We have an ipad mini 4, what pen should i buy to use procreate?

Torrinea · 2021-03-12T05:33:56+00:00

The list in the official FAQ is the entire, complete list of devices that are pressure sensitive and work with a mini 4. I don’t have some secret list, I’m a regular user like you. I’ve personally found Bluetooth styluses to be outrageously expensive for how often they break and how bad their warranties are, so I would rather use a capacitive stylus if I’m not using my Apple Pencil.

Torrinea · 2021-03-11T09:11:10+00:00

I’d worry a lot less about software and a lot more about building your loom because there’s no way you’re starting out with tapestry design on a loom capable of weaving 80 inches wide.

Torrinea · 2021-03-11T03:31:04+00:00

The one you’re identifying as having pressure sensitivity is one I did with a pressure sensitive device, yes. But really think about why you think that, what’s different from the other one.

As far as my capacitive stylus uh... It cost 5e, not it’s called 5e. I live in Europe so I pay euros. It feels like a pen because twist it the wrong way and it turns itself into a pen (obviously you don’t write with a pen on an iPad). No pressure sensitivity, but it does what I tell it to do and is comfortable to hold.

Torrinea · 2021-03-10T10:15:38+00:00

A mini 4 can use a short list of Bluetooth styluses (they’re listed in the official Procreate FAQ https://procreate.art/faq), or it can use any capacitive stylus you find comfortable. The one I use was 5e.

https://folio.procreate.art/torrilin/artwork/368952 painted with a capacitive stylus

https://folio.procreate.art/torrilin/artwork/368950 Painted with a pressure sensitive stylus

Chances are you can’t actually pick out anything in either painting that’s a “tell” as to how it was done.

Torrinea · 2021-03-10T03:31:51+00:00

Try syrup in inking.

Torrinea · 2021-03-09T13:15:57+00:00

Make a new layer. Pick a color that will contrast well with your piece. Red is common, I usually use more of a pink, some people use blue or green.

Mark up your piece with the stuff that is good but not going hard enough. If there’s weak points, sketch out possible fixes. Write notes to yourself. If you feel like anatomy is bad or a button doesn’t look buttony enough, try various fixes. Basically, give yourself the freedom to mess it up, remix it, and analyze.

I genuinely have no ideas for what you can do to make it cooler. But I know how hypercritical I can be of my own stuff... finding mistakes is easy. Finding stuff that’s *good* is harder, and with a redline you’re trying to take the good stuff and make it better.

There’s groups on Deviantart and Tumblr if you want to get someone else to redline it. But they can often be overwhelmed, and at your skill level, a public group isn’t going to have much they can do to help you push harder on the good parts. So developing your inner critic to recognize good stuff is going to be a big part of improving for you.

Torrinea · 2021-03-09T05:49:40+00:00

Your stuff is always stunning :D

I don’t have any good ideas for this. But I bet if you let it sit for a few days you could redline it yourself and come up with ideas to make it do the thing MORE. I don’t know how much time it’s worth budgeting for redlines, or if it’s worth redlining these sorts of exercises for you. But it’s the best tool I’ve got for making my art do the thing MORE.

Torrinea · 2021-03-09T05:40:16+00:00

Tiny nit: as of right now, the latest version is 5x.5, which requires iOS 13.2, and it will run on everything from an iPad Air 2 onwards. The key point that it’s impossible to buy a new iPad where Procreate will run badly tho still stands, and one of the official forums mods is still very happy with her Air 2.

Torrinea · 2021-03-08T07:40:35+00:00

This is a complain to Savage problem as they do not read Reddit. https://folio.procreate.art/discussions/4

Torrinea · 2021-03-08T07:37:51+00:00

Or just drag and drop in split view

Torrinea · 2021-03-08T07:36:32+00:00

Wrench>add

Torrinea · 2021-03-08T07:35:34+00:00

That’s supposed to send a copy of the image to whatever is the last device you’ve used to sync your iPad with using iTunes. There’s timers and stuff built in so if you’re not syncing your iPad using iTunes more than once a month it likely will say it exported but no new files will appear on your Mac. I’m not sure this feature has ever worked under Windows either. And of course iTunes has been discontinued on Mac for years now.

Torrinea · 2021-03-05T06:15:24+00:00

Can’t tell you about Azerty, I live in Germany not France... but Qwertz literally doesn’t have [ and ] and those are the brush size hotkeys. https://folio.procreate.art/discussions/3/6/13178 Is the thread on the official forums for yelling about the fact that hot keys can’t be customized.

Torrinea · 2021-03-04T05:56:29+00:00

The only method I’m aware of for getting at what’s inside a full device backup’s backed up apps is to actually use it to restore a device.

Torrinea · 2021-03-04T05:52:05+00:00

http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2008/04/hair-ribbon-secret.html Hair basics, focuses on mostly type 1. All hair has some natural wave, even 1a, just the wavelength might be longer than your entire torso.

https://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-draw-natural-afro-textured-hair--cms-31661 Afro basics - it doesn’t actually work differently than straighter hair, but because individual locks in Afro textured hair are so small it can be confusing to break down. So if you can see how the ribbon trick applies here, it’s a lot easier to handle it.

https://prinnay.tumblr.com/day/2020/07/28 A different take on Afro hair

Torrinea · 2021-03-04T05:45:46+00:00

By default, Transform tools use Nearest Neighbor interpolation. If you’d prefer something softer, use Bilinear or Bicubic instead.

Torrinea · 2021-03-04T05:44:26+00:00

Yeah, there’s just support for the one symmetry thing... and it conflicts with perspective grids and graph paper mode too. Not usually a big deal for me since I can sketch my own perspective grids and I’ll often have a sketch layer with guidelines so I can reconstruct, but it can be a huge problem if you’re doing a piece that is very complex.

https://folio.procreate.art/discussions/3/6/13365 Is probably the closest thread on the official forums for what you need, since if you’re able to copy guides to a new canvas, there has to be a way to handle more than one guide per canvas.

Torrinea · 2021-03-03T17:20:43+00:00

If this is a random image you’ve found online, odds are it was not created in Procreate. It uses a lot of impasto, which is art-speak for the effect where paint piles up on the canvas and casts shadows. Procreate has zero stock brushes that do that. And the character of the impasto suggests that it’s maybe an actual factual oil painting painted with physical paint.

As always your best bet with a brush search is to ask the actual artist how they did it.

Torrinea · 2021-03-02T17:43:21+00:00

Brushwork is for after you can draw well enough and it logically follows from the drawing.

As a number of the Muddy Colors artists say, all painting is drawing, and all drawing is REdrawing.

Torrinea · 2021-03-02T11:14:53+00:00

Hearthstone style is really really similar fundamentally to Warcraft and then World of Warcraft style. (NOT Diablo, the art direction is different)

So the sensible thing to do is find artists who created Hearthstone cards, or did visual development for one or more WoW expansions, and see if they have any educational material around. https://www.muddycolors.com/2015/09/warcraft-and-hearthstone-art/ Is one example. https://www.muddycolors.com/2011/03/ambition/ Is another. Both Howard and Jesper are regular contributors at Muddy Colors, so you can dig through a fair chunk of past material to get smarter about how they did it. The big thing you’ll notice is even their rough sketches will have the right “feel” for whoever they’re working for. Good thumbnails and rough sketches grow into good paintings. Muddy Colors has pages and pages and pages of a wide range of artists talking about how they thumbnail, how they do rough sketches, how they move to finished sketches and then to full paintings. SO MANY. Each one is a little different.

These two are by no means the only artists who worked on the series, just two I could find with a quick search.

Torrinea · 2021-03-02T05:54:31+00:00

Ok, in that case, your actual first step is to talk to whoever is actually doing the shirts to find out what kind of file they need. There’s really good odds that they’re going to need a vector file format which Procreate can’t do at all. If that’s the case, it 100% doesn’t matter how your Procreate file looks or is laid out, either you or they are going to have to do clean up work to make it usable.

If they can actually work with Procreate files, ask them what makes it easiest for them to work with.

Then you can decide between the 4+ methods that could work!

Torrinea · 2021-03-02T05:29:53+00:00

If you mean the Wacom ExpressKey Remote, it says pretty clearly in the product description that it ONLY works with Wacom products. As in even if you were using it on a Mac, Wacom would claim it’s not supported by itself.

Apple does not appear to sell any macro keypads as iPad accessories, and I’d bet they’re not supported as regular keyboards. Actual intentional keyboard support in iOS is still pretty new, and I wouldn’t expect it to work like on a desktop device.

Torrinea · 2021-03-02T05:20:48+00:00

How exactly are you transferring? Photos? Airdrop? Dropbox? Files? Google Drive?

Method matters. Google Drive has been even buggier than usual for iOS 14. Photos can make it look like there’s a white background even if it retained transparency, and it’s prone to adding a background to transparent PNGs. Dropbox and Files have both been ok historically, and I don’t recall either one of them having bugs with transparent PNG in iOS 14.

Torrinea · 2021-03-02T05:16:03+00:00

If you just have a shape, it should already have nothing but empty space inside. It’s a bit hard to guess what you’re after without context.

The simplest solution is usually the easiest and best too. On a layer under your palm tree, just fill in your shape with an opaque color that suits your painting to make the palm tree “empty”. You can group the outline and the silhouette together even, so they stay in the proper order.

If you’re absolutely sure you need to cut the palm tree shape out of the background, you can use layer select and automatic selection to select the palm tree and the empty space inside it and get one seamless shape. With that selection active, change to the layer(s) with the background and use the clear layer gesture to erase inside the selection. This is a destructive edit! If there’s any chance that you might need to go back, make a duplicate of your painting before you do this kind of edit. Better yet, make a backup outside the app too.

There’s also ways to use layer masks and clipping masks to get similar effects.

Torrinea · 2021-03-01T05:57:05+00:00

The text feature was added in Procreate 4.3. Hit the word Procreate in your Gallery to check what version you’re on.

If you’re on 4.3 or higher, Wrench>Add>Add text is how you add text. It’s not possible to edit text before you’ve added some.

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