How do you choose the best brushes, colors, and styles for your Procreate and Illustrator projects?

Make sure to experiment with the brushes that come with the program by default. The brushes you use often define your style. If you are looking for a specific brush, texture, or pattern, there are many pre-maid free or paid brush packs that you can find online. If you are feeling extra, I encourage you to try and make your own. With a simple search you'll be able to find many tutorials online on how to do so.

Brushes are fundamental tools for creating strokes, shapes, textures, and effects in digital artwork, significantly impacting its quality and style. Procreate and Illustrator offer various brush types like pixel, vector, raster, and custom brushes. Each type has its pros and cons, requiring an understanding of their settings and preferences. Pixel brushes excel in sketching and painting but may lose quality upon zooming or resizing. Vector brushes produce smooth, scalable lines but may lack expressiveness compared to pixel brushes. Balancing these factors ensures optimal brush selection for desired artistic outcomes.

Just remember that you simply cannot compare Illustrator brushes to Procreate brushes. It's a completely different thing. And don't expect Illustrator brushes to mimic real world painting. That simply won't happen.

Colors play a crucial role in artwork, influencing mood, contrast, harmony, and balance. They convey emotions, messages, and meanings. Procreate and Illustrator offer various tools for choosing and applying colors, such as palettes, wheels, pickers, and swatches. Understanding these tools and creating custom colors and gradients is essential. Color palettes provide cohesive looks, while color wheels help create schemes like complementary or analogous. Mastery of these tools enhances visual impact and coherence in your artwork.

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There are some great courses available on LinkedIn Learning about the basics of logo design, color, working with different applications and also output of files.

Procreate is a raster-based program where Illustrator is a vector-based program. Understanding the differences and limitations is very important. Based on the final use case, need, or deliverable, you may need to finalize the work in one program over the other.

One of the most effective ways to progress in Procreate is by creating something new every day. Regular practice encourages you to come up with creative ideas within the constraints of the prompts and helps refine techniques and experimentation with different styles. Creating on a regular basis also means you build a collection of your works that can become the beginnings an artistic portfolio, showcasing versatility and growth over time. Finally, the daily prompts/challenges push users to produce work within a short timeframe, which really is one of the best ways to overcome ‘perfectionism’. Embracing our artistic imperfections is a huge part of the overall creative process. Procreate Art Challenges on Facebook is a great group!