Figure Drawing

Joshua Esmeralda

Painting Portraits with an iPad: Digital Drawing Course Using Procreate

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Skills You’ll Learn

Master the tools

Practice through specific activities

Learn how I do light, shadow, and coloring

Draw full portraits with me step by step

Make portraits all on your own

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

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.

joshuaesmeralda

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