today I'm going to talk you through procreate for beginners I'm gonna set
things up and I'm gonna just walk you through everything that procreate can do
and the things I've found the most useful so as you can see I have the
older generation iPad with the first gen Apple pencil I will leave a link to
everything that I use in the description procreate is an amazing app it's a
really affordable one off price and I highly recommend it if you are looking
to get into design and drawing alright enough talking this is my procreate
gallery so as you can see I have things organized into a lot of different
folders I quite like seeing all of my folders and artwork on one screen that
is why I'm making the most of something called stacks which is effectively just
a folder to put loads of different related pieces in so up here you'll see
that there are a few options if I click select and I want to group together some
pieces of art I can just select the ones I want to group together hit stack and
then it will join them all together in one group another little tip whilst
you're in the gallery is that you can duplicate your drawings so let's say I
want to do some crazy experimentation with something but I don't want to lose
the original image just in case I don't like it all I need to do is just swipe
left and you can click duplicate and it will quickly create a copy of it so now
you have two identical versions alright moving on to creating a new canvas so if
you look up here in the top right hand corner you'll see that there's a little
plus sign if you click that it comes up with a new canvas menu so down here are
a lot of presets there are a few things that I created myself and haven't titled
that's naughty I should title them but alongside these pre-made canvases you
can also create your own so if you just click the little plus button this comes
up and in here you can enter the width the height the DPI and the number of
layers you wish to use there's also options for color profiles so you can
choose the color profile that suits you the best we have RGB or CMYK CMYK is
suitable for printing whereas RGB is more for web and digital
use then down here there are a few extra settings I never really play around with
you can change the time lapse setting and also it shows you the properties of
the canvas and whether you want the background layer on or off okay so back
to the gallery I'm just going to open up one of my previous artworks just to
demonstrate so when I have my canvas open you'll see an array of different
options so we've got a bar down the left hand side some things up in the top left
and also in the top right so let's start with the things I think are the most
exciting and the whole reason I have procreate
that's the tools up here so we have a brush tool we have a smudge tool and we
also have an eraser tool so they kind of speak for themselves the brush tool
allows you to add media to your canvas so depending on the kind of brush you
choose on what settings depends on the kind of style that appears the smudge
tool allows you to smudge and blend any artwork that you have done so if you
just use different pressures you can play around with your artwork like you
would a regular canvas and then of course the eraser lets you delete
anything that you have created and want to get rid of basically what I really
love about these is that they all come with the same brushes so if you click
onto them a brush library will appear and there are a bunch of pre-loaded
brushes ready and waiting I do have some brushes up here that I've imported
myself but procreate itself comes with an array of different brushes that I use
all the time so in here you can sort of experiment with what each brush does and
see what sort of effect you can get from each different style same applies with
the smudge tool if you want your smudge to look a little bit more natural you
can choose a more organic looking brush and you can zoom in and smudge things
but with a little bit more texture to it just quickly going back into the brush
library so alongside the default brushes there are also some cool things that you
can do you can create your own brushes just by clicking this plus icon up here
and playing around with the settings you can also import your own brushes that
you can purchase online or find for free and you can also click in the existing
brushes and adjust any settings that you want to change play around with some
different settings and see what suits you also don't forget to subscribe if
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a really cool new addition to procreate is that you can combine brushes so
let's say you like two different brushes you want to see what they look like
together you can create your own unique brush so in order to do this I'm just
going to duplicate the brushes so now we have two copies of the same brush and
then all I need to do is highlight it by swiping right and then up here I can
click combine and it has joined them together to create a whole new brush if
you click on that and go into the brush studio you can change the properties of
each brush individually and how they are combined and it usually creates a really
cool looking brush that's unique to any of the pre-existing ones okay so that's
the basics of the brush library I recommend just playing around with them
and see what sort of textures and effects you can get up here on this
panel as well is also layers so in here much like in Photoshop you can create
layers and add different things to different layers so I'll just go through
a few quick features so in here if you want to merge some layers together all
you have to do is select the layers you want to merge and pinch together and it
will combine them all into one layer you can also group layers so just simply by
swiping right on the layers on the different ones that you want to include
you can select the ones you want click group up here and it will put them all
into one group in terms of moving in the layers you just click and drag and it
will let you arrange the layers however you like you can also duplicate them so
if you want to work on a layer without damaging it you can swipe left and click
duplicate you can also swipe left and lock the layer so if you want to
completely avoid accidentally drawing on that layer or editing it you can lock it
so that it won't affect it at all then also there's the option of deleting the
layer by swiping left to up here in the thumbnail as well if you click the
thumbnail it brings up this menu here with a lot of different options on it so
we've got select copy filler alpha lock alongside a bunch of different options I
like using alpha lock a lot it basically allows you to what I like to call only
coloring in in the lines so if I just quickly zoom out and go
into one of the layers let's say I want to adjust just this orange part of her
jumper it's actually already alpha locked as you can see it's ticked here
and because it's locked it means that if I make any adjustments it will stay
within the jumper it won't overlap and ruin any of the other parts of the image
just to sort of show you how alpha lock works I'll turn it off and I'll draw on
it again and you can see here that it is going outside the lines okay so that's
basically the layers panel as usual there's a little plus button at the top
so you can add layers like I said you can rearrange them you can change the
settings for each layer oh and also you can tap a layout with two fingers and it
brings up a slider at the top in blue and if you just slide your finger across
the screen it will adjust the opacity so right at the bottom is clear and then
right at the top it brings everything back to normal I have done a video on
different gestures and shortcuts that you can use in procreate so I'll leave
that in the clickable I button all right so we've done almost all of this bar on
the right this one here is the color palette so in here you have the wheel
and you can choose a different array of colors in here to whatever you like
underneath is the history so these the last colors I selected and then
underneath that is a palette that I've created of colors I use quite a lot and
then down here there are different options so this is probably quite
familiar to you if you use Photoshop there's also harmony options so you can
adjust the sliders and find colors that work well together again another update
in procreate for is that you can change the combination so you can use
complementary split complementary and analogous I have never said that word
out loud before triadic and tetridic then down here we have the values which
I tend to stay away from but if you have a hex value that you want to copy and
paste you can use in here and then it also has palettes so there are a few
pre-loaded palettes here and then I've sort of created my own random jumbles of
colors again the ones which I use the most and whichever one I have is the
default one is the one that shows up here in the disk alright let's move on
to this tool here on the left hand side so this works alongside
the brushes and the smudge and all the tools up here so this side up here will
change the size of the brush that you are using so the higher up it is the
bigger the brush and then lower down the smaller it is the one at the bottom is
for the opacity so right now it's right at the top which it means it's at full
opacity if I send it down a little bit it's lighter this little square in the
middle I use for my eyedropper tool so if I just click it a little circle comes
up you can move it around and it allows you to select colors from the canvas or
from any imported photos that you have when you release it it changes this icon
up here to the relevant color as you can see it picks up which color is
underneath it and right at the bottom is an undo button and a redo
button again there are shortcuts for this but if you'd like to know what they
are I'll leave the video link with the shortcuts in the description ok so
that's the fun bit this bit up here is sort of like the file options when
you're on a computer so if I click gallery it will just send me straight
back to the gallery this spanner here or wrench is basically the equivalent to
the file menu in Windows or Mac so we have a few different options along the
top and then when you click them it brings up different options down here
another cool addition is the add text option so in a new update you can now
create text adjust it and play around with it within your artwork which is
really cool I use this quite a lot for when I'm creating mock-ups then just
moving along this canvas so you can crop or resize your canvas you can switch
on animation assist which is a whole other video I can go into that in a new
video if you'd like me to you can also toggle on and off a drawing guide so as
you can see it brings up the grid and there's an option to adjust the grid
size and different features of it underneath by just clicking the Edit
drawing guide option you can also flip the canvas and view the canvas
information then we've got share so you can share your drawing as an image in
these various different formats or you can share the layers so there's PDF PNG
and then the animated options which again links back in with this animation
assist tool which I can go into in another video if you want me to then
there's video so procreate actually records a video as
you're drawing and sort of creates its own time-lapse you can turn it on and
off but I recommend just leaving it on because it is quite cool to see it
working and it doesn't affect the performance at all then we've got
preferences so as you can see is just a number of preferences you can change the
pressure curve to how it suits you gesture controls and there's just a
bunch of other options that you can again play around with and then there's
a Help button if you get stuck we're almost done so there's three more icons
up here so this one is the adjustments tool so you can apply different
adjustments to the various layers so opacity we sort of played with earlier
within the layer you can add blur motion blur perspective blur all the kind of
familiar settings from Photoshop then there's also the option to sharpen add
noise liquify and clone liquify is the one I've probably used the most it
basically allows you to nudge and adjust small parts of the drawing so let's say
I've decided his eyebrows are too low or they're a bit of a weird shape I can use
the push option here on the left and just use my brush to push and morph it
you changed the size if you want to be more precise and you can kind of see
that it is literally just liquefying it and allowing you to make small
adjustments without having to start all over again there are a lot of different
options in here and it depends on what you're after as to which one you will
find useful but I recommend just giving it a go and of course if you do anything
wrong you can just click reset and it will start again and take you back to
the beginning in the adjustment panel as well there are also some sort of color
adjustments so you can change hue saturation and brightness the color
balance curves and recolor again similar to photoshop and it can apply it to
different layers then we have the selection tool and the lasso tool I
think it's called so in here you can make adjustments to your artwork it
doesn't really work for this one because it is completed but if you've drawn
something and you want to move it you can use the freehand tool you can
outline it like this click the grey circle and then using the arrow up here
you can adjust it and move it to wherever you want
so if you want to sort of move something down or cut
something out and paste it somewhere else this is the way to do it like I
said it's kind of hard to apply it to this drawing as always there are extra
options down here at the bottom you can do a rectangle and ellipse or
automatically do it so it's sort of like the magic wand tool in Photoshop and
again if you do anything wrong and there's the option to clear it at the
bottom okay so those are the sort of main features that I use most of the
time in procreate I might have missed a few off so if I have and if you have any
recommendations for procreate please do leave them in the comments below thanks
so much for watching this video I hope you have learnt something from it don't
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