The Freya blog
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Free Procreate video tutorials with downloadable brushes, plus honest articles about learning digital art, from Freya and the Academy mentors.
Photo Manipulation in Procreate: A Full Walkthrough
Replace a sky, clone out a subject, recolor grass and cut objects four ways: Freya's full photo manipulation workflow in Procreate.
How to Paint Skin in Procreate: 3 Ways to Shade a Face
Three ways Freya paints skin in Procreate: slow marker build-up, flat shading with light painted on top, and a dewy makeup-style base with highlights.
How to Recolor Anything in Procreate: 5 Easy Ways
Five ways to recolor artwork in Procreate: ColorDrop, continue filling, the Selection tool, Alpha Lock, and Hue adjustments, straight from Freya's lessons.
Oil Painting in Procreate: Make It Look Like Real Oils
Freya's rules for digital oil that reads as real: canvas texture on Linear Burn, wet vs dry brushes, and impasto layering from her lobster lesson.
Procreate Drawing Guides: 2D Grid, Isometric, Perspective
Where Procreate's Drawing Guide lives, what the 2D, Isometric and Perspective grids each do, and how Assisted Drawing locks your lines to the grid.
How to Animate Your Art in Procreate Dreams
Prep your Procreate layers, convert them to tracks in Procreate Dreams, then add blinks, tail swishes and fades with Warp, Perform and Opacity.
Landscape Painting in Procreate: Where to Actually Start
Start landscape painting in Procreate the way Freya teaches it: horizon line and values first, then grass, trees and rocks, then your first full scene.
How to Use Liquify in Procreate: Marble Art Made Easy
Learn every Liquify tool by making marble art, straight from Freya's lessons: Push, Twirl, Pinch and friends, plus a marbled typography exercise.
Procreate Pressure Sensitivity: A Setup That Feels Right
Tune Apple Pencil pressure in Procreate so strokes match your hand: the pressure curve for light and heavy hands, plus the brush settings behind it.
Character Design in Procreate: Shape Language & Silhouettes
Round is kind, square is strong, pointy is dangerous. How shape language, head-count proportions and the silhouette test build characters that read.
Clean Line Art in Procreate: Brushes, Settings, Technique
Three things that make line art clean in Procreate: StreamLine settings, hand control and practice, plus how Freya inks a real portrait.
Color Theory for Procreate Artists: A Practical Guide
Hues, tints, shades, harmony and the 70-30 rule, taught the way Freya's Academy teaches them, with palette recipes built in Procreate's color panel.
Gouache Painting in Procreate: Thick, Thin and Blended
What gouache looks like in Procreate and how Freya paints with it: thick ridged strokes, thin layered washes and seven ways to blend them.
How to Export from Procreate: PNG, PSD, PDF and Layers
Every way to get art out of Procreate: which format keeps your layers, how to export a transparent PNG, share layers separately, and move big files safely.
How to Make a Neon Glow Effect in Procreate
The layer recipe behind every glow in Procreate: Gaussian Blur stacked with Add and Color Dodge blend modes, glowing brushes, and a sign that animates.
How to Make Gradients in Procreate: 4 Easy Ways
Four ways to make smooth gradients in Procreate, from a soft airbrush to Gaussian Blur tricks, plus a melting wallpaper exercise using Liquify.
Procreate Brush Studio Explained: The Settings That Matter
Brush Studio, tab by tab, from Freya's Masterclass lessons: Stroke Path, Shape, Grain, Wet Mix and Color Dynamics, and which sliders to skip.
How to Illustrate a Children's Book in Procreate
How Freya designs a character, storyboards a 16-page dummy and preps print-ready files for a children's picture book, all in Procreate.
How to Fix Shaky Lines in Procreate with StreamLine
Wobbly lines in Procreate have a settings fix. Where StreamLine lives, what Stabilization and Motion Filtering do, and the values Freya recommends.
How to Draw a Bird in Procreate (Feathers and Detail)
Sketch feathers with Freya's grid method, build soft layers with hair brushes, then finish eye, beak and strands. From Pet Portrait Purrfection.
How to Draw a Face in Procreate: Proportions That Work
Freya's construction method for face proportions: one circle, seven guide lines and a triangle that place the eyes, nose and lips where they belong.
How to Make a Stamp Brush in Procreate (Solid & Textured)
Turn any shape you can draw into a Procreate stamp brush. Freya's full walkthrough: shape sources, Brush Studio settings, and a rubber-stamp texture.
How to Paint Clouds in Procreate (Two Ways)
Paint soft, believable clouds in Procreate two ways: a beginner skyscape built with the smudge tool, and Freya's oil-painting method with reflected color.