Modern Portraiture with Procreate: Stylize Your Subject
Adding Graphic Elements
A course by Paul Ryding , Freelance Illustrator
About the video: Adding Graphic Elements
Overview
“Here I will show you how to take the portrait you have created and give it a figurative layer underneath that should allow you to give it some of your unique artistic flair. ”
In this video lesson Paul Ryding addresses the topic: Adding Graphic Elements, 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
“Adding Graphic Elements In this lesson, I'll show you how to create figuratively, underneath your portrait, that will allow you to explore the full range of graphical elements you can use in Procreate to give your portrait a little bit more flair. You have your portrait finished, but we're not going to stop there. Procreate has a wide range of brushes and tools that you can use and, although they're all there, it doesn't necessarily mean you have to use all of them. What I want to show you is how to explore that and then arrange your portrait to give that individual style without degrading ...”
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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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