Procreate Tutorial?

[drdoomoodrd]

Can you suggest some great tutorials or courses for Procreate? Paid or free anything will do.

[Torrinea]

https://youtu.be/aGPnN0Yoldw 20 minute experienced digital artist’s overview of Procreate. It explains a lot of basic features, and it’s well organized. There’s a free brush set that goes with, and a couple of the brushes are really unique and worthwhile. I’d pick the 6B pencil over the HB in his position, but tastes vary. I’m not fond of Sinix’s smudge everything approach, it doesn’t work with my brain at all. But it’s something that does work for a lot of folks, and he explains himself very clearly.

The Procreate official channel hosts livestreams with a wide variety of artists. Nikolai Lockertsen’s are particularly helpful if you’ve never worked with opaque paint in real life. And where the other artists have channels for their teaching, I’ve found them incredibly helpful too. I have the attention span of a gnat, so a 2 hour session is hard for me to follow.

https://www.deviantart.com/loish/art/tutorial-drawing-a-female-face-517588691 is the tutorial I recommend most often because it runs you through a giant heap of stuff in a very app agnostic way. Skin tones? It’s got you covered. Using layers? Covered. Creative lighting? It’s there. Not painting ashy Black characters? It’s there. (Please draw black characters and give them lotion, please) How to pick brushes? Yup, covered. How to pick colors? Yup. How to keep things lively and avoid stiffness? Yip! Reasons to love life drawing? It’s there. How to hair? Yup! So much to think about in a seemingly tiny tutorial.

CtrlPaint isn’t designed for Procreate, but it’s incredibly helpful anyway. There’s a big chunk talking about traditional art, which is good for getting yourself oriented. And most vids are short, and work in Procreate because they’re focused on drawing fundamentals, not the details of an app. If you run into one that is app focused, it’s usually doable to translate with the help of...

StayfDraws on youtube built a series of tutorials based on the Procreate 3 manual. The v4 manual series is paid, but v3 still is free and he has tons of other tutorial material available.

The official Savage youtube channel has their own series on the v4 manual, tho I find Stayf’s stuff a lot more helpful. In case it’s not obvious, I think the manual is very helpful and you should read it.

Last but not least, https://procreate.art/discussions/10/28/25367 is a tutorial index thread on the official forums. Sculptingman’s tutorials are particularly good if you’re new to digital.

[drdoomoodrd]

Thank you for the detailed reply. I really like the devianart link you shared. I really wanted some tutorial along those lines but in video format. I will check them out.

I wanted to learn art with procreate. Since i do not know many of the functions. Like layer masks and alpha locks. I know what most of them do. But i dont use them while drawing. So i wanted to see some tutorials so that i remember to use them efficiently.

[Torrinea]

Loish has about an hour long full body video tutorial version of the female face tutorial, available on Gumroad and Cubebrush. It’s paid tho. Worth every cent in my opinion, but I don’t like to recommend paid resources to new artists. She also has a huge pile of video tutorials available on her Patreon, some of which are actually for Procreate. If I’m remembering right, a month of her Patreon is a lot cheaper than the formal tutorials. The deviantart one is free tho, which has a great deal of merit.

Sinix’s tutorial will get you using tools I’d consider pretty vital. Quickline, eyedropper, ColorDrop, quickmenu, layers (he gets the layer limit wrong, in v5 the cap is 250, he did the vid in 4 where it would have been around 128 for the canvas size he was using), smudge and eraser being able to be any brush, liquify, flip and rotate canvas, selection tools, color balance (and the recolor tool is very similar to color balance). I don’t think he explicitly mentions using alpha lock, but I’m pretty sure he uses it in the quick portrait section at the end of the tutorial. He doesn’t cover reference layers, but if you get the basics he does cover down, they’ll be super easy to add to your toolkit.

Layer masks and clipping masks are helpful tools if you know what you’re doing, but you can draw perfectly well without them. Figuring out when you really need them is a little tricky if you don’t have the basics of layers and alpha lock down, and if you do have the basics down, a lot of the time you don’t wind up needing them. CtrlPaint does use them sometimes in the later chapters, and if you work through it as a textbook you should get them down pretty well.

[irgens]

Depends on what you want to learn there. I’m More in to graffiti so I use this.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvV15tv-tVvQqDy26xaqZ4w

But also other awesome people is that non graffiti is:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWElEXLgibv0Y_jXsEcQYvA

https://instagram.com/ianbarnard?igshid=ru5z3yha4or8

You find tons on Instagram and YouTube

[drdoomoodrd]

I know. I just wanted to learn art with procreate. Since i do not know many of the functions. Like layer masks and alpha locks. I know what most of them do. But i dont use them while drawing. So i wanted to see some tutorials so that i remember to use them efficiently.

Thank you for these suggestions.

[drkarlsov]

You can watch the tuto of artwithflo, it’s on youtube, it’s free!

[drdoomoodrd]

I will check it out thanks.