Straight lines are especially handy when you are creating drawing guides.Ĭreating asymmetrical shapes with the quick shape feature doesn’t work as well. If you put your finger down as we did for the oval, you can move the line in increments allowing you to have a perfectly horizontal line or perfectly vertical line. If you draw a line and hold down your pencil, it turns into a perfectly straight line. The quick shape feature also works to create perfectly straight lines. However, I’d recommend trying to get the exact shape you want before exiting the quick shape feature. If you decide you want to resize the circle again, then you can use the transform feature. Once you tap away, the quick shape feature edit options will no longer be available.įrom here you’re able to fill the shape in with color.

Now when you let go, there will be an “Edit Shape” button at the top giving you the option to continue to resize the shape and move it around. It might look something like this when you’re drawing: The quick shape feature also works for squares and triangles.

Like before, you can still move it and resize it. To achieve this, you simply put your finger down on the screen, and the oval turns into a circle. Now let’s say I want the head to be a circle instead. I can then resize it and rotate it as long as I don’t release my Apple pencil off the screen. And then to make it perfect I would hold down the pencil to activate the quick shape feature.

The effect of the quick shape feature is also most visible on this brush.įor this example, let’s say I want the head of a character to be a perfect oval. For this demonstration, I’m using the Monoline brush because this is what I use most often for kawaii drawings. When learning how to draw smooth lines in Procreate, the first option is to use the quick shape feature. Use the Quick Shape Feature to Smooth Out Your Lines Symmetrical Shapes

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