An Introduction to Procreate: A Brief Overview

 

Breaking News: The Earth is not revolving around the sun. It’s wheeling around technology. And this disruptive technology has approached the creative domain too. With everything going up in the cloud, the growing fad of digital screens and technology progressing every time we blink, creating beautiful artwork is now a matter of few clicks. All thanks to Procreate. This digital drawing app for iPad is every artist’s wet dream.

Procreate makes it all possible- animation, sketching, illustration, inked linework, digital drawing, hand lettering, and so much more. You name it and Procreate tools are ready to be served.

Pray to your muse, swing out your iPad. It’s time to go berserk.

What is Procreate?

Procreate is built for digital drawing and painting. It was developed by Savage Interactive and is an iPad exclusive app. This digital drawing app has all the right tools to realise your creative vision because of its flexibility, diversity, smoothness of function and ease of use. The app’s high responsiveness and intuitive design accentuate these features, and the use of Apple pencil compliments them fabulously.

Procreate Best Features

Procreate comes with diversity. Although highly valuable, this diversity makes it tricky to remember specific tools and functionality (especially if you are a beginner). Therefore, it is good to start from the basic and understand Procreate to unwind its features gradually.

While there are multitudes of things to draw on Procreate, here is a peek into the basics of Procreate and the easy painting techniques.

1. Procreate Brushes

The most significant selling point of Procreate is its brushes. This app makes it easy to import brushes or create your customised ones. Moreover, the brushes that come along in the app are versatile to support all artwork types.

You can find Procreate brushes on the top right corner of your canvas. Tap the icon to select a brush. Try out different brushes on your canvas and acquaint yourself with their unique outcome.

2. Layering

Layers are another powerful Procreate tool. It gives you the freedom to divide your drawing into individual elements and work on each one by attributing effects and detailing. In the end, you can merge, blend, group/ungroup, lock and adjust these layers to create a masterpiece. Add dimension to your drawing by activating Layers. Go to the Layers panel (upper right corner) next to the Eraser icon. Here you can add, delete and select Layers.

3. Colouring

The Color option is to the extreme corner in the upper right corner. Tap on it to unlock a colour disk. This will lead you to multitudes of Procreate colours. Tap on a colour to activate it, select a colour and drag it to the canvas to autofill.

4. Gestures

Procreate’s user-friendly interface is build to give creators a reliable digital experience with ease of accessibility. Hence, its makers infused the app with gestures. These gestures work wonderfully to supplement the user with quick tools at fingertips.

Here is a list of Procreate gestures to use:

Undo: Tap on the screen with two fingers to Undo

Redo: Tap on the screen with three fingers to Redo

Zoom out: Pinch your fingers together on the canvas to zoom out

Zoom in: Pinch your fingers apart on the canvas to zoom in

Ready to draw in Procreate? Play around with its features and create artwork of your choice. Experiment with its various stunning features and create unique artworks. Let your drawing and painting skills soar high with Procreate as your creative companion.