Modern Portraiture with Procreate: Stylize Your Subject
Preparing Your Source Material
A course by Paul Ryding , Freelance Illustrator
About the video: Preparing Your Source Material
Overview
“Now I will take you through how to prepare your photograph as a tool for mapping out your portrait's features and anatomical structure. ”
In this video lesson Paul Ryding addresses the topic: Preparing Your Source Material , 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
“Preparing Your Source Material In this lesson, I'll show you how to prepare your photograph so it becomes more of a tool for mapping out and measuring the features of your portrait. You have the photograph in front of you that you want to use, this photograph is the basis, the tool that you're going to use to create your portrait. It doesn't have to be a beautifully shot photograph with great detail, remember that this is just your starting point for the portrait itself. Remember that this photograph should mean something to you, whoever the person is that you're drawing, the eyes, the tone...”
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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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