Design Old-School Tattoos in Procreate
Shade and color
A course by Fernando Aponte , Tattoo Artist
About the video: Shade and color
Overview
“It's time to share my digital color and shading technique using Procreate, so you can use it to bring your illustration to life. ”
In this video lesson Fernando Aponte addresses the topic: Shade and color, which is part of the Domestika online course: Design Old-School Tattoos in Procreate. Learn to design tattoos with an old-school feel, exploring how to adapt your digital illustrations to the client's needs and chosen area of the body .
Partial transcription of the video
“shade and color In this lesson I will teach you my technique of shading and color using Procreate. To begin, we are going to take the outline layers. We can duplicate them so as not to lose them. We take all the layers with our two fingers and we are going to group them in a single layer. So we no longer have too many layers that bother us and we have all the drawing grouped in a single layer. Here we have in a single layer my outlined stroke. We are going to open a new layer where we are going to start shading. It is important to have differentiated layers so as not to lose information, if...”
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Course summary for: Design Old-School Tattoos in Procreate
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Procreate -
Areas
Digital Illustration, Drawing, Tattoo Design

Fernando Aponte
A course by Fernando Aponte
Fernando Aponte studied visual communication and design with a major in illustration, before consolidating his professional career as a tattoo artist, which has lasted over a decade.
Although based in Mexico City, he is constantly traveling across Europe and Latin America. He is specialized in both traditional US and Japanese styles, but also enjoys experimenting and adding new elements from the rich Mexican culture to his work.
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