Modern Portraiture with Procreate: Stylize Your Subject
Copyright and Contracts
A course by Paul Ryding , Freelance Illustrator
About the video: Copyright and Contracts
Overview
“I am not a lawyer, so in this lesson, I can only advise on my own personal experience dealing with copyright and contracts. ”
In this video lesson Paul Ryding addresses the topic: Copyright and Contracts, 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
“Copyright and Contracts In this lesson, we'll see the common traps in copyright and contracts. When you're given a contract, preferably at the beginning of a commission, it can be quite overwhelming. It can be one page, they can be 20 pages with a lot of superfluous clauses that don't make a lot of sense to you. I want to break down exactly five things that you should make sure are represented in your contract. That is retaining copyright, outline use of image licence, duration of licence, cancellation fee, fee and deadline. As long as these five things are in the contract in some form, you...”
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Course summary for: Modern Portraiture with Procreate: Stylize Your Subject
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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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