Procreate Illustration Tutorials - Share Your Learning Resources

Tutorials & How-To
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Procreate illustration has a massive community but good structured learning resources are harder to find than you’d think. Most tutorials are either too basic or assume a level of illustration background that beginners don’t have.

Resources I’ve found actually useful:

For absolute beginners getting comfortable with the tool: the official Procreate handbook is underrated. Not exciting but comprehensive and accurate.

For understanding illustration fundamentals alongside Procreate: Schoolism’s online courses have some of the best structured learning I’ve found. Expensive but worth it if you’re serious.

For specific techniques: YouTube is actually good here. Search specific things - “Procreate linework brush settings” or “Procreate colour harmony” rather than broad terms. You get practitioners showing exactly what they do.

For brushes that teach through use: some of the better brush packs come with demonstration files. Watching how a brush is intended to be used teaches technique better than explanation.

What’s been most useful for your own Procreate development? Especially interested in resources for portrait illustration and textured work.

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For textured work specifically: Will Terry and Jake Parker both have content that bridges traditional and digital illustration in useful ways. The analogue mindset translates directly to Procreate technique.

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Specific YouTube search terms is genuinely good advice. “Procreate tutorial” returns generic content. “Procreate linen texture brush technique” returns people who actually know what they’re doing.

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@voidvibes92 for portrait illustration - Marc Brunet’s courses are structured around fundamentals and tool-agnostic enough to be useful even in Procreate. He teaches the thinking, not just the clicks.

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The Procreate handbook recommendation is underrated. I’ve taught a few workshops and the students who read it first have a completely different foundational understanding. Tutorials skip context; the handbook builds it.