Modern Portraiture with Procreate: Stylize Your Subject
Influences
A course by Paul Ryding , Freelance Illustrator
About the video: Influences
Overview
“Here I'll talk about the artists that influenced me the most, the painters that gave me permission to do what I truly wanted to do.”
In this video lesson Paul Ryding addresses the topic: Influences, 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
“Influences In this lesson, I'll be sharing with you some of my favourite artists who are also my biggest influences. Chuck Close was an American painter who was and still is undoubtedly my biggest influence. Up until I discovered his work, I was a little bit too self-conscious to do what I really wanted to do, which was pure portraiture. I was trying everything else, because that seemed to be the trend in illustration at the time. After a couple of years, I ended up doing large portraits of a few of my friends, specifically, one illustration of my friend Fraser. One or two people said, "Wow...”
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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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