Have you had a chance to take my other Procreate classes, including Watercolour Floral Abstracts with Procreate and Simple Brushes in Procreate for Quick Compositions? If you have, you’ve learned plenty about custom Procreate brushes, but I still have more info for you! This class, Procreate Watercolor with Stencils, will show you some of my mixed media illustration methodology, and ways to use brushes to create stencils. In the class, I take you from start to finish in creating a watercolor floral art piece, notably with the use of several stencils to create a richly layered authentic-looking organic art piece. And, I have techniques to make it so easy, you will use the techniques time and again. You will love how easy it is to have these look like realistic watercolor! I provide everything you will need including some pretty floral stencil shapes, sponges in many forms and a variety of other assets. I have a bunch of finished pieces to share as well! I have used this method over and over and have developed workflows to keep the art completely editable. But the star of the show is the “stenciling process” using brushes to create these beautiful art pieces.

In this class I’ll walk you through:

my step-by-step method for making stencils in Procreate
tips for creating compositions for a varied and appealing design using brushes
my workflow for use of layers and other great features like snapping
adjusting stencils to perfect the flow and adding elements
full mixed media background creation
methods for keeping the artwork fully editable for later adjustments and recoloring

If you’re an aspiring pattern designer with a good basic knowledge of Procreate, you’ll be able to go through all the steps. This class will benefit anyone who wishes to simplify creation of seamless patterns and methods to improve efficiency.

The key concepts I will include:

review of my brush alterations and adjustments
a look at Procreate brushes and their various idiosyncrasies
approaches you can take in your creative work
use of blend modes to create even more exciting effects

This is an ideal class for you, even if you are not sure what you will use the art for, whether it be for fabric design for sites like Spoonflower, scrapbooking paper, custom web graphics, or whatever! Learning new Procreate workflows is always desirable. I guarantee you will create something really appealing, and it’s so much fun, once you get the hang of it!

Intro to Easy Watercolour Seamless Patterns in Procreate using Brushes

This short intro will give you an overview of the class.

Lesson 1: Discussing the Overview and Objectives

In this lesson, I will show you the methods I use for sourcing photos to be used as our reference for drawing the brushes. I will address the ethics of this process with you.

Lesson 2: Producing the Stencil

In this lesson, I will break down the complete process of creating your own custom stencil, which we will take one step further and create a brush. I show you everything from the initial [altered] tracing to adding reivers of white space. I recommend turning this stencil into a brush to use in the next stage where we will begin the layout.

Lesson 3: Using the Resources

In this lesson, I will explain the resources I have included as well as explaining settings and sizing of the brushes. I will show you some of the key techniques I use and explain every step of the way. By the end of the lesson, you will have the beginnings of a lovely layout with plenty of interest, and you will know how to use most of the brushes in the accompanying download.

Lesson 4: Painting and Erasing to Create the Watercolor Look

This is the lesson in which I teach you about creating tones of depth and texture to create an authentic watercolour look. I show you a bunch more techniques and adjustments for the supplied brushes as we work our way through this lesson. I demonstrate leaf additions with one method and we will explore another method in the next lesson.

Lesson 5: Adding Leaves with Alternate Methods

In this lesson, we work on the leaves layer and I show you the use of one of the brushes to create freehand ones. You will love how pressure sensitive the brush is! You will see me use several different techniques to add interest and detail. I also show you the how to create an overall pooled edge.

Lesson 6: Adding Interest to the Background

At this stage, we pull our layout together, and I will add the small details that make it work. I bump up the contrast on the white of the leaves and many other small adjustments. We complete the background using many techniques. We look at adding all kinds of textures and talk about next steps. This is the last step, and in this lesson, I will be wrapping up. This will show you just how versatile this technique can be and how valuable experimentation is in your development.

Lesson 7: Conclusion, Mockup and Next Steps

We will conclude everything in this lesson. I show you a couple of quick mock-ups with the pattern and we end with a chat about next steps.

Concepts covered:

Concepts covered include but are not limited to Procreate pattern design, Procreate repeat Patterns with brushes, layering, transparency, Procreate brush stamps, Procreate canvas settings, Procreate snapping and guides, Procreate floral brush creation, art licensing, creating original brush stamps in Procreate, the Brush Studio in Procreate, adjusting Procreate brushes, sizing of documents and brushes, using the streamline setting in the brush studio, compositions with brush stamps, adding texture brush stamps, procreate brushes for adding interest, workflow best practices, painting best practice, Procreate composites, techniques with paints and blending, and much more.

You will get the bonus of…

1 hour and 6 minutes of direction from an instructor who has been in graphic design business and education for over 40 years
knowledge of multiple ways to solve each design challenge

Ann MacLean

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