Robert Rios

Austin, Texas

Freelance illustrator and letterer. Drawing in Procreate since 2013, BFA in Studio Art from UT Austin. Practical guides on brushes, layers, color and export.

More about Robert Rios

Color drop escaping through a visible break in an ink boundary beside the words Fix ColorDrop.

ColorDrop Not Working? Find the Cause

Locate a ColorDrop leak, pale rim or wrong fill boundary. Check the contour, threshold and Reference layer without treating one symptom as proof of one cause.

Leaf shape with confined coral paint and an offset black-and-white visibility sheet beside the words Masks Explained.

Clipping Mask vs Alpha Lock vs Layer Mask

Clipping Mask keeps new paint separate, Alpha Lock edits existing pixels, and Layer Mask hides or reveals artwork. Choose by the revision you need to preserve.

Stylus beside a cobalt stroke that changes from separated brush stamps into a continuous curve, with the title Brush Settings.

Procreate Brush Settings: Choose the Control That Changes the Mark

Start with the mark you want to change, then adjust its control on a duplicate. Learn what spacing, smoothing, pressure, grain, and wet mixing actually do.

Green leaf with a curved right-side shadow, pale veins and a short stem beside the words Draw a Leaf.

Your first Procreate illustration: draw a leaf with built-in brushes

Make one leaf with 6B Pencil and Monoline. Follow a concrete layer sequence from rough sketch to filled shape, clipped shadow, editable backup and PNG.