This tutorial focuses on using Procreate, read our list of Procreate tutorials for more advice. New to this app?

You can draw on an iPad with an Apple Pencil on the Procreate app, which you can use to sketch, paint, and illustrate.

In particular, Procreate’s facility with digital photographs allowed me to analyze shapes of things I wanted to draw.

Colin Jack tells us why he started using the app — and why he published a tutorial to help others do the same.