Creative Portrait Illustration with Procreate
Merging Everything 6
A course by Samuel Rodriguez , Artist and Illustrator
About the video: Merging Everything 6
Overview
“The last step merging everything together is to finish the portrait dropping shadows also to the abstract elements.”
In this video lesson Samuel Rodriguez addresses the topic: Merging Everything 6, 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
“MERGING EVERYTHING The final thing that I like to do is, after I have my abstract elements and anything other than the portrait on the surface, I like to add drop shadows. I'm gonna use like a skin tone, pretty much get the fuzzy brush, the Bonobo Chalk brush. I do it on a different layer. I'm gonna start off with this big one. I did a large brush stroke. I have the shadow and it's fuzzy, but I'm gonna slightly define it here... with a darker line. One cool thing about having the drop shadows on a different layer is you can modify the color. I've just put my shadow down. I don't want to put...”
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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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