So if you’ve been sliding around on your glass screen and can’t understand why you just can’t seem to control your linework like you can in your sketchbook, this is the product for you. It’s a matte screen protector with an ever-so-slight texture that does exactly what its name suggests: it perfectly mimics that slight resistance you get from drawing on real paper. The first thing I recommend people buy when they treat themselves to an iPad, is the PaperLike Screen Protector.

Fabulous Pencils for Procreate by Guerillacraft.

Pencil Box Procreate Brushes by Bardot Brush.

Pencil and Charcoal Procreate Brushes by MiksKS.

Drawing Box Procreate Brushes by Sadie Lew.

What makes a good pencil in my opinion, you ask? For a pencil brush to tick all of the boxes for me, it has to respond well to the Apple Pencil’s tilt, has to have good smudge-ability (that’s a word, right?), and be just grainy enough. While I’m obsessed with the 6B pencil that comes with the default Procreate app, I’ve purchased quite a few pencil brush sets, and consistently add my favorites to a Procreate brush set I’ve fondly named “Shelly’s Toolbox”. And though you could easily sketch with, say, a Procreate ballpoint pen- wouldn’t you agree there’s something perfect about a scratchy 2B? If you’re anything like me, you begin any project with a sketch. I was hooked.Īfter a few years of trial and error, I’m here to share with you my seven tried and trusted tools that I simply can’t live without. The process was quick, clean, and portable! My workflow was so much more efficient, and projects took half the time. I was amazed at how quickly I could create my illustrations, with such realistic-looking brushes! And once I added the right screen protector (more on that later), the experience felt like the real thing. Oh, the scanning, which I loathed.Įnter the iPad into my life, and with it, the Procreate app.

Or I’d carefully lay out twenty wet-paint illustrations on the floor, hoping a gust of wind from the balcony wouldn’t flip them over and stain my floor. Before the days of the double-finger undo, with ink-stained hands I would frustratedly discard sheet upon sheet of paper, feeling like I was wasting both precious paper and time. It wouldn’t be an understatement to say that Procreate has changed my life.

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