Seascape Digital Painting with iPad Procreate for Beginners

Begin your seascape digital painting journey on iPad using Procreate, as this warm welcome invites you to dive in and start the course.

Create a new canvas in Procreate by tapping the plus icon, selecting screen size, and shrinking it to reveal the borders, so you can start painting.

Discover Procreate's brush, smudge, eraser, and adjustment tools for painting. Master layers as transparent sheets, color palettes, eyedropper color selection, and undo/redo to build seascape paintings.

Create a new Procreate palette and add colors by moving the disc to yellow, orange, red, brown, and black, then save each shade to the palette.

Learn to paint a sky in Procreate by selecting a palette, applying yellow, orange tones, red, browns, and black with a medium airbrushing brush, then apply Gaussian blur to finish.

Learn to paint the sea in a sunset by reflecting the sky color, duplicating and flipping the sky layer to create the sea, and adjusting layers to avoid gaps.

Paint the island on a new layer, draw a horizon, and fine tune greens with Procreate brushes; create a sea reflection by duplicating and flipping the island and adjusting opacity.

Learn to draw a boat in a seascape using a new layer, Hb Pencil, and black paint to sketch, fill sails, and create a reflection.

Learn to draw palm trees in Procreate on iPad by creating layers, outlining circles for the trunks, drawing stems within circles, and refining with duplication to darken edges.

Learn to draw birds in Procreate using a very thin brush or sketching with an HB pencil, then zoom in and switch to the Narinder pencil to finish.

Learn to create a paper background in Procreate by adding a paper photo on a new layer, using multiply blending, and adjusting layer settings to simulate painting on paper.

Share your seascape painting on iPad by saving as JPEG or sharing to apps, then post your final piece on the discussion board and provide feedback.