Procreate

In preschool, I remember being so happy about successfully coloring inside the lines. Today, I’m still stoked to color inside the lines. Luckily, with technology, coloring inside the lines has never been easier. Here’s how to color inside the lines with Procreate. To color inside the lines with Procreate, you can use the Automatic Selection …

If you love Procreate, you’ve probably had that awful experience of realizing that your iPad is dying right in the middle of your art session. Even if you have a charger nearby, it can mess up your flow to get up and plug it in. Does Procreate drain battery life? Or, does it just seem …

Procreate blending brushes are key components of any good brush collection. Without them, objects and designs would lack dimension, depth, and realistic touches. Luckily, there are a lot of great blending brushes that you can use to make your art pop. Here are my top choices. Important note: blending brushes are used with the smudge …

When making art with Procreate, it’s easy to focus on the main element of the piece, only to realize that we’ve forgotten about the background.  A great background pulls an art piece together, and is essential for making it pop.  Luckily, there are a lot of Procreate brushes that you can use for your background …

There are SO many amazing settings in Procreate and it can take a few clicks to get to each one of them. Well, not anymore. With the Procreate Quick Menu, you can get to all of your favorite settings with just a simple click.  Turn on the Procreate Quick Menu in the Preferences tab of …

The glaze settings in the Procreate brushes have a big impact on your strokes and, as a result, your art overall. It’s important to understand what glaze does so that you can adjust it within your brushes as needed. Procreate glazed brushes impact how colors are laid down when they are at low opacity. Each …

If you’ve used a brush with a lot of opacity, you’ve probably had that annoying experience of your Procreate brush opacity building up as you draw. It looks great as one stroke, but once you start coloring in a whole section, you have blotchy and inconsistent colors as the opacity of the brush strokes overlap …

There are a lot of brush settings in Procreate, with the taper settings, arguably, being the most confusing. Learning how to adjust the Procreate taper settings can help you have more control over your brushes, but it’s important to learn what they do. The taper settings for Procreate brushes let you adjust the thickness and …

There are so many great Procreate brushes you can use with this great digital drawing app, but it’s really easy for them to get disorganized and chaotic.  Import a few new favorite brushes and it’s long before you can’t find the brushes you’re looking for. So, how do you organize your brushes in Procreate?  Here …

There are so many reasons that you would want to import PDF files into Procreate, Lettering worksheets, reference photos, design elements, forms; these are things that are often in a PDF format that you would want to import into Procreate. PDF files can be imported into Procreate just like any other files. Multi-page PDFs will …