#procreate tips

[paintixir]

Leaving my procreate tips here.

[formsrrari]

franco colapink 🩷

i had so much fun drawing this, especially the overalls :3

[sun--bug]

IMPORTANT

FOR PEOPLE WHO DRAW USING PROCREATE,

CHECK THE COLOR PROFILE

This has messed me up so many times 😭

Sometimes color profiles don't upload as the colors they look like! I use sRGB IEC6, but sometimes it defaults to display P3

[ibumo]

I DONT KNOW HOW TO USE PROCREATE 😫💔💔

[e-vay]

Looking back at your aurora and sage besties comic (its one of my favorites, only being beaten by were amy and sonic being a Simp) and I've got to ask, HOW DID YOU DO SAGES GLITCHING SO FRANKEN WELL??? IT LOOKS AMAZING AND I PERSONALLY LOVE HOW THOSE GLITCHS TURN RED WHENEVER SHES ON NEFARIOUS TIMING ARVDGDBABA

YOU ARE MY FAVORITE SONIC ARTIST.

...just wanted to say and ask.

You are so kind, thank you! I'm so happy you like them!

I do a lot of experimenting in Procreate until I find a technique I like. To achieve Sage's glitch, especially if she's doing something a little more wicked so her "red" side is showing, I'll start by drawing her in her blue version and her red version:

I'll select random rectangles from the red version and mask them/cut them out, so she's mostly blue but some red is showing:

I'll duplicate this layer and keep a copy of the "clean version" and apply effects to the duplicate. In Procreate, I'll use the "Glitch" effect and use the “Artifact” setting and mess with it until it achieves a result I like:

This may take several passes.

I duplicate the layers again, because again I always want to be able to go back if I don't like it. Then I'll play around with "chromatic aberration" under the “displacement” setting. She only needs a little for a subtle glitch effect, but if she's meant to look more menacing then I can go hardcore with it:

Then, I'll turn that original "clean" layer back on and I mask out the effect layer so only parts of it are coming through. When computers glitch, normally most of the image stays in tact and only some parts are scattered/messy so that's why I only have the effect in some areas.

I might even slide bits of those rectangles to the left or right. It's just a matter of playing with it until I like how it looks.

I hope that explanation was easy enough to follow along!

Again, thank you so much! I'm really really happy you enjoy my art and stories 🥰 (and I'm delighted to hear you're a fan of Were!AmyXSimp!Sonic hehehe)

[cyclopterus]

GUYS SPREAD THE HOLY GOSPEL FROM @sunflowers-and-scales!! If you use procreate and are sick of color desaturation when you post your art online, you can change the color profile to RGB “preference” or “appearance” to keep it the same saturation!!!

+ for printing, CMYK or SRGB work best (both you have to change in color profile)!

[disneyfanatic1993]

Hiii! :D

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! 💜

[lonelysheepling]

Drawing symmetrical shapes in Procreate

Short guide, also I’m assuming in this that you already know of and how to use the quick shape tool in procreate (draw shape -> hold -> quick shape)

For a perfect circle you draw an oval, hold to do the quick shape, and while holding tap on the screen and hold with 1 finger to snap to a perfect shape. 

Make sure that you let the pen (or finger) that drew the initial shape leave the screen before the one snapped it to a perfect shape or else it’ll revert.  You can do this to make perfectly symmetrical squares and triangles as well. When rotating them they’ll snap to a 15° rotation circle

This also works for the ellipse selection tool (but not the rectangle one)

Sorry for the low quality in the last two gifs, had to compress them