Digital Illustration For Beginners In Procreate

Explore Procreate basics by navigating the interface and gallery, organizing canvases with stacks, and using the plus sign to create a screen-sized canvas for practicing shapes, textures, and details.

Master Procreate's basic tools—gallery, adjustments, brushes and brush studio, layers, color management with hue, saturation, brightness, and essential gestures like double-tap apple pencil.

Learn to draw lines and shapes with a solid brush in Procreate, refine edges with the eraser, and practice creating five differently shaped leaves for a final illustration.

Create textures and details by working with layered shapes, applying a clipping mask or alpha lock to the shapes, and adjusting opacity and blending modes to refine shading.

Design a character in Procreate by sketching simple shapes, using objects or animals with human traits or anthropomorphism, refine on a new layer, and stack canvases before selecting colors.

Create a new color palette in Procreate, selecting white and gray as base, magenta for hair, and blue accents, then paint main shapes on a layer with the Sierra brush.

Apply layer management and color blocking in Procreate to paint characters, adjust opacity, use multiply for sketch visibility, and build separate layers for hair, scarf, horn, and details.

Learn three shading styles—dimension, inclusion, and drop shadow—and use textured or transparent brushes, like spray paints, to add depth, while layering and light-source concepts guide where shadows fall.

Build texture and detail in procreate by layering sketches, adding hair and fur lines, refining features with light colors, and viewing against a turned-off background to reveal the character.

Set up an instagram-sized square canvas, enable vertical symmetry and drawing assist, sketch a glass jar with quick shapes, then import decorative elements and a character to finish the illustration.

Create a glass effect in Procreate by using a transparent layer inside a jar, precise selections, and shading with spray paint to add reflections and grainy highlights.

Finish the illustration by grouping and flattening layers, duplicating and moving elements between canvases, then refine placement with florals before preparing the background for the next project.

learn to build a background in Procreate by shaping sky colors, a sunset or night sky with stars, and mountains using a syrup brush, layers, and motion blur for gradation.

Create mountains in Procreate using perspective, with closer peaks larger and warmer, distant ones paler. Paint with the syrup brush, then adjust colors on separate layers to build depth.

Paint the sky using blurred color layers and luminous brushes in Procreate, add stars and a moon, and create glow with a duplicated layer and blur adjustments.

Use a grayscale value check layer to evaluate readability, then adjust brightness, saturation, and hue across ground, mountains, and middle ground for balanced contrast.

Finalize your illustration by adjusting the background color, adding drop shadows, textures, and decorative elements around the jar, then animate small parts and export your project.

Create simple Procreate animations with animation assist by treating each layer as a frame, fixing the background, and looping two blinking elements across a short frame-based sequence.

Export your artwork from Procreate as animated GIFs or JPEG for web-ready sharing, and save as a Procreate file or other formats; then start the class project, upload, and submit.

Explore how shapes form the basis of illustrations, turn shapes into cute characters by adding faces and traits, and assemble scenes with simple elements, perspective, color, texture, and animation.