Procreate for Beginners: Introduction to Procreate for Drawing and Illustrating on the iPad

By Aaron Smith

Make Art Everyday and Find Your Creativity and Motivation Through Drawing and Illustrating with Procreate

I think that creativity, regardless of skill level, can significantly impact people's lives. If I had one piece of advice for starting a daily creative practice, it would be to make it as simple as possible for you to create. 

Make your tools available and remove any obstacles preventing you from doing so. With Procreate, you have hundreds of tools and every color imaginable at your disposal. Make art whenever and wherever you want.

I talked about the Procreate app and explained why you should use it for your drawing and rendering. Also, you'll learn how to download and install Procreate and discover an excellent substitute for Procreate if you have an Android device.

Do you want to:

• Learn how to use Procreate to draw on your iPad? 
• Learn easy tips and tricks to streamline your art-making? 
• Understand the basic concepts, techniques, and all you need to begin drawing as soon as possible without being overwhelmed with information?
• Learn about the best hardware (iPad) to buy?
• Know the ideal canvas size to use?
• Know how to use brushes, layers, colors, clipping masks, select and transform tools, among other things?

This guide will help you to:

• Decide which iPad and accessories you should get for working in Procreate.
• Learn more about drawing illustrations and working in Procreate.
• Improve your drawing skills even further.
• Overcome your creative fears and establish a daily art-making practice.
• Learn how to use several Procreate touches and shortcuts to save time and become a more experienced Procreate artist.
• Discover how to create animations easily on the go!

This guide is perfect for people with no Procreate experience, but even skilled users can pick up some helpful Procreate tips and tricks.

Your ability to create art is not limited by the technology you can afford.

If you really want to level up your drawing skills, consider getting this book and challenge yourself to create art everyday.

So get a copy and create some fantastic art today!

• Language: English
• Publisher: ReaBooks
• Release date: Mar 11, 2022
• ISBN: 9791221309058

Aaron Smith

Aaron Smith has been encouraging husbands to lead their families according to the Bible through his site HusbandRevolution.com since May 2011. He passionately urges men to strive for spiritual maturity, supporting husbands with marriage encouragement. Aaron has coauthored several books on marriage with his wife, including 31 Prayers for My Wife, 31 Prayers for My Future Wife, a thirty-day marriage devotional titled Husband After God, and Marriage After God. Aaron and Jennifer have been working together as a team for the last decade, using their giftings to produce over ten books and help others draw closer to God through their website marriageaftergod.com. The Smiths are eager to continue working together to fulfill God’s purpose for their marriage by publishing Christian marriage books and resources and hosting a weekly Marriage After God podcast as a means to inspire others in their marriage and faith journey. They live with their five young children in central Oregon.

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Procreate for Beginners

Introduction to Procreate for Drawing and Illustrating on the iPad

Copyright © 2022, Aaron Smith

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system without express written permission from the author.

Table of Contents

Copyright

Table of Contents

Introduction

How to Install Procreate App

Benefits of Using Procreate

The Best iPad for Working in Procreate

Procreate for Beginners

The Complete Guide to Procreate

Getting Started

Essential Tools

Must-Know Gestures

Create a Canvas Template

Working with Color

Color Palettes

Color Dropping

Working with Layers

Selection Tool

Transform Tool

Quickline and Quickshape

Color Drop Threshold

Adjustments Menu

Animation

File Organization

Procreate Shortcuts and Gestures to Simplify Your Artwork

Gallery View

Canvas Screen

Brushes Panel and Tools

Layers

Colors

Quickline and Quickshape

Split Screen View

Conclusion

Other Books by the Author

Introduction

Procreate: What it is and why you should use it

In this book, I will talk about Procreate, why you should use the app, how to install it, how to draw and use its feature, and many other cool stuff that you can do with the app.

Procreate is my favorite digital app for drawing and rendering. I used to edit my drawing using other software like Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator, which was a little complicated for me personally, and I had to spend a lot of time on it.

Also, I have to say that these apps and software are great, and I still use them for some parts of my drawings, so if you feel comfortable using them, you should go for it.

Anyway, I like to work with this app because it gives me a lot of flexibility to work with layers, editing stuff, tracing, and making my favorite color palette. I can do all my drawings with my hand like I'm drawing and doing things on actual paper.

Another aspect that I decided to use Procreate is that it saves money. If you're on a tight budget, you have to be very careful about spending your money using other software and app as you'll have to pay monthly. Still, with Procreate, you only have to pay $9.99 to download, and there's no subscription and renewable fee after that. So you only have to pay for this app once, and of course, you should have an iPad and an Apple Pencil.

This was a brief introduction to Procreate app and why you should use it. This app is really great and easy to work with, and it could be a great alternative for other software like Photoshop Adobe Illustrator, and even AutoCAD.  I also have to mention that all this information is based on my personal experiences, so if you enjoy working with other apps, you should go for it.

How to Install Procreate App

Learn how to download and install Procreate on your iPad.

I use iPad Pro 12.9 inches with an Apple Pencil.  When you're done setting up your iPad:

Go to App Store and search Procreate.

For me, it says Open because I already installed it, but you should see an install button