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 Level up your hand-design and rendering skills with an iPad Drawing course


If you love to design and sketch with a pencil, then iPad drawing will help you become more productive, stay better connected, and fall in love with drawing all over again–wherever you take your iPad.

Why does anyone need iPad drawing?

If you're tired of searching YouTube every time you need to do something on the iPad, you'll love the time-saving flow of an online course taken at your convenience.

 

If you're still anxiously using pencil on paper while everyone around you has gone digital, iPad drawing combines the familiarity of pencil with the superpowers of Photoshop, updating your hand-drawing talents for the 21st century.

 

If you've been frustrated working from home because you lack the tools to share your sketches, details, and PDF markups, the iPad will keep you seamlessly connected to your project team and office workflow–no matter where you are in the world. It's like having a complete design studio with you wherever you go.

 

How iPad Drawing Levels Up Your Drawing Talents

As an architect and full-time professional renderer, I have been using iPad apps since the Apple Pencil was introduced. In this video I show you the top 10 reasons why I gave up pencils and paper and started using only iPad drawing to do my architectural design and rendering. Click the button to watch!
 
"Love how you break down the fundamental barrier of creativity. Where does it start? Like the Big Bang it has to start some where and just like anything in life, it's more the process of discovery than dwelling on the idea to come to being. This video should be a must for any architectural aspiring student learning the art of creativity. P.S. Your students at UCLA are very luck to have you!"

Toru Hasegawa

Co-founder, Morpholio Trace; Professor of Architectural Design, Columbia University

Getting started is easy as 1-2-3:

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Browse the resources below to find what you need

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Click on the link in your course receipt, log in and start changing your life

If you only need Procreate tools, start here:

Browse our Procreate Metric and "Imperial" draw-to-scale products

Sort by Imperial-only products here. Click for Metric-only products here.

IMPERIAL Architect ULTRA Bundle (Every Tool We Make!)

The ULTRA Bundle includes every tool an Imperial architect needs to design, sketch, draft, dimension, detail and render in like a Pro in Procreate. Its literally every tool in the Procreate Product Store, at a *25% savings when bundled. *A $194.90 value when items are purchased on their own.

$147.97 USD

IMPERIAL "Everything For Drawing To Scale" Bundle

Everything you need to start drawing to scale in Procreate, now! Includes: IMPERIAL Grid Template Pack - 11x17 and 18x24; IMPERIAL;  Full- and Pocket-Size Scale Ruler Pack; IMPERIAL FF&E Template Pack 1-8 & 1-4 Scale; Save 20% over $59.97 retail value when purchased separately.

$47.97 USD

Architect & Designer Brushset PLUS 3-Stencil Brushset Bundle

Work faster, smarter and better AND save money with this 4-brushset bundle that includes: 1) the best-selling Architect Brush & Symbol Brushset, 2) the One-Tap FF&E Stencil Brushset, 3) the Entourage Stencil Brushset, and 4) the One-Tap Design Grid and Scale Ruler Stencil Brushset. Save 20% over the $74.96 value when items are purchased on their own. It’s every brush a designer will ever need for one low bundled price.

$59.97 USD

Imperial FF&E & Space-Planning 1/8" & 1/4" Scale Template Pack

Save time designing and presenting your architecture, space planning and interior designs with this comprehensive collection of importable 1/8- and 1/4-inch scale FF&E needed for residential, institutional or commercial interior design, including furniture, kitchen and bath fixtures, lighting, plants…even pianos, game tables and computers!

$19.99 USD

*Full-size & "Pocket-size" Scale Ruler Pack (Imperial, Metric & Engineer)

Draw to scale in Procreate with these *full- and *pocket-size Imperial, Metric and Engineer scale rulers. New “edge-to-edge" design allows precise alignment of both ends of scale (without distracting blank spaces at ends of traditional scales). Rulers import to scale in any 300dpi canvas (whether that canvas is 17x11, 24x18 or any other size). *Full-Size 12” rulers for long dimension strings; “Pocket-Size” 6” rulers for greater maneuverability.

$19.99 USD

IMPERIAL Design Grid Template Pack - 11x17 & 18x24 Canvas Sizes

Give proper scale to your early concept design ideas with this Architect & Designer Grid Bundle featuring ten (10) design grid underlays in both 17x11 and NEW! 24x18 canvas sizes. Features multiple grid emphases in each size.

$19.99 USD

If you're ready to master iPad drawing, find the course that's right for you below:

Browse our take-at-your-own-pace online courses

Student Lifetime Access Pass: Procreate Accelerator for Architects & Designers

Maximize your investment with the Student Lifetime Access Pass for the Procreate Accelerator for Architects and Designers online course. Make a one-time purchase and save $60 compared to the total monthly fees, with the added peace of mind of a 30-day satisfaction guarantee. Secure lifetime access to all course materials and updates—perfect for those committed to long-term growth in their design careers.

$299.00 USD

Student Lifetime Pass: Morpholio Accelerator

Maximize your investment with the Student Lifetime Pass to the Morpholio Accelerator course, saving $60 compared to the total cost of monthly payments. With this one-time purchase, you gain perpetual access to the course that will help you master this game-changing iPad app. Your one-time purchase grants you ownership of the course and all future updates, for life. Comes complete with our blue-chip, 30-day money-back, no questions asked guarantee.

$299.00 USD

Student Lifetime Access Pass: Sketchup for iPad

Maximize your investment with the Student Lifetime Access Pass to the SketchUp for iPad online course, saving $60 compared to the total cost of monthly payments. With this one-time purchase, you gain perpetual access to the course that will help you master this game-changing iPad app. Your one-time purchase grants you ownership of the course and all future updates, for life. Comes complete with our blue-chip, 30-day money-back, no questions asked guarantee.

$299.00 USD

Student Lifetime Access Pass: Procreate for Residential Design

Maximize your investment with the Student Lifetime Access Pass to the Procreate for Residential Design online course, saving $60 compared to the total cost of monthly payments. With this one-time purchase, you gain perpetual access to comprehensive resources for designing a 2,000 sf modern house—from image boards to fully-drafted plans. Own the course outright, complete with a 30-day satisfaction guarantee and unlimited future updates.

$299.00 USD

Student Lifetime Pass: Procreate for Rendering

Maximize your investment with the Student Lifetime Pass to the Procreate for Rendering course, saving $60 compared to the total cost of monthly payments. With this one-time purchase, you gain perpetual access to the course that will help you master these game-changing rendering techniques. Your one-time purchase grants you ownership of the course and all future updates, for life. Comes complete with our blue-chip, 30-day money-back, no questions asked guarantee.

$299.00 USD

The Procreate & Sketchup for iPad Concept Design Workshop (4 course bundle)

Everything you need to create a concept design for a 2,000 SF single-family residence from image board, to drafted & dimensioned plans, to Sketchup for iPad 3D model and hand-rendered presentation drawings, all ready to be developed further in 2D or 3D CAD.

$2,147.00 USD
…I started using the rendering tactics in your Rendering with Procreate course which are massively time-saving and optimize my work. Long story short, I’m now doing these quick, 2-to 5-hour color renderings—similar to what I learned in your course—for upcoming broadcast commercials and shows. My new clients love my Procreate hand renderings!  So you were actually not BS-ing when you said this stuff could change your life. Just wanted to thank you again. I’m starting on the Sketchup for iPad course now, and please let me know if you ever do one for Shapr-3D. With gratitude and appreciation for all you do.

 

 

—Sven Johnson

Set Designer, Professor of 3D Visualization, F.I.T.

Mark Page Design Art Tutorials

I’m a very recent ex Disney Imagineer (Senior concept designer/ Art Director) and I want to grow my skills doing exactly what your doing for vacation resorts and such. Love your videos because I’m using and learning the same tools. Thank you for these tutorials!!!

Meet your guide

My name is James Akers. I'm a registered architect, full-time professional renderer, UCLA professor of iPad Drawing, and creator of the iPad For Architects YouTube channel.

Like you, I believe thinking with a pencil in hand is still the best way to design, but my long-standing analog design and rendering business almost died because I refused to give up that pencil as the rest of the world went digital around me.

I had no choice but to teach myself iPad drawing in order to update my services and continue supporting my family. It's been an adventure marked by years of trial and error, but I eventually got the hang of it, and now I share the time- and frustration-saving lessons I learned in the online courses you're about to browse on this site. I hope you'll try one, but if the time isn't right, please subscribe and stay in touch anyway, OK? I look forward to learning as much from you as I hope you'll learn from me.
–James
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