Of course, you have to be tied to a computer and a tablet to draw effectively with this program. My program of choice has always been Adobe Photoshop. My Apple pencil sat on a shelf in my studio collecting dust.Įven though I consider myself to be a traditional artist, I’ve always had a strong interest in digital drawing and painting. There the app sat on my iPad for quite a while without much thought. Download Procreate From The App Store $5.99.I downloaded the program from the App store for a modest $5.99, played around with it for a few minutes and went back to creating traditional art with traditional media. It was suggested by a friend of mine to check out some of the other options for the iPad Pro and Procreate was highly recommended. Adobe makes some very powerful apps for drawing and painting on the iPad Pro and I was impressed with what is possible with them. I’ve had my iPad Pro and Apple pencil for quite a while but really never invested much time in drawing digitally using this platform. Related: My Experience with Adobe’s Sketch App (I had used a program called “Brushes” years ago, but it was wasn’t near as powerful as these apps.)

It was really my first experience drawing on the iPad Pro using these apps and it was an eye-opening experience for me. In the summer of 2016, I was invited along with several other artists out to Adobe in San Fransisco to do several days of live streaming with Adobe’s mobile apps for drawing and painting.

Procreate paint tutorial