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    Photoshop & Procreate PAINT ABSTRACT PORTRAITS

    May 10, 2022 5 minutes

    Artist PROFILE

    Ken Coleman

    LOCATION: Ireland

    Ken lectures in Game Art and Design at TUS Clonmel Digital Campus in Ireland. He also designs for clients such as Catalyst Games, The Cranberries, Morbid Angel and is a regular contributor at photomanipulation.com. artofkencoleman.com

    This tutorial for me was a fun journey of discovery, as I have recently embraced Procreate as my go-to finishing and painting application, replacing a lot of desktop editing. In my personal work I have learned to value the power of the cloud and Adobe’s cloud libraries. As someone

    who loves building and prepping their own stock elements for artwork, I’ve developed this tutorial to work on Photoshop on desktop as well as straight from the iPad, before finalising the artwork in Procreate.

    You can either follow the full development of this project, or simply load the library file into Photoshop, and kitbash to build an abstract portrait using the same

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