

Procreate is full of features and options that aren’t available in other coloring apps and it’s only available for iOS in the App Store. Not only can it be used for digital graphics, but I also use it for hand lettering, photo editing, GIF creating, scrapbooking, and even what this article is about… digital coloring! Procreate is a multi award-winning art app that is so amazing that even the Apple stores give free lessons on using it. There are a number of apps and programs available for download, but there is one that stands out from all the rest and that is the Procreate app. One of the biggest changes is the ability to color digitally from our mobile devices. One of my favorite reasons was that if you ever made a mistake or wanted to color a page again – you could simply print the page again!īut, I’ll admit, using an App like Procreate to digitally color a page was something completely new (and exciting) to me! And when Cristin April Frey offered to write me a guest post on how to use Procreate to color, I had to say YES!Īs Cristin discusses in this tutorial, digital coloring also has its benefits, especially for people who aren’t able to color with pencils or markers – but I want to encourage you to give this a try even if you don’t fit into one of these groups!Ĭristin is a great friend of mine, and has her own Facebook group dedicated to Procreate, so read through the tutorial and watch the video at the bottom of this page and if you find that Procreate is for you, head over and jump onboard!ĭigital Coloring in the Procreate App by Cristin April FreyĬoloring has come a long way since the coloring books and crayons we used as children. When I started making coloring pages as an artist, I made the decision early on to make them available digitally because I believed that printable coloring pages were better than traditional printed coloring books.
