New to Procreate?
Discover the fundamentals of Procreate with this beginner’s tutorial. Get ready to expand your creativity as you gain a solid understanding of the basics of this powerful digital drawing and painting tool.
Start here to learn the ropes
Procreate is an aaaaaamazing digital illustration app that you can purchase and download on your iPad. It is packed with so many features and opens up a world of possibilities for creatives and artists. This tutorial will give you a quick introduction, so you can learn your way around and start creating with confidence!
Watch the video below to guide the way and get yourself familiar with Procreate.
You can also use the steps below to follow along:
STEP BY STEP 👉
- Use these steps and timestamps, if you need to refer back to something in particular:
- What you will need- 0:13
- What you will learn- 0:25
- Create a new canvas- 0:55
- Select your colours- 1:34
- Using hex codes to add colours to your palette- 2:22
- Selecting your colours from your canvas- 2:42
- Using the modify button to select colours- 3:01
- Selecting your brush- 3:17
- Customising your brush- 4:04
- The Eraser- 4:33
- Colour Drop- Fill shapes with colour- 4:52
- Undo and Redo actions- 5:36
- Using layers- 6:23
- Changing the background colour- 7:30
- Cut/paste and move elements- 7:47
- Importing a reference photo- 8:44
Go MAD and get creative with Procreate!
We’d love to see what you come up with 😍 please email us at hello@somadaboutdesign or share on instagram tagging @somadaboutdesign using the hashtag #SoMadDesigner .
