Fantasy Portraits in Procreate
Light and shadow exercise
A course by Camila Castro Yong , Graphic Designer and Digital Illustrator
About the video: Light and shadow exercise
Overview
“It is important to configure our brain and teach it to transfer what we have in mind to paper or, in this case, to the screen. For this reason, in this lesson we will see a practical exercise to understand how we can achieve better results in our artistic works using shapes that will help us define the face.”
In this video lesson Camila Castro Yong addresses the topic: Light and shadow exercise, which is part of the Domestika online course: Fantasy Portraits in Procreate. Learn how to add soul and texture to your portraits through digital techniques that simulate the finishes of traditional drawing.
Partial transcription of the video
“light and shadow exercise In our previous lesson we were able to transform a 2D object to a 3D object giving it more dimensionality. In this lesson we will delve into the use of light and shadow using the brushes we used in the previous lesson. For this lesson we are going to use a template that is available in the Resources for this lesson. Let's go to Actions, Add, Insert a photo and we will insert the desired template. In this case, as we can see, it is the face of a person, and with the use of lights and shadows we will be able to give it greater dimensionality to this face that is tota...”
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Course summary for: Fantasy Portraits in Procreate
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Category
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Software
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Areas
Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Traditional illustration

Camila Castro Yong
A course by Camila Castro Yong
Camila Castro is a graphic designer and digital illustrator. She began to move towards graphic design and, since 2018, has dedicated her career exclusively to this area. Nowadays, she is a graphic designer specialized in branding and digital product design.
Since she was a child, she has always been passionate about art through drawing, which steadily progressed from hobby to self-taught profession. Over time, she evolved into digital illustration, where Procreate has become her favorite tool to discover different styles and creative processes.
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