Digital Portraits with Unique Style on Procreate
Extra lights and colors
A course by Ulises Mendicutty , Illustrator, Art Director, and Visual Artist
Joined January 2016
About the video: Extra lights and colors
Overview
“In this lesson we are going to color some parts of our character to add lights and shadows. We are going to learn how to find the colors for the shadows and we are going to give it a touch of style using a contrasting color. ”
In this video lesson Ulises Mendicutty addresses the topic: Extra lights and colors, which is part of the Domestika online course: Digital Portraits with Unique Style on Procreate. Put a personal touch on your iPad illustrations and take your portraits to the next level.
Partial transcription of the video
“Lights and shadows. In the previous lesson we added spot colors. Here we can see how we have colored the flowers, the leaves, the chain and also the face. Now what we will do in this lesson is to give our drawing even more life. We are going to use the Eyedropper. We place our finger on the skin of our character. In the Disk tool we are going to lower the tone of our color a bit. We create a new layer and we started adding it. We are going to help the shadows we already have. It is important to put it in the eyes because that way we give them more depth. On this side we help a lot to the sh...”
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Course summary for: Digital Portraits with Unique Style on Procreate
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Category
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Software
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Areas
Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration

Ulises Mendicutty
A course by Ulises Mendicutty
Ulises Mendicutty is a Mexican visual artist and illustrator based in Barcelona for over a decade. He draws inspiration from his surroundings: cinema, traditions, and barrio culture. Through SHE (Se Habla Español) he participates in collaborative, artistic, and fun projects that support the creation of communities and the promotion of illustration and contemporary art.
His work has been exhibited in countries such as Italy, Scotland, Spain, Mexico, and Costa Rica. He has also had the opportunity to work with companies such as Penguin Random House, El País, Vips, Slanted Publishers, and Myself Magazine, among others.
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