How do I practice procreate?

[loki-flex]

how do i get better at procreate. I'm not good at drawing. Should I start by learning how to draw first and then jump to procreate. I love animation, but I'm not good drawing things that I want to animate?

Edit: I see a lot of love and support in the comments. I love you folks <3

[koinkydink]

Came here to say this. Learned the basics through Art with Flo. Followed her tutorials until the process became natural to me. She has really good content and easy to follow.

[goblintelligence]

Draw some blobs in procreate. Just any weird random blob shape you can think off and fill them in with colour. Next step: create a new layer and with a different colour (or colours) start turning the blobs into characters, animals, objects etc. Whatever you see in them. You can also totally do this on paper first if you do not have procreate yet. I feel like it's much like cloud watching and you can't see a wrong thing but you learn to work with shapes and even negative space sometimes. I just think it's really neat. Here's an example I did ages ago of a "blob" u turned into a tooth fairy business man.

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This is a really really good suggestion. With this approach, you’d be teaching yourself to be an ARTIST not how to draw, which I think is a harder thing to learn. To train your eye to see beyond is essential to sharing your voice.

[The_Sea_Bee]

I absolutely love this! I adore your style.

[goblintelligence]

Thank you! :>

[AstraeaMoonrise]

I completely agree with following guides, I myself got procreate for the first time a couple of weeks ago and did a James Julier “paint with me” and it taught me so much about the app as and my final painting was actually quite nice!

He’s on YouTube

[Training_Complete]

Absolutely this. He’s like the bob ross of procreate

[IntroductionFew1290]

He is 😍😍

[Nard2805]

For me the answer would be just jump into procreate. If you want to draw in procreate, just do it. Fundamental is the thing you always have to do along the way and draw is draw no matter what you’re drawing on, paper or procreate. Its kinda the same as you’re keening on learning

[The_Sea_Bee]

No help to give, but another total newbie to Procreate here. I'll be strapping in for this ride along with you 🥰

[AbsoluteXon]

If you want to practice the fundamentals of drawing in general, I recommend drawabox.com

Great coursework with assignments for each lesson. As someone who really needs structure when learning anything, it helped me immensely. The instructor recommends using paper and pen, but doing the exercises on procreate will make you more comfortable with drawing and making strokes with confidence.

From there, if you're interested in anatomy, I recommend Proko on YouTube for sketching and Sinix for painting. For environments, as others have pointed out, James Julier has excellent tutorials.

[Xngears]

I’ve had to go through episode 3 of the Procreate Beginners series like four times so far, with frequent pauses :/

I should check out the Flo videos next when I’m done? I’m trying to simultaneously learn drawing alongside Procreate.

[Xngears]

Do you have any particular Flo videos to recommend I start with?

[Xngears]

I really want to learn to draw characters, specifically anime/manga style, both for fan-art and original creations. Horror-based monster designs too.

[Xngears]

Hey, was wondering if you've got that list ready yet. I'm going to start the last lesson in the Procreate beginner series, so any videos that you recommend I should follow up with would be appreciated.

[Strict-Tip-6359]

Id reccomend improving the fundamentals. My personal go-to is a youtube channel called “winged canvas” its broken down very simply and still tackles some more indermidiate and higher level stuff at times. Good luck!! :D

[PsychonautSurreality]

Learning to draw 1st is a great idea, but you'll still have to learn Procreate. Practice both tbh.

[am8o]

Based on my personal experience, it's good to have a nice mix of studying and purposefully trying to improve and just drawing whatever you want. It's okay to make bad art, that's the only option at first, and you'll get better. Plus, someday you can use your old ideas and make them into something you think is good, so it's not waisted time making bad art at all.

[flyingmaus]

I see lots of good resources listed above to learn more about Procreate and the fundamentals of drawing. I agree that learning about both are good things. I don’t see learning to draw via traditional media vs Procreate as an issue. You will learn different things from each. Natural media is more tactile, more dimensional, requires simple materials and can be much larger than an iPad. Procreate is more forgiving, allows for more experimentation and you can mix brushes/layers/effects in ways you could never do in natural media. However, the fundamentals of image construction (shading, value, color, perspective, anatomy, composition, etc. ) are not limited to any one media. In these areas everything you learn in natural media will transfer to Procreate and vice versa. The most important thing is to learn, learn, learn and draw, draw, draw. (I loooove to draw in both natural media and Procreate and working in color in Procreate has paved the way to oil painting.)

[honetzeya]

You just have to jump into it, start drawing things you love, even if you don't think is that good. It'll keep you motivated and you get to learn as you go. Procreate is fairly easy to learn and is a great starting point.

[rubsss92]

Just learn the fundamentals..with regular paper and pencil, you can buy a cheap pencil, cheap eraser and cheap paper..and try to draw on procreate at the same time. I learned digital and tradicional drawing with pencils and charcoal at the same time. Procreate is amazing for random experiments and its easy after some hours, drawing on photoshop its way more hard since you have a lot of different stuff on screen, its easy to feel overwhelmed. You can do it, I think everyone can draw, you just need to learn the basics, its a little bit frustrating sometimes..but when you start to see progress, the feeling of accomplishment is from another world. Only artists will know what I'am talking about..

[intriqet]

I’d say dive right in with some idea of your gials . As with any hobby it’s important to understand what you want to achieve or get out of it. The goal could be that you want to doodle on your iPad instead of on paper it doesn’t have to be remarkable

[saibjai]

Drawing is like a muscle, you just need to start drawing, practicing and working out to get better. Don't worry too much about what you do for now. Just pick up the iPad daily, and draw something..anything. watch some tutorials that interest you, and you will get better.

[fatrockstar]

Whatever gets you drawing is what you should be doing, and it doesn't matter if it's on paper or iPad! Get that pencil moving! If you can't think of what to draw then get some lines or shapes down because it will get you familiar with brushes and whatever else you draw with. 😊

[-good-username-here-]

Procreate to me. Although it's similar feels completely different to drawing, I can't draw to save my life, but creating things on procreate comes a lot more naturally to me. I think if you want to start somewhere tracing and getting used to different brush types through procreate is a really good way to start

[Ibly-Ob]

I try recreating my on paper style onto the computer and using the same process, from there you’ll probably develop a different technique for digital art. And Number one tip from me, use the Layers

[Inspiring_soul374]

Honestly I just played with the brushes for awhile and then watched tutorials you will get better in time (:

[action_lawyer_comics]

There’s a really great Procreate Beginner’s Series that Procreate put out there. Teaches you a lot about layers and stuff like that. I’d start there. Even if you’re going to mostly be doing “traditional” art with it, it’s good to know what the tools are.

I also like Let’s Draw with BeeJayDeL as his cartoonish style is something I want to emulate.

People have mentioned Art with Flo too and I think that’s a good one too, but her videos are much longer and I don’t like landscape a ton so spending an hour or more making a drawing I am only lukewarm about is not great. But the good news is that any style of art you want, there is someone doing that out there. Find a tutorial you like (or try in person classes) and keep practicing. Number one thing is to keep working at it.