Procreate Fundamentals: Beginner to Advanced

Create a new canvas by selecting a standard or custom size, then set width, height, dpi, color profile, and background. Organize your gallery by duplicating, sharing, and stacking.

Discover the Procreate interface, including top-right painting tools, layers, color palettes, and the left-side menus. Learn essential gestures and controls for efficient drawing and editing.

Explore the Procreate brush library by testing paint, smudge, and the eraser tools to compare brush textures, opacity effects, and the undo capabilities for digital painting.

Master Procreate fundamentals by customizing brushes in brush studio, adjusting attributes and streamline for clean lines, previewing changes in real time, and importing brushes from cloud drives.

Master color use in Procreate by navigating the color panel, selecting and saving swatches, and adjusting hue, saturation, and brightness with palettes.

Learn how Procreate layers give you control and flexibility, with techniques like alpha lock and layer masks for non-destructive edits, grouping, reordering, and transparent png exports.

Explore how adjusting layer opacity and blend modes makes artwork interact and create textures, color overlays, and dramatic effects, with tips on using textured paper and luminosity.

Master quick shapes in Procreate to snap lines into perfect circles and squares, then edit with handles, while a two-handed tap helps snap and align.

Master Procreate drawing guides using 2-D grids, isometric and perspective guides, with opacity, thickness, grid size, and color. Activate assisted driving to constrain strokes for 3D, cityscapes, and architecture sketches.

Explore Procreate's symmetry drawing guides to create perfectly mirrored designs using vertical, horizontal, quadrant, and radial options, with assisted drawing, layers, quick shape, and color drag-and-drop.

Adjust color with hue, saturation, and brightness; blur for soft drop shadows; and apply bloom and half-tone effects on individual layers with real-time previews.

Explore selection and transformation in Procreate, mastering automatic, freehand, rectangle, and ellipse selections; apply stretch, distort, warp, and uniform transformations, and learn masking, color fill, and layer workflows.

Export and share your artwork from the gallery or editing mode, choosing formats like procreate, psd, pdf, jpeg, png, tiff, and animated or layered exports.

Set up a new canvas and configure time-lapse video settings before drawing, then review the progress, toggle recording, and export full-length or 30-second clips for social sharing.

Bring your artwork to life with animation assist and a timeline of layers to create motion. Adjust onion skinning, groups, frames per second, and export options to fit your project.

Create three separate layers, one for each word, and use drawing guides to position them; refine hand lettering composition with transformation tool, alpha lock, and blending to connect the words.

Explore, play, and create art anywhere with Procreate as you apply what you learned and grow. Doodle through meetings, design social graphics, and illustrate your own product line—go create.