


Think of a traditional landscape painting for example, it has a foreground, a middle ground and a background. Layers are a great way to organize your work and increase productivity.

Check out these two Procreate tutorial videos to find out more! The sidebar can be dragged out and placed in your preferred position on the edge of the canvas. Next, go to Prefs to set up the interface color preference.

Select the top-left advanced features area first, then click on Actions (represented by a wrench icon). The interface is organized into three sections: the painting tools (top-right), the sidebar and the advanced features (top-left). To customize these options, you will need to create a canvas. Sidebar navigation: Do you prefer a left or right orientation?.Interface color preference: Do you prefer a light or dark interface?.For now, these basic options will allow your first steps in Procreate to be more intuitive: There are many options to customize your experience, and we’ll discuss those in future posts. You can customize the UI to help organize your workflow, ensuring you get the most out of this application. However, if this is your first time, it will look bare – but no worries, you’ll be filling this up with amazing artwork soon!Įveryone wants a workspace or interface that feels comfortable and productive. The overview will eventually list all of your artwork. When you first open the app, you are greeted with the canvas overview. Some of these take a little bit to get the hang of, especially those that involve using a combination of pencil and finger gestures.You downloaded Procreate and are ready to dive right in, but the interface doesn’t feel personalized. Or it can be used to easily fill in large shapes you’ve drawn instead of having to paint it in yourself, just be sure to check the space between your line and the fill as sometimes Procreate doesn’t fill all the way to the edges if you’re using a textural brush. Paired with alpha lock drop fill is great for changing the colour of specific parts of different layers. Simply drag the colour from the colour circle with your pencil into the area you want to be filled. You can then either fill the layer with a new colour, or this is also useful for adding texture to a layer without going over the edges of a shape. Either swipe with two fingers across the layer in the layer panel or tap the layer and click Alpha Lock to turn it on and off. I use Alpha lock way more than I was expecting to at the beginning, mainly because I’m terrible at sticking to colour schemes and forever want to change things.
