Video Class on Creating Digital Art Journal Pages with the Procreate App — The Handcrafted Story

You can learn about Creating Digital Art Journal Pages with the Procreate App in my video class on Skillshare.

If you want to make art journal pages with less mess, fewer supplies and have an easy way to share your work online regardless of your current lighting, this class is for you!

I’m Anika Lacerte, and I’m going to show you how I create digital art journal pages on my iPad using the Procreate app.

I’ve been drawing every day since January 2016, with the goal of improving my skill by making a lot of art.

How I got started making digital art journal pages

In 2017 I bought an iPad Pro, an Apple Pencil and the Procreate app and started drawing digitally every day. You can see my daily drawings and time-lapse videos on Instagram @thehandcraftedstory.

I found the blank screen more intimidating than the blank page, so I took a photo of blank pages in my sketchbook, added the photo to a layer in the Procreate app and started drawing on that.

Benefits of digital art journaling compared to traditional art journaling:

• No mess to clean up

• Limited supplies to store

• Easy to travel with

• Not having to wait for good light to share a photo

• Zero supply costs (after the purchase of the iPad, Apple Pencil and the Procreate app)

This class is an intermediate class for people who are already fairly comfortable using the Procreate app on their iPad with an Apple Pencil. This class focuses on creating digital pages rather than how to art journal.

In this class you’ll learn:

• how to create a photo background

• how to draw in a layer on top of your photo background

• how to add photos to your pages

• how clipping masks can make it easy to draw to the edge of the pages

• how to make a straight line to use as a guide for hand lettering

Plus, you can download one of my photo backgrounds to use in the Procreate app!

You’ll be making your own digital art journal pages using the lessons from this class.

Watch the 34-minute video now: Creating Digital Art Journal Pages with the Procreate App.