Blog · 1 October 2026 · 6 min read

Turn a how-to-draw sheet into a video lesson

Teachers and tutorial creators: turn a step-by-step drawing sheet into one video that builds the picture stage by stage.

Step-by-step drawing sheets are brilliant on paper: four or six small panels, each adding a little more. On video they are even better, because students can watch each stage appear and follow along at their own pace. Strokeberry’s tutorial mode turns a sheet like that into one continuous lesson video.

A four-step owl tutorial, from guide shapes to final colour

How tutorial mode works

When you upload a sheet with several panels, Strokeberry finds the panels and offers to use them as steps. Each panel becomes a stage: the video draws the first stage, then adds only what is new in the next one, and so on until the final, coloured picture. The marks, shading and colours of each panel are kept, so the video looks like the sheet you started from.

Step by step

  1. Upload the sheet. A clean scan or a digital sheet works best. If it’s a photo of paper, use the built-in cleanup to brighten the page.
  2. Check the steps. The step editor shows the panels it found, in reading order. Adjust a crop, change the order, or rename a step (“Body shape”, “Face”, “Colour”).
  3. Set the timing. Give harder steps more time. A four-step lesson usually works well at 30 to 60 seconds; longer lessons can run up to 5 minutes with Pro or a video pack.
  4. Export in the right shape. 16:9 for a classroom screen or YouTube, 9:16 for Shorts and Reels.

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