Cartoon-Style Character Portraits with Procreate
Lights and shadows
A course by Cristina Gómez (adesignerlife) , Illustrator
Joined July 2009
Joined July 2009
About the video: Lights and shadows
Overview
“Now let's work on the lighting! In this lesson I'm going to teach you how to apply light and shadow in a simple way to give your portrait more depth. ”
In this video lesson Cristina Gómez (adesignerlife) addresses the topic: Lights and shadows, 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
“Lights and shadows It is time to start giving lights and shadows to our drawing. In this case we have to create a small setting before setting our drawing finally. I will start by making the lights on our top. Since I don't want the light to be too strong, I'm going to use the soft brush and I am going to choose a color pulling towards the yellows. On a new layer above our shadows, create a new clipping mask and we apply a little on top. So that it does not look so obvious and is much more blurred, With the Overlay blending mode we lower the opacity a bit. For the hair we are going to follo...”
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Course summary for: Cartoon-Style Character Portraits with Procreate
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Category
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Software
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Areas
Character Design, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Digital Painting
Cristina Gómez (adesignerlife)
A course by Cristina Gómez (adesignerlife)
Cristina Gómez, illustrator and content creator, specializes in cartoon portraits, which she creates in Procreate. With all the tools available to her in a couple of clicks, she can create fantastic environments and atmospheres in no time at all, and without getting her hands dirty!
An important part of her work is collaborating with major brands in the industry such as XPPEN and Huion, with whom she has carried out challenges, competitions, and product reviews of their tablets. She has also been involved in promoting the launch of Mulan with Disney+ and has illustrated a series of children's books.
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