Creative Portrait Illustration with Procreate
Narrowing Color Choice
A course by Samuel Rodriguez , Artist and Illustrator
About the video: Narrowing Color Choice
Overview
“In this lesson, we will apply the final color based on the roughs we made in the previous lesson.”
In this video lesson Samuel Rodriguez addresses the topic: Narrowing Color Choice, 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
“NARROWING COLOR CHOICE Now that we have our different color options, it's time for us to take a look and choose which one we would like. You can combine some of these color schemes. Let's say these are A, B and C. You can get A and combine it with C or something like that. Truthfully, I like the middle one already. I'm gonna do a new layer and I'm going to get this tool. Cut it out or copy it, if you want to keep them together. So, Copy, and then go to this layer and paste it. Now I'm gonna make this one disappear. That means it's still there because I didn't delete the layer. But they're h...”
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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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