---
title: "Right Amount of Beard Sparkle"
excerpt: "Portrait of Rakso S. digitally painted with Procreate on an iPad."
modified: 2016-01-25T12:15:06-05:00
image: 
  feature: rakso-s-procreate-lg.jpg
  teaser: rakso-s-procreate-teaser.jpg
  thumb: rakso-s-procreate-250.jpg
tags: [procreate, painting, drawing, portrait, illustration, time lapse, beard, sktchy, black and white]
---

Portrait of Rakso S. inspired by a [photograph on Sktchy](http://sktchy.com/a4RQUD). Digitally painted with Procreate on an iPad Air 2.

If you squint your eyes just right it almost looks like a photograph. Just don't zoom in on the forehead or else you'll notice how unpolished the painting really is. But I'm not complaining, two hours of work with results like this --- I'll take it!

<figure class="third">
  <a href="{{ site.url }}/images/rakso-s-process-1-lg.jpg"><img src="{{ site.url }}/images/rakso-s-process-1-320.jpg" alt="process screenshot 1"></a>
  <a href="{{ site.url }}/images/rakso-s-process-2-lg.jpg"><img src="{{ site.url }}/images/rakso-s-process-2-320.jpg" alt="process screenshot 2"></a>
  <a href="{{ site.url }}/images/rakso-s-process-3-lg.jpg"><img src="{{ site.url }}/images/rakso-s-process-3-320.jpg" alt="process screenshot 3"></a>
  <figcaption>Just start with a line drawing, add a glaze here and a Gaussian blur there and you're done {% icon wink %}.</figcaption>
</figure>

{% include boilerplate/procreate.html %}

Add new Procreate portrait post
Add new Procreate portrait post
