Creative Portrait Illustration with Procreate
Adding Typography and Shapes 1
A course by Samuel Rodriguez , Artist and Illustrator
About the video: Adding Typography and Shapes 1
Overview
“In this lesson, we will create a new layer above the face, so that we can begin to add our secondary elements which are typography, shapes and color.”
In this video lesson Samuel Rodriguez addresses the topic: Adding Typography and Shapes 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 TYPOGRAPHY & SHAPES In this lesson, we're going to be adding typography and shapes, pretty much any secondary elements to the portrait. This is pretty much my signature. I have some techniques I wanna share with you on how to do it. I actually don't consider the color when I do this, I just do them in white so I can get the shape, Afterwards, I add the color. Before anything else, what I wanna do is color the background and start getting a sense of the space. I'm gonna go to my references, which was Color, look at the ones I was interested in and start adding the color to the bac...”
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Course summary for: Creative Portrait Illustration with Procreate
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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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