Procreate

Procreate is an amazing and powerful digital drawing program for iPads. It’s used by a lot of professional artists, so it can seem daunting to learn as a beginner. But, it doesn’t have to be. There are simple and straightforward Skillshare classes that will teach you how to learn Procreate in no time. Before we …

Procreate is a great digital drawing tool for all types of art, including calligraphy and lettering. There are quite a lot of brushes that are designed specifically for calligraphy and lettering that will make this type of art even easier to create. Luckily, you don’t have to pay a lot of money to get them. …

When you dive into digital art with Procreate, it seems like storage will be easy. No canvases or supplies to stuff into cabinets and hide in garages. But, storage is still an issue with digital art. 64gb iPads will generally have enough storage for the typical Procreate artist who does not store a lot of …

A huge perk of Procreate is that you can install it on your iPad, pack it up, and be ready for art on-the-go. The problem is that you might not have an internet connection out in the wild. Does that matter? Does Procreate need the internet or WiFi for you to do your art? Procreate …

Procreate is an amazing digital art program that so many professional artists use in their careers. It really seems like Procreate can do anything. But, can it? Is Procreate good for logos? Procreate is not good for logos because it is a raster-based program that cannot create scalable vectors. This makes it challenging to create …

Procreate is a powerful digital art program that many artists use exclusively for their art. Drawing, painting, illustration; it’s a breeze with Procreate. Is Procreate good for graphic design though? Is it equally good for all types of art, or is graphic design where it draws the line? Procreate isn’t good for graphic design given …

When opening a new canvas, Procreate lets you choose between two color modes, RGB or CMYK. Choosing the right color mode is really important and can have a big impact on your art.  Choose your RGB or CMYK color mode in Procreate before you start a design. In most cases, you cannot change it later. …

Whenever people talk about Procreate, they often talk about the Apple Pencil as well. There are a lot of different styluses out there, but it would be a bummer to buy one and find out it doesn’t work with Procreate. This begs the question, does Procreate only work with the Apple Pencil? Procreate only works …

Procreate has a lot of settings, which are all great, but can get confusing. Two of the great, but confusing settings, are the combine down and the merge down settings. What do each of these do? What’s the difference between combine down and merge down exactly? The Procreate combine down setting will put your layers …

Stacking your designs in Procreate can be a great way to clean up and organize your gallery. But, what do you do if you need to change your stacks? How do you unstack? Luckily, unstacking in Procreate is easy and gives you a lot of freedom to reorganize your Procreate gallery in a way that …