Since February 2025
Instructor since February 2025
Procreate for digital drawing,
From 48 £ /h
Launched in 2011 soon after the first iPad, Procreate remains one of the most popular paid apps used by both casual and professional digital artists. With over 10 million Apple app store downloads, its makers estimate to have so far helped create around 8 million images.
Procreate enables continuous video screen-capture recordings to be made of every action taken when using it to draw, paint, import and manipulate visual images. These can be scrubbed back and forth, stilled and sampled, to be placed back into compositions. As well as video capture, users can make separate save states amid a continuously experimental flow of images, brushes, colours, samples and textures. All can be duplicated, flipped, cropped, chopped, and juxtaposed. Any mark can be erased, replaced, overlaid, moved, removed, repositioned, sharpened, blurred, tinted, pixellated, smoothed, rescaled, masked, warped, drawn into, drawn around, and drawn with. 'Brushes' can be created by manipulating sliding scales. It is also possible to download readymade brushes created by and for a large online community. Using these, artists can create compositions employing everything from abstract fields of colour to highly detailed photographic images.
Across five classes, I will teach all of these skills and more, taking the student from an introductory to intermediate level.
Procreate enables continuous video screen-capture recordings to be made of every action taken when using it to draw, paint, import and manipulate visual images. These can be scrubbed back and forth, stilled and sampled, to be placed back into compositions. As well as video capture, users can make separate save states amid a continuously experimental flow of images, brushes, colours, samples and textures. All can be duplicated, flipped, cropped, chopped, and juxtaposed. Any mark can be erased, replaced, overlaid, moved, removed, repositioned, sharpened, blurred, tinted, pixellated, smoothed, rescaled, masked, warped, drawn into, drawn around, and drawn with. 'Brushes' can be created by manipulating sliding scales. It is also possible to download readymade brushes created by and for a large online community. Using these, artists can create compositions employing everything from abstract fields of colour to highly detailed photographic images.
Across five classes, I will teach all of these skills and more, taking the student from an introductory to intermediate level.
Extra information
You will need an Apple iPad, native Apple stylus, and Procreate app.
Location
At teacher's location :
- North Harbour Street, Ayr, UK
About Me
I have recently completed my PhD in Design at Glasgow School of Art. For this, I used Procreate with an Apple iPad touchscreen to explore ways of 'thinking about thinking'. I have experience teaching art to both mature and younger students, from secondary to undergraduate levels.
Education
2017-24. Glasgow School of Art. PhD (Design) critical interface aesthetics.
2014. Northumbria University. PGCert Art Design Secondary Ed.
2013-14. University West of Scotland. Adv Prof Studies, Artist Teacher (distinction).
2010–13. UHI Moray. BA Hons Fine Art (first).
1995-99. University of Durham. BA Hons Philosophy.
2014. Northumbria University. PGCert Art Design Secondary Ed.
2013-14. University West of Scotland. Adv Prof Studies, Artist Teacher (distinction).
2010–13. UHI Moray. BA Hons Fine Art (first).
1995-99. University of Durham. BA Hons Philosophy.
Experience / Qualifications
I wrote and taught a Photoshop module as part of the NC Graphic Design qualification in March 2013 and May 2014, at UHI Lews Castle College in North Uist.
I conducted an exhibition and workshop with Design undergraduates at Glasgow School of Art, in 2022.
I conducted an exhibition and workshop with Design undergraduates at Glasgow School of Art, in 2022.
Age
Teenagers (13-17 years old)
Adults (18-64 years old)
Seniors (65+ years old)
Student level
Beginner
Intermediate
Duration
60 minutes
The class is taught in
English
Skills
Availability of a typical week
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New York
At teacher's location
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
Sun
00-04
04-08
08-12
12-16
16-20
20-24
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