Modern Portraiture with Procreate: Stylize Your Subject
Mapping the Photograph
A course by Paul Ryding , Freelance Illustrator
About the video: Mapping the Photograph
Overview
“In this lesson, I will take you through the process of mapping your photograph's key features onto the page making sure everything is in proportion to achieve a real likeness. ”
In this video lesson Paul Ryding addresses the topic: Mapping the Photograph, 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
“Mapping the Photograph In this lesson, we'll map out the photograph's key features to make sure that everything is in proportion and that your portrait has a real likeness in the end. The European Renaissance painters of the 15th and 16th century produced paintings that had almost photographic like quality. There's a strong amount of evidence and a theory that they'd used optics and mirrors. Some of the technology available to them at the time to achieve this. What we're going to do is not that dissimilar. We're using the technology afforded to us to create a portrait that looks like the pe...”
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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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