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Your First Week in Procreate, Without the Overwhelm
You do not need forty brushes or a course. You need five gestures and one finished drawing. Here is the honest starting path.
Kai Underwood
Issue No. 42 · August 4, 2026
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Two Tap 2026: The Free Summit Where 30+ Working Artists Show Their Hands
On September 7, summit.twotap.art opens for four days of live teaching from the illustrators behind work for Louis Vuitton, Sephora and Apple. Here is what is actually happening, and why we are sending the whole Collective.
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The Only Brushes That Have Earned a Spot on My iPad
After years of buying every pack that trended, I use maybe six. Here they are and, more useful, why the rest got deleted.
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Spotlight: The Painter Who Left Every Edge Soft on Purpose
How one illustrator built a signature out of the thing most beginners try to fix, the blur.
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Why Your Colors Look Muddy (and the Fix Nobody Mentions)
It is almost never the palette. It is temperature and value. Two ideas that fix ninety percent of muddy digital painting.
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Layer Masks, Explained Like You Have Never Used One
The single most useful thing in the app, and the most avoided. Ten minutes here will change how you work.
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From Ugly Sketch to Finished Piece: The Real Middle
Everyone shows the sketch and the final. The interesting part is the awkward hour in between, so that is what we are showing.
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