Ryan Maloney shares ten Procreate shortcuts in 60 seconds: double-tap to draw when paging canvases, lock alpha to contain colors, drag-and-drop colors, use the luminance light brush for glow, snap rough circles perfect, leverage stamp brushes, blend with Gaussian blur, fill shapes with the ellipse tool, record time-lapses, and AirDrop finished work to your computer.
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10 satisfying Procreate tips in under 60 seconds. The first one, when you page through your drawings, double tap it and you can just start to draw. Next up, alpha lock. Contain all your lines and colors within the shape. Third, this one never gets old, drag and dropping colors into shapes. Fourth, add some glow behind your characters with this light brush found in the luminance tab. Fifth, this is super basic, but draw a rough circle, hold down, and it'll snap into a nice smooth circle you can spin around or place wherever you want. 6. Stamp brushes, stamp brushes, stamp brushes. 7. I love blending colors with the Gaussian blur, however you say it. Gaussian? Gauze? Whatever. I think we're on number 8. Grab the selection tool with the ellipse and the color fill bucket selected. Drag a shape, let go, and it'll automatically fill. I forget what number we're on, but the time-lapse video recording in this, whoever invented that is just a genius. These are satisfying tips, so we need to talk about— Air dropping is so satisfying. Drawings from the iPad to the computer. I think that was 10.