Creative Portrait Illustration with Procreate
Procreate Basics
A course by Samuel Rodriguez , Artist and Illustrator
About the video: Procreate Basics
Overview
“For this course, I will cover some basic actions needed for working on the iPad Pro and Procreate app.”
In this video lesson Samuel Rodriguez addresses the topic: Procreate Basics, 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
“PROCREATE BASICS In this lesson, before anything else, what we wanna do is open a new document in Procreate app. And also, go over some basics about hand gestures or lines and brushes that I use in my process. Procreate uses hand gestures, which is great, because it acts as a shortcut for you doing your process. We're going to create a new document. Before we do that, we need to hit this + sign right here. And then you hit this + sign. I wanna do inches because I eventually wanna print it and I wanna make sure that it's a specific size. First, you make sure that it's in inches. 8.5 by 11. T...”
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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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