Portrait Painting in Procreate

1. Introduction: Hi, I'm Isha Wur Dam, professional artist and illustrator, who did work with adopt the Elish prime videos Lord of the Rings strings of Power Series, Stadle, the value of T, Wacom, Logitech, and many more. In this class, you will learn how to draw a portrait from start to finish using Procreate. We will begin with strong construction and correct proportions to build a solid foundation. You will learn how to simplify facial features and capture likeness with clean lines. I will show you how to refine the drawing step by step without overworking the sketch. By the end of the class, you will have a confident portrait drawing that ready to painting. This class is perfect for artists who want to improve their portrait drawing skills in Procreate. Let's tie in. 2. Paint Base Color: Welcome. In this tutorial, we will paint this portrait, and it is our sketch layer. At first, we need to paint the background of it like this. I will start from the head. At first, don't rush and just try to place the shadows. For example, in eye, I'm making these areas much more darker. And under eye also will be much more darker. And cheeks will be lighter like this, and I will continue to add shadows over it. For example, these parts also will be darker. And this part also, at first, I'm just defining the shadows of the portrait. And after this, we will define the highlights and light parts. For example, these parts also darker and these parts darker. And this part is darker and this part is darker. Yeah. And for eye, I will make white part at first. And let's zoom into the eye, and let's paint the eye color. At first, donut add shadows or highlights, add middle tones of it. Also at the lushes we will make it much more darker, just like this. Yeah, and like this. And at the top part, we will make it darker. And this part will be darker. And this part will be darker, just like this. And if you see this, it has light in her eyes like this, like reflection. And I edit it. And if you see this end of the eye, there is the darker tones of the eye. And I will continue to add the tail from this side and we make it much more darker, even darker at this left side of it. Just like this and just like this. And like this and like this here, and this part also darker and this corner is darker. But don't rush, try to build things slowly and make to for example, if I need to add shadows on the nose part, and the corners of the nose is also darker, especially this part and this part. And this part. Let's add the shadows over the dry. For example, I will just put the background of it like the left one, and let's zoom in here and build the darker tones of the eye. And some places of it will be really darker tones in like this. And if you see it, it has a light or portrait like I just like it in here. And at the other part will be here like this. And let's zoom here and try to put shadows of it. Just like this. And it is how Katie makeup. I will edit also. And under the lip, there will be darker tones. Also at this part, it will be darker. And let's paint the lip at the base colors like basic color of it and zoom in and continue to adding details of it just like this. And at the corner, it will be much more darker. And nose can have some saturated colors, such as soft pink. Also, checks can have it like this. And let's switch it like this and add lights over here and continue to add shadows just like this. 3. Painting Shadows: And I will add the eyebrow and we'll continue to add it from here also. Let's continue. Like this. And at this part, it will be much more lighter, just like this. And I will make it much more darker. And this part also will be darker because it is light this part and this part is lighter. And that's why I'm making it darker to pop up the shape of the nose and for giving it a volume and increasing the detail level of it, just like this. And and here I will add much more lights here and here. Maybe I can continue to add lights here and lights here. And right now, I will add shadows over here, and I will make this much more darker over here. And let's zoom into here and add much more shadows here because it's turning and it needs to be darker because of the eye of the anatomy and here and zoom into the moisturiel like this, it will be black, not black, but saturated brown because it's skin. Yeah. And this part, it will be much more darker tones. And this place is also darker, darker, darker. And inside of the eye, it will be dark here, just like this. And this part will be darker. And especially at this part, it will be darker again and darker again. These part just like this. And now I'm adding much more shadows for make the illustration much more detailed, and this part also will be darker. Yeah. And spot darker this part. I will zoom in here and we make this part much more lighter. And if you check the eye, it have some saturated color over here, just like this. I increase it a bit much more and will apply over it because sometimes photoeference will not include enough color for create the eye. And it will be like this darker. And and these parts will be really light. And we need to create the texture of the lip much more visible from each side. And let's zoom here and build dark tones here, here and here. And just like this. And these places can be much more darkish. And I will make this background a bit visible at this part, especially this part and this part. And I not boiled it totally, but I will definitely will increase it after I put all details of the portrait. This part will be darker. And it can be much more shorter. 4. Painting Lights: And this part will be lighter. And of course, these parts will be at right place will be much more darker. But I will increase it in time. I'm just trying to build the general look of the portrait right now with these small details. Just like this. Yeah. And it's great right now, and I'm continue adding the tails of the portrait. And this part will be darker, and it will be in the dark place, just like this. And Okay, it's going really, really nice, and I will add shadows over here also. And this part And these corners of the hair will be really dark. Yeah, it is really great. And I'm trying to define the shadows of the eye detail. It can be darker over here. Just like this. And let's zoom in here and add some minimal portrait details like glowing eyelashes, just like this. And here it will be like this. And like this like this. And I'm checking it. These parts will be lighter. And a bit saturated from this point. And checks will be much more saturated in this place. And it is looking already great, and it will be better with details later. And thank you for joining me in this part and see you in the next part. 5. Painting Highlights: Welcome. In this part, we will start to add details. At first, do not rush and just try to build the neck area of it, just like this. I'm adding colors with softer tones. And these parts is also darker. So I will make it a bit darker and especially this part is darker. Yeah, it is pretty good right now, and I will make this part much more lighter. And this part is darker, just like this. And this corner is dark like this. Yeah. And for hand, I will make it darker. And this part will be lighter. And I will continue to add detail like this and zoom into face. And let's build the shadows much more deeper, just like this. And at right part, I will continue to add this line. It will be much more darker and also visible and I will make this part darker also and we add these dark tones over here and over here. And at this part, I will make it like this. Yeah. And just like this. Yes. And I will paint the general colors of her dress like this, add the basic colors. Do not put any detail for it. We need to just create the basic colors of the dress. And later we will add many details of it. But for now, we don't need any details of it. And I will continue to add this background color at the left part, and let's paint it like this. It will be same color here, just like this. And this place will be like this. And let's add some details over the hand. For example, it is darker here, just like this. And and continue to paint and build the general look of it. And this part is background of the hand. And some parts is really darker and in the shadow. So we need to add shadows over here, and maybe at this part, it is darker. And yes, it will be like this and 6. Adding Details: Like this, I will add the hail here and we'll build the hair from here. And if you look closer at this part of the hair, we need to make it wider at some point and increase the lighter colors of it just like this, like this and like this. I hope you enjoy the process, and I try my best to show you the whole process. And let's talk about this part. This part of the nose, as you can see, it is darker. So we need to build some dark colors here, just like this. And Again, at the left part, this left side is really darker and I will make it darker, really dark colors here, and I will continue it like this and this right side will be dark and the side will be lighter. And thank you for joining me in this part, and I will let a bit much more detail, and I will continue to paint the portrait at next part. It will be darker at this part. And also, these parts will be lighter, like reflections of the light. And especially this area of the face is really vibrant and have really powerful colors. And these parts will be shadows, for sure. And let's continue to add shadows here. And here, yeah, it is pretty nice right now. And I will make it this part is darkish. And also, this part is dark. And I will try to make this part darker, and this part will be darker. And this part will be really, really dark and maybe we can add shadows and increase the light over here for separate these two fingers, and we need some lights here to make it much more visible. Okay, right now, what I'm going to do is adding shadows at this part of the nose. And if you look closely, she has some freckles, but I will make these freckles much more visible like this because you don't need to create the same thing you see in the reference. You can change a bit and add your own comments to the porprit. So with this way, it will look much more special. For example, I'm adding increasing the lights here and here, and here will also add shadows here and here, just like this. And Okay, let's continue. Let's continue. Okay. And this part will be darker and this part will be lighter. Like, maybe we can increase the lights or the Aye. And okay, now I will add this chin line, much more better. And I will finish this part. See you in the next part. 7. Complete Illustration: Welcome again. Now, I will move the reference at the left part, and I will continue to paint the portraits the right side. Now I will use, like, pick brushes and build the shape of it. And at some parts, it's look much more lighter, just like this. And at some parts, it is darker, just like this. Yeah. And let's build this part will be lighter. And this part will be darker. And yeah, just like this. And background, again, will be same color as this part. Just like this. It will be darker. Just like this. And this part will be like this and this part darker. And for her, I will use pink colours to improve the realism. And this one will be much more shorter. And this part will be like this. I'm connecting it and giving it the tail. And at this part, it is darker and this part also darker. And this part Yeah. And this part will be darker. And you can increase the detail level of the ear with adding extra details like this. And I'm adding the texture for her dress. At first, I'm creating lines horizontally and vertically for create the illustration, just like this. And at some white textures at some parts of the portrait, and especially at these corners will be much more lighter and we can add some textures here and the end of the dress just like this knitting textures. Yes, just like this. And this part will be darker. Yeah. Okay, thank you for joining me in this part. And next part, we will polish the illustration and keep the painterly look and finish. Thank you again.