Custom Procreate Brushes - Create Your Unique Digital Illustration Tools

1. Introduction: [MUSIC] The biggest struggle of every beginner artist is finding their own style. Now, creating and using your own digital illustration brushes will not just make the creation process more joyful, but will bring a unique touch to your art. In this class, you will learn how to create your own digital illustration tools using Procreate and its incredible brush studio. Hi, my name is Alexandra aka The Artmother. I'm a professional art teacher, artist, and illustrator. My superpower is making complicated art topics easy for beginners. I am a forever explorer and when I started to use the digital media, I immediately started to look for ways to customize my tools. I started experimenting and using various things to create my brushes like ******, pencil marks, paint drops, photos of concrete or my rug, [LAUGHTER] and even full objects like a gingerbread. This way, I was able to create custom brushes for different projects, made my portfolio cohesive, and my art style recognizable. The class is divided into two parts. In the first part, we will focus on creating six different brushes that are essential for any digital artist. We will build up each brush from scratch from non-digital tools and help with the camera on your iPad. In the second part, we will create a full illustration together. You will learn how to combine different brushes to get different effects and how to use them to bring your ideas to life. By the end of this class, you will have the knowledge and skills to create your own unique digital illustration tools and use them to create professional quality digital art. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced artist, this class is perfect to take your appropriate skills to the next level. Are you ready to create your own brush set? If yes, see you inside the class. 2. About The Class: [MUSIC] Welcome to the class. I am super happy to have you here. In this video, I'm going to talk to you about the class structure, the class project, the class resources, and what you will need to complete the class. Basically the class is divided into two main parts. In the first part we will discuss how Procreate brushes work. We will take a look on the Procreate brush Studio and we will create six different brushes from scratch. After every brush we create, we will take a minute to see it in action, by building up a floral motif. This way, we can focus more on the brush creation process itself and not lose or creative energies on creating something complex. By the end of this part, you will have the full brush set, and a very easy floral motif illustration. If you wish, you can end the class here and upload this illustration as a class project to the project gallery. But if you have the creative energy and the motivation, you can follow me to the second part where we are going to create a full illustration of an object of your choice. We're going to use the brushes that you have created. I will show you more ways to use the brushes and how you can utilize their characteristics in different situations that can come up in any illustration process. After this part, you will have a full illustration of your object. A deeper understanding how digital brushes work, and more experience and skill in using your brushes. You can upload this artwork to your class project in the project gallery as well. In the resources you can find, the brush side that I create in this class, you are free to use it, but mostly for reference. If you miss something during the process, for example, a setting, you can go to My Brushes into the Brush Studio and check the setting and apply it to your own brush accordingly. I will also provide you every photo that I'm taking during the process. You can freely use them, but I really encourage you to take your own photos and resources because that is what will make these brushes uniquely yours. Let's just take a look on what you need to make this happen. If you would love to really customize them and make them your own, and to create your own resources, there are several things you will need. They are mainly traditional media tools. You will need watercolor paper or any paper that has a texture. [NOISE] You will need colored pencil or a graphite pencil so that we can create textures on this watercolor paper, then brushes, paint, water, and some other things, for example, ******. It can be sugar, salt, cinnamon, oregano, or even sand. The main thing is that it has to contain small grains. I am going to use this madras curry and I have an Italian spice mix here as well. Last but not least, you will need your camera on your iPad, because we are going to use it to take photos of these things and this is the way we're going to take them into Procreate. If you are going to follow me to the big final project, or in a more complex final project, you will also need an object of your choice. I thought it would be so cool to have an object that has a meaning to you. So it can be your favorite object. You will be able to use a stock photo site to take a photo of an object. But I think it will be more personal to use an object that really has somehow a meaning to you and for me it does this windage camera. Let me show you. [NOISE] This beauty. I'm collecting cameras like this and it's so beautiful. I would really love to draw this. I will open it. Without its case, this is going to be the object I'm going to draw in the final art work. This is what you will need, of course, you will need your iPad and Procreate and your inner motivation to do the exercises and create the brushes. See you in the next video where we are going to start the process and talk about the most basic brushes you need for digital illustration. [MUSIC] As a first step, grab your iPad, your Apple Pencil, open Procreate, and see you in the next video. 3. Basic Brushes For Digital Illustration: The most important question might be, why do we need custom brushes in digital illustration? Procreate comes with amazing brushes, and that is true. Procreate has some incredible brushes and they might be enough. But if you take your time and create your own digital illustration brush set, you can get into creating your own style, you can get cohesion even in your artworks, you can even get new illustration technique ideas or you can really make your illustrations look unique. When I started to use the digital media, I had the feeling that I'm missing something, like traditional media has something special. This way that I started to create my own brushes, I fulfilled this lack of something. I filled it that and now I know that the brushes I'm using are mine. I have less imposter syndrome when I'm creating something. Well, you created this digitally, they say, and I say, yes, but I created the brushes from this and that and that, and it is really my creation. So creating your own brushes can also eliminate this feeling of being an imposter or copying someone or anything, so yeah, creating your own digital illustration brushes is just incredible and so much fun. Its process is mind-blowing. Let's get back to what basic brushes you need for digital illustration. Well, I have chosen six different functions you need with these brushes. Obviously, you will need a sketching pencil. Why do you need a sketching pencil? Obviously to sketch. Procreate comes with amazing sketching pencils. There's the 6B pencil that I love very much, but again, added to the personalized feeling when I created my first sketching pencil, and it is really easy. We're going to start with creating a sketching pencil to create your sketch with. What we can say about the sketching pencil is, as you can see, it has this paper texture in it. It is not specifically special in any way with the shapes and stuff like that. It is like it is textured as you can see. I will say some qualities to every brush so that you understand a little bit more why do we need them. Then we need a shaper. When we are creating digital illustrations, we create the first shapes. Actually with any illustration, you are basically starting with painting shapes. A shaper needs clean edges. As you can see, this shaper has a little bit of texture around, which again, adds a little bit of uniqueness to the illustration. The most important thing with the shaper is that it has to be opaque, so you don't need any transparency in it. It is really important that you cannot see through the shapes that you are creating what a shaper. You cannot say this about the shader. You need a shader to create shadows in your illustration. As you can see, this is a really grainy brush, so it can add also texture. I usually use the shaders to create overall texture in my illustrations and to add shadows. Now, a shader needs to be transparent so that you can shade and see the base shape that you created with the Shaper and lay your shadows over those shapes. You need transparency and great shadows are created with smooth gradations. To create smooth gradation, you will need pressure sensitivity with this brush. If you press harder, it gets darker. If you press lighter, it is lighter. A good shader has these qualities. Then we're going to create texture with the texture brush. If you take a look on this whole image that I created here, our worksheet, you can see this here. I have created this effect. It does scribble the fact with this texture brush. Now, as I already told you, you can create an overall grainy texture with this shader. I decided to choose a texture brush like this. I can create a whole separate class on texture brushes because there are so many ways to create texture. I've chosen this one because this is really unique, and the way we are going to create this brush can be applied in so many different situations and base shapes. Learning to create a texture brush like this will give you a really versatile skill. This texture comes about this shaded shapes. Then we are going to create a drop shadow brush. Now, drop shadows come everywhere. If you have taken any of my classes, you know that there is inclusion. If I press two fingers to each other, here is a really nice shadow coming into it. You can see shadow here, shadow there. These really fine small shadows can be done with a drop shadow brush. A drop shadow brush, again, as you can see, is really transparent. You don't need pressure sensitivity with it. You need a brush that can be really thin and really thick. You can also add light with this brush. I will show you. It is really good to add reflections, so it is a very handy brush. Now, special effects. Sometimes I call this brush a detail brush. You can add really fine details like freckles if you're painting skin or characters, it can be in foliage if you are painting environments, so I called this brush a special effect brush. There are, again, so many different ways of using this brush and creating this brush. You can create snowflakes, rainy effects. We're going to create this kind of an effect that you can see here and there. This can be really unique and can really give a very unique texture illustrations if you create brushes like this. Now you know what basic brushes you will need for your digital illustrations. In the next video, I'm going to talk to you about the process of digital illustration and show you a little bit how to apply these brushes onto shape and show you basically what we're going to do in this first part. I'll see you in the next video. 4. The Process: [MUSIC] Let's just take a look on how those brushes work in practice. In the first step, we are going to create a sketch with the sketching pencil. The way we are going to progress is that we are going to create the brush and then apply and create a sketch. We're going to create a simple floral motif. You can come with me and create this one or choose a whatever floral shape you want. The main thing is that it has to contain shapes, so it can't be a floral motif where there are only lines. The second step is to fill in the shapes. Basically in this step we are going to use the shaper brush, and just fill in the shapes. The third step, we are going to add shadows. We are going to grab this shader brush and apply very simple, easy shadows on the floral motif. Then we are going to try out our texture brush and add a little texture over the shaded base shapes. Can you see that? It adds such an interesting feel to it all. Then we are going to add drop shadows. Now in this floral motif, it is not really necessary because floral motifs are usually used for decorative purposes. But if you are painting something more complex, using drop shadows is a very great way to enhance contrast in your artwork and serum and more dimension. Basically, I used it to this bottom part to add a little shadow below this floral. If I'm zooming in, I added some lines here and there where these could touch, and a little extra shadow to these parts, so it adds a little bit more contrast. If you can see and compare these two, you can say that this is like more shaded. It deepens the shadows, if I may say that. Here is that special effect brush for the sixth step, so I just placed it behind it and added some of these elements and it just looks super cool and it finalizes it and adds a unique touch to the illustration. This is the process we're going to go through. In the next video, [MUSIC] I'm going to talk to you about how digital brushes work so you get a more deeper understanding on what we are actually going to do and how we are going to actually create these brushes. I'll see you there. 5. How Digital Brushes Work?: In this video, we are going to talk about how digital brushes work. As you can see, I have a base shape here. Every brush in Procreate has a base shape. In default, it is simple plain white circle. Let me just talk to you about why you have a black background and a white shape and not the other way round. In digital programs usually, and if you think logically when you are are painting pixels. This is how layer masks work as well. White is the pixel that you are painting and the black is the background. What is very important in this base shape is that the black has to be true black. If you don't have a true black background, you will carry around a whole square with your shape. Now we have a square shape. If you don't want distorted base shapes, you will need a square shape as your base shape. Another thing that is very important is that transparency works in these base shapes. You don't necessarily need to have just purely white pixels and purely black pixels. You can have gray pixels. But if they are not true black they will show. You can create transparency within this shape that you are carrying. Now let's just clarify how you are carrying this shape. In the brush settings, you have a spacing. Basically, you have this base shape that you are carrying along the line that you are drawing. If I have big spacing setting, you will see the exact same shape I carried along this line. If I decrease the spacing, I will have a line like this. If I completely dismiss this spacing setting, I don't have spacing. I will have a brush like this with this base shape carried along this line. Now there are several settings in the Procreate Brush Studio to decide what to do with these shapes. As you can see here, you had carried into the same direction. There are settings that we're going to explore that will help us to rotate these shapes. Also, we can set the opacity, pressure sensitivity. If you press here, it will be more transparent, if you push harder, it will be more opaque. Also with pressure sensitivity, you can set the size of these shapes. If you don't push it is a small shape, if you push it gets bigger. This is how you can get taper within your brush, but these are more detailed settings that we're going to explore. Now you need to understand that we have a base shape that you are carrying along this line. This is how brushes work and this is how you can create different effects in your brushes. You need to remember that the base shape background has to be pure black and what you are carrying pixels the base shape has to be white, and there can be transparency within it so you can create different effects in your brushes. This is about the shape, but that's not just that. [LAUGHTER] We are going to explore another thing that is very important within the procreate brushes and that is grain. This is the texture that is applied on to the shape that you are carrying. Let's say you have that base shape. You can also add black and white [LAUGHTER] grain over it so it has that texture. Now, there are two ways to apply textures on to the shape. The moving texture is basically, you apply a texture over this shape and you carry it along with it. That is the moving texture. The texturized is, that you have a texture and when you're carrying this shape over, this texture remains static. This is the difference. I applied this grain to that exact shape that I have shown you in the beginning. This is the difference. Again, as you can see, this is a little bit more sharp but as you can also see there are real curing patterns within the shape. If that is not annoying, texturized background is super cool. If it is annoying, the moving texture is the choice. What we are going to do when creating these brushes is to play with the shape and with the grain. These are the most important elements that we are going to play with. Then we will have some different settings that are not that important than these two. These little tools that we have here, we're going to create shapes and grain and combine them together. I hope this doesn't feel too overwhelming to you. I promise it is very easy and when you get the idea of it, it will be so much fun. You will see how much possibility you have within this to create incredible amazing brushes. Actually, the whole process of creating these brushes is art itself. [LAUGHTER] Let's just dive into it. I am sure that you are ready. We're going to start with the sketching pencil. It will be really easy. See you in the next video. Let's create our very own sketching pencil. 6. The Sketching Pencil: I hope that you're excited. What you need to do at first is to create a square-sized canvas. If you hit the "Plus" sign here, you will have a square-sized canvas and just hit that. This is what we will need for the base of our brushes. This is going to be our working file. We're going to import everything here. It will be very useful because you can reference it and get back to it more times. Then let's just take a look on the Procreate Brush Studio. If you hit this brush sign here, you will get to the Brush Library. Now, if you swipe up at this brush stat list, you will get the plus sign. Let's just create a new brush set and you can rename it. This is my own brushes. Brush set. Here is the plus sign that you can click on to create a new brush. We're not going to do that now because we will need to import something to it. Now we will need this textured paper and colored pencil. I will choose a dark pencil so that it has a contrast. I'll put this aside so that it doesn't bother us. I will take this pencil and when tilted, I will just create a texture onto this paper. Make it approximately a square. You don't need to necessarily be precise with it, we will take a photo of it. This is how it looks. You can make it more contrasted by pushing the pencil bit more. Once you need to pay attention to as to make it even. Don't have like darker parts here and lighter parts here, etc. But try to make it as even as possible. I have some dark areas here, but doesn't matter. We can correct that a little bit. The brush studio. What I need now is my iPad. Open the camera. The iPad camera is a very high resolution. What I'm going to do is to create a photo of it and try to make it as sharp as possible. Now, I will add and insert the photo. I will make it as big as possible to fill the whole square. As you can see, I made it this big so that it fills the whole square. Go to the Settings and go to the Gradient Map, and it automatically puts it into gradient. You can change their settings so it will exchange the white to black. Now you know how to make your images black and white. This is a great step. Now, I will just share it and save it as a PNG and save image. Now, I will go to my own brushes and hit that "Plus" sign. Here you have several settings like you have a stroke path, which is about the lines and the spacing that I have already talked to you about. We have stabilization which helps you to get your lines more smooth, or smoother. Here's the taper, which means that you have smaller and bigger. The edges aren't thinner shape, this is where we're going to add our shapes, grain, where we're going to add your grain. Rendering what makes color dynamics, Apple pencil properties, materials about this brush. We are going to go out for these settings later. Don't care about that now, let's stay at the grain. Up here you will have the Edit button, import and import a photo and just hit that. Now you have it as your grain. Now there is an option of auto repeat. If you hit that, it will create a seamless pattern from this image that you have just imported. You can play with grain scale, you can scale it up. You can have a border overlap. It is like not like checked but it creates a little mask, so it really makes it a pattern. There is mirror overlap. That will help you to, again, play with this textures to get them as seamless as possible. You can rotate it into different directions, you can mask these edges. I will put it onto it. There's pyramid blending. It is again about like blending these edges. I will hit "Done" and it will create a texture. As you can see, I already have. I will make it a little bit bigger. Super cool texture in this pencil. Now, you can do with the grain, so many things like, again, this is where you can set the moving, so it moves along with the shape or it is texturize, so the texture is behind this moving shape. Let me just talk about the shape. It remains simple circle. In this sketching pencil, we're not going to touch the shape. Only play now with the grain. In the grain, you can scale it up or make it less big. I will scale the grain to 16 percent, I think. I will let the depth to be at maximum so you can play with the contrast and etc, brightness, how contrast them with this. Let's see. I will increase the contrast to 35 percent. Our filtering, sometimes it doesn't change much. I will clear it. This brush is looking good for me now. What we need with the sketching pencil is that it has this thinness at the end. We're going to talk about the taper now. Go to taper, and here are the tip sizes. I will press one tip here and increase the size. There's a pressure sensitivity, here you can see it as a sharp tip. I don't want to play with the opacity now. Another thing that we can set is the Apple Pencil here. As you can see here is the pressure sensitivity setting. If I want to add taper, I will increase this. Now, I will clear the drawing pad. Now if I'm drawing and I press harder, it gets bigger. If I press like this, it is thinner. Now with the sketching pencil, like we have a thin line. We can start that as well. How big that brush can be. In the properties, I will set the maximum size. Here is the brush behavior and maximum size. I will decrease that to this. This is going to be very thin line. Also the previous size, you can set here is the previous size studying here and the stamp preview. The stamp is actually the shape that you are carrying. It is how this shows here in this bar. You can set that it is in the marks. I will increase the size, just a little bit. Done. I will go back to the about this brush and this is where I can name it. I will now add sketching pencil here. Done. Gallery. Now, I will create a screen sized canvas now to try it out. Choose black. It is really grainy. I would love it to be a little bit more black. I will go to the brush settings, grain, and I will decrease a little bit this grain, increase the brightness. Because when I paint with black, it will be more black. We'll just take a look at it. Can you see the difference? It is a little bit more black. Now see you in the next video where we are going to create our sketch or sketching pencil. 7. Practice - Creating The Sketch: [MUSIC] Let's just create our sketch. What I love to do when I start illustrating is to set the background color to a little bit gray so that it is not that vibrant and that it is good for my eyes and I also see the colors better. I also set the value for my artwork, but it doesn't matter now. I'm on a new layer. I have my sketching pencil and choose black. We're going to draw a floral motif. Again, you can choose whatever motif, just have shapes in it. I am going to create this floral motif that I really love. I usually add this to all of my artworks. It is really fun. That's it. This is my sketching pencil. Now, I have a really nice sketch. Now, see you in the next video where we're going to create the shaper brush. See you there. 8. The Shaper Brush: [MUSIC] In this video, we are going to create a shaper brush, and as this is really about custom brushes, we're going to create the base shape on our own. Now, we're not going to add textures. Now we are going to work only on the shape. Again, [NOISE] I will put this aside, and I will just show you something. Sometimes I create shape studies to create my shapes. Let me show you. [NOISE] I create all different kinds of shapes, and I create photos of them and choose the ones that look the best for me. We're not going to do that now. We are going to only create a simple circular shape with paint. Again, I will need my watercolor paper, I will need a brush, let's say this one, and water, and my paint. I will just simply put my brush into the water and choose a very vibrant, maybe dark color. Let me show you this. [NOISE] I will paint a circle, and it doesn't need to be perfect. You can create more, so you will see which one looks the best for you. This is actually this paint study, [LAUGHTER] again. I will make a little bit more bigger elements. The bigger elements you create, the higher quality actually the artwork will be because you will have more like DPI, and when you are painting bigger things, these brushes will still work well. You can also think about things like this in the long run. If you are creating brushes for real professional work to create more high-quality shapes and textures for yourself. This will remain purple low, [LAUGHTER] doesn't matter because the theme of this class is like purple as you can see, everything is purple. [NOISE] It's my favorite color now. Again, what I'm going to do is to grab my iPad and take a photo with the camera, and choose the shape that I liked the best. Maybe it is this last shape that I created, this one. I will take a photo of it. Make sure that you don't have shadows on it, and that the camera is really focused on it. I will put this aside and go back to Procreate, and your working file, so the square sized canvas. I will turn this grain off, and add "Insert a photo", and the photo of my shape. It is here. I will make it as big as possible. I will again go to adjustments and gradient map, and it already inverted it because I set the gradient map like this. It may show up differently for you. Just make sure that the white is here, and the black is here. Now, as you can see, this is not black, this is like gray. What I need to do in adjustments is to go to curves, insert this until it goes fully black like this. You can increase the whiteness as well, so play with it. To check if the background is fully black, pick up the color of the black here, and see if it is in this corner. You can paint into it to make the shapes more perfect. You have truly black and choose a brush, it can be the sketching pencil. You can just paint these not perfect parts in the edges. You don't need to overdo this, but maybe if you have like a white spot here or the paper texture can be seen through, you can just correct these little things. Now, I will go and save it as a PNG and save image. I will create another brush. As I already told you, now we are going to work with the shape and not the grain. The grain will remain like opaque. I [inaudible] with texture into it because this is a shaper and I wanted to create opaque bold shapes. I'll edit the shape, so Import, and I will import this and hit "Done". Let me see how it works. Stroke path spacing, yeah, here is my shape. So now I can decrease the spacing. You can really see that it is a shape that you have created now because we have these sharp edges and it is as if it was just a simple full circle, but it just has the better feeling to it. If you want to have a little texture at the edge, you go to shape behavior and increase catheter, for example. I don't want that because I want sharp edges. Again, why do we need with this brush is to have tapering and pressure sensitivity with the size. It is easier to draw shapes when they're like thinner shapes and it gets bigger. I will go to Taper, increase one size of it, increase here the size again, and go to Apple Pencil and increase size again. I will clear the drawing path and see if that works. This is not really good that it takes this much of the taper, so I will just decrease this. I only will have just a little bit at the end. I will go into stabilization and add just a little bit of streamline, and I will add a little bit of motion filtering like 30 percent, so I can really create clean shapes. Properties, you can set the maximum size to have a giant shape. I will decrease it a little bit, the maximum size. I will title this brush to be a shaper, "Done", "Done". Let's just check it how it works. This works perfectly. Wow, this is amazing. We have created our own shaper. [MUSIC] See you in the next video where we are going to create a shape on the floral. 9. Practice - Fill In The Shapes : [MUSIC] In this video we are going to create the shapes of floral illustration. What do we need at first is to choose color, as this is a purple class, I will choose a purplish color. But what is more important is that I'm going to choose one color now and choose free versions open so that I have color for the light and the shadow as well. I'm going to choose the midtone now. This means that I'm going to choose color from this area approximately. I will choose, for example, this purple. You can create a new palette for yourself. Let's create a new palette here. [NOISE] I will add this here. What I used to do when I feel my shapes is that I lower the opacity of the sketch so I can see my shapes well and create a new layer below this sketch. Now, I'm going to paint. [MUSIC] If I need to get back from my shapes, I will set my eraser to the same brush that I'm working with. You don't necessarily need to follow the sketch precisely. Perfect. [LAUGHTER] It looks amazing. Let's continue to the next video where we're going to create a shader brush. See you there. [MUSIC] 10. The Shader Brush: [MUSIC] This is the part that I like the most, creating shader and texture brushes. Again, what a shader brush needs is a little grain. Now we are going to work with material that is grainy and this is where I used to use spices. If you have any spice at home, just grab it. If you don't have spices, go outside and grab a little soil or sand, and we will need a white paper for it so that we have a background that we're going to take our photo on. You can use a watercolor paper as well, but I don't like if it is too textured because it can show through on the image, it is harder to clean up. I have a plain white paper now here, and I just grab my spices. I will just create this blobs. This is a really fine grain. I will show it to you later. I also have this Italian spice. It is a bit more grainy. I will create a blob from it as well. If it doesn't work, I will just place it into my hand. Like this. [LAUGHTER] It looks weird. I really love this technique of creating brushes because it smells so good like this curry. I love curry. When I created Gingerbread brushes from cinnamon, everything was smelling so good. [LAUGHTER] I love it so much. I have two of them. I will grab my iPad again and create photos. I will suck and see which blob looks better for me. I have this curry and I have this bigger spice. I'll put this aside carefully. Let's just take a look on the photos. This is the spice. It looks so interesting. I will give you these photos so it will be easy for you to work with it. Here is the curry. Well, I think this will work better for the shader brush, but this will be amazing for a texture brush. If you feel the creative energy you can create brush from both. I will use now this one. Again I will go back to my working file and turn this off and add, insert a photo to place it approximately to the meter middle. Again, what I'm going to do is to go to Gradient Map and it automatically does this for me now. I will hit that. Again, go to curves and adjust these little toggles to get a true black in the background and increase the whites a little bit. It is like more seen. Let's see if the background is true black. It is. Now what I can do is to grab my, for example, the shape around this true black and paint into it to the shapes that I don't wish to have. I don't want this shape to be like really in this square size because it will look a little bit weird, so round it down a little bit. Delete these little shapes from the edges. [MUSIC] This looks good to me. I will go Share and Save as a PNG and save image. Now, go to your brush set, create a new brush. Now again, we are going to work with the shape. This will be a little bit different than when we created the shape or that was the first step to understand what it does to your brush. Now Edit, Import and import a photo and important this photo here. Now I can see that in this corner, it wasn't true black. Can you see that? I will just show you this is a good way to show a mistake. If I increase the spacing, I will make it big. As you can see, I will carry along with my brush this little edge, and I don't want that. I will come back to my original and paint over it. I will increase size and paint this little edge around. This is good that it happened because now I can show you what mistakes you can have. [LAUGHTER] Save again PNG and save image. Now go back to the Brush, Shape, Edit, Import, import photo and hit Done. Now I have this shape that I'm carrying around. I will decrease the spacing. Now I don't need to decrease it to none. But maybe to 35 percent. We will see. Now let's go back to shape and now we are going to play with the scatter. I love to put it into maximum size and rotation to follow stroke. It does this. I will go back to stroke path and I decrease the spacing a little bit. Looks great. Now we don't need taper in the shader brush, so we're not going to size that. What we do need is the pressure sensitivity with the size and also the opacity is like stat for default page. If you push harder, it's moral pack. If you push less harder, it is more transparent. If you don't have this set as default, now set it to Max and also the size. Let us see what we have done. Let's go to this shape. Let's create a new layer. It looks nice. It looks pretty great to me. Let's try to add shadows with it to our flower or floral. See you in the next video where we're going to add shadows with our shader brush. [MUSIC] 11. Practice - Add Shadows: [MUSIC] Let's just try out how ore shading brush works. To add shadows to these shapes, I will at first, I turn off these catching layer so that we don't really need that now. I will need to Alpha Lock the layer of the shape. You can either click on it and click Alpha Lock or swipe with two fingers on the layer. You will see that it becomes a checked thing behind. It means that you cannot paint outside the shape that you have here. Now let's choose a color for the shadow. I will pick up this color that I have just chosen, and either choose a darker version of it. From this area of this color palette, I will choose a darker version. I will have this shader brush. I forgot to name it, so I will add a shader. I will make sure to lower its opacity, so that it really can create this smooth gradation. What I missed from this brush is the maximum size. I will go to Properties and increased its maximum size a bit because I think it should be bigger. Yeah, to create a smooth gradation with this brush, you need to layer it. At first, make it approximately this big. As we increase the maximum size, this brush can be huge. Find the sweet spot, and then create a single layer of a shadow at the edge of this shape. As you can see, I'm not drawing inside the shape but outside the shape. Actually I'm creating the shadow with the edge of the shape that I'm carrying with my brush. I will create a single layer like this. Can you see that? It is also textured and it's creating a darker side into the shape. If I want to go darker, I can go a little bit further and push harder with the shape or just simply layer it. You will get a little bit darker every time, and that will create this gradation. Make this at every shape that you have here. Looks great. I'm going to speed this up. [MUSIC] If you think that you have overdone it, you can just pick up the main color, this midtone, and just go back with the shader brush. Playing with this back-and-forth can also create really nice textures within the shape. The possibilities with this brush are incredible. You can even add a whole texture over the artwork. Let's say with the darker version, even lighter, you just go through it and you will immediately have a little texture over the hole. This brush is incredible. I really love to create this. Now let's see what we can create as a texture brush. See you in the next video. Let's create your first texture brush together. 12. The Texture Brush: [MUSIC] In this video we are going to create a texture brush. As I already told you, texture brush and shader brush can be very similar. We worked with the spices in the shader brush. If you wish, you can use that bigger grained spice picture to create this brush but what I'm going to try to do now is to create this scratchy effect. I'm going to use paint again to create a base for it. I will bring another watercolor paper here and I will choose another brush and I will make this sprinkles with it. Flat brush is really good for it because it's like a toothbrush so you can create really nice effect with color. I will again put this into the water and just grab a little bit of this paint. I will put it into the middle so that I can water it up. It will be so good to sprinkle it. I will grab a little bit of this color. [MUSIC] I will put this aside and clean this board because you can sprinkle this paint around. It's on my finger [LAUGHTER], doesn't matter. I will again take back my iPad. I will find the best ones. These are too big. Maybe this. I will try to make as clear, I made you fat, as possible. Now with this brush, we are going to now work with both. With the sketching pencil, we only change the grain. With the shaper brush we only change the shape. With the shader brush we again changed the shape. Now with this texture brush, we are going to change both the shape and the texture and see what it does. Now, I will go back to this working file of mine, turn this off. At insert a photo, and I will do the exact same thing that I've done. I don't like these big blobs so I will go with this smaller ones like this. Using the same process, so gradient map and curves. Make it a true black, make them more whites and check if everything is true black. Now I can paint into it. We might shape our brush to get less square. We effects. Perfect. Now I'm going to share and save as a PNG. Now, I want you [LAUGHTER] to go and take a photo of anything that can have texture. Now I'm going outside to my garden and return with a few photos of textures. I think I will take a photo of concrete. See you in a few seconds. I have walked around my house and did few photos. This is concrete, this is my door, [LAUGHTER] this is my floor and this is my carpet. You can use these textures. I will go with the concrete. I think it is the most interesting one. I will go back to this working file. Now I have the shape and I will import this concrete here. I will make it bigger thing and I will again go to gradient map. Now, what I don't like are these black blobs. We have [LAUGHTER] a tool called the clone tool. If you go to the adjustments and hit the clone tool, it means that you place it to an area and where we are painting. You are cloning this area to the place where you are painting. I will get rid of these main weird shapes so that they don't show up on my texture that I'm going to paint. This looks good and now I'm going to save it. I'll again share and PNG and save the photo. Let's create a new brush. I will change the shape of it. Edit, import a photo and this shape. Done. Cool. Now let's go to the grain added, import a photo, and this concrete. Done. Wow, [LAUGHTER] looks interesting. I will increase the previous size so we can see. I will go to the stroke path and play with the spacing. Oh, wow. This looks incorruptible. I have my spacing at around three percent and I will hit "Done" and play around with it a little bit more. I just need to see what it does here. Oh, wonderful. Let's just see what we can do with it. As you can see, this texture background is a little bit weird. Let's go to grain and let's see, it would texturize. It does not really creating the fact that I want. But if I put it to moving, it looks better but if we scale it, you can see this checked things, so let's go back to grain source and create auto repeat. I think it's better, so hit "Done" and it will not be like the tracked. It's better now. Amazing. Then let's see the taper. I will add taper. I will put opacity to max. This will mean that at the edges it will be a little bit more transparent if you can see. It will be more smooth. I will just clear drawing pad and show it to you. If we have the opacity to max, I mean, none here, it will start at the full line and if you increase it, it will have this little already blending. It will be a good brush for hair. [LAUGHTER] It looks so fun. I would love to work on the grain a little bit. I will scale a little bit more so that these little grains can be seen better. We can set the contrast. I will increase the contrast. Can you see that? Wow, this is more grungy. [LAUGHTER] You can play in the grain with the contrast, brightness, darkness as well. I will not increase the brightness, only the contrast. Let me see it again. Oh, it looks even better. Just take a look at this. This lead is really this grungy texture. I will erase this and actually [MUSIC] see you in the next video where we're going to see how this brush works in action. 13. Practice - Add Texture: Let's just see what do we have created here. I will choose a really light purple for this. The same hue, a little bit lighter. From this area of the color wheel, I will create a new layer above this shape and actually create a clipping mask. This means that I will be able to move this layer, but you will see it as if cut out to this shape. I have my texture brush again. I forgot to rename it. I will fixture none and I will try to make this scribbles, Oh my God, how good does it look? Wow, can you see that? I'll just go through these shapes [MUSIC]. Incredible. Can you see this? This is perfect. What amazing texture we have just created. I love it. I'm really happy with this. See you in the next video where we're going to create a drop shadow brush. I'll see you there. [MUSIC] 14. The Dropshadow Brush: [MUSIC] I'm so happy we have a sketching pencil shape or shade or texture. We arrived to this incredible artwork and now we are going to enhance it with a drop shadow brush. Drop shadow brush is really good for creating drop shadows and this inclusion shadows, a little tiny shadows or enhance the shading aspects to add more contrast and depth, and space. Now, we're not really going to work with the grain and the base shape. The most important quality of this brush is that it is transparent so we're going to work with the transparency. I will create a new brush and I will leave the shape and the grain as well. Maybe I will add a little bit of streamline to it. What we really need is to go to the properties and set the maximum opacity. I will set it to, let's say, 40 percent. It is a really simple round brush with no texture. It is just simply that it is transparent. Transparency is really important. What might be very useful as we are working in a tiny places is the taper. I'm going to add a little bit of taper here and go to Apple Pencil and here add the size. With the pressure, we are not going to increase opacity so I will just take that down. Now, I have a drop shadow brush. I think this was the easiest one [LAUGHTER] yet. I will just rename it and make it drop shadow. Let's just do a little recap on what it is. It is a simple base rounded shape with a bold textures, so no texture at all. It is a transparent brush so we set simply the maximum transparency of this brush and we add the taper. It is basically similar to round brush that comes with Procreate in the painting. This is the brush that I developed this brush from. I got the idea because I used the round brush for creating drop shadows a lot and I decided, or I experienced it is not that good. I need an enhanced version, so I add the taper and I don't really need to set the opacity. See you in the next video where we are going to add a little bit of drop shadows into our floral. 15. Practice - Add Dropshadows: [MUSIC] Let's just check what we can do with a drop shadow. When we are painting drop shadows, we are painting with black. I'm going to create a new layer below it all. I will place this floral a little bit above this bottom, so that I can paint below it. I will paint this here. This is already a drop shadow, but what I love to do is to go and gloss and blur it in the adjustments. I will just put this threshold to at least 17 percent, so it blurs it and it is incredible. I will create a new layer above it all. I will maybe even make it a clipping mask again and I can add little bit of shadow. We'd already shaded, but let just enhance it. Painting with black will keep really the color that you already did, already shaded the shape and it really just adds something extra into it. Like on one side I have this and I have it in the other side as well and I can again gloss and blur it and it will help me with creating real this gradation. If I'm not good at creating smooth gradations that are going from one color to another, this is the way to add that even on top of everything that I have created. If you can see, this is a perfectly shaded shape here. It is incredible. Now I have a drop shadow below and some enhanced shadows on my shape. Now the last brush. We are going to create as a special effects brush. See you in the next video and let's create it together. [MUSIC] 16. The Special Effect Brush: Let's just create the special effect brush or detailed brush or whatever you want to call it. Again, this brush is good for adding like a special touch to your artworks. It can be anything like freckles or watercolor spots or splatter, anything you can reuse the splatters that you have created for the texture brush. Now, I decided to do the brush the way that I'm going to do it to show you that you don't necessarily just can use ready textures or like even be created a texture at the beginning, but in a sense that you can use your hand drawing as a special effect into your artifacts. Now I'm going to use marks that I'm going to create. I'm going to put this aside again. I will grab another piece of paper and I will choose a pencil, again, purple, [LAUGHTER], and what I love to add are sometimes little stars into my artwork so you can create like some of that. Maybe like three of them. What I really love lately is just doing marks like this. Just a few. You can create more variations so that you don't necessarily reuse one motif several times, but that you have more variations of these brushes. You can create like whatever quantity of these brushes. What I'm going to do, I'm going to create little marks like this. I have created lots of brushes from pencil marks. You can create even cross-hatches if you wish or it will be the same setting for all of them. I go take my of my I put again and the photo camera and I go again, just create a sharp photo of them works. Again, go back to my working file. I will turn this off and I will import, Add, insert a photo and I have these marks now. I will increase and again the same process, Gradient Map and curves set to full black and whites. If you can see, I can see that here's a little paper texture showing through. I will just choose now my shape or brush and just fill that. As you can see, it's really kept its texture. It looks totally amazing. This is a simple stamp brush actually that we're going to create. It is totally easy. I will again save it as a PNG and create another new brush. Now we're going to again, just change the shape, but if you are very creative, you can add any texture into it is as you'd like. I will just import this photo. I will check if it's alright right. I will go to Stroke Path and increase the spacing. I will make it bigger. Wow, and I have a shape like this. What I want from this brush is to keep its opacity. I can go to Apple Pencil and from the pressure, we take away the opacity. From the shape, I can play with scatter or even a rotation that follows stroke. Let me see how it works. I will go into or create a new layer. It comes very frequently and it is small in my opinion. I will go to Stroke Path and increase spacing a little bit more so that when I touch it, it just puts it and I don't want it every time to put it in the same direction. This is why I've changed this rotation to follow stroke. The way I'm placing my Apple pencil onto the screen, it just gets a different direction and it will add a little bit of variety into my shapes so hit "Done." And I will go to Properties and increase the maximum size a little bit bigger. Let's just take a look on this image now that I increase the maximum size, the preview is a little bit big, so I'm going to decrease the previous size even more. Maybe even more. I can see the shapes. This only changes the size on that preview little thing in the brush studio and I will just rename it about this brush and I will say that special effect hit "Done" and now I'm ready. I'll see you in the next video. I am going to apply the special effect to my little floral illustration. [MUSIC] 17. Practice - Add Special Effect: [MUSIC] In this video, we are going to add the little special effect to our floral illustration. I will create a new layer about. I will choose white, and my special effect brush. I can put this layer behind it all, so that it doesn't disturb our little artwork. I will try not to overdo it. Well, [LAUGHTER] that's it. It already looks incredible. Now I will love to use my little texture brush for adding a little bit more texture to the background. I will create a new layer, place it behind it all, increase it in size, and add a little scribbling around this little guy, so that it has even more texture. You can do this more mindfully. I am now a little bit doing it quickly so that I don't bore you with the process. You can go to the layer and just if it's too much, you can lower its opacity. I think we are ready. We have a full brush set. With the sketching pencil, the shaper, shader, a texture brush, drop shadow brush, and a special effect brush. Now your full illustration brush set is enough to create all of your artworks, so you can create more special effects, etc, or different texture brushes or shader brushes, but if you keep using these brushes for a period of time, your artworks will be cohesive, even if you use different colors. This will be an element that will make your artworks look similar, and will help you to develop your own style if that is your struggle. I think most of us artists are struggling with this. See you in the next video, where I'm going to share with you a little bit more of best practices about these brushes. I'll see you there. 18. Best Practices: [MUSIC] In this video, let me talk to you about the best practices regarding your brushes. When you go to these individual brushes, we already named them. Go to the About the brush. Make sure to add your logo, your name, and your signature. So made by, I will write the Artmother. I will add my logo as well. It will be here and I will sign it. This way, anyone who gets your brushes will know that you are the one who created that. They cannot change the brush so it will remain your copyrighted thing if I can say so. Also create a new reset point, which means hit that and hit "Save", which means that every setting is now saved that you have in your brush. If you are experimenting with your brush and making a big change in it to try out its variation, you can always just come back and just hit that and reset the brush to this exact setting that you have just done here. Hit "Done" and do this to all of your brushes. [MUSIC] Now that you have signed your brushes, you are ready to use them or even share them. If you want to share your own brushes, you can just click here and hit "Share". It will export and you can save it to Files and you can rename it. I usually just remove these lowercase lines or how to call them and save them onto my iPad. Then I can save it as a file onto a Google Drive link or any other place where I can share my brushes on. Google Drive is the best as you can just upload the file and share the link with anyone you want to. I will love to give you now a few tips how you can profit from these brushes. First and foremost, this is a digital product already, so you can sell it actually. There are marketplaces to do so. For example, the first one is Creative Market. Creative Market sells digital assets. If you check, you can add your appropriate brushes here as a digital download so you can earn money from your brushes. I would recommend another platform and that is etsy.com. This is what I'm using, so I have my own brush sets now on Etsy. You can write Procreate brushes as well here and it will just show all different brushes that you can offer. It is an incredible opportunity to get something from your hard work, from creating incredible brushes. There's such an opportunity here to get your illustrations to the next level, to get a unique style, a unique touch, actually to be observatory of your environment. Because this is what I was missing from digital arts. Because with traditional media, you do observational drawing. You have something tangible, but it'd be digital, it is like digital, but implementing these things, creating your own brushes brings this art closer to its own act. I really love creating these brushes. You can share them also free with each other if you wish. That would be fun to have a little gallery of brushes, but you can just keep them for yourself and let others create their own. I'm super excited to see what brushes you create. You don't need to share those brushes in the projects below, but make sure that you upload your floral motif with a special elements and effects and you can sign your artwork as well and put it into the project gallery. That will show me that you have created your own brushes. Another thing that I wanted to say to you is to make sure to categorize your brushes. Don't create one set of brushes with all different kinds of different brushes because that will make it a little bit chaotic. Make sure to stay organized and create smaller, different brush sets for yourself like I have a different for watercolor, for drawing skin, for character design, for painting environments, etc. It is also a good thing to create brushes, not like forever in your art career, but for collections and artworks. For example, if you plan to create a stickers art, you can create a set of brushes to create those stickers with and they will have the same style and things like that. They're really incredible possibilities if you learn these brush-creating skills. Now, if you are finished with this, make sure to upload this to the project gallery. If you are ready, or if you have a little bit more of creative energy, follow me to Part 2, when we are going to create an object illustration, I'm going to illustrate this beauty. Let's just use these brushes in action and create something really cool. If you are finished, upload your project. If you are not yet, follow me to the next part. You can actually upload both of these. If you decide to follow me to the next part, you can upload this and the other object illustration as well to the project gallery. See you in the next part or in the final thoughts video. [MUSIC] 19. Part 2. - Illustrate An Object: Welcome to the second part, the object illustration part. I'm really proud that you are continuing with me and you are not just done with creating the brushes and doing something else, but really working on your skills. In this video, we are going to choose an object that we are going to draw. As I already told you, I wish this object to be something that has a meaning to you. I'm collecting these vintage cameras. I really love this object. I have more of them. Find an object that you really like. It can be your favorite mug, it can be a vase, it can be anything. But what I want you to be mindful of, that this object, I'm going to draw it in 2D. I'm not going to do 3D drawing of it but from the front. I encourage you to take it easy or just be mindful of your skills. We want to have fun now and not challenge too match your skills. You already done so much. Make sure that you can draw it easily this object, so it doesn't challenge you too much. You can draw with maybe from one side. It is not too complicated like, I don't know, sewing machine or something. [LAUGHTER] Maybe more typewriter where you have so many little details, you can stylize this object that's for sure. I will just show you a little easy peasy cheat to draw objects so there are not too complicated and that you don't lose interest in them. I usually lose my focus too easily. I will just show you this little clock that I have created here. This was created from a photo I found on a stock photo site. If you don't have an object that you would love to draw, you can count with me to unsplash. That is the website I love to use. It's a stock photo size. I have written vintage club there to find the reference image. This is the image I have used for that illustration. There are so many really beautiful shapes there. I will write vintage camera there and see these different objects, this is beautiful. I have actually a similar one. There are beautiful machines, oh my God, this looks beautiful. You can think of other objects as well and you can just gather reference photo. I would love to work with a real object now, so this is a one option you can do. Another one I will use the camera. Where is the camera? I will simply just place my object on my dots. [NOISE] But here because I want it to be contrastive and just take a photo of it. I'm going to work on a square sized Canvas because my illustrations usually go to Instagram. I will create a square sized Canvas for this. What I'm going to do is to insert that photo and I will place it to the middle. I have my own reference photo now that I can work with, create a new layer about this photo and lower its opacity. I will choose black and my sketching pencil and just draw it. I can do observational drawing as well. Maybe I will use it for the top of it. But this will make my job a little bit easier. What I also wanted to say that when I am sketching, I'm using more short lines to find better shapes for my illustrations. You don't really need to fully follow the main shape. You can definitely think of different solutions to its shape so you can invent your things. [LAUGHTER] What I love is exaggeration, so I think this is a little bit small, so I will make a little bit bigger lens here. [MUSIC] I will turn off this reference image and here I have a nice sketch. Now, what I love to implement to this simple object is the floral motive that I have already drawn. You can play around with this catch. I would love to have a little reflection in the camera so as I had on the watch that I have or clocked that I have already shown you, I had some clouds in the camera lens, little bit of illustrative things like this. Yes and little floral elements. [MUSIC] Something like this would look good. This is a total is simple sketch. Let me show you how we can create an incredible illustration from this winter brushes. I'll see you in the next video where I'm going to block in the main shapes. 20. Block In The Main Shapes: [MUSIC] In this video, we are going to block in the main shapes. But for that we will need to choose the colors. What I thought is that I already have this three colors here that I've chosen for the florals, and I will choose another one. I will have two colors basically combined in this illustration. This is a purple and let me see the color how many tool that I love to use and I will go for the analogous. I will choose this pink here. I will choose a darker version of it and I really love pink, light pink. I have a mid-tone, a darker version, and a lighter version. I will combine these two with the main elements, so the camera will be, I guess purple. The floral elements will be like this pink and I need something for the background and I thought it would be really great to have some neutral colors. It can beige very light yellow or gray and I think I will go with the gray and I will also choose a darker version of that gray, maybe even black or very dark gray. Now I have nine colors to work with. I have colors for light, shadow, and for the background. The first thing I'm going to do is to set the background color to this gray. [LAUGHTER] It will work fine for me. I will lower the opacity of this sketch, create a new layer, and choose the mid-tone off the camera, choose my shaper brush and just fill in a domain shape. [MUSIC] Put a layer below the sketch. I have a base shape now and I will put every other shape on a different layer. I will put the shape of the outside camera lens, the inside camera lens, and the fully inside of the lens light this lens themselves. Then I will have different layers for the buttons and different layer for the florals and for these decorative elements. I either choose different colors for each of them. I will choose this gray for this outside circle and let's see how we can progress from that, and also for the buttons. Maybe I will create a layer below this shape that I have created, and it will be easier to add these buttons here. Now that's the same color as the background. I will choose an even darker gray for that. [MUSIC] I would choose an even lighter color, almost white, that I can differentiate it from the background. I'll adjust the shapes there. Another layer on top with the darker one. Another layer, let's say with this dark purple. Now I will go for the florals. I will choose this light, or middle pink, and just do it. [MUSIC] Incredible. Now see you in the next video where I'm going to add the shadows. [MUSIC] 21. Add Shadows To The Object: [MUSIC] In this video, we are going to add shadows to this illustration. What you need to know about shadows is that we need to define where the light is coming from. I'm deciding that the light is coming from this side. What does it mean that I will have my shadows down here and at this side. This camera, if it's hit, here will be the shadow. It is the other way round because now the light source, it is there. I will have this part and this part darker. Also, in the floral elements, I will have these below parts and this other side a little bit darker. Again, I will choose a darker version of this color. I will start with the florals and choose the shader brush. Alpha lock this layer, actually all of them. I'm going to add the shadows at first for the florals. I will turn off the sketch so that I can see better. [MUSIC] Let's get to the main object. I will choose the darker version of that, purple and place shadows, I need a little bit bigger shadows to this bottom part and to this other side a little bit more like this, even darker ones here. Actually, I can just go over the whole with the biggest size to add a little bit of texture onto the hall. I will go back to this lighter version, add a little bit of light to this part of the, maybe to the top as well. I have a little bit of shading on the whole. I will do the same with all these circles. I will start with this almost white one and I will choose a darker gray to shade it. I will have a shadow at this part. Now you just go over it to add a little texture to it and then I will go to this gray and to this almost black to add shadow to it as well. This part, like this, and in the lens I will again add a little bit darkness, but also a little bit of light to this other part so that there is a little bit of reflection also in the camera in the inside. Wait for it. Yeah. Like this. Looks good. It will come together in a second. [MUSIC] In the next video let's add the textures. 22. Add Texture To The Object: [MUSIC] With the texture brush, I will add this line here. I will get back the drawing. As you can see, this part of it is darker and this part up here is lighter. I will create the effect to this top. I will make it light. With this light gray, I will create a layer on top of the base shape and create a clipping mask. I will actually add this texture onto the top, but maybe I will make it a little bit smaller. [NOISE] It looks great. Let's talk about the background a bit. I will create a layer below it all and choose white and add a little bit of this scratchy texture to the background. [NOISE] Cool. Can you see that? Now, I will go to the flower, choose this very light pink and add a little bit of this texture into them. I will turn off the sketch so that I can see what I'm doing. [NOISE] Incredible. Now, what about this circles of the camera? I can go inside and add a little bit of scratchy texture into it with this, so adding a little bit of scratching to these lighter parts, combining lighter and darker versions of the same color to add a little variation. Here in the lighter part I added this scratchy texture with the darker color and the other way round here. I will not add a texture here because it is in a shadow so that will help me to create a little bit more of a dimension. Now, we arrive to a part that you don't even know yet. That is, that you can use the sketching pencil to add details. I'll just do that in the next video. 23. Add Details To The Object: The brushes we have created are really versatile. You can add texture with the shader, you can add lines with the sketching pencil or even the shaper when you set it to be thin. I'm going to choose the sketching pencil and add some details that I had left out. I will turn on this layer, create a new layer above it all. I will just draw this part, for example, with white. I will choose white for that, this part. I can even fill it. It already also has texture, so it is totally okay to do so. What else? I have lines here. I have this button. I will have, I don't know, some lines here as well. This has little lines at the edges. I can add this detail here. I will do it only at this side and then I will choose a really bit lighter version of the color to add that to this shadowy parts. Cool. I have a thing here. I will choose white to add it here. It has some red thing inside, so I will just add that here. Yeah. It has also this line, so I will just add them. Let's choose a darker version of the color and just add them here. [MUSIC] Okay. Let's add the detail into the middle, so these clouds. I will turn on this layer and create another layer. Actually put it above this purple circle and make it a clipping mask. I will choose this really light white shaper, I mean light pink. I will fill this cloud like this. I will Alpha Lock it, add texture. No, add shadows at first with this darker version. Yeah. Cool. A little bit of texture over it. I will choose a texture brush and this really light one. I will make it smaller and add a little bit of this scratchy texture over it and create a new layer. With the white and the sketching pencil, I will just add these little things I love to add to my clouds. Little stars here and it looks super cool. Maybe I don't like the shape of this one. YEAH. Like this. Wow, it looks so nice. [LAUGHTER] I love it. What else we have? In the next video, let's add the drop shadows. 24. Add Dropshadows To The Illustration: [MUSIC] Let's just see what power the drop shadow brush has, I will choose the drop shadow brush, black and I will create a new layer at first above this fixture so below the main things about this background history and I will just add this shadow here in few layers. Now, I will Gaussian blur it, and perfect. I can add little shadows for this floral here on a new layer so I will add the separate layer because I already Gaussian blurred this one and it wouldn't be possible for me to go Gaussian blur it again so I will just add a little bit more of this shadow here. Again, Gaussian blur we just do that really nice and now I will add a layer below these florals. Actually, I will add first follow the shape of the floral so that I will draw the shadows that these florals cast on the camera if that makes sense to you. I will have little shadow here, we'll make it a little bit smaller so here. I will again turn off the sketch because it is a little bit distracting for me. Make sure that you only draw these shadows where they are really casted so not behind the camera or things like that. I will have shadows here and also here. Maybe redder here as the light is coming from there, so I will add these shadows redder here. I can again Gaussian blur it, so that I know they're harsh, beautiful. Can you see how it is coming together? This is incredible. I will have another layer of shadows, I will put it here onto these buttons. Maybe I will add a little bit of shadow to the top. I will Guassian blur it so it will not be this ugly. [LAUGHTER] I will add a little shadow to the corner of this and I will Guassian blur it so that I can see what I've done here, pretty nice and I will create a layer behind each of these. This is not a clipping mask, I will make it a little bit bigger so that I have a cast shadow for this shape so like this. I will again Gaussian blur it, cool and I will create a layer above this white so that I can add even more shadows for this camera thing. I can again Gaussian blur it, wonderful and I will put a little bit of shadow inside this lens. I will make it just big here carefully because this will cast shadow onto the lens. Like approximately here is as I'm imagining it, so I will Gaussian blur it again, wonderful. But now I will show you a trick. With this drop shadow brush you can paint light if you paint with white, so I will create another layer and just paint a little reflection here into the lens. Can you see that? Perfect. I have created two lines here, a little bit dotty line and this one and I can Gaussian blur it as well so that it is really like a reflection, beautiful. Now let's add a little bit more light because I think this is super fun. I will create another layer and just add a little bit of light where they can be hit by reflection. On the top, these buttons there can be or maybe a little bit of a reflection at this part of lens, I will Gaussian blur it again, this looks incredible. I love it even more. On top of these florals I will also add a little bit of light so it is like reflecting the light a little bit. This is super cool. I love it and I will not Gaussian blur this one. What do we need for the end of it? We will need some special effects so see you in the next video. [MUSIC] 25. Finalize the Artwork: [MUSIC] I'll just use our special effect brush. I will create another layer and let it be white and either bring it to the background if I can. I'll make it big and try to add these little shapes to the background. I think this is incredible. What I had here as well are these little shapes. Let's just try to add them. I will choose the shaper brush and onto the top layer, I go to add on these catch and I will try to add them. I will just add my logo here as well. As I have the feeling that this corner is a little bit empty I will just place my logo here [LAUGHTER] like this. What I can do to enhance these stars is to turn off the sketch and place a little drop shadow behind them. I will create another layer. I'll take the drop shadow and just paint around them just a little bit. I will place it on top so that it can be seen. I will Gaussian blur it so that these can be seen, really nice. I will adjust the shape of this one. Doesn't look good. Amazing. What do you say? I think this is beautiful and like we have created this with your brushes. Amazing. I'm really proud of you, now you have a final artwork and a full brush that made on your own, with your own resources. I think this is just incredible. Make sure to upload your class project, even the floral motif if you have done that. Upload it into the project gallery. I'm so excited to see what you create. Now let's move on to the final conclusion of the class to see a little recap on the key takeaways that you can take from this class. [MUSIC] I'm super happy that you have been with me here. I'll see you in the last video. 26. Final Thoughts: [MUSIC] Congratulations, you've finished the class. I'm so proud of you for sticking with me by the end of it. I am sure you can be proud of your aspect. Make sure to upload it into the project gallery so that we can see your beautiful creation. I would really appreciate if you could give a review to the class, it is very important to me to know what you're thinking about it and for others to see if this class is a great fit for them. To stay up-to-date, follow me here on SkillShare and all my social media on Instagram and Facebook to get notified about the latest classes, announcements, and challenges. Now let just see the key takeaways of this class. In this class you have learned the six different functions digital brushes need to have. You have learned that creating custom brushes is easy and fun. It can add a unique touch to your art and can even strengthen your artistic style. You have created your very own full brush set and also practiced and experienced their practical usage in different situations. If you wish to further improve your brush creation skills, I really recommend you to follow Procreate official Instagram page because they are frequently sharing new tips and tricks. They also have a handbook on their website that can help you to understand settings that we have not covered in this class. Don't miss any opportunity to practice your new skill. If you find a fine texture or shape, make sure to take a photo of it and build a library that you can reference anytime you need to create a new brush. Also, share your brushes with the artistic community either for free or take advantage of selling your creations. Your brushes might be a game changer for others. Thank you for taking the class. It was a pleasure to have you here. See you in my other classes and happy creating. [MUSIC]