Fantasy Portraits in Procreate
Shadows and lighting 1
A course by Camila Castro Yong , Graphic Designer and Digital Illustrator
About the video: Shadows and lighting 1
Overview
“In this lesson, we will apply the principles learned in the volumes exercise and move on to give life and dimensionality to our objects and main character. We will see the importance of details and how to maintain a uniform grain throughout our illustration so that it has a more professional finish.”
In this video lesson Camila Castro Yong addresses the topic: Shadows and lighting 1, 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
“shadows and lighting In the previous lesson we colored the main elements. In this lesson we are going to give volume to all those elements to take our final work to another level. Before starting this process we can make modifications in our colors, we can modify the saturation, the brightness, the hue, to stay with a color palette that we really like. For this project we are going to start with our main character. Let's start by activating our face reference. We activate Reference, we put Import and we put our reference image. Here we will be able to see exactly where those shadows are tha...”
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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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