Cartoon outlining skills — we all need them, daily! And Procreate is always bringing out new pens, pencils, brushes and other tools... Or are they? To be honest on any given day, I couldn't tell you. That's because I'm a creature of habit (so I stick to my favourites...
Can I be honest here? Cartooning with Procreate took a while to grow on me 🤭. I had been cartooning digitally (using a Wacom tablet and Photoshop) for years. My cartoons were turning out just fine - but the process gave me a literal pain in the neck. My neck and...
If you are considering using your iPad for cartooning, it couldn’t be a better time for it. Back in the day, cartooning on the iPad used to be a huge downer — no matter what stylus you used (and there were plenty of options, many of them pricey) — the results were...
My skills in Procreate cartoon watercolouring grew out of experiments, after using only analogue watercolour pigments. I use the term ‘digital watercolour’ to describe the result rather than the process, because painting digitally obviously has little overlap with...
Do you love the magical power of the Un-Do button that comes with drawing digitally? The freedom, the sense of possibility and the multitudes of textures at your fingertips? You're not alone! In response to my post last week about the ongoing relevance (or not) of the...
How To Use the Transform Tool To Avoid Re-drawing Things In this Procreate tutorial we're going to look at how the Transform tool can save you time and trouble ... because it lets you move things around instead of re-drawing them. Simple step by step Procreate...
Drawing in Photoshop (and using layers) is a great choice if you are dabbling in digital. And if that is the road you have chosen, this post will kickstart your digital work by setting out some rules of thumb for your workflow. The video lesson below walks you through...