Breathe new life into your drawings, paintings, and airbrush creations with the Apple Design Award–winning app Procreate. Here are five ways to tap into its robust capabilities.
1. Animate your art
Make your creations fly, dance, or skedaddle with Procreate’s Animation Assist feature. It works like a digital stop-motion system—just move your bird to a different part of the screen in each frame, then press play to see it soar!
Where to find it: Tap the wrench icon, select Canvas, and toggle on Animation Assist.
2. Make straighter lines
Procreate’s Drawing Guides feature overlays a handy grid on your canvas. Select 2D Grid for squares, Isometric for diamonds, and Perspective to create and stick to vanishing points on your landscape.
Where to find it: Tap the wrench icon, select Canvas, and toggle on Drawing Guide.
3. Share your work
Create recordings of your drawing process to share with friends, family, and students—or post to social media alongside your art. When exporting the video, you can opt for a 30-second clip or the full time-lapse.
Where to find it: Tap the wrench icon, select Video, then toggle on Time-lapse Recording. Get a preview of the clip by tapping Time-lapse Replay.
4. Work faster with finger gestures
Want to undo your last action? Tap the screen with two fingers. Redo an action by tapping three fingers. If you want to get rid of all recent actions at once, touch and hold two fingers on the screen. Redo multiple actions by touching and holding three fingers on the screen.
Where to find it: Tap Gallery and create a canvas to give the gestures a try.
5. Find the right brush stroke
Procreate’s Classic Library has unusual patterns and strokes that help you replicate real-world imagery, such as corrugated iron, water drops, and volcanic ash, to name just a few.
Where to find it: Tap the paintbrush icon.