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Ā Level up your hand-design and rendering skills with anĀ iPad for ArchitectsĀ online course


If you love to design and sketch with a pencil, then our iPad drawing coursesĀ will help you make the transition to digital drawing and fall in love with drawing all over again. Learn real-world workflows that help youĀ become more productive, stay better connected, and generateĀ billable hours.

Getting startedĀ is easy as 1-2-3:

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BrowseĀ the resources belowĀ to find what you need

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Place your order with the payment option thatā€™s best

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

Our courses:

Procreate Accelerator (save with 1-time payment)

Master Procreate with over 50 guided exercises designed specifically for architects and designers. Transform your iPad into a powerful creative tool, enhancing your professional design and rendering workflows. The course covers everything from basic sketching techniques to advanced rendering methods, ensuring you can produce high-quality digital drawings and visualizations that meet professional standards. With detailed instructions and practical exercises, you'll gain the confidence to incorporate Procreate into your daily workflow, making your design process more efficient and productive.

One-time payment of $299

Morpholio Trace Accelerator

Integrate powerful digital tools into your daily practice with Morpholio Trace. This course enhances productivity and creativity, making Morpholio Trace an indispensable part of your workflow. You'll discover how to use Trace for quick sketching, redlining, and creating overlays, enabling you to communicate design ideas more effectively. The course also covers advanced features such as layer management, perspective tools, and export options, helping you streamline your design process and collaborate more efficiently with your team and clients.

One-time payment of $299

Sketchup for iPad for Beginners

Learn to import, manipulate, and export 3D models starting from basic 2D plans and elevations. This beginner-friendly course equips you with essential SketchUp skills for iPad, allowing you to bring your design ideas to life in a three-dimensional space. You'll explore fundamental concepts such as creating and modifying geometry, applying materials, and setting up scenes. By the end of the course, you'll be able to confidently use SketchUp to develop detailed and accurate 3D models for your projects, enhancing your presentations and client communications.

One-time payment of $299

Procreate for Residential Design

Design a 2,000 sq ft modern house from initial sketches to detailed plans. This comprehensive course offers step-by-step guidance, helping you transfer your skills to any small- to medium-sized project. You'll learn how to create accurate and detailed architectural drawings, from concept to completion, using Procreate. The course includes modules on space planning, elevation drafting, and rendering techniques, providing you with all the tools you need to design beautiful residential spaces. Whether you're an experienced designer or just starting out, this course will elevate your skills and streamline your workflow.

One-time payment of $299

Procreate for Rendering

Quickly create stunning hand-rendered visuals with Procreate. This course is perfect for beginners and intermediates, focusing on enhancing your presentation skills. You'll learn various rendering techniques, including shading, texturing, and color application, to produce professional-quality visuals that impress clients and colleagues alike. The course includes practical exercises that help you apply these techniques to real-world projects, ensuring you can create compelling and realistic renderings that elevate your design presentations.

One-time payment of $299

Concept Design Workshop

The flagship Procreate & Sketchup for iPad Concept Design Workshop is now part of our expanded Premium All-Access Pass. This workshop provides a structured path through four interrelated courses, including a new bonus *Morpholio course. Gain lifetime access to all courses and enhance your creativity, productivity, and mobility with iPad drawing and design workflows. Create a complete concept design for a 2,000 SF single-family residence, from image board to drafted plans, SketchUp 3D model, and hand-rendered presentation drawings, ready for further development in 2D or 3D CAD. This comprehensive workshop equips you with the skills to tackle any design project, making you more efficient and versatile in your professional practice.(Buyers may choose a monthly payment option as well.)

One-time payment of $997

Who needs iPad drawing?

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

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

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If you've beenĀ frustrated working from home because you lack the toolsĀ to share your sketches, details, and PDF markups, the iPad will keep you seamlessly connectedĀ to your project team and office workflowā€“no matter where you are in the world. It's like havingĀ a complete design studio with you wherever you go.

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As an architect and full-time professional renderer, I have been using iPad appsĀ 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 drawingĀ to do my architectural design and rendering.Ā 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

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

Sort byĀ Imperial-only products here. Click for Metric-only productsĀ 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 & METRIC "Everything For Drawing To Scale" Bundle

Everything you need to start drawing to scale in Procreate in either IMPERIAL or METRIC, now! Includes: Grid Template Packs; Full- and Pocket-Size Scale Ruler Packs; FF&E Template Packs; 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. Itā€™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, plantsā€¦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 ā€œedge-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 12ā€ rulers for long dimension strings; ā€œPocket-Sizeā€ 6ā€ 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
ā€¦I started using the rendering tactics in your Rendering with Procreate course which are massively time-saving and optimize my work. Long story short, Iā€™m now doing these quick, 2-to 5-hour color renderingsā€”similar to what I learned in your courseā€”for upcoming broadcast commercials and shows. My new clients love my Procreate hand renderings!Ā  So you were actually not BS-ing when you said this stuff could change your life. Just wanted to thank you again. Iā€™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.

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ā€”Sven Johnson

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

Mark Page Design Art Tutorials

Iā€™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 Iā€™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 believeĀ thinking with a pencil in hand is still the best way to design, but my long-standing analog design and rendering business almost died becauseĀ I refused to give up thatĀ pencil asĀ the rest of the world went digital around me.

I had no choice but to teach myself iPad drawing in order to update my servicesĀ 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.
ā€“James

Start future-proofing your skills today

Procreate Accelerator (save with 1-time payment)

Master Procreate with over 50 guided exercises designed specifically for architects and designers. Transform your iPad into a powerful creative tool, enhancing your professional design and rendering workflows. The course covers everything from basic sketching techniques to advanced rendering methods, ensuring you can produce high-quality digital drawings and visualizations that meet professional standards. With detailed instructions and practical exercises, you'll gain the confidence to incorporate Procreate into your daily workflow, making your design process more efficient and productive.

One-time payment of $299

Morpholio Trace Accelerator

Integrate powerful digital tools into your daily practice with Morpholio Trace. This course enhances productivity and creativity, making Morpholio Trace an indispensable part of your workflow. You'll discover how to use Trace for quick sketching, redlining, and creating overlays, enabling you to communicate design ideas more effectively. The course also covers advanced features such as layer management, perspective tools, and export options, helping you streamline your design process and collaborate more efficiently with your team and clients.

One-time payment of $299

Sketchup for iPad for Beginners

Learn to import, manipulate, and export 3D models starting from basic 2D plans and elevations. This beginner-friendly course equips you with essential SketchUp skills for iPad, allowing you to bring your design ideas to life in a three-dimensional space. You'll explore fundamental concepts such as creating and modifying geometry, applying materials, and setting up scenes. By the end of the course, you'll be able to confidently use SketchUp to develop detailed and accurate 3D models for your projects, enhancing your presentations and client communications.

One-time payment of $299

Procreate for Residential Design

Design a 2,000 sq ft modern house from initial sketches to detailed plans. This comprehensive course offers step-by-step guidance, helping you transfer your skills to any small- to medium-sized project. You'll learn how to create accurate and detailed architectural drawings, from concept to completion, using Procreate. The course includes modules on space planning, elevation drafting, and rendering techniques, providing you with all the tools you need to design beautiful residential spaces. Whether you're an experienced designer or just starting out, this course will elevate your skills and streamline your workflow.

One-time payment of $299

Procreate for Rendering

Quickly create stunning hand-rendered visuals with Procreate. This course is perfect for beginners and intermediates, focusing on enhancing your presentation skills. You'll learn various rendering techniques, including shading, texturing, and color application, to produce professional-quality visuals that impress clients and colleagues alike. The course includes practical exercises that help you apply these techniques to real-world projects, ensuring you can create compelling and realistic renderings that elevate your design presentations.

One-time payment of $299

Concept Design Workshop

The flagship Procreate & Sketchup for iPad Concept Design Workshop is now part of our expanded Premium All-Access Pass. This workshop provides a structured path through four interrelated courses, including a new bonus *Morpholio course. Gain lifetime access to all courses and enhance your creativity, productivity, and mobility with iPad drawing and design workflows. Create a complete concept design for a 2,000 SF single-family residence, from image board to drafted plans, SketchUp 3D model, and hand-rendered presentation drawings, ready for further development in 2D or 3D CAD. This comprehensive workshop equips you with the skills to tackle any design project, making you more efficient and versatile in your professional practice.(Buyers may choose a monthly payment option as well.)

One-time payment of $997

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