Creative Portrait Illustration with Procreate
Adding Typography and Shapes 3
A course by Samuel Rodriguez , Artist and Illustrator
About the video: Adding Typography and Shapes 3
Overview
“I am going to show you how to move the abstract shapes around and start bringing them together using also shadows and highlights.”
In this video lesson Samuel Rodriguez addresses the topic: Adding Typography and Shapes 3, 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 I am taking some of the abstract shapes. Moving them around and seeing if I want to overlap them. From there, I can start bringing it together. I think I'm gonna overlap this shape here, over this blue shape, and then I'll show you how to make it a little bit more clear. Now we have it overlapped. I'm gonna add some stuff around it to separate it a little, like a drop shadow. If we have this shape overlapping the other shape, we can drop shadow so it looks like it's casting a shadow. You can also highlight it, instead of doing a darker tone of blue, you do a l...”
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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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