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Revision as of 17:54, 17 February 2022

Our First Procreate Meetup 02/15/22:

6 people RSVPed on Meetup, 3 attended (2 canceled, 1 no-show)

after some fiddling, we used the newly-repaired 70" HDMI monitor

(we picked HDMI channel 4 (of 5) with the universal remote)

forgot to take any pics or screenshots, however


Attendees:

(We are all using Procreate 5.25, current version)

Lisa MacNicol

business owner, wreath and door hangar maker

Facebook.com/LisaMacCrafts

Etsy.com/shop/lisamaccrafts

Instagram: @lisamaccrafts

advanced Boss Laser user

maintains/cleans Boss Laser, too

large format printer user

new to Inkscape and Illustrator

PicCollage -- layouts, stickers, templates, backgrounds


Marvin Harrell

designer and lettering artist

Instagram: @marvharrell

(possibly on folio.procreate.art soon)

has bought brushes and also created his own brushes

uses Splice iPad app for editing and adding music to videos

demoed Hidden Layers, QuickMenu (modified 4-finger tap to be more useful)

Unsplash -- website of free images

future projects: laser cut water painted color paper – butterfly image (02/16/22)


Warren Jokinen

Meetup host, wiki data wrangler and recovering engineer

wiki.pikespeakmakerspace.org

very new to Procreate

Warrenj on folio.procreate.art

Inkscape and Illustrator user (Photoshop not so much)

stacks, named layers, brush Vintage>Flower Power

masking techniques, destructive vs non-destructive

Other Tips:

quickly drag out from the Modify Button to slide the sidebar up or down,

use Actions>Prefs to make the interface appear on the right-hand side

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcLhSfB9bYc


Decided that we will meet again next month:

propose next meeting for Third Tuesday, slightly earlier time of 5:00 PM (to 6:30ish)

"Procreate app -- Create and publish digital artwork"

use Chromecast(?)

do a better job of taking pics and screen caps

Potential topics:

mandalas and Symmetry (grids, snapping)

more on masking

layer count and "layer anxiety"

sending Procreate files to our Zing and/or Boss lasers

other topics??