Traditional Drawing Techniques with Procreate
Details and elements: improvisation
A course by Laura Pérez , Comic Artist
About the video: Details and elements: improvisation
Overview
“In this lesson I will teach you to use tools that help modify errors, enlarge, reduce or deform them. As a tip, I will tell you that it is very important to let yourself be carried away by the program, to try and be surprised.”
In this video lesson Laura Pérez addresses the topic: Details and elements: improvisation, 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
“Details and elements: improvisation Now we will look at extra elements we can add to our illustration. Actually, I enjoy this part most, because at the start it's hard to find the character to draw, but once you have it, the improvisation, for me anyway, is my favorite part of my job. I'll do an example of this drawing we saw earlier and I'll think about the elements I can add which will mainly be plant elements. For these elements, I do the same as with the figures. I create direction lines and from them I improvise all these plant elements that I have somehow internalized in my head. So I...”
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Course summary for: Traditional Drawing Techniques with Procreate
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Procreate -
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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