Creative Portrait Illustration with Procreate
Combining Lettering, Portraiture, and Abstract Shapes
A course by Samuel Rodriguez , Artist and Illustrator
About the video: Combining Lettering, Portraiture, and Abstract Shapes
Overview
“In this lesson, we will make multiple thumbnail sketches, combining the letters, portraits and shapes to make a cohesive layout.”
In this video lesson Samuel Rodriguez addresses the topic: Combining Lettering, Portraiture, and Abstract Shapes, 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
“COMBINING LETTERS, PORTRAITS, & SHAPES So now that we have our references we'll try to combine them, and that is gonna be done through some thumbnail sketches. We open Procreate. And this is gonna be my blank document. Your can have your references hung up on a wall, however you want, but to me, the most convenient thing is an iPad function, and that's dual screen. So I have my files here and I just drag it. Pinch it over here to the left a little bit, and I have my folders here. I have my faces, my letters, characters, symbols, etcetera. I need to look at the face and figure out the si...”
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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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