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

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: 

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.

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.

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.)

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. 

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!

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.

Introduction to Gouache Botanicals in Procreate

Includes two free Procreate gouache brushes!

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.

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.

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.

Fun with Faces: Create a Stylized Digital Portrait

Abstract One-Line Face Drawings

Digital Art Tutorial: How to Paint Stylized Portraits

Illustrating Expressive Portraits in Procreate

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.

Create a Symmetrical Character in Procreate

iPad Art: Create a Monster – An Introduction to Procreate

Digital Character Illustration: Create a Memorable, Whimsical Character

Learn to Draw Digitally: Create Cute Characters Using Basic Shapes

From a Realistic Sketch to a Stylized Illustration in Procreate

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

Digital Illustration: Design Your Avatar

Procreate Basics: Create Fun & Easy Stickers

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

Procreate and Real Watercolors: Combining Hand Painting with Digital

Hand Lettering in Procreate: Fundamentals to Finishing Touches

Learn to Mask Quotes and Illustrations on Photos in Procreate

Realistic Paper Cut Illustrations in Procreate

Composition for Digital Illustrators: 10 Tips in Procreate

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!)

How to Draw Fur in Procreate

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

Create Mockups on your iPad with Procreate

Create Social Media Templates to Boost Your Engagement

How to Make Procreate Watercolor Brushes

Class also includes free Procreate watercolor brushes!

Create Patterns and Pattern Brushes in Procreate

Lineless Illustrations in Procreate 101: Drawing with Color and Shape

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

Procreate Animation for Illustrators: Create Easy GIFs in Procreate 5

Procreate Animation: Make Fun GIFs & Videos

Easy Animation: Make Fun, Cute GIFs For Your Instagram

Making a Fun Animated Logo using Procreate 5X

• 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.  

• 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.  

• 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. 

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