Cartoon-Style Character Portraits with Procreate

Overview

“The portrait is almost finished, but to make it more special and unique, we can continue applying more lighting effects. In this lesson I will show you how you can set your portrait without having to draw the whole scene. We will use the play of lights, which will vary depending on the location and the time of day. ”

In this video lesson Cristina Gómez (adesignerlife) addresses the topic: Portrait setting, 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

“portrait setting It's time to give your portrait a special touch. For this I am going to teach you how to make a setting in a simple way. To begin we are going to create a shadow layer. For this I am going to remove the background of our portrait and I'm going to hit Copy Canvas. On a top layer, on top of everything, we glue it. This copy will serve us to make the selection of everything we want to cover with the shadow layer. Once we have it selected we can eliminate it by hiding it. In a new layer we select the shadow and fill it. As you can see, we already have the base layer to work on ...”

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Course summary for: Cartoon-Style Character Portraits with Procreate

• Level: Beginner
• 99% positive reviews (107)
• 5722 students
• 4 units
• 16 lessons (2h 21m)
• 12 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Procreate

• Areas

  Character Design, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Digital Painting