Illustrated Portraits with Procreate

Overview

“It is time to draw. If you are very confused by having the reference image under your work layer and it does not let you see your own drawing, you can always deactivate and see the result. If it's more comfortable for you, you can also place the reference on the split screen (search for your reference in the gallery app or ICloud Drive, open Procreate and swipe up to open the Dock, touch the app and drag it). When drawing it is important to try to distinguish the volumes and make the stroke accompany those volumes, I usually use a sinuous stroke that is combined with patterns, but you can do whatever makes you feel more comfortable. ”

In this video lesson Elena Garnu addresses the topic: Drawing, 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

“Let's Get Drawing! In this lesson, we'll be adding some volume and contrast to our sketch. Let's do it. Time to get drawing. If having your reference underneath is distracting and won't let you see your own sketch, you can always deactivate it to see the result, or, if it's more comfortable, you can always put it on the split screen. To do that, we'll activate Dock down here. I saved my reference in Gallery, so I'll just drag-and-drop the Gallery icon. I can adjust the size here. That's something you can do if having the photo underneath bothers you. You have several options. Choose the one...”

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Course summary for: Illustrated Portraits with Procreate

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (1255)
• 32841 students
• 5 units
• 16 lessons (1h 59m)
• 20 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Procreate

• Areas

  Digital Illustration, Portrait Drawing, Traditional illustration, Vector Illustration