Modern Portraiture with Procreate: Stylize Your Subject
Understanding Anatomy
A course by Paul Ryding , Freelance Illustrator
About the video: Understanding Anatomy
Overview
“In this lesson, I will show you some core pointers in facial anatomy to help you better understand how the shape of the face, from bone structure to muscle, should shape the way to approach your artwork. ”
In this video lesson Paul Ryding addresses the topic: Understanding Anatomy, 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
“Understanding Anatomy In this lesson, I'll show you some core pointers as how to understand facial anatomy a little bit better. I won't go into too much detail, but just kind of working backwards, being able to use the framework, the map that we've already made of the face, and be able to identify important parts of the face for shading, texture, to give it more depth. Sometimes when you're given or you have source materials, all the information's not there, so it can sometimes be necessary to put that information in there if you're aware of it, of where everything should go. We're trying t...”
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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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