Traditional Drawing Techniques with Procreate
Ideas: references and concepts
A course by Laura Pérez , Comic Artist
About the video: Ideas: references and concepts
Overview
“In this lesson I will show you how I use references; from taking photographs to what interests us, to doing internet searches, natural drawings and reviewing the quick ideas that appear in the notebook and that are waiting to be used. It is very useful to photograph people, objects; interesting elements that we can include in our drawing. We can also use scenes from movies, music or works of art as references. ”
In this video lesson Laura Pérez addresses the topic: Ideas: references and concepts, which is part of the Domestika online course: Traditional Drawing Techniques with Procreate. Learn how to draw expressive characters on your iPad without sacrificing the hand-drawn look.
Partial transcription of the video
“Ideas, references and concepts In this lesson, I'll talk to you about ideas, references and concepts which is really what most matters when drawing. One of the obstacles we tend to find is when we are looking for things we want to draw. I think there are two ways of working with drawing, ideas and concepts. One of them is looking for what you want to express, for what you want to draw and looking for what you want to express on paper. It's also important to look at how ideas arrive, not only looking for them, sometimes they arrive. I've brought an example of a card which is one of the many ...”
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Course summary for: Traditional Drawing Techniques with Procreate
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Category
Illustration -
Software
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Areas
Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Portrait Drawing, Traditional illustration

Laura Pérez
A course by Laura Pérez
Laura Pérez has devoted her career to illustration and comics. She is an expert in capturing the essence of people in her artwork and is constantly exploring different forms of drawing and expression.
Her career in publishing began a decade ago, working at a Canadian illustration agency for clients like National Geographic, Penguin, The Wall Street Journal, and more. She later entered a Spanish agency and has now been designing comics for over four years. She has created projects for publishers Salamandra Graphic and Astiberri, and has illustrated picture books available in France, the United States, Russia, Italy, and Spain.
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