how to learn procreate

procreate hides almost everything behind gestures, which is great until you need one you never learned. alpha lock is a two-finger swipe on the layer, and people spend an hour painting outside their line art without it. clipping masks are buried in the layer tap menu. colordrop refuses to fill a shape because a one-pixel gap lets the colour leak, and the threshold only changes while your finger stays down. exports look right until a background layer you forgot about turns your transparent png white.

the guides below follow the gesture problem. layers and masking open the set, with clipping masks and alpha lock that seems broken. brushes get an import walkthrough for brushsets you downloaded. exporting covers transparent pngs and pulling out the time-lapse of the whole drawing. colour and fill handle colordrop leaking past the line and recolouring line art cleanly. the last group is pure where-is-x: the selection tool behaving oddly, and undoing without losing half your painting.

procreate is a place to be shown rather than told, because the answer is usually a movement. mirror your ipad onto your mac, or keep the exported file open on the desktop, then hold the key and ask why colordrop keeps flooding the whole layer. HeyBraza looks at the screen only in that moment, explains the threshold, and the dot marks the exact control. you do the drag yourself, feel where the threshold catches, and that feel is the part a video cannot hand you.

ipad artists in procreate who cannot find a setting because it is a gesture, not a menu