Create eye-catching, multilayered and visually complex portraits in Procreate, incorporating analog elements

In this class, let's dive into the very exciting world of digital art, to see how we can create original and expressive portraits using Procreate.

Procreate is a fantastic canvas for digital art, and we're going to explore how to integrate analog elements, such as watercolour stains and paper textures, into our digital creations, and work with different layers to give our portrait a really unique dimension.

Coming from a more traditional, analog background of art creation, when I discovered the magic of using Procreate to make work, using both digital and analog components in a collage manner, it opened up a whole new world of possibilities for me. So, in this class, essentially, we will be combining digital drawing, digital collage and analog textures and colours.

Who is this class for?
I won't be covering the very basics of drawing or Procreate, so, ideally you already have some knowledge and experience with these. Having said that, we will begin our drawing by using our reference image in the background to put the basic features in place, so you don't have to be a drawing pro. I will, of course, also give instruction on the features we will be using in Procreate.

What will you need?
For the analog part, you will need some watercolour, ink, coffee, or anything that occurs to you to make analog stains with, and some papers with texture, all of which we will be digitising using Photoshop or another photo editing software. If you don't have access to a software like this, you can use the digitised elements I have uploaded to the resources section.

For the digital part, you will need an iPad, the programme Procreate and a digital pencil (e.g. Apple Pencil) to draw with on your tablet. For digitising, you will need Adobe Photoshop or another photo editing software, that permits you to make png files with transparent backgrounds. Again, if you don't have access to this, you can use the digitised elements in the resources section.

Are you ready to see the stunning digital portraits you can create with these techniques?

Then join me in this class and start experimenting!

Viuhti Suni

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