Powerful Female Characters: Illustrating Confidence and Diversity
Butterflies and Background 1
A course by Eunice Adeyi , Digital Illustrator
About the video: Butterflies and Background 1
Overview
“In this lesson, the portrait would be about 90% finished at this point, and I would be reviewing my composition sketch to know where to place all the props.”
In this video lesson Eunice Adeyi addresses the topic: Butterflies and Background 1, 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
“Butterflies and Background In this lesson, we'll add the butterflies and work on the background. At the moment, I've put some quick sketches here as a reference to where the butterflies will be placed. Now I'll go back to my references. I'll create a new layer. Now I will draw the outline for the butterfly. I'll be using my Shale Brush as well. I'll refer to the reference to see how the angles follow each other. I'll draw the big shapes first. I'm drawing the outline for the butterfly. Now I'll try and change the colour of the butterflies because I wasn't totally satisfied with the colour. ...”
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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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