Powerful Female Characters: Illustrating Confidence and Diversity
Sketching Ideas and Refining
A course by Eunice Adeyi , Digital Illustrator
About the video: Sketching Ideas and Refining
Overview
“This lesson will show the sketching stage.”
In this video lesson Eunice Adeyi addresses the topic: Sketching Ideas and Refining, which is part of the Domestika online course: Powerful Female Characters: Illustrating Confidence and Diversity. Learn to create strong and expressive female characters by exploring anatomy, color theory, and proportions in Procreate.
Partial transcription of the video
“Sketching Ideas and Refining In this lesson, I'll be refining my sketch to the stage where I can start rendering. I'll be deleting the sketches I do not need for this. I like to choose a reddish colour for my base sketch because it makes it easier for me to blend my sketch and my colours together. For my sketch I use the brush called Blotchy, which is a default brush on Procreate. I mostly use default brushes for my illustrations. I start to sketch very roughly where I want everything to go. I'm looking at my reference as I'm drawing, to help me get the angle of the face right. I'm drawing ...”
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Course summary for: Powerful Female Characters: Illustrating Confidence and Diversity
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Procreate -
Areas
Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Painting, Traditional illustration

Eunice Adeyi
A course by Eunice Adeyi
Eunice Adeyi is a Nigerian-born digital illustrator based in the UK. She taught herself the skills needed to create professional portraits during her time at design school where she was studying to be an interior designer. Since then, she’s used her expertise to create artwork for brand commissions and personal projects for her six-figure Instagram account.
Eunice specializes in painting strong female characters which are designed to evoke confidence in women and has collaborated with brands including Pipsticks, Refinery29, and Fairyloot.
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