
Explore the advanced Procreate on iPad features, focusing on gesture-heavy tools and the UI, with examples that go beyond basic drawing.
A brief intro on the instructor K. Michael Russell. Comic book color artist for DC Comics, Image, and Top Cow; digital artist, YouTube, digital art instructor.
A brief review of the basic tool locations and names. For a more thorough review, please see my course - The Beginner's Guide to Digital Art with Procreate.
Learn how alpha lock in Procreate on iPad lets you paint only where pixels exist, enabling clean line edits, color changes, and faster digital painting.
Explore Procreate layer options on the iPad, including rename, select, fill, color drop, and merge down versus combine down, to manage selections, color washes, and non-destructive edits across layers.
Master nondestructive painting in Procreate on iPad by using layer masks to reveal or hide details with white and black, adjust color, and refine edges without reimporting.
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Discover quickline tricks in procreate on iPad to draw straight lines, hold the pencil to snap to perfect angles, and refine with the transform tool.
Learn negative rendering by painting away shadows with a mask in Procreate, using a blue multiply shadow, threshold adjustments, and non-destructive edits to create dimensional lighting.
Learn how to use the smudge tool and eraser on multiple layers to blend colors, soften edges, and achieve natural media textures in Procreate, using texture-aware brushes and opacity control.
Master practical Procreate gestures on iPad to streamline your workflow, adjusting the sidebar for brush size and opacity, dragging references between apps, and using three-finger shortcuts.
Explore color drop in Procreate on iPad, using an empty layer and a reference layer to rapidly select and recolor areas, then refine with hue/saturation and color balance.
Explore advanced brush settings in Procreate, including spacing, streamline, jitter, taper, fall off, shape, grain, rotation, and blend modes, and learn to create custom brushes from the source section.
Learn to apply and adjust filters in Procreate, from opacity and blur to motion and perspective blur, using duplicates and masks to refine and control the final look.
Master hue, saturation, brightness, color balance, curves, and recolor to shape mood and contrast in Procreate on iPad.
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Explore the basics of perspective in Procreate on iPad by creating vanishing points and a horizon line, and building one-, two-, and three-point perspectives with the perspective guide.
Explore essential file management apps like Dropbox and File Browser to back up, sync, and share your Procreate work across iPad, desktop, and mobile devices for fast, seamless workflows.
Procreate is an amazing digital art app on iPad for sketching, drawing, finished illustrations, and painting. It's an incredibly flexible application that total beginners or seasoned professionals can use to make digital art!
My name is Kurt, and I use Procreate in my professional work at Image Comics as well as my own digital paintings. I've been creating tutorials and online courses since 2013 teaching thousands of students worldwide about digital art.
Procreate is a bit like a piano. If you know the basics, you can play Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star or, with a little practice, you might play some Beethoven! There are so many hidden gestures, functions, and features that take a full advantage of iPad's multi-touch features in a way that is simply impossible on Android or Windows devices.
The course is designed to show you how to get the most of Procreate in an easy-to-follow, step-by-step way. I've covered the basic tools in my course The Beginner's Guide to Digital Art with Procreate, and this course takes it all a step further and really dives deep into Procreate's tools and gestures.
There are several sections that focus on different areas of the application. Here are a few examples:
In each lesson, I'll go over how a function works, then show you how you can use it in your own art. Many of Procreate's functions are MUCH more powerful than most users realize.
I'll also include:
So join me! I'd love to help you get get the most out of my favorite digital art app for iPad! See you inside! :)
-KMR