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Make your own vintage digital papers in Procreate with the Curious Relics sticker brush set
Make Your Own Digital Collage Papers: Curious Relics
If you make collages, you're probably familiar with the concept of digital papers. Making your own is a lot of fun, and it means you end up with papers that fit your style and your favorite colors. Once they're made, you can use them however you lik...
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Make a skull with flowers Digital collage in Procreate
Skull in Bloom Digital Collage in Procreate
For this week's tutorial, we are making a collage with a vintage skull as the focal point and a big pile of flowers, mushrooms and bugs around it, all sitting on a background of old papers. Everything comes from my new Curious Relics brushes, and I ...
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Autumn Wreath Digital Collage made in Procreate
Autumn Wreath Collage in Procreate
This week we're making a cozy autumn wreath in Procreate, starting with a simple circle of sticks and layering leaves, acorns, pine cones and berries on top. The leaf stamps in my newly updated Autumn Magic set are all solid, so they stack neat...
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Digital collage critter butterfly made in Procreate
Autumn Collage Critters in Procreate
I wanted to make something quirky for today's tutorial: a digital butterfly collage built entirely out of leaves, sticks, acorns and berries, using my newly updated Autumn Magic brushes. The idea is to train your eye to look at shapes in unconventio...
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Digital Mixed Media Art Journaling Tutorial
Mixed Media Art Journal Page
Today I wanted to share a quick little inspiration video. It starts with a rainbow of watercolor circles, juxtaposed against dark vintage text patterns, and finished off with inky florals and lettering. I love throwing a few different ideas together...
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Procreate Export Settings Explained
One of the questions I get asked more than almost anything else is how to export artwork from Procreate, which format to use, and why the finished file looks blurry. So I've put together a walk through of every option in the share menu, what ea...
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make a watercolor bouquet in Procreate with stamp brushes
Watercolor Bouquet in Procreate
Today we're making a loose watercolor bouquet in Procreate, built up from stamp brushes. Flowers, leaves, a bit of greenery, and some splashes and splatters in the background. Nothing too precise, we're just arranging things until the bouq...
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Mid-century landscape art in Procreate with patterned mountains, a ringed retro sun, and green botanical stems in warm autumn colors
Midcentury Landscape in Procreate
I love a good landscape, and I've been meaning to make one with my Midcentury Magic brushes for a long time. So for today's tutorial, we're building a midcentury inspired landscape with layered mountains, a glowing line gradient sun, ...
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Masking tape watercolor effect in Procreate with rainbow washes, white lines, newsprint and gold sparkle
Watercolor Tape Resist in Procreate
I've always admired tape resist watercolor, where you tape off sections of paper, wash color over the whole thing, then peel the tape away to reveal clean white lines. So I wanted to see if I could recreate that look digitally, and it turns out laye...
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Naturalist art journal page in Procreate with moths, mineral specimens, moon phases and a palmistry hand over antique script
Nature Art Journal Page in Procreate
Let's do a digital art journal page today. This time we're making a naturalist journal page, the kind a Victorian field scientist might have scribbled in: moths, mineral specimens, moon phases and messy handwritten notes, all layered over ...
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Distressed text effect in Procreate showing the words Worn Text in a cracked weathered serif font with gold metallic texture on a dark background
Distressed Text in Procreate
While working on the title image for my new Pattern Decay brush set, I developed a process for distressing the title text that I wanted to share in this tutorial. We'll add a font, then break it up with texture brushes using a layer mask, which...
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Make your own digital papers in Procreate with vintage pattern brushes
Make Your Own Digital Collage Papers: Pattern Decay
If you love collage, you've probably bought digital papers before. But have you ever made your own? It's easier than you might think, and there's something really satisfying about building a collection of papers that match your person...
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Cyanotype-inspired digital art in Procreate with pale ferns on a Prussian blue background
Cyanotype Inspired Art in Procreate
If you're not familiar with cyanotype, it's a photographic method where you coat paper or fabric with a light sensitive solution, then arrange things like ferns and found objects on it, then leave it out in the sun. The sun turns most of it a deep P...
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digital art journaling doodle in procreate
Loose Mixed Media Doodle: Art Journal in Procreate
A quick, relaxed art journal page made in Procreate. I wanted to play with my Mixed Media brushes in a journaling context for the first time, so this is a loose, no rules doodle with layered paper, oil pastels, and a bit of asemic writing. Take it s...
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Digital art journal page in Procreate with layered gesso marks, public domain ephemera, ripped paper edges, stitched accents, and hidden asemic writing
Mixed Media Collage with Realistic Shadows: Art Journal in Procreate
This is the first video in a new series, where I'll be inviting you to make art journal pages alongside me in Procreate, sometimes with a prompt or theme. For this first page I wanted to keep things simple and work with my new free resources to...
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Bright psychedelic digital acrylic pour created in Procreate, with paint cells and layered patterns of stripes, stars, and dots
Add Patterns to a Digital Acrylic Pour
A little while ago I made a digital acrylic pour that looked pretty true to life, cells and all. But for today's tutorial I wanted to experiment a bit further, pushing it somewhere real paint could never go, layering patterns and blend modes on top ...
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Page assist doesn't work very well for mixed media journals in Procreate. Instead, use stacks and preview mode. Free procreate journal template included
How to Set Up Journals in Procreate Using Stacks
If you've ever tried to make a digital journal or notebook in Procreate using Page Assist, you might have run into the same problems I did: not enough layers for mixed media, paper textures disappearing, and a workflow that feels a bit clunky. I've ...
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A Brief History of Putting Things into Books
People have been putting things into books for as long as books have existed. Commonplace books, family albums, scrapbooks, bullet journals, traveler's notebooks. It's one of the oldest creative habits there is, and right now it's having a serious m...
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Create Realistic Acrylic Pour Cells in Procreate
Making realistic acrylic pour cells in Procreate is one of the most requested tutorials I've had, and for good reason: it's surprisingly tricky to get right. In this tutorial, I'm showing you a layer mask technique that changes the whole approach. ...
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Easy tutorial showing how to cut elements out of their background for use in Procreate digital collage
Turn Any Photo into a Procreate Collage Element
A few of you spotted something in my recent travel journaling video: I was using a built in iPad feature to pull an object from a photo and drop it into Procreate as a cut out. There was some interest in this method and its applications for digital ...
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Digital Travel Journaling in Procreate
I've been experimenting with digital journaling lately. I'm a bit overwhelmed by all the terminology in this genre: Junk journaling? Scrapbooking? Art journaling? It's a little bit of everything or maybe something else entirely. But in any case, eve...
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zentangle pattern brushes in the Procreate app relaxing digital art prompt
Fill a Map with Patterns
Today we are exploring a fun, vibrant way to use patterns to create a "map" of color and texture. This project turned into a bit of a sunshiny, Easter inspired piece, and I just went with it!  We are using a simple technique of laying down a ma...
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Digital abstract art with watercolor and complex pattern textures
Abstract Pattern Play with Watercolor
This is a fun, beginner friendly project that's perfect for getting to know the Pattern Reveal brush set. We'll start with a simple watercolor background using Procreate's built in brushes, then layer patterns on top to create an abst...
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Jennifer Nichols Alaina Jensen creative live hangout on YouTube Midcentury Magic
Midcentury Magic - Live with Jennifer Nichols!
In January 2026, I joined the lovely Jennifer Nichols live on Youtube and we painted together in Procreate using my Midcentury Magic Procreate Brushes. This is one of those slow, easy art sessions where the goal is simply to create, chat, and enjoy ...
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add halftones textures and patterns to abstract art in procreate
Add Texture, Patterns & Halftones to Shapes
Sometimes a composition keeps calling you back, asking for more. In a previous tutorial, I created a simple abstract shape composition using my free Abstract Shape Stamps. But once my Midcentury Magic brush set was ready, I couldn't resist revi...
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Digital greenery christmas holiday wreath made in the Procreate app
Create a Realistic Greenery Wreath
Today's tutorial is a very quick and easy wreath with a focal point on one side. In my opinion, a wreath is beautiful no matter what season and can be very versatile and used with lots of different types of greenery. We will cover how to create...
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digital alcohol ink artwork with metallic gold leaf made in the Procreate app
Colorful Alcohol Ink with Metallics
Today I wanted to do a very simple and colorful digital alcohol ink piece in Procreate that includes a lot of metallics and very cheerful colors, perfect for June! Canvas Dimensions: 3000x2000 pixels at 300 DPI
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A digital collage landscape made with paper, paint, and ephemera in the Procreate app. A tiny figure stands on top of a mountain.
Digital Collage Landscape
In today’s tutorial, we will create an abstract digital collage landscape. First we will use a photo from Unsplash to find the basic shapes and colors of the landscape, and then take it off the rails by using paper textures, ephemera stamps, stitchi...
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digital alcohol ink whimsical abstract forest made in the procreate app with alcohol ink brushes
Whimsical Abstract Forest with Digital Alcohol Ink
For today’s tutorial we will be making a forest out of digital alcohol ink which is very abstract and looks a bit like it might belong in a Dr. Suess book! It's a bit silly and whimsical, and a lot of fun to make. The technique is inspired (wit...
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A digital watercolor painting of a black and gray moon done in the procreate app with watercolor brushes
Paint a Watercolor Moon in Procreate
Today we are using one of my favourite techniques for boosting creativity - completely removing color as a variable by using only one color (black in this case). This forces us to focus on other variables instead to make the art more interesting, li...
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abstract painterly artwork made in the procreate app with digital oil brushes and acrylic brushes
Abstract Art using a Reference Photo
Sometimes with abstract art, a blank page can be really intimidating because of the wide open realm of possibility it represents. You can do any shapes, colors, techniques, patterns etc - the possibilities are limitless! This can be really scary and...
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Hidden Writing in Digital Mixed Media
Today I wanted to share with you an art prompt that that I keep coming back to: using deliberately illegible handwriting as a visual texture in digital Mixed Media. It’s a twist on asemic writing where the marks do have a personal meaning, but ...
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Create an Autumn Nature Mandala
In this tutorial, I’ll be using my Autumn Magic brush set in Procreate to create an Autumn themed nature mandala. It will be a digital version of taking a walk in the forest, gathering bits and pieces of Autumn—stones, leaves, sticks—and arranging t...
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Autumn Themed Digital Art Journal Page with Autumn leaves, paper, paint and doodles.
Autumn Themed Art Journal Page
Canvas SetupSize: 3000 × 2000 pxBrush Sets Used:Autumn Magic (for leaves, sticks, and maple seeds)Mixed Media (for papers, cloth, paint, ephemera, and stitches)Color Palette: Autumn Magic Step 1: Build the Focal Elements Create each item on its own ...
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Create an Alcohol Ink Painting with White Space and Gold Details in Procreate
I haven't played with my Alcohol Ink brushes in too long, and they were calling me today! Join me on this soothing journey - let's see where our creativity will take us! Canvas Dimensions: 3000 x 2000 pixels Brushes used: Amazing Alcohol ...
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Tips & Tricks

Practical tips, short tutorials, and fun tricks to know, helping you get started and work more smoothly across Procreate and other digital art apps.