Creative Portrait Illustration with Procreate
Adding Color to the Portrait 2
A course by Samuel Rodriguez , Artist and Illustrator
About the video: Adding Color to the Portrait 2
Overview
“We are working with the saturation and brightness of the colors to build a very good foundation for your piece. We are going to merge the layers together to make it easier to work with the portrait.”
In this video lesson Samuel Rodriguez addresses the topic: Adding Color to the Portrait 2, 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 the majority of the colors down and we know, more or less, where are we going with it, we're gonna merge all the layers regarding the face together. For your work, you can go on with separate layers, but for me, it's easier to maintain and manage the piece with less layers. I prefer that. Tap on it, Merge Down. Tap, Merge Down. Now it's all one layer. Now I'm just going to continue rendering some of the face. Still not completing it. The ear, to me, needs to be taller. First, have the photo there so I can see scale. We see that this here is too ...”
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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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