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jenny messerle

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FREE PROCREATE CLASSES!

Procreate can change your life! You'll fall in love with it!

Learning Procreate is the best thing I’ve done for myself as an artist! 


If I can learn Procreate, you can too! I’m not a naturally tech-savvy person. I learned how to use Procreate by watching Skillshare classes. 


Any link on this webpage will give you a one-month free pass to a Skillshare premium membership. 

Fabulous Beginner Procreate Classes

Within two and half weeks of watching a Skillshare Procreate class, I created my first Procreate painting. (I'm a slow, methodical learner.) But, within 15 months, I created 200 more Procreate paintings. (The first painting is the hardest. It's easy after that.) 


Below are the four classes that I took to learn Procreate, in the order that I took them: 

Cat Coquillette

Procreate for Beginners: Learn the Basics & Sell Your Artwork


This class teaches you the core skills in Procreate by covering five projects: drawing over photos, illustrating a tropical leaf with vibrant textures, creating a mandala with the Assisted Drawing tool, hand-lettering, and creating a citrus pattern with isolated textures. Because this class is structured as five projects, it made it more manageable for my mind to grasp what you can do in Procreate. If you learn best by mimicking a teacher’s painting, this class will be an especially fantastic guide to help you start using Procreate.

Cat Coquillette

Design and Prepare Digital Art for Print on Demand


This class covers one project: how to paint a butterfly with the Procreate Assisted Drawing tool. Since this class focused on only one project, it was a fabulous second class for me to understand each of the Procreate actions needed to create an art piece from start to finish. This class helped solidified the skills I learned in the above-linked Cat’s Procreate for Beginners class.

Brooke Glaser

Introduction to Procreate: Illustrating on the iPad


This class doesn’t focus on creating an art piece in Procreate. Instead, this class provides a wonderful overview of Procreate’s different tools. Since this was the third Procreate class I watched, this class created a framework of understanding in my mind. After watching this class, I felt confident creating my first Procreate painting in my own style (versus duplicating a project in one of the above Cat Coquillette's classes. Mirroring a teacher’s project isn’t my preferred learning style.)

Teela Cunningham

Procreate for Beginners


If you want to learn lettering in Procreate and are new to Procreate, this is THE CLASS for you! (I’m not a lettering artist. But I’m grateful that the fourth Procreate class I watched was this 2.5-hour class. This class had more details about how to use Procreate. As a result, this class created a fuller understanding in my mind of how to use Procreate.) After watching this class, I felt equipped to make lots of my own kind of art in Procreate.  


Teela’s class covers four lettering projects in Procreate. She gives you her actual Procreate files. This way, you can study each Procreate layer in each of her projects. Seeing the marks and colors in each layer really helped me understand how Procreate works. 

Brooke Glaser

Procreate Practice Fun: Learn Illustration on the iPad in 4 Projects


I recently discovered this class and I wanted to highlight it because this project-based beginner-friendly Procreate class is a wonderful way to learn Procreate. I love all of Brooke’s classes. Her personality is delightful and she’s excellent at explaining how to do things. One of my FAVORITE teachers!

Paint Flowers in Procreate

Sandra Bowers

Florals in Procreate - Learn the Basics and Add Your Own Flair


This delightful class includes flower reference pictures, free Procreate brushes the teachers used in the project, her color palette for you to upload to Procreate, and her flower sketches.

Teela Cunningham

Introduction to Gouache Botanicals in Procreate


Includes two free Procreate gouache brushes!

Liz Kohler Brown

How to Paint Modern Gouache Florals on Your iPad in Procreate


Includes seven free Procreate brushes and practice sheets! Almost every Skillshare class that Liz teaches includes free Procreate brushes. If you want to accumulate free Procreate brushes, you could just focus on watching her insightful classes.

Gia Graham

Fun with Florals: Create Flowers with Dimension & Personality in Procreate


I love Gia! I love the stylized look of the flowers she teaches in this class. This class includes flower drawing guides & flower composition templates.

Draw and Paint Faces in Procreate

It’s so much easier to draw and paint faces in Procreate because you can trace photographs. Then, you can alter your traced drawings to create your own style of face portraits.

Charly Clement

Fun with Faces: Create a Stylized Digital Portrait

Attabeira German

Abstract One-Line Face Drawings

Maxine Vee

Digital Art Tutorial: How to Paint Stylized Portraits

Maia Faddoul

Illustrating Expressive Portraits in Procreate

Create Characters in Procreate

Lisa Glanz

How to Draw Cute Characters with Simple Shapes: Let's Draw Bears


Class also includes five Procreate shape brushes used to create her adorable bear character.

Mel Armstrong

Create a Symmetrical Character in Procreate

Nic Squirrell

iPad Art: Create a Monster – An Introduction to Procreate

Justyna Stasik

Digital Character Illustration: Create a Memorable, Whimsical Character

Shelley Seguinot

Learn to Draw Digitally: Create Cute Characters Using Basic Shapes

Develop Specific Procreate Skills

Di Ujdi

From a Realistic Sketch to a Stylized Illustration in Procreate

Chris Piascik

Making a Cool. Less Awkward Bio Picture with Lettering and Illustration

Ryan Putnam

Digital Illustration: Design Your Avatar

Isabelle Gagnon Wood

Procreate Basics: Create Fun & Easy Stickers

Simon Ip

Visual Journaling: Start a 7-Day Gratitude Diary on Procreate

Brooke Glaser

Procreate and Real Watercolors: Combining Hand Painting with Digital

Gia Graham

Hand Lettering in Procreate: Fundamentals to Finishing Touches

Voni Lim

Learn to Mask Quotes and Illustrations on Photos in Procreate

Lisa Bardot

Realistic Paper Cut Illustrations in Procreate

Iva Mikles

Composition for Digital Illustrators: 10 Tips in Procreate

Jennifer Nichols

Negative Watercolor Painting in Procreate


Includes free Procreate brushes! (Most of her Skillshare Procreate classes include free Procreate brushes! Great way to stock up and save on unique brushes!)

Lisa Bardot

How to Draw Fur in Procreate


I especially LOVE her free fur Procreate brushes! They are among my FAVORITE brushes!

More Procreate Skills

Sandra Bowers

Create Mockups on your iPad with Procreate

Peggy Dean

Create Social Media Templates to Boost Your Engagement

Celeste Duffy

How to Make Procreate Watercolor Brushes


Class also includes free Procreate watercolor brushes!

Sandra Bowers

Create Patterns and Pattern Brushes in Procreate

Simon Ip

Lineless Illustrations in Procreate 101: Drawing with Color and Shape

Animate Your Art through Procreate

I learned how to animate in Procreate by watching the below Brooke Glaser and Rich Armstrong classes:

Brooke Glaser

Procreate Animation for Illustrators: Create Easy GIFs in Procreate 5

Rich Armstrong

Procreate Animation: Make Fun GIFs & Videos

Scott Martin

Easy Animation: Make Fun, Cute GIFs For Your Instagram

Chris Piascik

Making a Fun Animated Logo using Procreate 5X

Tips to Make the Most of Your Free Month

  • If time is scarce, click under the bottom left-hand corner of a Skillshare video and choose 2x to watch your classes at TWICE THE SPEED. I also watch classes when I’m walking on the treadmill or unloading the dishwasher.  Sometimes I’ll play marketing or productivity classes in the background as if I’m listening to a podcast. Then, later, when I’m ready to make art, I rewatch the specific lessons that I want to follow along with. 

  • DOWNLOAD THE SKILLSHARE APP to your phone. To watch classes at 2x, click on the three dots in the upper right-hand corner of the video screen to change the PLAY SPEED.

  •  When you’re in Skillshare, search for a topic that YOU WANT TO LEARN ABOUT such as abstract painting, photography, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Canva, social media, marketing, Procreate, animation, writing, freelance, urban sketching, cute, art licensing, productivity, sewing, comics, fiction, editing, baking…

  •  Whenever I want to learn something, the SKILLSHARE SEARCH BOX is my new search engine instead of Google. Skillshare is the Netflix of online learning. Skillshare has changed my life and I’ve watched over 120 ours in ten months.  

Tips to Make the Most of Your Free Month

  • If time is scarce, click under the bottom left-hand corner of a Skillshare video and choose 2x to watch your classes at TWICE THE SPEED. I also watch classes when I’m walking on the treadmill or unloading the dishwasher.  Sometimes I’ll play marketing or productivity classes in the background as if I’m listening to a podcast. Then, later, when I’m ready to make art, I rewatch the specific lessons that I want to follow along with. 

  • DOWNLOAD THE SKILLSHARE APP to your phone. To watch classes at 2x, click on the three dots in the upper right-hand corner of the video screen to change the PLAY SPEED.

  •  When you’re in Skillshare, search for a topic that YOU WANT TO LEARN ABOUT such as abstract painting, photography, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Canva, social media, marketing, Procreate, animation, writing, freelance, urban sketching, cute, art licensing, productivity, sewing, comics, fiction, editing, baking…

  •  Whenever I want to learn something, the SKILLSHARE SEARCH BOX is my new search engine instead of Google. Skillshare is the Netflix of online learning. Skillshare has changed my life and I’ve watched over 120 ours in ten months.  

More Tips for Your Free Skillshare Month

  • Click the Browse drop down menu (to the left of the Search bar) and CHOOSE A CATEGORY to learn SKILLSHARE’S RECOMMENDATIONS. Category examples include Creative Writing, Film & Video, Fine Art, Graphic Design, Illustration, Photography, Web Development, Freelance & Entrepreneurship, Marketing, and Productivity.

  • You can BOOKMARK Skillshare classes within the Skillshare website. When you are viewing a class’s thumbnail Cover Image (such as in a Skillshare search result page), click on the bookmark icon in the bottom right corner under the thumbnail.
  • You can also create separate bookmark LISTS such as watercolor list or social media list or any name you choose. 

  • I copy and paste a handful of Skillshare class URLs into an EMAIL to myself. This way, when it’s time to jump on the treadmill, I just open my recent email and click on the first Skillshare class URL. As a result, I don’t spend time scrolling through a long list and trying to decide which Skillshare class to watch. 

  • Ready to learn NEW SKILLS that could CHANGE YOUR LIFE? Ready for your free one-month Skillshare pass? If yes, CLICK HERE! 


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