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  • 5 Free Classes to Boost Your Procreate Skills
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    5 Free Classes to Boost Your Procreate Skills

    Discover all the secrets of Procreate from illustration experts who work with the app daily The future of digital illustration is without a doubt leaning towards Procreate, the iPad drawing app that has become a favorite of creatives and artists throughout the world. Although it is quite intuitive, this software includes tools that might be new to you and these five free Procreate lessons will help you improve your illustrations. To watch each lesson, just click on the title in red and enjoy!

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  • Challenge: Pixel Art in Procreate
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    Challenge: Pixel Art in Procreate

    Illustrator Samuel Rodriguez takes on the Domestika Challenge Through his work, illustrator Samuel Rodriguez (@samrodriguezart) offers a new perspective in today's cultural landscape, creating striking portraits that incorporate graphic design and unusual visual elements. With clients that range from public art commissioners and non-profit organizations to brands and corporations, his pieces are both playful and powerful. In this Domestika Challenge, for the first time ever, Rodriguez tries to recreate one of his portrait illustrations in a pixel art style. How will it turn out? Find out in the video below:

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  • Exercise: How to Add Realistic Lighting to Your Illustrations
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    Exercise: How to Add Realistic Lighting to Your Illustrations

    Learn how to add realism and volume to your illustrations with this simple exercise by Óscar Lloréns Light is, without a doubt, one of the most essential elements of any illustration. Understanding how it behaves in nature will make your creations look more realistic and professional. Illustrator Óscar Lloréns (@ollorens) shares some tips that you can use to play with the different light sources in your illustrations, so you can give the desired volume and depth to the objects you draw.

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  • Procreate Tutorial: How to Digitize Your Comic Sketches
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    Procreate Tutorial: How to Digitize Your Comic Sketches

    Learn step by step how to redraw, refine, and polish the vignettes that will shape your comic, with Charles Glaubitz Nowadays, practically all comic book artists have to know how to work both in analog, with pencil and paper, and in digital, taking advantage of the drawing tools offered by programs such as Manga Studio or, more recently, the iPad software Procreate. Procreate allows us to import our sketches and work on them with a wide range of brushes that we can customize to our liking. Mastering it is an essential skill for any good comic artist, and the good thing is that its simple interface makes things much easier. In the following video tutorial, comic book creator and multidisciplinary artist Charles Glaubitz (@mrglaubitz) shows us step by step the process to import a sketch on paper to Procreate and start working with it, to get a fully digitized comic book. Watch the video below:

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  • Procreate Tutorial: Basic Actions for Working on an iPad
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    Procreate Tutorial: Basic Actions for Working on an iPad

    Learn from Samuel Rodriguez the basic actions needed to make a creative illustration using the Procreate app Over the past few years, the Procreate app has quickly become popular with illustrators and visual artists, thanks to its low price, large suite of tools, and often intuitive controls. Combining some traditional interface elements with iPad-enabled features, like hand gesture shortcuts, the app makes it easy to begin illustrating without having to deal with a major software learning curve. In this tutorial, illustrator Samuel Rodriguez (@samrodriguezart) shares the basics for how to get started with Procreate, demonstrating how to set up a new document, manipulate layers, and use time-saving shortcuts.

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  • How to Import Fonts to Procreate?
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    How to Import Fonts to Procreate?

    Procreate now allows you to add text to your illustrations, drawings, and designs. Learn how to use your favorite fonts Procreate has become, without a doubt, the favorite app of illustrators, cartoonists, designers and creatives around the world. The iPad software allows you to use the screen as a notebook and has a number of extremely useful features for digital artists, but until a few months ago you could not do something as simple as adding text to images. With the arrival of the function to add text comes a big question: how do you add fonts to Procreate? Here, we explain how, step by step.

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  • The Best Procreate Shortcuts
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    The Best Procreate Shortcuts

    Speed up your workflow using a keyboard connected to your iPad when drawing in Procreate Procreate is one of the most popular apps for illustrators and designers using iPads. This award-winning creative application allows you to create beautiful sketches and stunning illustrations using Apple Pencil or just your finger. Whether you’ve just discovered the app or are already a skilled user, you'll find these keyboard shortcuts extremely useful. Download a free PDF with the Procreate Shortcuts at the end of this post.

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  • Free Download: Brush Bundle for Procreate
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    Free Download: Brush Bundle for Procreate

    Designer Nubikini is temporarily sharing a free download that you can use to create unique letters for social media Layering letters on top of a unique photograph can transport us to unexpected places. The work of Nubikini (@nubikini) does exactly this. She channels emotion through letters and creates visuals that are both mesmerizing and fun. Nubia Navarro–a graphic designer living in Bogotá (Colombia)–has a passion for typography, letters, and photography. Since discovering her fascination with letters after attending a lecture on experimental typography, she’s been experimenting with them non-stop. Nubikini has worked with such international brands as Adidas, Coca Cola, and UNICEF. Always enthusiastic to share her knowledge and love of letters, today Nubikini is offering up her favorite Procreate brushes to the Domestika community. Try them out and be transported to wherever your imagination takes you.

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  • Toon Me Challenge with Procreate
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    Toon Me Challenge with Procreate

    Marcos Chin, an illustrator specializing in digital techniques, uses drawing software Procreate as he faces the Toon Me Challenge In recent months, the creative community has taken part in a new social media challenge that’s been dubbed “Toon Me.” It consists of an artist using a photo of their own face, and then illustrating over part of it to create an image that reflects their creative style and blends photography with drawing. Marcos Chin (@marcoschinart) is an illustrator whose work has appeared in books, magazines, album covers, advertisements, and fashion catalogs, and his clients include Google, Starbucks, and The New Yorker. Because the Toon Me challenge fuses imagination and humor, and Chin is an expert in both, when we challenged him to ‘toon himself he couldn’t resist. Check out the results below.

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  • Challenge: Illustrate in Procreate with Just Two Colors
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    Challenge: Illustrate in Procreate with Just Two Colors

    Samuel Rodriguez, an illustrator specializing in Procreate, has just ten minutes to, using two colors, create a digital illustration To say that Samuel Rodriguez (@samrodriguezart) is an illustrator focused on creating portraits would be an understatement: the American artist has made a name for himself by cultivating a unique style in which the human face is fused with typography, all through the digital drawing tools of Procreate. With clients from a wide variety of backgrounds, Rodriguez's work hangs in museums and features on the covers of various publications. But will he be able to overcome the Domestika Challenge? In this case, we asked him to create a digital illustration in Procreate with a time limit of ten minutes... using only two colors. Find out if he succeeded in the video below:

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  • Download Free Brushes for Procreate
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    Download Free Brushes for Procreate

    Experiment with these brushes in your digital illustration projects Román García Mora (@RomanGM) is a biologist, illustrator, and 3D modeler. His work consists of creating images of things we can’t see because they are from the past, in our imagination, or impossible for the human eye to detect. He mixes traditional techniques with 3D modeling and creative retouching.

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  • A Quick Guide to Sharing Your Creative Work on Instagram
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    A Quick Guide to Sharing Your Creative Work on Instagram

    Discover the best times to publish and other key tips for creatives looking to improve their Instagram page Nubia Navarro, better known as Nubikini (@nubikini), is a Venezuelan graphic designer and lover of typography, letters, and photography. Since discovering her true passion while taking a course in experimental typography, she hasn’t stopped experimenting, working on projects for Adidas, Coca-Cola and UNICEF. Instagram has become her favorite platform for sharing her lettering work, given that the social media network allows her to show her creative process and passion for letters, and connect with her followers. Standing out on Instagram isn’t just about creating quality content, you also need to know which are the best times to publish it, and familiarize yourself with the different formats you can use to generate engagement. Drawing on her own experience, Nubikini has created a list of her top tips for presenting your creative work on Instagram:

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