2025-A1 - Procreate For Beginners with Dave Rueckert

Saturday and Sunday, February 15th and 16th, 11:00am - 3:00pm (both days)

Age: 18+ (younger students can contact the instructor to discuss whether their experience level is appropriate for the course)

Workshop Level

• The workshop will provide a gentle introduction to the Procreate digital painting app and will be of interest to:

Beginners who want to learn Procreate.

Experienced traditional artists who want to learn to learn digital art skills and/or add digital color and textures to their existing artworks.

The Instructor

David Rueckert has 20+ years of full-time, college-level teaching experience in digital and traditional arts as well as graphic and media design. He holds an M.F.A. degree in Art & Visual Technology with a specialization in Digital Arts from George Mason University, and an undergraduate degree in Fine Arts (Studio) from the University of Mary Washington. He has taught numerous workshops at the Virginia Beach Art Center.

What Participants Need to Bring

• An iPad with the Procreate app installed and ready to use. See if Procreate is supported on your current iPad or what iPad to purchase - https://procreate.art/faq
• Procreate can be purchased from the Apple App Store for $12.99 as of this writing
• Apple Pencil - Highly recommended but not required. You can even use your finger or other styluses if they are compatible. But you will want to use an Apple Pencil - in combination with iPad and Procreate it is amazing! You will need to determine which version of Apple Pencil (Generation 1 or 2, USB-C, or Pro) works with your device: https://www.apple.com/apple-pencil/#features Purchase at Apple Store, Amazon, etc. Note: The instructor has non-pressure sensitive, rubber tip styluses he can lend if you don't have a stylus. It's nothing like an Apple Pencil, but much better than your finger!
• Participants are encouraged to bring examples of their original, traditional artwork or black and white photographs to use for the workshop exercises if they want to create original artwork. Note - the instructor can provide working images (for which he retains copyright) for participants that don't have prior original artwork .
• Original images should be black-and-white, grayscale, or monochromatic. The following are great to use:

Black pen and ink or brush drawings

Prints - done in linocut, woodblock, dry point, etching, lithography, etc.

Pencil or charcoal drawings may also work

Black and white photographs that you would like to colorize

• Digitized - Ideally, scan or photograph and crop your image(s) to size before the workshop - approximately 8 x 10 to 9 x 12 inches at 240 to 300 dpi. If you can’t or don’t know how to do this, you can take them to an imaging service to do it. As a last option we can photograph and crop some images in the workshop but probably will not get as professional a result as using a dedicated scanner.

What We Will Cover

• Procreate Interface - Painting Tools, Editing Tools, and Sidebar
• Creating a New Painting file or Opening an Existing Image to Use in Procreate - Naming, Dimensions, Color Profile, Time Lapse Settings, Canvas Properties, etc.
• Mobile Device Gestures for Procreate as needed
• Using Apple Pencil
• Procreate Gallery Basics
• Basics of Working with Colors
• Basics of Working with Brushes
• Basics of Working with Layers
• Adding digitally applied hand coloring and composited textures to existing traditional artworks or black and white photographs.
• Compositing Textures
• Managing Files
• Adjustments, Selections, and Transformations as time allows
• Note: The workshop will NOT address the hover features in Procreate that are available only on the most recent Apple hardware.

Why Digital Drawing and Painting in Procreate?

• Procreate is probably the most popular drawing and painting mobile app available.
• The combination of drawing and painting directly on a mobile device screen with a stylus is the most efficient, economical, capable, and portable way to make digital art.
• Basic Procreate tools are easily accessible for beginners, but it also has incredibly rich features that will meet the digital drawing and painting needs of the most demanding professional artists.
• Procreate is an incredible value. It can be purchased for a one-time payment of only $12.99 - an amazing price given the features provided.
• Procreate is made especially for and only works on the Apple iPad. It takes great advantage of mobile device gestures and works amazingly well in conjunction with the Apple Pencil.
• Procreate Pocket is also available and works on Apple iPhones only.

Sorry, Procreate does not work on any other hardware. No Apple computers, Android mobile devices, or Windows computers, etc.

Final Note:

Procreate is a deep application that cannot be covered comprehensively in one limited weekend workshop. Be advised we will focus on coloring and texturing existing artwork. We will not cover all the advanced features of Procreate.

drueckert11@gmail.com

Instructor: David Rueckert

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