Creative Portrait Illustration with Procreate
Final Thumbnail Sketch
A course by Samuel Rodriguez , Artist and Illustrator
About the video: Final Thumbnail Sketch
Overview
“In this lesson, we narrow down our choices, and it is time to begin working on the thumbnail sketch we will use for our final Illustration.”
In this video lesson Samuel Rodriguez addresses the topic: Final Thumbnail Sketch, 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
“FINAL THUMBNAIL SKETCH In this lesson we'll be developing our thumbnail sketch further so we have something to reference for our final illustration. I'll clean it up a little bit and I'm also gonna add more details to the face. There's certain expressions in the face that you might wanna maintain and there's some that might not be important. The same goes for the abstract shapes that you use. Faces are just a collection of shapes as well. I'll clean it up a little bit. I'm gonna enlarge it. I don't need to see this now, so I won't delete it but I'll hide those layers. Maybe I'll do three ve...”
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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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