Procreate Meetups -- Notes

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

(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

Etsy and Facebook shops:

advanced Boss Laser user

maintains/cleans Boss, too

large format printer user

new to Inkscape

collage website

Marvin Harrell

designer and hand lettering artist

Instagram: marvharrell

(possibly on folio.procreate.art soon)

has bought brushes and also created his own

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

very new to Procreate

Warrenj on folio.procreate.art

Inkscape and Illustrator user (Photoshop not so much)

stacks, named layers, brush Vintage>Flower Power

discussion of masking techniques

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.

Decided that we will meet every month:

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

"Procreate app -- Create and publish digital artwork"

use Chromecast(?)

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

do a better job of taking pics and screen caps

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