Creative Portrait Illustration with Procreate
Color
A course by Samuel Rodriguez , Artist and Illustrator
About the video: Color
Overview
“In this lesson, we will be learning how to create a new layer above our chosen thumbnail sketch in order to try out some color schemes. We will look at developing these based on our gathered references.”
In this video lesson Samuel Rodriguez addresses the topic: Color, 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
“COLOR In this lesson we'll talk about developing color. We're gonna create color roughs. This is gonna require that I open my color folder, which is right here, and this has all of my color options. As you can see, some of them are pieces I've already done because I want it to feel like it's a part of that group of works, because maybe I'll wanna use it for a series or I'm in the mood to explore that. I have some other stuff here. We're gonna look for what I might incorporate into some of the pieces. We have our thumbnail sketch. I'm gonna merge all the layers together and just make duplica...”
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Course summary for: Creative Portrait Illustration with Procreate
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Category
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Software
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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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