Introduction: Why I Started To Draw With Procreate Here is the starting recipe I wish someone had given me eighteen months ago: open Procreate, create a new canvas, pick one simple brush, learn the two finger tap to undo, and stay on a single layer for a week. That is it. Everything else can wait.…

Eighteen months ago I bought a secondhand iPad from a coworker’s cousin in Tucson so I could draw my rescue greyhound, Biscuit, without burning through sketchbooks. The first real thing I learned, after two finger undo, was layers. Layers in Procreate work like transparent sheets stacked together: you put different elements on each one, and…

If you have been searching “is Procreate free” hoping the answer is yes, I’m sorry to be the one to break it. Let me save you the scroll and tell you what I wish someone had told me before I spent twenty minutes hunting for a download button that did not exist. Quick answer: Is…