Making an Animated Gif in Procreate with a Pencil Doodle

We’re going to take the pencil we drew in Procreate last week and make an animated gif with it so it looks like it’s drawing a letter. Use this fun technique to make animated gifs for social media.

Watch Me Make an Animated Gift in Procreate

Tools I Use in this Video

iPad Pro Gen 3
Apple Pencil Gen 2
My Pencil Grip*
Procreate App
Colo Mono Brush

Video Timestamps

00:34 – Head over to Hollypixels.com

00:40 – What we’re using

01:00 – Starting Procreate and Explanation on Why I Duplicate to Avoid Pixelation

03:15 – Starting by Merging Pencil Doodle Layers

04:15 – Backup Layers

04:27 – Writing the Letter with Colo Mono Brush

05:14 – Scale Pencil to Size

05:40 – Making All of the Layers (Duplicating)

07:04 – Beginning Of Rotating Pencil Groups + Erasing Letter Portions

13:29 – Merge the Groups of Each Pencil/Letter Set

14:18 – How to Save Animation

Making an Animated Gif in Procreate with a Pencil Doodle