Instructions for using Procreate for beginners

Procreate is a great drawing app for kids on the iPad. Here's how to use Procreate for beginners .

Instructions for using Procreate

• 1. Create a new canvas
• 2. Adjust brush size and opacity
• 3. Select a brush
• 4. Add reference photos
• 5. Add Layers
• 6. Choose color
• 7. Color quickly

1. Create a new canvas

After downloading and opening Procreate, you will see a photo gallery to choose from. Click the icon +to create a new canvas. Here, you will see a variety of canvas size options available, but you can still create your own canvas if you want. Square canvases are easily shared on most platforms. Therefore, the article chose it for this basic guide.

2. Adjust brush size and opacity

After clicking on the canvas, you will see a toolbar in the bottom left corner. This toolbar controls your brushes. The bar at the top controls the size of the brush, while the slider below adjusts the opacity of the brush. You can try every opacity and layer strokes with different colors to get the best overlay effect.

3. Select a brush

Procreate has many brush styles available. You can access them by clicking the Brush icon in the top right-hand corner. Each category gives different brush strokes. You can also download and design your own brush strokes.

4. Add reference photos

Occasionally, you can take inspiration from other paintings when painting. Instead of going from the Procreate app to the image container, you can import it to the canvas. First, click on the wrench icon in the top left corner. It will open the options menu. Click additional options (+). Below you'll see some tasks, including inserting pictures.

You can insert photos from Gallery on iPad or downloaded from the Internet or previously taken photos by clicking Insert a Photo . You can also use Procreate to take photos by clicking Take a photo .

5. Add Layers

Layers are considered the most important and useful tool of Procreate. To add a layer, click the icon of 2 overlapping squares in the upper right corner. You need to pay a little attention to the order. The top layer will cover all the layers below.

We usually create a layer each time we add a new color to a painting, but you can also add a new layer for each shape so you can move and manipulate it as you like.

You can also hide layers by unchecking the box next to that layer or change the way layers interact with each other by pressing N next to that layer.

6. Choose color

The right-hand corner of Procreate has a filled circle. You can click on it, then choose the brush color.

You can also select a color from within the canvas or imported photo by holding your finger on a spot on the screen until a circle of that color appears. Drag the circle to the color you want to select on the screen.

7. Color quickly

You can quickly fill large closed shapes with a color by pressing the color button in the upper right corner and dragging it to the desired shape. This color will look like a circle while you drag, but when you release it, the shape below it will be colored. If the color fills the entire canvas, there is an opening somewhere in the shape. You can undo, close the shape, and try coloring again. You can work on each drawn shape.

Above is a guide to using Procreate for beginners . Hope the article is useful to you.