
Explore creating amazing designs with Procreate on iPad, from sketching basics to perspective guides and final renderings. Access practical tips, demonstrations, templates, and an online learning community.
Master the color pick tool and color panel in Procreate, exploring disc and classic views, hue, saturation, and value controls, and palette creation, management, and hex code access.
Explore why the iPad is a favorite designer tool, highlighting portability and display. Include iPad Pro, iPad Air, iPad, and iPad Mini, with magnetic Apple Pencil and Bluetooth keyboard.
Compare Procreate and Sketchbook Pro, highlighting pricing, iPad vs desktop, gesture controls, brushes, and color palettes; explore which tool fits your workflow, but commit to mastering one.
Develop steady hand control with warming up exercises in Procreate, starting from drawing evenly spaced lines to refining stroke quality, while mastering the iPad and pencil grip and patience.
Explore growing circles to develop fluid line work within radial guides, warming up with quick circle sketches, and connecting shapes into a cohesive design while practicing with pressure-sensitive brushes.
Master quick circle sketching in Procreate with the ghost method, two to three loops, and layer tricks to build fluid, confident design sketches.
Open a new procreate canvas, scatter dots with a brush, and connect them with straight lines using light pressure to build construction lines.
Practice infinite spokes in Procreate by creating a new, low-opacity layer and drawing radial lines from the center to form spokes; rotate the canvas and repeat to build control.
Master Procreate’s iPad gallery and file manager, organize thumbnails, rename files, duplicate, export to Photoshop, stack into folders, and import from cloud storage to showcase work in a portfolio.
Explore the Procreate user interface, from gallery and file manager to brushes, adjustments, and selection tools. Use brush size, opacity, color picker, and movable control bar on canvas.
Learn touch-based navigation in Procreate: pan with two fingers, zoom by pinching, and rotate the canvas to a preferred angle for natural strokes, then fit the image into view.
Set up Procreate gesture controls to streamline drawing: customize tool icons, enable finger touch and hold, use three-finger clear, and toggle fullscreen preview for distraction-free work.
Master Procreate brushes basics: use the brush tool, eraser, and smudge; explore the brush library categories, adjust opacity and size sliders, and learn undo and redo gestures.
Explore the Procreate brush system by organizing brushes into categories, creating brush sets, and using the brush advanced options to customize, duplicate, reset, or build brushes from scratch for sketching.
Download brush packs from the resource section, extract zip files, and locate them in iCloud drive or Google drive. Open Procreate and view brushes in the brush library after import.
Learn to use a Procreate style color picker, adjusting hue and value with white and black, and save palettes with hex input for consistent designs.
Explore layer manipulation in Procreate, using transparent sheets to organize sketches, colors, shading, and labels on separate layers to achieve a final quality render.
Explore the layers panel, add, toggle visibility, adjust the background color, and organize by moving, locking, duplicating, or deleting layers for structured designs.
Learn to select multiple layers, delete or group them, and manipulate the grouped set in Procreate, applying transforms such as free form, uniform, restore, or wrap.
Learn to use alpha lock in Procreate to color inside shapes without bleeding, preserving edges and silhouette.
Learn to use Procreate's reference layers and color drop fills to color shapes with clean, closed outlines, and import Illustrator vector files for color via this feature.
Explore how to use the touch quick menu in Procreate to flip artwork horizontally or vertically and create any layer, helping you spot mistakes by mirroring your design.
Learn how to cut, copy, and paste layer contents using a three-finger swipe gesture. Copy all layers, and transform and reposition elements across the canvas to build versatile designs.
Import images and artwork into the Procreate canvas from iCloud, iPad locations, or Google Drive, and use transformation tools to fit backgrounds and textures with proper scaling.
Warm up, set a dark background, sketch a water bottle with iterative, fluid lines, use straight-line technique and 45-degree orbiting, and emphasize the ellipse.
Iterate quickly with color in Procreate by creating multiple canvases, sketching new ideas, and darkening peripheral strokes to make designs pop with airbrush color and reflections.
Create quick thumbnail sketches in Procreate to explore multiple views of a water bottle, organizing layers in a wireframe folder, duplicating old designs, and rapidly iterating ideas before coloring.
Export your previous sketch, group thumbnails, and set up clean outlines in Procreate using opacity, symmetry, and warmups to prepare for coloring.
Learn explanatory sketches to communicate how a product works, using arrows, dimensions, and texture cues on human interface concepts to explain features and surface quality.
Block colors with a full-capacity paintbrush, then refine with a small brush while zooming to prevent color bleeding; enjoy experimenting with colors and tidy edges with symmetry.
Shade with a black airbrush to define form and edge lighting from ambient light on the right, use the selection tool to mark boundaries, reduce bleeding, and build depth.
Explore creating reflections and highlights in Procreate by adding a new layer set to screen or soft light, adjusting opacity, and painting light strokes to reveal flaws and highlight features.
Add stainless steel texture to the product in Procreate on an iPad, adjust light, wrap the texture for a cylindrical look, and export in multiple formats.
Learn to add a brand label to a product design, import and transform labels, orient them on the canvas, duplicate variations, and refine colors with airbrush to complete the design.
Add bump textures to a water bottle design in Procreate by applying, transforming, and erasing textures to enhance grip and realism. Adjust color, opacity, and symmetry for a three-dimensional look.
Master realistic and dramatic styling in design sketching with Procreate by blending layers, using modes such as multiply, and adding water splashes to enhance a bottle composition.
Design Sketching: Create Amazing Designs with Procreate
This is a learn anywhere video course, where you will be able to use all of Procreates features to ideate and sketch effectively on your iPad or iPad Pro. I’ve covered all the core knowledge and practical theory you need to know in order to utilize Procreate to a professional level to create super cool design sketches on your iPad. This course will get you up to speed on the tools and techniques in using Procreate and contains vital information that you can use across a multitude of digital art apps.
Structured and Clear Lessons
This course has been structured to be the clearest and smartest way to learn to draw and paint in Procreate. - everything is straight to the point so that you can get to what really matters - creating your Ideation sketches, perspectives, product pitch renders, time-lapse renderings, and more!
Ever-Expanding and Free Resources!
Software is being constantly updated - and so is this course! As Procreate grows and advances, so will this course, and I'll make sure that you have all the essential tools and resources you need to use your iPad for drawing and painting to the fullest! From new brushes for Procreate to templates, shapes, and more, I've got you covered.
Now, let's get started, you've got the design to make!