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Portrait Coloring in Procreate

teacher avatar Yasar VURDEM, Creative Art Director

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Topics include illustration, design, photography, and more

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      1:14

    • 2.

      Painting Base Colors

      1:52

    • 3.

      Painting Base Shadows

      3:22

    • 4.

      Painting Lights

      5:54

    • 5.

      Adding Micro Details

      2:39

    • 6.

      Complete Illustration

      2:00

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About This Class

Learn how to create a vibrant, expressive color portrait in Procreate with illustrator Yasar Vurdem  an artist whose work has appeared in collaborations with Adobe, global music artists such as Billie Eilish, and creative projects connected to Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings universe.

In this class, Yasar guides you through his complete portrait workflow, showing you how to build realistic skin tones, create depth with color, and finish your artwork with professional-level polish. The lessons are clear, beginner-friendly, and focused on helping you understand not just what to do, but why each step matters.

You’ll start with choosing a strong reference, understanding facial structure, and building a functional color palette. Then you’ll move into painting the portrait using simple, repeatable techniques that Yasar uses in his own client work.

What You’ll Learn

  • prepare a portrait reference

  • Proportion and facial structure basics

  • Creating Sketch with Reference
  • Building a balanced, realistic color palette

  • Techniques for painting skin tones and soft transitions

  • Layer organization and essential brushes in Procreate

  • Adding contrast, light, texture, and final details

By the end of the class, you’ll have a fully colored portrait that reflects both strong fundamentals and your personal artistic style. Whether you're just starting your Procreate journey or leveling up your digital painting skills, this course gives you the tools and confidence to create polished, professional-quality portraits.

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Yasar VURDEM

Creative Art Director

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Welcome! I'm Yasar Vurdem a digital artist, illustrator, and passionate instructor.

I've spent years developing a vibrant, expressive portrait style that blends realism with bold, painterly energy. Over the years, my artwork has been featured in collaborations with global names such as Billie Eilish, Adobe, Prime Video (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, The Wheel of Time, Citadel), Wacom, Logitech, XPPen, and many more.

As a professional designer and illustrator, I work across digital painting, character art, concept design, and stylized portraiture. My goal as a teacher is simple: to share the exact techniques, workflows, and artistic mindset that I use in my professional projects in a clear, practical, and inspiring way.

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Transcripts

1. Introduction: Hi, everyone. I'm Mia Shar Wurda, professional artist and illustrator. We collaborated with AdoplyElsh prime do stored of the Ring Srings of Power Series, Develo of Time, Sada, Logitech, welcome, and many more. In this lesson, I'm going to teach you how to draw a clean, realistic portrait step by step of celebrity. If portrait drawing feels intimidating from getting the proportions right to shading to features, don't worry. In this class, I will break everything down into simple, clear stage. We will start with basic head structure, then place the eyes, nose and using tracing techniques, and finally add realistic shadows and highlights to bring the portrait to life. Don't need advanced skills, iPad, pencil or whatever you prefer with. By end of this session, you will understand how to build facial features, control values, and create a polished professional looking portrait. So get comfortable, open your avas and draft beautiful portrait together. 2. Painting Base Colors: Welcome. In this class, we will paint this Anya portrait. This is our sketch layer, and we need to open layer under the sketch layer at first, and we will paint the base color. At first, do not rush and just put the base color for the portrait, and like this. I'm just defining the paste colors and not putting any extra detail. But for hair, again, it can be lighter like this because she has really vibrant hair like silver yellow or something. So it will be like this. And for eye, it will be lighter like this and zoom in and darker color. And at this part, we are just trying to build the shadows. This is painterly portrait, so it will be 3. Painting Base Shadows: Or with page strokes. Like this. Okay. And let's zoom in and add Okay, let's zoom here, and we will make these eye sockets much more darker because if you make the eye much lighter, it will look fake, so you need to set it much more muted colors in it. Let's zoom here, and for her lip, we will make it really saturated, dark colors, also muted because she is she has some dark lipstick here like this. And what we're going to do is increasing the values after. I will put some yellow color here for these textures. Okay. And for background, I will use some muted color again like this with this way, adding cold colors to the background made the painting pop up. And let's delay it here, okay. And let's continue from here and let's make it darker. And this part also darker. This connection point even can be much more darker. Like this. 4. Painting Lights: Okay. And after it, collect these two layers, go to adjustments and increase the hue and give it a bit curve like this. And zoom in again, open another new layer with selecting pink color and select the color for layer mode and apply over some parts. It will give extra color to our painting like extra detail. And much more realistic tones and extra colors here. And zoom into eye. From now, we will paint much more detail for our portrait with earbush. I'm using direct ear brrush right now, and also this part will be much more darker. Like this. Okay. And the top part will be much more darker as before. And this part this part maybe we can make this part a bit lighter. Also, this part a bit lighter. After it, select much more lighter color for this nose part and increase the light over the nose and this part. A bit lighter. And let's add shadows. For example, this part of portrait is darker and the under eye, it is also darker and this is also darker here. Let's zoom here and continue to adding detail. Here and here. And I will select darker color here and here. Okay. And I will select pain tily brush again and will make this part much more darker, especially these dark areas. At connection points like this and like this. Okay. And the under eye, it is much more darker and she has some dark makeup. Also, these parts we darker, much more darker these parts. And this part's much more darker. And this part will be darker. Okay. At background, I can use some flashlights here to give it much more deep deep in the background. And with hair lights here and here. 5. Adding Micro Details: Okay. These lights give our painting much more value and really good amount of detail. And I will continue to make this part much more darker. And this point also will be connect here like the connection points. And yeah, we catch the light of it. And for this part, we will increase the lights. For example, I can put some shiny retail here and here, also here and zoom in here at the part. Okay. Okay. It looks better right now. And at this part, we will make much more darker here like this and we'll put some extra details here. 6. Complete Illustration: And this type of part will be darker, much more darker. And we can put some earrings here like this and like this and maybe much more detail over these parts and some vivid lights over the dress for make it look much more realistic with details. Yeah, let's zoom here and continue to adding details. But will select much more darker brush here and we'll continue to add highlights here. Also here. So here. Okay. And I will finish this class here, and I can't see I can't wait for see your works and hope you enjoy this process and see you in the next class.