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Hey, is it okay if you give me some tips on how to use Procreate? I'm most likely going to get an Ipad for Christmas, along with Procreate, and moving to another art program is hard 😅, plus, so I don't get confused on what to do lol
Ooh that’s awesome! 😍😍😍 I hope you get it! Procreate is AMAZING. Once you get used to it, it’s super easy to use. It’s not all that great with animation (just a bit glitchy when it comes to saving them), so I would still use a different app for that. But there are a bunch of really amazing brushes, so I definitely suggest playing around with them and figuring out which ones best fit your art style. 😁
Here are some brushes I personally love using:
•The Monoline brush for inking and line art
•Round Brush for coloring in larger areas
•Brush Pen for lines that taper off at the end, like hair or facial features.
•Dove Lake for texturing things like plants and trees
•Currawong for texturing walls and buildings
•I use Twisted Tree with a super light opacity to texture anything made of wood, like tree trunks or rafters.
•Clay on a lower opacity is good for texturing anything made of stone
•Wildgrass on a lower capacity can be used to make some cool textured grass
•And of course, I love to use anything in the Luminance folder to make things SHINY AND SPARKLY 😜🤣
Those are just a few of my favorites. There are some really cool features in the top tabs, too. A Drawing Guide, blur features, liquifying tool. You can duplicate layers, or change their opacity; all sorts of things that I’m sure different drawing apps have, but they’re super easy to use on here! And so far, I haven’t discovered very many glitches with the app (one app I used to have would crash on the regular, and I would lose an entire drawing I spent hours on. But as many years as I have had Procreate, it has only crashed two or three times and my drawing was exactly as it was when I went back into it).
One tip I would tell you to use that I do all the time is quick erasing: Tap the screen with two fingers at once, and it will erase your last action. You can do it numerous times to erase however many of your previous actions that you want. You can also redo those deleted actions by tapping the screen with three fingers at once. Just something useful that took me a while to learn about. 😊
Oh, and when it comes to saving a drawing, I tend to save it as a PNG; better quality.
If you ever have any more questions about it, feel free to ask me! 💜