Learn how to use the iPad Pro to go from concept to drawing, to finished digital painting.

In this tutorial you will be shown the major tools in Procreate following the official Procreate PDF. Will Terry demonstrates how he uses some of the tools to create drawings and digital paintings. Then you will be guided through two very different demo approaches to create print ready illustrations.

In this class you will learn:

  • How to navigate Procreate’s gallery and sharing tools

  • How to use layers, brushes, modifying brushes, perspective guides, smudge, straight line, color picker, swatches, - pressure curve, eye dropper, hue saturation, transform, lasso, masks, and much more.

  • How to choose a proper pixel size for your canvas

  • Digital pencil techniques.

  • Finishing an illustration with digital colored pencils.

  • Finishing a digital painterly painting.

Materials needed:

  • An iPad Pro
  • Apple pencil
  • Procreate app. (You can still benefit if you have a regular iPad but will have a harder time getting the same results...other pressure sensitive tablets will work if you can get the Procreate app on them)

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About the Instructor

Illustrator Will Terry

Will Terry has been a freelance illustrator for 26 years. He got his start working for magazines and newspapers in the Washington D.C. area. His early clients include publications such as Time, Money, WSJ and ads for Sprint, Pizza Hut, Fed Ex, and Master Card. He has illustrated about 30 children’s books for a number of publishers, including Random House, Simon & Schuster, Scholastic, and Penguin. When he's not mountain biking, hiking, or snowboarding he works out of the svslearn.com office in Provo Utah. 

Course curriculum

    1. Intro

    2. Gallery, sharing, Gestures, Drawing

    3. Layers and Brushes

    4. Line, Smudge, Perspective, Blur

    5. Color Swatches, Eye Dropper, Fill

    6. Hue, Saturation, Transform, Marks

    7. Drawing Robot

    8. Painting the Robot

    9. Cabin Light

    10. Downloads

About this course

  • 10 lessons
  • 3 hours of video content
  • 9 Videos
  • 1 Download

Reviews

5 star rating

A handy bootcamp for new Procreate users

Ryan Weston

Having just picked up Procreate myself, I found the course to be a good quick and dirty walk-through of the fundamental features I need to know to get starte...

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Having just picked up Procreate myself, I found the course to be a good quick and dirty walk-through of the fundamental features I need to know to get started (as opposed to reading the big PDF manual or random other videos online). The two example artworks created demonstrate workflows that can be used for creating tight and vibrant digital illustrations and also show off just how easy the app is to use

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5 star rating

Very informative

sami kaba

very informative approach to learn Procreate with Will, I just bought my iPad pro and I needed this so much. excellent job. PS: Will's teaching method mak...

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very informative approach to learn Procreate with Will, I just bought my iPad pro and I needed this so much. excellent job. PS: Will's teaching method makes the listener very relaxed!

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5 star rating

Now I want an Ipad Pro :)

Carina Povarchik

Loved that fun cute robot Will did as an example! A wonderful how-to and look at the iPad Pro as a tool and the software. Thanks!! :)

Loved that fun cute robot Will did as an example! A wonderful how-to and look at the iPad Pro as a tool and the software. Thanks!! :)

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5 star rating

Great to see workflow

Anya Johnson

I like that Will didn't feel the need to go through every function of procreate - seeing an artist's workflow is the best way to make sense of the capabiliti...

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I like that Will didn't feel the need to go through every function of procreate - seeing an artist's workflow is the best way to make sense of the capabilities of software in my opinion. Thanks!

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5 star rating

Awesome!

Cathy Wallace

This is a terrific course! The detailed information on how to use procreate to paint is super helpful. The only negative is that the videos have inconsis...

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This is a terrific course! The detailed information on how to use procreate to paint is super helpful. The only negative is that the videos have inconsistencies in volume, so I had to keep adjusting my speakers.

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5 star rating

Wonderful course

Ranjani Shivashankar

I’ve been working on Procreate but the whole process of digitally painting was a lovely eye opener for me. Definitely recommend for every kind of Procreate u...

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I’ve been working on Procreate but the whole process of digitally painting was a lovely eye opener for me. Definitely recommend for every kind of Procreate user.

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5 star rating

Great content yet again. Practical and useful tips too

Wayne Rix

I painted along with the robot and cabin and it was super valuable to try replicate what Will was doing.

I painted along with the robot and cabin and it was super valuable to try replicate what Will was doing.

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