Learning Procreate from Scratch

Explore Procreate on the iPad with or without Apple Pencil, learn to find and use its features, and use this course as a repeatable reference for mastering digital drawing.

Explore Procreate’s interface and gestures to speed your workflow on iPad. Learn about Apple Pencil use, keyboard shortcuts, copy-paste, and the quick menu for fast, precise art.

Explore Procreate's interface, from painting tools, brushes, and color to layers and gallery workflows, then customize and navigate with actions, adjustments, and gestures for focused art.

Explore Procreate gestures that control painting, navigation, and layers using touch and fingers, including touch to paint, smudge, pinch to zoom, undo, quick shapes, and layer management.

Explore how the Apple Pencil enhances Procreate on iPad with pressure, tilt, and precise brush control, and learn pairing, double-tap controls, drawing assist, and pressure-curve customization.

Learn to use Procreate keyboard shortcuts on iPad to access advanced features quickly, connect a keyboard via Bluetooth, and memorize commands like spacebar quick menu and selection mode.

Master Procreate's copy paste menu with a three-finger swipe to cut, copy, paste, or copy all, and access it via the quick menu and gesture controls for efficient editing across layers.

Learn to customize and activate Procreate’s quick menu, a circular radio menu, and tailor gestures, taps, and Apple Pencil actions to fit your drawing workflow.

Explore the Procreate gallery to create canvases with presets, preview artwork in full screen, organize with stacks, and learn to import, share, and export multiple file formats.

Learn to create canvases in Procreate using templates or custom sizes, adjust dimensions and color profiles (rgb, display p3, cmyk), and configure timelapse settings and layer limits.

Explore Procreate’s preview feature to view art in full screen, preview animations later, and navigate galleries, stacks, and batches using pinch and double-tap gestures.

Organize your procreate gallery by sharing, duplicating, or deleting artworks with swipe gestures or bulk actions, then arrange, rename, and stack items for efficient workflows.

Import artwork or create a new canvas in Procreate, then share your art in multiple formats and destinations—from photos and files to AirDrop, AirPrint, and iTunes syncing.

Explore procreate file types, including the dot procreate native format with automatic backups and time-lapse storage; export and import major formats like PSD, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF, and MP4.

Explore procreate brushes, from sketching to inking, painting, and smudging, and discover how to organize, import, share, and customize brushes in the brush library and brush studio.

Learn painting, smudging, and erasing in Procreate from scratch using the Apple Pencil, exploring brush libraries, tilt and pressure, and blending techniques.

Explore Procreate's brush library to edit, organize, and share hundreds of brushes across categories like sketching, inking, drawing, painting, and more, using Brush Studio for custom brushes and imports.

Explore the brush studio to create and edit brushes with the plus button or brush tab. Preview strokes on the drawing pad to refine dynamics, taper, and apple pencil input.

Explore Procreate brush studio settings to customize strokes, taper, shape, grain, rendering, color dynamics, and Apple Pencil response for natural, varied brushwork.

Learn to create dual brushes in Procreate by combining two brushes into one, editing each component, and adjusting blend modes before reverting to separate brushes.

Import and share brushes in Procreate by importing brush and abar files, drag and drop from email or files, and create organized brush sets for easy sharing.

Explore procreate colors by selecting, adjusting, and harmonizing with interfaces. Save, import, and share colors; use value sliders and color profiles for precise control and color theory-inspired moods.

Explore Procreate's color interface, including the color panel, active and secondary colors, history, palettes, and default palette options, with color disk, harmony, color drop, and eyedropper.

Explore the color disc with the hue ring and saturation disc to select and fine-tune base color, lightness, and saturation, with primary and secondary colors and snap to pure values.

Explore the classic color panel in Procreate, accessed via the top right color button, adjust hue, saturation, and brightness with sliders, and tap outside to confirm; it remembers your preferences.

Explore the harmony tab in Procreate's color panel, using the hue-saturation disc and brightness slider to build color schemes. Master five modes—complementary, split complementary, analogous, triadic, and tetradic—for painting.

Master color values in Procreate from scratch by using hue, saturation, brightness and rgb sliders, hex inputs, and the value tab for precise color matching and sharing.

Learn to create, save, organize, and share color palettes and swatches in Procreate, set a default swatch, reorder and delete swatches, and export colors to other apps.

Learn to use color profiles in procreate to optimize art for screen or print, choosing RGB for screens or CMYK for print, with Display P3 as an industry standard.

Master Procreate layers: create and organize layers, move them above or behind others, apply blend modes and masks, and share layers as PDF documents or animations.

Explore the layers interface in Procreate, using the layer menu, plus button, and thumbnails to create, rename, select, and blend layers with visibility and layer options.

Master Procreate layers by creating and naming new layers to separate linework, sketch, inking, coloring, and lighting; manage background colors or transparent backgrounds for flexible artwork.

Organize layers in Procreate from scratch by selecting primary and secondary layers, grouping, and transforming, then move, duplicate, or delete layers while locking and protecting artwork.

Explore Procreate layer options, including renaming, selecting, copying, filling, clearing, alpha lock, masks, reference layers, invert, color drop, merge down, and combine down for nondestructive editing.

Discover how blend modes on two layers in Procreate interact to create diverse effects, control opacity, and preview results across modes from multiply to luminosity.

Learn to use layer masks and clipping masks in Procreate to non-destructively edit artwork, while applying layer locks, alpha locks, and color adjustments.

Learn how to share Procreate layers across projects and apps with drag-and-drop export to the files app and options for PDF, PMG, and animated GIF.

Explore Procreate's drawing guides and assistive tools, including 2d grids, isometric and perspective guides, symmetry guides, drawing assist, and quick shape, to streamline your digital artwork.

Create guides in Procreate, activate the drawing guide on the canvas, choose from 2D grid, isometric, perspective, and symmetry, and adjust color, opacity, thickness, and grid size before committing edits.

Apply isometric guides in Procreate to add a third dimension for engineering, architecture, and technical graphics, and learn to edit the drawing guide, adjust thickness, grid size, and rotation.

Learn to use Procreate perspective guides to create realistic objects and backgrounds with one, two, or three vanishing points, adjusting grid and horizon lines for depth.

Explore symmetry guides in Procreate, activate the symmetry button, and use horizontal, vertical, rotation, and quadrant options to create radial and mirrored designs with assisted drawing.

Master drawing assist in Procreate by enabling a drawing guide and isometric or perspective, toggling assisted drawing on layers for accurate construction lines, then switch to freehand for final details.

activate quick shapes in procreate by drawing and holding to snap to a perfect circle, square, triangle, or arc, then scale and rotate with a second finger.

Learn to craft and refine text in Procreate by adding text, editing style with real-time font previews and intuitive sliders, and importing or dragging in fonts from Procreate and iOS.

Explore the text interface in Procreate from scratch, learning how to add and edit text, move the bounding box, and switch between vector and raster text for different effects.

Edit text style in Procreate with real-time font previews, intuitive sliders, and controls for font, style, size, kerning, tracking, leading, baseline, opacity, alignment, underline, outline, and all caps.

Explore Procreate fonts, including default and iOS system fonts, and edit text after importing your own typefaces via drag-and-drop or the import button.

Explore Procreate's animation overview, learn the interface and basics, use onion skinning, instant playback, and a visual timeline to edit frames and share in movie or gif formats.

Explore Procreate's animation interface by activating animation assist, using the timeline of frames and onionskin, and drawing a bouncing ball with instant playback.

Explore animation options in Procreate from scratch by adjusting individual frames, holding durations, and duplicating or deleting frames, while using foreground and background layers.

Learn to adjust animation timing and appearance in Procreate, using frame rate 1–60 fps, onionskin transparency, blend options, and loop modes such as one shot, loop, and ping pong.

Explore selections in Procreate, from interface and gestures to automatic, freehand, rectangle, ellipse, and advanced options, enabling precise isolation, repainting, editing, and transforming of artwork.

Master selections in Procreate with an overview of the interface and gestures, and learn automatic, freehand, rectangle and ellipse options, plus advanced settings.

Master selection tools in Procreate to isolate artwork: automatic, freehand, rectangle, and ellipse modes; then add, remove, invert, feather edges, copy-paste, and save/load selections.

Master automatic selections in Procreate from scratch, learning to tap areas, adjust color drop threshold and feather, switch to freehand for fine edits, and commit changes.

Learn freehand and polygon corner-node selections in Procreate, drawing to select content, tapping to place nodes, and committing changes—with two-finger undo for correction.

Create rectangle and ellipse selections in Procreate, combine multiple shapes for complex selections, then commit or undo changes with two fingers.

Adjust selection settings in Procreate from scratch by controlling the selection mask visibility, choosing from 0 to 100 percent, and previewing the black overlay for precise edits.

Explore transform in Procreate to rotate, flip, fit to screen, magnetically adjust, nudge, zoom, and pan, while tweaking image interpolation for crisp and scaled results.

Explore the Procreate transform interface, rotating, flipping, and fitting to the screen with magnetics and a bounding box, then adjust interpolation (nearest, linear, cubic) for crisper results.

Learn how to use Procreate's freeform transform to scale, rotate, and move content within a bounding box, with magnetic snapping and options for uniform or non-uniform transforms.

Master the uniform transform feature to move, scale, and rotate layers while preserving proportions, using the bounding box and magnetics for precise alignment.

Explore distort and transform to create convincing 3-D tilt and perspective, then apply shear to add depth by angling objects; move and bend layers with touch.

Learn to warp and wrap your artwork in procreate using the warp mesh and transform tool, with advanced mesh options for precise control of nodes and lines.

Understand how interpolation guides pixel placement during transforms in Procreate, and compare nearest neighbor, linear, and cubic methods to balance edge sharpness with processing time.

Explore procreate adjustments to polish artwork with image effects and color tweaks. Learn interface and tools: opacity, gaussian blur, motion blur, perspective blur, sharpen, noise, liquify, clone, hue, and saturation.

Explore Procreate's adjustments menu to apply seven filters for quick edits, opacity, and clone, then master professional color adjustments—saturation, brightness, color balance, curves, and recolor.

Master Procreate actions to customize your workflow with a full actions menu, insert photos and text, adjust the canvas, and export time-lapse videos or other formats.

Master the actions interface in Procreate, using tools, settings, and appearance to share in formats like Procreate file format, PDF, and JPEG; edit the canvas with guides and flip horizontally.