Basics of Procreate - A Comprehensive Guide
by Umair Najeeb Khan - Illustrator
To address the fundamentals of one of the most talked-about digital sketching applications, we present the Introduction to Procreate course. Here, you’ll find the practises you need to start your training as an upcoming digital artist. As a beginner, you'll learn how to use all of Procreate's essential tools, brushes, and settings while discovering some tips and tricks. Your mentor throughout this course will be Umair Najeeb Khan. For numerous years, he has been working with clients across the globe as a comic artist and a children’s book illustrator. In this course, his several years of international exposure as an artist will be combined with his passion to teach. Hence, regular practice according to your mentor’s teachings will lead you to advance your illustrations comfortably.
Completely Online
Available on Subscription
Designed to Grab 100% Concentration
Social Media Sharable Certificate
Basic Level
English
Technology is already uplifting the artists; it’s time for you to start Procreating.
By the end of this online storytelling course, you will earn a social media shareable certificate for yourself and have the following skills:
Procreate Canvas Settings
Utilizing Brushes
Painting with Selecting Tool
Creating a Color Palette
Utilizing the Lasso Tool
Complete Usage of Procreate
Comprehensive is the word that strikes your mind when you see the course outline. Umair Najeeb Khan paid great attention to detail while composing this online Procreate course. The beginner-appealing course outline for the Introduction to Procreate course is discussed below.
You’ll be introduced to the interface of Procreate and the know-how of the application. You’ll learn to set up your first canvas on the illustration application. Your mentor will also brief you on the course's learnings.
To start painting, you need a canvas; the same goes with the illustration. The display where you can find all the necessary tools is called a canvas in Procreate. In addition, the drawing surface is known as the layer. Hence, layers will be discussed in detail with practical applications in place. Beginners who are excited to get their hands on the software will be pumped from the start of this module. Blending modes, masking, alpha masking, & clip masking will be the takeaways of this module. Once you’re familiar with all of the tools discussed, you’ll review the canvas as a whole with your mentor.
Your mentor will elaborate on how you can choose a color while working on Procreate. He will share some of the widely used practices for creating your own color palette. By now, you will recognize most of the necessary tools to get started. After adjusting brushes to your convenience, your mentor will explain to you the entire process of executing a basic artwork on Procreate.
Colors are very important in drawing because they set the tone for each artwork. They indicate the background of any story that is trying to be conveyed. Hence, this module helps you understand the necessary utilization of colors and the color palette.
In this module, you will step up your learning a little bit. The objective here will be the same as in the last module, which will incorporate a few more tools than the last one. The core component of this module, or in layman's terms, your focus in this module will be centered around experiencing the selection tool. Lessons in this module will contain Procreate features like the selection tool, lasso tool, move tool, liquify tool, and color adjustment tools. In the later half of this module, you will add some special tweaks to the drawing. These tweaks will incorporate a few more enhancement techniques like noise, sharpening, glitch, chromatic aberration, etc.
Some of the advanced settings of a canvas in Procreate will be discussed in this module. Lessons here will be about some settings in Procreate that allow an artist to further smooth the process according to his needs. You learn to incorporate perspective, 2D grids, isometry, & symmetry into your drawings with fewer flaws. Meanwhile, drawing assist, which helps artists draw simultaneously on two other positions at the same time, will get a spotlight here.
Some surprises are still inside for the students to explore for themselves. Here, Umair Najeeb Khan shares some of his techniques that he has learned over the past years. These suggestions will enable you to complete your illustrations quickly and comfortably.
Course Introduction
Setting A Canvas
Color Profile Canvas Properties
Module 1 - Assessment Quiz
Layers
Blending Modes
Clip Masking
Alpha Masking
Masking
Module 2 - Assessment Quiz
Interface - Brief Overview
Getting Started To Drawing
Module 3 - Assessment Quiz
Creating A Color Pallete
Using A Color Palleted
Module 4 - Assessment Quiz
Selection Tool
The Lasso Tool
Move Tool
Color Adjustment Tools
Adding Drama Special Effects
Special Tweaks
Liquify Tool
Module 5 - Assessment Quiz
Add Tab Features
Canvas Settings
Video Settings
Preferences
Module 6 - Assessment Quiz
After completion of this online Procreate course, the students may pursue a career for themselves in the following industries:
Multimedia Design
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3D & Animations
Illustration
Storyboard Artist
Comic Artist
Children’s Book Illustration