Learn how to use a simple iPad app to create beautiful gritty, grainy, gradiented analog-looking illustrations
Overwhelmed by the endless tools, options, and settings in today’s digital drawing apps?
What you’ll learn
- Download the Graintouch app.
- Use the Graintouch app.
- Create beautiful gritty, grainy, printy-looking artwork using Graintouch.
- Export PNGs of art created in Graintouch.
- Access SVGs of your artwork.
Course Content
- Introduction –> 10 lectures • 26min.
- Examples –> 5 lectures • 32min.
- Conclusion –> 1 lecture • 1min.
Requirements
Overwhelmed by the endless tools, options, and settings in today’s digital drawing apps?
Wish digital drawing felt more fun, light, and playful?
Meet Graintouch. It’s an iPad app with minimal everything: UI, colours, tools, options, settings. But maximum joy. It’s delightfully simple (and simply delightful) to use.
Think risograph for iPad. It’s rough and gritty and textured. Basically, full of analog character.
Make art that feels grainy, gradiented, and full of IRL analog imperfections—like it rolled right off the printing press.
In this course, I’ll walk you through:
- Downloading and installing Graintouch
- The tools, settings, and hidden gems inside the app
- How the layers interact (spoiler: it’s magical)
- Tips for getting that “printy” handmade look
- Managing, saving, and sharing your documents
- How to extract and play with the underlying SVG files
- Loads of playful examples, tips, tricks, and inspiration
This course is perfect for illustrators, designers, and doodlers who want to break free from polished perfection—and an overwhelming amount of options found in most apps these days—and explore the beauty of imperfection.
Ready to rediscover the joy of digital art? And lean into the creative constraints that Graintouch offers us?
Take the course and start creating print-inspired digital art today.