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Tips & Tricks

Practical tips, short tutorials, and fun tricks to know, helping you get started and work more smoothly across Procreate and other digital art apps.


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tips and tricks for how to use dual color brushes in Procreate and any other brushes that use Tilt
Dual Color Brushes Troubleshooting Guide
In this video I'll show you additional troubleshooting tips and tricks to help you get the most out of my Dual Color brushes for Procreate, or any other brushes which use the tilt function of the Apple Pencil.
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abstract painterly artwork made in the procreate app with digital oil brushes and acrylic brushes
Abstract Art using a Reference Photo
Sometimes with abstract art, a blank page can be really intimidating because of the wide open realm of possibility it represents. You can do any shapes, colors, techniques, patterns etc - the possibilities are limitless! This can be really scary and...
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A digital watercolor painting of a black and gray moon done in the procreate app with watercolor brushes
Paint a Watercolor Moon in Procreate
Today we are using one of my favourite techniques for boosting creativity - completely removing color as a variable by using only one color (black in this case). This forces us to focus on other variables instead to make the art more interesting, li...
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digital alcohol ink whimsical abstract forest made in the procreate app with alcohol ink brushes
Whimsical Abstract Forest with Digital Alcohol Ink
For today’s tutorial we will be making a forest out of digital alcohol ink which is very abstract and looks a bit like it might belong in a Dr. Suess book! It's a bit silly and whimsical, and a lot of fun to make. The technique is inspired (wit...
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A digital collage landscape made with paper, paint, and ephemera in the Procreate app. A tiny figure stands on top of a mountain.
Digital Collage Landscape
In today’s tutorial, we will create an abstract digital collage landscape. First we will use a photo from Unsplash to find the basic shapes and colors of the landscape, and then take it off the rails by using paper textures, ephemera stamps, stitchi...
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digital alcohol ink artwork with metallic gold leaf made in the Procreate app
Colorful Alcohol Ink with Metallics
Today I wanted to do a very simple and colorful digital alcohol ink piece in Procreate that includes a lot of metallics and very cheerful colors, perfect for June! Canvas Dimensions: 3000x2000 pixels at 300 DPI
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Digital greenery christmas holiday wreath made in the Procreate app
Create a Realistic Greenery Wreath
Today's tutorial is a very quick and easy wreath with a focal point on one side. In my opinion, a wreath is beautiful no matter what season and can be very versatile and used with lots of different types of greenery. We will cover how to create each...
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A digital painting of a green hillside made in the procreate app with pressed plant brushes and greenery brushes
Draw a Green Hillside
Today I will be showing how to draw a very simple, lush green hillside scene in Procreate including a tree and lots of grasses and ferns, to demonstrate more ways to use my new Greenery brush set for Procreate, and hopefully help to spark some ideas...
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What's the difference between Alpha Lock and a Clipping Mask?
Today I wanted to explore a question that I get a lot - the difference between alpha lock and clipping mask in the Procreate digital art app, and how to do each one. The functionality is similar, but there are pros and cons to consider. Alpha Lock A...
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digital artwork made in procreate with acrylic pour brushes that looks like a butterfly
Acrylic Pour Butterfly
This video was requested by Deb from the community - a wispy abstract butterfly made from digital acrylic pour painting and lined with messy black ink. I tried a few different versions and ultimately decided to trace a butterfly outline from an imag...
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Embellish a Letter with Pressed Flowers
Today, we are adding pressed flowers as embellishments to a letter in the Procreate app. This is not a plant that would grow anywhere in nature, but instead we are building it up as a collage - I like to imagine that I have a box of pressed flowers ...
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Digital pressed flowers arranged in a flower curtain with the Procreate app pressed flower art
Digital Flower Curtain
I’ve noticed a decor trend where people will hang dried flowers upside down, attached end to end and hanging in lines, so that they are looking kind of like a curtain. I really like how this looks so I wanted to try out the concept with my new press...
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a digital mixed media collage made in the procreate app with bits of paper and paint and florals and ephemera on a dark background.
Make a Digital Mixed Media Collage on a Dark Background
Today I wanted to take you along with me while creating a very messy digital mixed media collage on a dark background. We will experiment with adding bits of paper, stitching, doodles and paint using my Mixed Media brush set for Procreate. Canvas D...
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painting digital greenery on an ipad with dual color digital one stroke painting
Dual Color Greenery Ideas
Today, I wanted to show you how to do 12 different kinds of greenery with my Dual Color brushes for Procreate, which enable you to paint with two colors in the same stroke digitally. You can also use these same techniques for flower petals, and they...
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Embellish a Digital Watercolor Painting with Pressed Flowers
In a previous tutorial, I showed how to paint a moon in Procreate with my watercolor brush set. Today, I'll show how to digitally add pressed flower embellishments to the watercolor painting for a dreamy and delicate collage result.
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