Creative Portrait Illustration with Procreate
Influences
A course by Samuel Rodriguez , Artist and Illustrator
About the video: Influences
Overview
“Some major influences of mine include Milton Glaser, Diego Rivera, Takashi Murakami, National Geographic (photographers), and Nintendo. ”
In this video lesson Samuel Rodriguez addresses the topic: Influences, 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
“INFLUENCES In this lesson, I would like to talk to you about some of my key influences. The ones I've chosen are very important for this lesson, in my opinion. And those influences are Milton Glaser, Diego Rivera, Takashi Murakami, Nintendo, the company, and National Geographic portrait photographers. I like Milton Glaser's work. He's one of the people we studied in school. In art college I had an interesting course about graphic design history. He has designed all this famous logos for us here in the US, which are like "I Love NY," iconic Bob Dylan. He does this tightrope balance between c...”
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Course summary for: Creative Portrait Illustration with Procreate
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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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