Procreate Mountain Tutorial

Overview

Beginner tutorial for Procreate on iPad covering brushes, color, gestures, layers, and exporting by creating a simple mountain scene.

Gallery is home for artworks; tap plus to create new canvas, Screen Size is at the top.
Top-right tools: Paint, Smudge, Erase, Layers, Color; tap tool to select, tap again for options.
Brush Library: brush sets on left, brushes on right; over 100 brushes inspired by real media.

Example brushes: 6B Pencil (pressure/tilt shading), Artistic > Old Beach (dynamic, textured marks).
Apple Pencil enhances pressure, tilt, speed response; finger drawing supported.
Left sliders: top controls brush size; bottom controls opacity from transparent to opaque.

Smudge blends existing strokes by pushing paint around.
Erase removes color; both use the same Brush Library for expressive smudging/erasing.

Tap active color to open panel; use Color Disc for Hue (outer ring) and value/saturation (inner disc).
Select and apply colors like bright red; some brushes blend with existing color for painterly effects.

Select Drawing > Fine brush, low size; choose burned orange, draw and fill a round sun.
Choose warm dusty pink; draw and fill a mountain with pressure for line and fill.
Choose dark, less saturated navy; draw a left-side mountain.
Use eyedropper by touch-and-hold to pick colors quickly.

Layers are stacked transparent sheets; paint/edit each independently.
Start with sun on Layer 1; add new layer for blue mountain, paint it.
Add another layer for pink mountain; erasing pink no longer affects blue.
Only paint on the selected (highlighted) layer; plus adds a layer above selection.
Add deep green mountain on a new layer; reorder by dragging below pink to place behind.
Erase part of pink mountain to make space; add new layer above green for a golden mountain.
Background Color sits at bottom; toggle visibility or change to off-white.

Add top layer; eyedropper to reselect pink, adjust to lighter pink, draw another mountain.
Eyedropper burned orange for another mountain; adjust navy to pale blue for a left mountain.
Final mountains can share one layer; earlier separate layers allow easy fine-tuning.

Add top layer; Calligraphy > Chalk brush; eyedropper off-white to outline mountains.
Outlines on their own layer can be erased/edited without affecting others.
Toggle layer visibility with checkbox; swipe left to delete, undo deletion with two-finger tap.

Add layer; Artistic > Old Beach; eyedropper golden yellow; increase size/pressure to texture sun.
Add another layer; select slightly darker off-white; add textured sky.
Move cloud texture layer to bottom to sit behind mountains.

Feature	Access/Action	Purpose/Notes
New Canvas	Gallery > Plus > Screen Size	Start artwork quickly.
Brush Library	Tap Paint > Tap again	Choose from media-inspired brushes.
Size/Opacity	Left sliders (top/bottom)	Control stroke width and transparency.
Smudge/Erase	Top-right tools	Use any brush to blend or erase.
Color Disc	Tap color circle	Outer: Hue; Inner: value/saturation.
Eyedropper	Touch and hold canvas	Pick existing colors precisely.
Undo/Redo	2/3-finger tap/hold	Rapid corrections; sidebar buttons too.
Canvas Nav	Pinch, move, rotate	Fit to screen with quick pinch.
Layers Panel	Tap Layers icon	Add, select, reorder, hide/show, delete.
Background Color	Bottom of layers	Toggle or recolor; not paintable.
Export	Wrench > Share > PNG	Save to Photos.

Explore brush sets (Sketching, Artistic, Calligraphy) to learn pressure and texture behavior.
Practice using layers for each major shape; reorder and erase non-destructively.
Use eyedropper and Color Disc to build harmonious palettes.
Experiment with texture overlays using Old Beach on separate layers.