Modern Portraiture with Procreate: Stylize Your Subject
About Me
A course by Paul Ryding , Freelance Illustrator
About the video: About Me
Overview
“In this lesson, I'll introduce myself. I will talk about my years at the Glasgow School of Art, my professional life, and my experience as an illustrator. ”
In this video lesson Paul Ryding addresses the topic: About Me, which is part of the Domestika online course: Modern Portraiture with Procreate: Stylize Your Subject. Combine the fundamentals of human anatomy and digital tools to create recognizable portraits with a personal and contemporary flair .
Partial transcription of the video
“About Me Hi, I'm Paul Ryding and I'm a freelance illustrator. In this lesson, I'll tell you about me, my background, and illustration. I'm from Glasgow, Scotland, but I live in Belfast, Northern Ireland with my wife and three kids. I studied Illustration back in 1999 at the Glasgow School of Art. Only in the past five years or so would I consider myself to be a full-time illustrator. I knew I wanted to be an illustrator from a very young age, mostly because I spent my time drawing from photographs and copying from magazines. It was the only thing that really interested me and what I exceled...”
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Course summary for: Modern Portraiture with Procreate: Stylize Your Subject
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Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration

Paul Ryding
A course by Paul Ryding
Paul Ryding is a Scottish illustrator based in Belfast. He always knew he wanted to be an illustrator and spent most of his youth drawing from photographs and magazines. He went on to study at Glasgow School of Art and had his work published in a magazine shortly after graduating. He spent the next few years honing his style before taking his career as an illustrator full-time in 2014.
Since then, Paul has worked with clients including Facebook, Forbes, Politico, and The Wall Street Journal. In 2020 he was commissioned by The Guardian to illustrate a series of long-form articles called “Lost to The Virus” about individuals who passed away from COVID-19. He also illustrated the cover for the best-selling book Trayvon Martin: Rest in Power.
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