part of my interest in art started at an early age. I can remember drawing since I was a toddler. But I really started getting seriously focused as a teenager, when I did graffiti. What this enabled me to do was just obsess over creating an image a...”
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Course summary for: Creative Portrait Illustration with Procreate
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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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