Drawing guides

Guides for drawing on iPad, iPhone and Mac, whichever app you draw in: keeping your art safe, setting up a canvas, and what new devices mean for artists. For how to use Rindraw itself, see the Handbook.

Keeping your art safe

• How to back up your Procreate artworksExport every artwork to Files, check your iPad backup, and what to do before deleting the app or after an artwork's gone.
• Bringing Procreate files into RindrawEvery layer comes over, unflattened: names, blend modes, masks, clipping, groups and Animation Assist. What doesn't, and how to move a gallery.

Fixing problems

• Why Procreate lines look pixelated or blurryA small canvas, transforms, resizing up and shared pixel art: why each softens lines, and the fix for each.
• Procreate ColorDrop filling the whole canvasThe threshold, Reference layers, gaps in the lines and white specks: five reasons a fill floods or falls short.
• Procreate colors stuck in grayscale or too paleA gray or CMYK color profile, a layer mask, the iPad's Color Filters, or the brush: how to tell which, and the fix.
• Export a transparent PNG from ProcreateHide Background color, share as PNG, and why it turns white in Photos or won't save there.
• Apple Pencil not working in ProcreateNot drawing, no pressure, palm marks and skipping lines: the cause and fix for each.
• Procreate brushes won't import, or are greyed outZIP files, extensions, Google Drive and other apps: why brushes grey out, and how to import them.
• Procreate on a new iPad: iCloud and moving your artWhere your art really is, how to move it to a new iPad, and iCloud restores that get stuck.

Free tools and downloads

• Open a Procreate file on any computerA free viewer for .procreate files on Windows, Mac, Android or a Chromebook: see the layers and save them as PNG, nothing uploaded.
• Open a PSD without PhotoshopA free viewer for .psd and .psb files: see the layers, hide any, and save the image or each layer as PNG, nothing uploaded.
• All free file viewersOpen Illustrator (.ai) and Krita (.kra) files too, as well as Procreate and PSD, in your browser.
• 24 Days of Drawing: winter promptsA winter drawing prompt a day from December 1 to 24, each with a hint, for any app or paper.
• Free paper textures and brush tips27 seamless paper grains and 42 brush tips as grayscale PNGs, CC0, for Procreate, Photoshop and any painting app.

Setting up a canvas

• Canvas sizes for drawingPixel sizes for A4, A3, US Letter and comic pages at 300 dpi, WEBTOON, Instagram and YouTube.

Devices

• Drawing on the new iPad miniThe 2026 iPad mini's OLED screen, nano-texture glass, which Apple Pencil to get, and canvas sizes.
• Procreate on Mac, Windows and AndroidWhere Procreate runs, its announced Mac version, and what to draw with on a computer meanwhile.
• A Procreate Dreams alternativeDrawing and animation in one app on iPad, iPhone and Mac, next to Procreate, Pocket and Dreams at $31.97.
• Apple Pencil on iPhone DuoWhich Pencil works with iPhone Duo in iOS 27.2, how to pair it, and what it can and can't do.

Moving from another app

• Moving from ProcreateBring your artworks, brushes and palettes over with their layers and settings.
• Switching from other appsStep by step from Clip Studio Paint, Krita, Photoshop, ibisPaint, Infinite Painter, Fresco and Sketchbook: what comes over and what doesn't.
• Compare drawing appsHow Rindraw compares with Procreate, Clip Studio Paint, ibisPaint, Krita, Photoshop and more, with sources.