Beginner's Guide to Digital Painting in Procreate: How to Create Art on an iPad®

I am traditionally trained as an artist and have been wanting to learn digital rendering in procreate. This book has easy step by step instructions with pictures for reference which helped deeply to understand terms and concepts of the program. A must have for digital artist, procreate artist and artist in general.

This is a nice size book with nice thick perfect paper, like a coffee table book. Photos are gorgeous. I have been using Procreate for some time now so am not a beginner but the members of my Procreate group on Facebook were raving about it, so i had to get one. I was tempted to skip over the first chapter or so assuming i knew it all already but it was late and i was tired so went ahead and read it. I did learn some things i didn't know. The pace of the book is pretty rapid, so if you are not a "good learner" it might be a little fast but I think Procreate did just a good job of placing menu items, you probably will be fine. For a more experienced user, the style of the book involves lots of projects which look like fun. It is photo intensive which is surprising as that definitely makes a more expensive book. This book along with Youtube tutorials, the Procreate manual online, and Udemy courses should make you a master in no time.

I was on the fence about buying this book because of all the negative reviews. I am new to procreate and wanted something that was a definitive guide. I can absolutely say with 100% conviction as an artist since I was eight years old, this is the definitive guide. In addition to giving you an overview of every function in procreate, it gives you recipes to create landscapes and art that incorporate all the things it says in the previous chapters. It is a very slick printed book, but please don’t hold that against the author. I am 100% certain that this will help anyone new to the app. I don’t leave reviews unless I’m absolutely totally convinced.

This is one of those rare books with a format that simply doesn’t work with a Kindle. It’s too large. The book is packed with valuable information and you WILL end up buying the book. The Kindle version just doesn’t work, which is too bad because I really do buy 98% of my books as Kindle versions. This is a must have book, though.

Dang it. I thought this book was gonna be a show ‘n tell for me and the Mrs. to make a baby. The last book I bought didn’t work out. It had clear photos, but then I realized I was holding the book upside down. And no babies were comin’! Now I see this is actually a beginnier’s guide to digital painting. At least now I’m learning where to point my brush. Until the little Billy Bob Jessie comes along, I think I’m going to enjoy this!

First of all, let me state that I’m NOT an artist so attempting digital art was certainly going to be a major challenge for me. I can’t sketch, draw or paint with traditional methods so, learning Procreate was ambitious. My goal is to create personalized cartoon spiral notebooks, and other items for my grandson, and beautiful greeting cards. I read up on and purchased the Procreate App and went to You Tube for guidance. Although I was unable to recreate what the you tuber did, I realized that if I had an easy step by step beginner’s book I probably could create some very elementary items for my grandsons. Well, drumrolls please... I can do quite a bit more. In the first 49 pages, I followed all of the practice exercises and had no difficulty navigating the tools after trial and error. I didn’t time myself but I believe the 49 pages took me maybe 2 hours to complete and understand the lessons. With the building blocks I learned in the first 49 pages, I went back to You Tube and understood everything the You Tuber demonstrated.Now that I understand the basic building blocks, there is still a great deal more to learn and I will continue practicing. I’m very encouraged and excited about the creativity I will now be able to use with greeting cards I make for my family and friends and crafting projects for my grandsons.

After only a couple hours, I find the book is printed on high quality glossy paper, but I find it hard to read since it is a black color background pages and the white text is not showing up clearly to my eyes. The contrast is hard for my old eyes to read. I must use a bright light or bright window to see it clearly. I haven't read much yet, so I don't know about the contents.

Love this book. It really gets you started.