Skills You’ll Learn
Class Summary
I started my journey painting just like everyone else, from the beginning. I challenged myself to get better one step at a time by doing digital drawings every day about the subjects I love most: the people around me and characters from my favorite series.
I will show you all the techniques I use as I walk you through my self-taught process of painting digital portraits in Procreate.
Class Takeaways
- Gain the ability to turn anyone into priceless and timeless works of art.
- Be able to cover everything from sketching the anatomy of the head and facial features to applying light, shadow and color to create natural skin tones.
- By the end of the course, you will be able to paint portraits of your friends and family or make your fan art of whoever you admire.
This Class Is For
- People who struggle with drawing faces. Complete your artwork by following along step by step with me and learning all my iPad tools, tips and tricks.
- Beginners in digital drawing or artists who are used to drawing in their style. I will help you take your artwork to the next level with this portrait painting masterclass.
- Artists prefer to learn the fundamentals in a fun, interactive way by practicing at their own pace, completing activities and getting direct feedback from me instead of watching a simple how-to video with a one-way lecture covering basic techniques.
Class Requirements
- You need to have your own Procreate to take the class. For more information, please visit here.
- Please Note: Students will have to purchase the Procreate application. It is not included in the course package.
Curriculum
WELCOME
Welcome to portrait painting
1. Meet your instructor: Joshua Esmeralda
02:57
2. Introduction to the course
02:03
3. Class Materials
02:45
1
Digital Drawing
1. My way of using procreate
03:24
2. Learn my method of digital painting
23:25
3. Fundamentals of drawing, values, color, edges, composition
05:03
2
Drawing heads
1. Basic structure, head proportions and placement of facial features
23:14
2. Anatomy and structure of the eyes and nose
30:56
3. Anatomy and structure of the mouth and ears
22:31
4. Drawing the head from a reference
18:14
5. Drawing the head from a reference-2
11:52
6. Drawing the head from imagination
27:57
3
Practicing Values and Edges
1. Values Overview, Light and Shadow
17:01
2. Practicing Values & Edges
04:53
3. Value Study demonstration
50:53
4
Painting with color
1. Color theory and color harmony
10:55
2. Painting skin tones
11:04
3. Color study demonstration
43:25
5
Portrait Composition and Process
1. Portrait Composition
08:34
2. Process Overview
08:26
3. Process Demonstration
39:10
6
Painting a Portrait from a Reference Photo
1. Brushes and Sketching
21:14
2. Color Block-in
17:32
3. Rendering the Face
39:25
4. Painting the Hair and the Finishing Touches
20:38
BONUS
How to do portrait studies all on your own
1. How I choose my references
04:30
2. Doing Portrait Studies
03:01
OUTRO
OUTRO
1. Congrats on completing the course!
01:03
Creator
Joshua Esmeralda
Hi, I’m Joshua, a self-taught artist based in the Philippines. Since I was a child I was fascinated with cartoon characters and drawing them. All it was back then was a hobby, but I realized it could be so much more.
In 2015, I made a new year’s resolution to draw everyday in the hopes of getting better, a habit I have kept ever since. Everyday, for the past five years I have been practicing from the fundamentals, to experimenting and finding my own style. I started from nothing and learned through online tutorials, books, and studying from other artists.
Now I work as a freelance character illustrator and have worked on illustrations for book covers, movie posters and concept art for international TV series. I have put together this class to summarise all those years of learning into one course.
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