Procreate Beginners Course Guide

Welcome to this free Procreate beginners course. In this three-hour tutorial, you will learn all the basics and tools of Procreate and digital illustration. For more advanced learning, visit skillodemia.com for the full course.

Course Overview

• Audience: Suitable for both beginners and more experienced artists.
• Instructor: Jana, an artist experienced in oil paintings, watercolors, and digital illustrations using Procreate.
• Goal: To teach you the basics of Procreate and digital art, share personal hacks, and guide you through creating art more easily and creatively.

Key Learning Areas

Procreate Software Basics

• Introduction to Procreate app and its functionalities.
• Tools: guidelines, symmetry tool, brush library, smudge tool, eraser, layers, and color wheel.
• How to start with simple shapes and advance to more complex forms.

Procreate Tools Overview:

1. Actions: Restore example artworks, start gallery recovery, insert photos, files, add text, etc.
2. Basic Toolbars:
   • Top Toolbar: Actions, Adjustments, Selection Tool, Transform Tool.
   • Brush Library: Includes sketching, inking, drawing, and other tools.
   • Sidebar Options: Resize, opacity adjustment, and color selection.

Procreate Features

• Guidelines & Symmetry Tool: Helps in creating easier and faster drawings.
• Sidebar: Resize brush, change opacity, invoke eyedropper quickly.

Canvas and Image Tools

• Canvas Settings: Dimensions, DPI, Color Profile (RGB/CMYK), Time-lapse settings.
• Layer Management: Creating, organizing, naming, flattening, grouping, and using Alpha lock.
• Masks: Alpha lock, clipping mask, and layer mask – how to use each to hide or reveal parts of artwork.

Apple Pencil & Accessibility Features

• Apple Pencil: Better accuracy and pressure, and tilt features for precision.
• Scribble Functionality: Use Apple Pencil to write in text fields.
• Customizable Gestures: Including undo, redo, zoom, clear layer, and quick shape feature.
• Accessibility Features: Single touch gestures, voiceover, color feedback sounds, color descriptions, and more for improved usability.

Art Principles

• Elements of Art: Line, color, value, shape, form, space, texture.
  • Line impacts emotion and guides the viewer's eyes.
  • Shapes and Forms: shapes are two-dimensional; forms are three-dimensional (heights, width, depth).
  • Space includes positive (occupied) and negative (around and within objects) areas.

Exercise: Volume and Tone Creation

• Understood the use of highlight, base color, shadow, cast shadow, and reflection to create 3D form.
• Practice with creating and blending a sphere to understand the changes in light and shadow on form.

Color Theory and Application

• Primary Colors: Red, Yellow, Blue - cannot be created by mixing other colors.
• Secondary Colors: Mixed from two primary colors.
• Tertiary Colors: Mixed from a primary and secondary color.
• Color Temperature: Affects the emotional impact and the visual outcome.

Workflow Efficiency

• Navigating Canvas: Zoom, pan, rotate, and use of gestures with Apple Pencil and finger actions.
• Quick Menu & Keyboard Shortcuts: For accessing tools quickly and efficiently.
• Saving and Sharing Artworks: Using Procreate’s native file format for automatic saving and time-lapse replay.

Conclusion

Congratulations on reaching this far in the course! For more in-depth tutorials and exercises, you can explore the full Procreate course available on skillodemia.com. Thank you and happy illustrating!