Creative Portrait Illustration with Procreate
Adding Color to the Portrait 1
A course by Samuel Rodriguez , Artist and Illustrator
About the video: Adding Color to the Portrait 1
Overview
“In this lesson, we now have a decent sketch of the portrait so it is time to learn about adding color to it.”
In this video lesson Samuel Rodriguez addresses the topic: Adding Color to the Portrait 1, 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
“ADDING COLOR TO THE PORTRAIT Now that we have a good foundation for the portrait we can start coloring. We have a plan, but we still are exploring and feeling our way through an unknown space. It's going to be monochromatic, but it's going to be more like a purple magenta. I would just go and try to render the color from the get-go and then try to figure out from there where I do cool and warm temperatures. The reason why I do this way is because that's my way of starting with a cool temperature, so the face is gonna be monochromatic, purple magenta, it's gonna be cooler, and then when I ad...”
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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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