How to Draw Cool Stuff: A Step-by-Step Guide to Digital Art on the iPad

Real drawing skills. Now on your iPad.

The bestselling How to Draw Cool Stuff series goes digital. Inside are more than 90 step-by-step lessons designed for the iPad, Apple Pencil, and Procreate. Each one starts with simple shapes and builds into a finished drawing you'll be proud of. Begin with a quick tour of Procreate: brushes, layers, color, blur, liquify, and text. Then work through four chapters: Line Art, Shading, Humans, and Draw Cool Stuff. Learn perspective, shading, faces, and hands. Then draw sneakers, skulls, dragons, graffiti, anime, holiday art, and more.

How to Draw Cool Stuff - Procreate Edition teaches the classic pencil-and-paper fundamentals that make drawings work, then shows you how to apply them with Apple Pencil and Procreate. Whether you’re picking up a stylus for the first time or moving from a traditional sketchbook to a digital canvas, you’ll develop skills that work on paper and on screen.

Inside, you’ll learn to:

• Build drawings using line, shape, form, perspective, and proportion.
• Create depth and dimension through shading.
• Use Procreate’s brushes, layers, blend modes, and digital shortcuts.
• Draw faces, hands, sneakers, skulls, dragons, graffiti, anime characters, holiday art, and more.

Experiment freely, undo mistakes, and discover new possibilities one layer at a time. Each lesson gives you practice you can bring to your own artwork. For students, teens, adult beginners, and traditional artists ready to explore digital drawing.

For teachers: Every project includes a ready-to-use lesson plan with learning goals, vocabulary, and an assessment task to support classroom instruction.

How to Draw Cool Stuff makes drawing easier than you would think and more fun than you ever imagined! Now is the time to learn how to draw the subjects and scenes you've always dreamt of drawing. Suitable for artists of any age benefiting everyone from teachers and students to self-learners and hobbyists, this book will help you realize your artistic potential and expose you to the pure joy of drawing!

All you need is an iPad, an Apple Pencil, and the Procreate app.