- "When you're drawing in
Procreate do your lines come out "all shaky and wobbly?" It's one of the most common
questions I get asked in our Facebook group. So in this video, I'm gonna
show you two ways on how to make your lines in Procreate
smooth and even every time. Hey, I'm Tatyana Deniz. I'm here to teach you how
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of the new videos I create. The first way to get smooth
lines in Procreate is to use the quick shape feature, let me show you. So here we are in Procreate. I'm gonna be using the monoline
brush to demonstrate to you the quick shape and all of
the smooth line tricks in here because that's the brush I most
often use for drawing Kawaii and the effect is most
visible on this brush. So let's say I'm drawing a
character and I'm drawing the head and I wanna
make it a perfect oval. So I would draw it roughly. And then if I hold down
the pencil, the quick shape is activated and the oval
becomes a perfect oval. And I can resize it, I can
rotate it as long as I don't let go of the Apple Pencil. Now let's say I want the
head to be a circle instead. If I put down my finger, the
oval turns into a circle. And you can still move
it and resize it here. Now when you let go, you'll
get the quick shape option. And even now you can still
move it and resize it. Let's say, I look at it and I say, "No, no "I do want a oval, not a circle." So I can still make it
into an oval from here and I can move it around. Now tap away and the edit
option is no longer available. So you can fill your shape,
you can do anything you like with it but once you tap
away, you will not be able to go back and edit the shape itself. From here you would have to
use the transform option. Here you can resize it. In the previous versions of
Procreate this really made the drawing pixelate. Now it seems to be better. However, I would still recommend
to get the shape as correct as you can on the first go. The same trick that we did
with the oval and the circle will work for straight lines. So let's say I draw a wonky line. If I hold down the Apple
Pencil it turns into a perfectly straight line. Now if I put my finger
down, now that line moves under increments. So I can have a perfectly horizontal line or perfectly vertical
line very, very easily. Which is handy especially
if you are using these lines as drawing guides on a
separate layer, which you can then just erase. Now let's clear the layer
and look at squares. So the same thing that we
did with the oval will work very well for squares and rectangles. So you can see turned
into a perfect square. And triangles. (lighthearted music) That didn't come out quite
as good so let's try again. (lighthearted music) And now we have a perfect triangle. Now if you wanted to turn
it into a star however that doesn't work as well. So let's say I have a wonky
star and I hold my pencil. And what I get as a
result is straight lines but it's still a wonky star. And even if I put my finger
down that does not turn into a geometrically perfect
star but that's all right. Perhaps that's a feature
they will add in the future. But for now if you need a
perfect star you can bring in a reference image and just
outline it and then have a perfect star. Now you can use a combination
of quick shapes to draw a complicated shape that still
looks really, really smooth. So for example, let's
say I'm drawing a cloud. And so that's a series of arcs. So I'll draw one and
I will let it complete as a quick shape. You see, I got a really smooth line. And here I can still edit it. Let's say it's too squished on this side. So I can actually move it
around until I feel like, yep that's about the size
of the cloud that I like. Tap away and the shape is finalized. Now I can continue the shape
by adding another arc to it. And it's not quite perfect but
remember I can just move it around and I can connect the corners so that they match up perfectly. Tap away and do another one. Edit the shape to connect
the ends perfectly or almost perfectly,
nothing is really perfect. You can see how it's
useful for drawing Kawaii. I'll move it down, oops. Okay, I lost it there. You see, I let go of the
pencil before I had a chance to edit the shape so. That's all right, let's just do it again. And I can edit it, make it
a little bit more round, move it up. And now I can complete
my cloud on the bottom. Edit the shape, make it a bit more round, connect the corners. And here I have to connect
two corners on the left and on the right, make
sure that they're matching. So here's my shape. And let's say I do some eyes. Fill up the eye. I can duplicate this eye over. Duplicate, move it over. I'm gonna move this eye over
a little bit so that it's a little bit more
symmetrical on our cloud. But now we just gonna add
the mouth and imagine. I can get just the right
expression here for the cloud just by using the quick shape feature. The second way to get
smooth lines is by using a streamline feature in
Procreate, let me show you. Here we are again in Procreate
and within each brush you can get more options by
tapping on the name again. So in monoline, in every brush
you have a streamline option and I'll show you what that does. So here I'm gonna draw a squiggly
without any streamline on. (lighthearted music) And it's kind of okay but if I was drawing a complicated shape you can
kind of see that the line is shaky and unsure. And especially if I wasn't
sure which way I'm gonna go the line comes out a little bit wobbly. Now, if I turn up the
streamline option all the way, see what happens. As I'm drawing the squiggly
the line is kind of dragging behind the Apple Pencil
and it's coming out really, really smooth. So the same thing, if I was
drawing some kind of a curve and I'm not quite sure
which way it's gonna go because the line is dragging
behind the Apple Pencil it's still coming out
kinda smooth and straight. Like this will be great for drawing hair. Maybe for doing lettering. And once you get used
to it and you know how it's gonna behave, that becomes
really, really powerful. So these are the two easy and quick ways to get smooth lines in Procreate. If this was useful to you
let me know in the comments and like and share this
video with your friends so they can draw smooth lines as well. Thanks for watching. And I will see you in the next video.
