We have many tutorials to help you start sketching with Concepts and master our tools, including interviews from professionals who share their design and illustration tips. Here is a collection for you to browse through and find what you’d like to learn about. You can also find the latest here on our News.

 

Getting Started with Concepts App (YouTube)

Getting Started with Concepts' Pro Features (Article)

Deep Dive into Concepts (YouTube)

Organize Your Sketches (YouTube)

Setting Up Your Menus, Brushes and Presets (Tutorial)

Working with Your Infinite Canvas (Tutorial)

Creating a Project Template (Tutorial)

Select and Edit Your Notes, Drawings and Designs (Tutorial)

3 Ways to Draw a Straight Line (Tutorial)

Learn to Draw Series (YouTube)

Connecting to Your Audience with Presentation Mode (Tutorial)

How to Virtual Whiteboard on Your iPad (Tutorial)

 

The Slice Tool: Divide and Conquer Your Ideas (Tutorial)

The Nudge Tool (Tutorial)

Drawing Shapes Instead of Lines: 8 Exercises for Filled Stroke (Tutorial)

How to Create Palettes and Mix Colors (Tutorial)

How to Use the Color Picker (Tutorial)

Create Your Own Brushes (YouTube)

How to Make a Custom Brush Stamp and Grain (Tutorial)

How to Create a Custom Brush (Tutorial)

Create a Photo-based Brush (Tutorial)

Creating an Acrylic-based Brush (Tutorial)

 

How to Use Layers to Take Notes, Illustrate and Design (Tutorial)

Using the Object Library and Make Your Own Objects (Tutorial)

How to Make a Transparent PNG Object (Tutorial)

Tips for Exporting Your Designs (Tutorial)

How to Edit a PDF (Tutorial)

PSD Import and Export in Concepts 5.8+ (Tutorial)

Backing Up Your Drawings to iCloud (Tutorial)

 

How to Sketch with a Perspective Grid (Tutorial)

How to Set Up a Perspective Grid in Concepts (Tutorial)

How to Edit Your Grid (Tutorial)

How to Create Lined Paper (Tutorial)

How to Design in Concepts (Tutorial)

Scale and Measurement in Concepts (Tutorial)

How to Create a Floor Plan (Tutorial)

How to Clean Up a PDF or Image on your iPad (Tutorial)

How to Make Icons in Concepts App (YouTube)

Architectural Design Series with Osama Elfar (YouTube)

 

Turning an Interior Design Vision into a Visualization - with Jessika Wendel (Interview)

When Design Meets Cake, It Transforms into Delicious - with Chef Madison Lee (Interview)

Creating Innovative Game Experiences: The Making of RedWaterOne - with Bart Massee (Interview)

Capturing Architectural Vignettes on the iPad Pro - with Justin Smith (Interview)

A Practical Evolution of Ideas and Tech in Architecture - with Ewen Miller (Interview)

Problem Solving for Brand Design - with Franz Escolastico (Interview)

The Design Life of a Paperless Architect - with Craig Burns (Interview)

2D and 3D Architectural Design Workflow - with Woojae Sung (Interview)

A Journey into Architectural Design - with Evan Bronstein (Interview)

One Point Perspective Sketching - with Bhupesh Malviya (Tutorial)

Converting Problems into User Experience Workflows - with Aral Tasher (Interview)

Designing Architecture Beyond the Limits - with Sean Gallagher (Interview)

Designing Art and Space with Emotion - with Maha Alamri (Interview)

Discovering the Unexpected in Fashion Design - with Emily Keller (Interview)

Sketching Wireframes for Web Design - with Charli Marie Prangley (Interview)

Architectural Design Sketching on the iPad - with Amin Zakaria (Interview)

Winning Concepts in Retail Design - with Charles Freestone (Interview)

Jewelry Design with the iPad Pro - with Kate Case (Interview)

Adding Color and Pattern to Designs - with Jill Buckley (Interview)

Designing the Astrea Water Bottle - with Bart Massee (Interview)

Spatial Design Exploration in Architecture - with Cedric Christian, AIA (Interview)

Creating Timeless Interior Design - with Anna Aeschbacher (Interview)

Design Process in Landscape Architecture - with Warong Naivinit (Interview)

Architectural Design Tools & Workflow - with Antonio Ferreira (Interview)

Designing for Whitework - with Jill Buckley (Interview)

Nature Gadget - A Biological Approach to Technology of the Future - with Umair Zia (Interview)

Design Technology in the Classroom - with Damian Parker (Interview)

How to Sketch a Building Design - with David Clynk (Interview)

 

Emotional Storytelling - with Zareena Ayoub (Interview)

The Art of Storyboarding - with Mimi Chao (Interview)

A Fresh Batch of Cake Drawing Tips - with Frances Quinn (Interview)

Creating an Urban Sketch Journal - with Amin Zakaria (Interview)

Modeling Concept Designs on the iPad Pro with Shapr3D and Concepts Part 1 - with Chris Glenn (Tutorial)

Modeling Concept Designs on the iPad Pro with Shapr3D and Concepts Part 2 - with Lasse Pekkala (Tutorial)
How to Create Custom Gift Wrap (Tutorial)

Drawing from Inspiration - Iron Man - with Cory Siewert (Interview)

Theatre Design Modeling on the iPad Pro - with Peter McKintosh (Interview)

The Challenge of Creating Big: Capturing Melbourne on the Art Tram - with Nyein Chan (Interview)

Imagining the Grinch: Creating Concept Art for Film - with Yarrow Cheney (Interview)

Illustrating the Good Samaritan on the Surface Pro - with Matthew Farmer (Interview)

Digital Brush Design with a Splash - with Matthew Baldwin (Interview)

Comic Character Sketching - with Mikey Martinez (Interview)

Painting the Australian Outback - with Helen Gordon (Interview)

How to Touch Up a Photo (Tutorial)

Draw a City-Scape (Tutorial)

 

The Concepts Sketchnoting Toolbox (Tutorial)

Visually Minded: Drawing and Presenting Ideas as Sketchnotes - with Jonny Daenen (Interview)

How to Save the Earth with a Sketch - with Earth Endeavours (Tutorial)

Teaching Strategic Thinking Skills to Air Force Pilots - with Major John Webb (Interview)

5 Tools for Sketchnoting on Your iPad (Tutorial)

Sketchnoting Tools and Techniques - with Tobey Busch (Interview)

A Year Using Concepts at St Cyres School - with Damian Parker (Interview)

 

Many stories from our older versions of Concepts still apply to drawing with the app today, and have great industry tips and pro techniques in them. We hope these materials help you gain confidence in designing what you imagine.

 

How to Just Sketch with Concepts (Tutorial)

The Top Gestures of Concepts Pros (Tutorial)

The Secrets of PDF in Concepts (Tutorial)

 

Tools, Brushes and Colors

Eraser Tutorial - How to Draw a Shoe (YouTube)

5 Tips to Transcend the Eraser (Tutorial)

Experience True Pencil in Concepts 4.6 (Tutorial)

Watercolor Tutorial - How to Draw a Perfume Bottle (YouTube)

 

Layers Tutorial - How to Draw a Bird Feeder (YouTube)

How to Use Objects (YouTube)

How to Make Your Own Objects (YouTube)

 

How to Design a Landscape (Tutorial)

How to Use Advanced Transforms (YouTube)

How to Use: Advanced Transforms (Tutorial)

 

The Layers of Architectural Design - with Erick Mikiten (Interview)

Building a Scale Model (Tutorial)

Workflow In, Game Design Out - with Bart Massee (Interview)

How to Design a Stained Glass Window on iPad (Tutorial)

Designed to Make: Rolling Light - with Marcelo Cominguez (Interview)

 

10 Techniques to Up Your Sketching Skills (Tutorial)

Draw Your Own Hand (Tutorial)

How to Make an Easy Reflection (Tutorial)

(Good) Texture Makes It Taste Good (Tutorial)

5 Exercises for Drawing with Atmospheric Perspective (Tutorial)

3D Rendering a Mechanical Ibis - with Mike McFadyean (Interview)

How to Draw a Mandala in Concepts - with Jill Buckley (Interview)

Create Your Own Geometric Illusions - with Mike Dearborn (Interview)

The Transparency of a Glass Sphere - with Michael Fisher (Interview)

Creating Geometric Animal Art - with Cristina Marcos (Interview)

The Art and Tech of Tattoos - with Marcelo Cominguez (Interview)

Designed to Make: Introducing Tipitos - with Marcelo Cominguez (Interview)

How to Create a Stencil - with Jill Buckley (Interview)

How to Create Photorealistic Graphics - with Marcelo Cominguez (Interview)

Character Sketching Basics (Tutorial)

How to Make a Custom Greeting Card (Tutorial)

From Rough Sketch to Final Render (Tutorial)

How to Design a Stained Glass Window on iPad (Tutorial)

Creativity is Transformative - with Dave Peterson (Interview)

The Art of a Volunteer Zombie - with Helen Madden (Interview)

Performance Car Illustration - with Alex Sheers (Interview)

 

Visual Selling: How to Use Visual Strategies to Communicate Solutions and Convince Your Customers - with Marko Hamel (Interview)

 

The Concepts: Classroom Edition iBook (free iBook)

A Guide to Pruning Fruit Trees - with Alex Grover (Interview)

Do you have something you’d like to learn about or a story you'd like to share? We'd love to hear from you - please send us an email at concepts@tophatch.com and we’ll chat.