Cartoon-Style Character Portraits with Procreate

Overview

“In order to create our portrait we are going to create a mood board with all the elements that we would like to include in the drawing. In this lesson I will teach you how to make it. First, looking for the references and, later, adding them to a file in which all the information that we want to use will be reflected.”

In this video lesson Cristina Gómez (adesignerlife) addresses the topic: Search for references and creation of a mood board, which is part of the Domestika online course: Cartoon-Style Character Portraits with Procreate. Learn to create unique, stylized, and dynamic portraits using character and background references.

Partial transcription of the video

“Search for references and creation of a mood board In this lesson I am going to teach you how to find references for your project. In my case I will work with Pinterest, but you can use any type of tool may it be useful to you. When taking your portrait, it is important that you know which references are going to be valid and which are not. Not all of them will work for you and some will even backfire to generate your sketch. We are going to look for portrait format references. In this way you will find it much easier the elaboration of your mood board and your final sketch. It is important...”

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Course summary for: Cartoon-Style Character Portraits with Procreate

• Level: Beginner
• 99% positive reviews (108)
• 5726 students
• 4 units
• 16 lessons (2h 21m)
• 12 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Procreate

• Areas

  Character Design, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Digital Painting