Portraits with Procreate: A Beginner's Guide to Drawing and Painting Faces

Draw and paint amazing digital portraits with Procreate!

Learning to draw and paint portraits is a rewarding, fun, and fulfilling experience for any artist, but it can be a bit overwhelming to simultaneously learn the techniques for drawing faces and the vast array of features and tools that software Procreate offers. If you’re seeking to dramatically improve your skills and create amazing portraits, Portraits with Procreate is for you.

Written by artist, illustrator, and designer Melissa de Nobrega, Portraits with Procreate is a knowledge-packed resource for artists wanting to learn how to create digital art with Procreate. By providing helpful demos, step-by-step tutorials, and real-world projects, this book will help you gain a deep understanding of Procreate’s interface and tools, anatomy for drawing faces, and drawing and painting techniques for creating beautiful portraits.

The book covers:

• The basics of digital art creation, including the differences between digital and traditional mediums and the tools required to get started

• How to use Procreate’s interface and tools, including gestural controls, canvas creation, color tools, layers, brushes, the selection tool, and the transform tool

• The anatomy of the head and face, including the structure of the skull and key facial features such as the eyes, nose, mouth, and ears

• How to sketch and refine portrait drawings, including how to set up a reference photo in Procreate and refine sketches for accuracy

• How to paint portraits in Procreate, including creating a simple grayscale painting, adding color, and finalizing and sharing the work

After teaching you the basics of Procreate, facial anatomy, and portrait drawing and painting techniques, Melissa brings it all together by working through five complete portrait projects from start to finish. Regardless of your skill level, Portraits with Procreate is a comprehensive guide and excellent resource for artists of all types who want to improve their work and create truly impressive digital portraits.

 
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Making Digital Art with Procreate
Chapter 2: The Basics of Procreate
Chapter 3: Anatomy: Features of the Head and Face
Chapter 4: Drawing Portraits
Chapter 5: Painting Portraits
Chapter 6: Portrait Projects
Additional Resources

Illustrator, designer, and author Melissa de Nobrega has helped over 20,000 students improve their artwork through her online art classes. Her new book, Portraits with Procreate: A Beginner's Guide to Drawing and Painting Faces, delivers her gentle teaching style in a non-digital format.

Melissa works from her home in Toronto, Ontario, and is the creator of makebetter.art, an online resource for budding and amateur artists who want to...well, make better art. Access classes and other resources at makebetter.art or by following her on instagram @melissadn.art.