today I am going to show you 10 tips on how to use procreate effectively
including a few new features from the 4.3 update if you haven't seen my
previous procreate tips video I'll leave it on screen and down below be sure to go and
check that out but otherwise let's get into it
so in procreate I have this drawing on here I've just imported it as a PNG to
use for example purposes for now we're going to put this to one side so the
first thing I want to demonstrate for you is quick shape so this is something
that comes in super handy for me as a logo designer I use this feature a lot
in my designs so for example recently I designed a logo for a photographer
so as I was doing my sketches for example I use
the mono line pen so just as an example I'm gonna draw a super simple logo so
let's do the bb so this is a work in progress for the logo I'm currently doing
and I wanted to have an outline of the circle so I could try and hand draw a
circle but it's a bit naff so what I'm gonna do is hand draw a circle and then
when I get to the other end press and hold and you'll see that it creates a
smooth circle shape and then up here a little menu is popped up and you can
click Edit shape and turn it either into elipse so it just smooths the lines you
can adjust or into a perfect circle on a bit of a bigger scale so I'm gonna draw
a freehand circle and then press and hold and then the circle changes shape
and a menu pops up you click Edit shape and you can keep it as an ellipse where
you can adjust these little blue counters or you can click Circle which
will turn it into a perfect circle the next thing I want to show you I have
found so useful and this is color palette so for example if I saw an image
that I really like the colors of and I wanted to save those colors for a future
project I can make a pallet and it's saved in
procreate so I really like the colors I've used in this drawing so what I'm
gonna do is click this little square on the side and then this thing comes up
here and with this you can select the color that you wish that I like the
yellow one once I have selected that color it goes
up into the top right hand corner and if I click that it comes up with a big
color wheel and a color pallet underneath so what I want to do is click
the pallets in the corner and here are the default pallets that just come with
procreate I'm going to click this plus button and then this is my new pallet
and all I need to do is click in one of the corners and it adds that yellow
color from my swatch you can also rename it so I'm just going to name it Talia
because that's the name of this lovely girl on my screen and then I can just
keep repeating this so if I want to select this red color or pink color
whatever you want to call it it goes up here click the pallet click there and
I've got the two colors and I can just keep going so the hair select the color
brown come up here and there you go and you can build up these palettes and add
as many as you like and if you create the pallet and you want to get rid of it
all you need to do is swipe to the left and click delete the next thing is
symmetry so this is super handy if you want to draw things that are equal on
both sides or even mandalas which are super popular with procreate users so in
order to do symmetry on your iPad you need to go into the top corner with this
little spanner click that and then when you are in actions go to canvas and then
here on drawing guide just turn it on and then you'll see that this blue green
grid comes up and you can edit the drawing guide and change it so currently
it's on 2d grid which is just a bunch of squares to keep me in line but if I want
to do symmetry I go down here click symmetry and currently it's on
half-and-half so I will just show you how this one works so if I draw on one
side it repeats the drawing on the other side so first thing that I think
of if you want to draw a butterfly you can draw a butterfly Wow that's the
worst butterfly I've ever drawn and of course symmetry also works in different
ways so if you go back up to canvas and edit drawing guide you can go into these
different sections so we have vertical and horizontal which are the same
principle just one mirror in the middle of your screen copying it and then you
have quadrant and radial so quadrant is when the screen is being split into four
so I will show you this one so again it mirrors it but this time mirror is it
four times so you could make some really cute patterns if you play around with
this for a little while and then the final one is the radial one so this is
the one that I tend to use for mandalas I'd probably have a square canvas but
you can kind of understand so if you're are familiar with mandalas you'll know
that they are pretty little circle patterns and this basically allows you
to create whatever kind of mandala you would like because it is mirroring the
screen in four different well not four in eight different places
another tool that I find it really helpful is alpha lock I use this a lot
when I'm doing a cartoon portraiture and and it allows me to basically color
within the lines that's how I like to describe it so let's say I have drawn
something very simple once again are we surprised probably not and a sunshine so
here is my sunshine so now I have my very dodgy-looking sunshine I'm just
gonna fill it so another bonus tip if you click and drag over the color into
any completely joined shapes it will fill that with the color that you have
and because that one didn't have a joined line it's covered the whole page so
I'm just gonna go in and sort that out so now I have my sunshine so if you
click up in layers you can see that the sunshine is here and to use alpha lock
all you do is click the layer once and down in this menu is alpha lock so if
you click that that has now activated the alpha lock you know it is on because
a little grid appears in this little thumbnail preview and now it only lets
you draw within the lines so I'm going to take this different pen I'm gonna put
it on an orange light orange maybe yellow shade will go for yellow and what I'm
gonna do is just paint on it it's not actually that colorful is it that pen
let's try a different pen so as you can see if I draw it's keeping me only
within this sunshine itself it's not letting me go onto the white canvas
whereas if I turned alpha lock off so I'm just going to go into layers click
the layer uncheck alpha lock and then do the same thing on this side you'll see
that it goes over the lines so effectively alpha lock is like coloring
within the lines now liquify is a tool that many pro
create artists swear by and it's one I've not seemed to try out very often
but when I do I love it so to use liquify all you do is go up into the
left hand corner and click the little magic wand tool I guess and down here
you have liquify so now you have liquify turned on so you have a number of
different settings if you're familiar with liquify in Photoshop you'll
probably understand this because it works very similarly but push allows you
to effectively nudge areas of the photo so if I do that you can see that it's
pushing the photo inwards twirl right I'm just gonna press the
screen and you'll see what it does it twists the image so if you want to make
some kind of smoke fumes or like you're drawing a cup of tea with some
steam coming out of it you can use that to curve the lines
pinched clues in the name it just pinches it so it makes that area smaller
this is very very similar to photoshop that's obviously where they got the idea
from and then there's just a bunch of different things that you can play it
around with so for example if you've drawn a cartoon and the proportions of
the face are a little off and you don't really want to go back in to use the
erase tool because it's going to mess things up you could just use the push
tool change the size of the brush and just kind of adjust any facial features
you want to adjust so I could make her smile a little bit more I could lower
her eyebrows etc etc a new favorite of mine is brush swap so I'm currently
drawing something with the hard airbrush tool and I really like using this brush
for whatever thing I am drawing today and I decide that I want to erase it so
if I want to erase with exactly the same brush I could go into here and find the
harder brush tool but just seems a bit like a lot of work so all you do is
click and hold on the brush a little menu comes up and it says erase with
current brush and it will bring up the eraser as the exact same brush as the
pen tool it also works the other way around if you have quite a complex piece
of art and you're struggling with keeping track of all the different
layers grouping them is a super easy and effective way of keeping track of
everything so to group a layer all you need to do is click on the layer that
you want to be put into a group hover it over a different layer and let go and it
will create a new group for you and if you want to rename that group all you
need to do is click it and then click rename and you can name it whatever you
think is the easiest so there you have a group that you can have open or closed
and you can also drag all the layers into it as well if you want to add more
layers into that particular group so this is a background I created and I
found the isolate layer update super helpful when creating this so in here I
have quite a lot of different layers a number of different colors so I got a
little bit confused with the layers so the new 4.3 update of procreate has
solved this problem so if you are wanting to view just one layer at a time
all you need to do is click and hold and it will hide all of the other layers and
only leave the one you clicked on to view so if you wanted to edit just that
layer by itself you can now do that you can draw on that layer you can erase
that layer and it also works the other way around so once you have edited that
isolated layer if you click and hold it will reactivate all the original layers
another new addition to procreate is the ability to save projects with layers so
here in this file I have just drawn three simple love hearts in different
colors and what I can do now is save them as separate layers so all you need
to do is go up into the top left on the little cog and go to share so then down
here you'll notice that there is a new layer of options if you are familiar
with the older versions of procreate this is definitely new so you can either
click PDF so it will save it as a multi-level PDF file PNG so it will save
it into a folder of multiple PNG files or you can even do animations so a gif a
PNG or an mp4 so I have actually created this so we can make a gif so all I'm
going to do is click on a gif and because this has three layers you can
see that the colors here are changing so you can adjust the timings if you wanted
to go a little bit slower or faster so if you are wanting to make some gifs
this is a super easy way of doing it you can save it as full resolution web-ready
also a transparent background so it's just the element itself so this is a
super fun way of making your own little gifs and also if you have a really
complex file that you want to bring into Photoshop or illustrator you can of
course save it as a PNG file and it will Bunch all the different layers together
and you can import that into Photoshop and edit it that way around too and the
final thing I want to share with you today is the
new text update so this update I have found a super super handy when I've been
designing logos it means I can kind of work out what text I want in there
before I put it into Photoshop or illustrator so all you need to do to add
text is to go up to the cog on the top go to add and then add text and then a
text box will appear you can write whatever you want in it so I'll just
write my name for now and then you can edit styles so currently it is could in
the color of my pallet so if you wanted it pink you can change it to pink or
orange or whatever we'll put it on pink for now and then in here you have a
bunch of different fonts something that I really like is that you can import
fonts so if one of the kind of basic fonts doesn't suit your fancy you can
import font so you can go into your iPad's
files or go onto your iCloud and download some fonts but for now I'm just
gonna stick with what's here so let's just go with this one
so in here you can change whether it's italic bold you can change the size of
it you can also because I've changed the size it's now grouped the letters not
the letters the words on top of each other so all you need to do is drag that
you can change the kerning so there's just space between the letters and a
bunch of different controls and then on the right it's similar to photoshop so
you can change the alignment of the text you can underline it and the thing I
really like is that you can kind of invert the text so if you press this one
it just adds an outline to the text which i think is a really cool feature
and then the final one you can add capital letters so similar to photoshop
and illustrator but really really handy if you are just using procreate to make
your designs so that's it those are my ten new tips and tricks for
procreate let me know if you have any more that I've not mentioned down in the
comments below I'm all up for learning new things and sharing the knowledge
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hope you learned a lot and I'll see you soon for another one bye