Procreate Competency

Level 1

Demonstrate skill with:

  • Customize preferences and shortcuts
    • Disable accidental brush strokes caused by fingers touching the screen
    • Undo with your fingers
    • Clearing an entire layer at once
    • Adjusting the pen pressure (note: the higher the arch, the less hard you will have to push to make brush strokes)
    • Pressure and stabilization, what it does to your brush and how to turn it on or off
    • Pinch & zoom or making the picture full screen
    • Customizing the “quick menu”
    • Saving a brush size or opacity setting (tap on the bar in the sliders and hit the plus sign to save a size)
    • Procreate interface
  • Editing
    • Create layers, and merge layers by pinching.
    • Customize a canvas
    • Creating a stack, file naming, gallery preview
    • Cropping canvas
  • Drawing & Drawing Tools
    • Use at least 3 brushes with different stroke patterns
    • Drawing guides
    • Assisted Drawing
    • Quick Shape
    • Smudge
    • Eraser settings
    • Copy & paste – three finger swipe (duplicate)
    • Eyedropper tool
    • Color wheel
    • Advanced brush settings
      • How to import a brush, the basics of

Be able to explain:

1. What is procreate, and why do we use it?
2. What is line art, and why is it beneficial to do it on a separate layer from colors? (note this is why layers are so important)
3. What non-destructive editing is, and why it is important
4. Know how to organize stacks
5. Know what the options are for QuickShape, and when we can and can’t edit

Level 2

Demonstrate skill with:

  • Animation
    • Creating gifs – how to export animations as a gif or video
    • Onion skins – how to change their color, how to adjust how many are showing as you animate
    • Frame rate, what does it do?
    • How is duplicate useful in animation?
    • Timelapse videos
  • Advanced Layer Settings
    • Blending modes and effects
    • Layer opacity, deleting, duplicating, locking, and using “N.”
    • Inserting images into canvas
    • Selections and scaling
    • Clipping mask
    • Alpha lock
  • Drawing tools
    • Color dodge
    • Burn tool
    • Blending modes and effects
    • Customize brushes
    • Cloning
  • Color
    • Palettes – How to create a palette from a photo
    • Color drop/recolor
    • Color wheel-setup options: disc, classic, harmony, etc.
  • Adjustments
    • How to change hue, saturation, brightness
    • Gaussian and motion blur
    • Liquify
    • Clone Brush
    • Be familiar with different effects
  • Page Assist
    • How to save as a PDF
    • Layers = Pages
    • To have multiple layers on a page, group the layers
  • Other
    • Adjusting canvas or image size
    • Non-destructive “saving”
    • Masks
    • Know the basics of 3D modeling, how to download starter pack and how to paint on 3D models
    • Filters
    • Typography
      • Add, import, and customize
      • How to rasterize a type layer

Be able to explain:

1. What Animation Assist is and how it is useful (why does it make our lives easier)
2. How would you set up dual brush settings?
3. Know how to detach the color wheel so that it is mobile
4. While mainly used for photography, what is the purpose of cloning in procreate?
5. Explain how to use clipping mask and alpha lock, and what the difference is.
6. How do you create a color palette?
7. Explain the different buttons at the bottom of the color panel, know what they do and how to use them. Ex disc, classic, harmony.