Illustrated Portraits with Procreate

Overview

“When facing a portrait, we're often afraid of losing proportions or not knowing where to place the most important elements such as eyes, nose, mouth, hairline, and ears. In my case, I usually avoid front-facing portraits or those with too much symmetry. I like to look for dynamism and foreshortening. If your reference is more frontal, don't worry, no problem.”

In this video lesson Elena Garnu addresses the topic: Placement and composition, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustrated Portraits with Procreate. Learn how to create and compose a portrait adding elements, textures, and expressiveness starting from a photo.

Partial transcription of the video

“Placement and Composition For this lesson, I'm going to show you how to choose your reference picture, how to import it to Procreate to create a composition according to our intention for our piece. Let's do it. When it comes to working on a portrait, we need to know the proportions, where to put the important elements like the eyes, the nose, the mouth, the hair roots, the ears. In my case, I tend to avoid those frontal portraits with too much symmetry. I like to find some vitality, a certain torsion. It's fine if your reference is more frontal. To figure out the placement in our portrait,...”

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Course summary for: Illustrated Portraits with Procreate

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (1255)
• 32780 students
• 5 units
• 16 lessons (1h 59m)
• 20 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Procreate

• Areas

  Digital Illustration, Portrait Drawing, Traditional illustration, Vector Illustration