#it can be done sparingly but not how you can when it'sa setting you can put on your brush or layer

[bleaksqueak]

Did you know that Procreate doesn't have a lot of the standard filter/effects tools that Photoshop and Clip Studio have? For the most part I'm A-OK fine living without those, but the one that boggles my mind is that Procreate doesn't have a stroke feature. I bring this up because I use stroke a lot for subtle things, and I use it a lot for graphic things (like comic binding boxes, lettering, etc.)... and, for the current illustration, I used it for almost the entire background. So do you want to know the stupid way to simulate the stroke effect in Procreate? SURE YOU DO. You have to duplicate the item, or lines, you want to have a stroke effect on... You then move it below your object/lines, gausian blur the duplicate beneath to 2 - 3%, then keep duplicating that blurred copy and merging it with itself until the extra selection of pixels created by the blur are, once more, solid. It's a lot of duplicating and merging. PROCREATE, PLEASE, THIS IS YOUR ONLY TRUE FLAW. Please add a stroke tool my family is starving.

#This method is so stupid BUT IT WORKS sdkjffj #sadly it's too hard to paint with a building stroke layer doing this #and that was one of my favorite ways to simulate a certain texture I like doing #so I've mostly been living without it bc I refuse to touch photoshop anymore #...and clip gives me a headache #it's not the biggest deal in the world I mostly just think the method for simulating the effect is funny #but I do miss using it for layer painting #I don't use this method for doing my panel outlines in procreate because it's faster to just duplicate the panels and size them up #but I did use it for them in photoshop bc it was so quick/easy to do it that way in photoshop #Anyway the way I got all the texture on The Pomegranate Painting (thunderclash sfx and theremin music) that everyone seemed to like #was to use the stroke painting method I talked about #I can't do that in procreate easily enough to warrant doing #it can be done sparingly but not how you can when it'sa setting you can put on your brush or layer