How to Make a Watercolor Scallop Pattern in Procreate

1. Intro: Hey, I'm Maya favor. And in this class, I'm going to teach you how to draw this sweet Seashell pattern Ipcrate. You will learn how to create a geometric scallop pattern, including how to make a scallop shape to use as a guide when you draw your motifs Procreate. We will practice on using watercolor brushes and adding lots of Yumi texture to make your watercolor look professional. In this class, you will get free resources, including four procreate brushes and one procreate colour palette. Join me in this class to learn the art of creating a stunning watercolor Seashell pattern Procreate. 2. Your project: This class project, you will create your own Seashell Scallop pattern in Procreate. I recommend using the free downloads, which is the Pattern Perfect Template, the free Procreate brushes, and pre made color palette to be able to get the best possible learning experience when you're watching this class. Please share your project here in class. I can't wait to see what you create. 3. Create the Scallop Shape: So the very first thing that we will do is to duplicate our pattern Perfect template. So this way, we know that we get perfect selections and that we can create our pattern seamlessly and smoothly and without any white lines. So duplicate the pattern perfect template. I'm using the 3,000 times 3,000 pixel template for this pattern, and I tap duplicate. And then I will tap into my copy and turn off the visibility of my guide layer and tap the plus to add a new layer on top. The very first thing that we will do now is to create the scallop shape. So start by choosing the moonine brush from the Pattern elements brush set. This is a brush set that is available for the members in my Pattern Rebels membership. But you can also find this brush in my free Power Pack Brush Set, which you can find a link to in the description of this class. You can also choose to use any type of monoline brush that you are comfortable with using. But if you want to follow my lead and use the same pixel size and everything like that, I highly recommend to download my free Power Pack Brush Set from my website. And I will make sure that I have black as a color. You can, of course, use any type of color, but I usually use black when I create template layers. And then with a monoline brush, and let's see if 7% is a good size, I will draw a circle, make sure that it meets up, and then I will tap with my finger to make it perfectly round. And then I will let go. So create a circle that is inside of your canvas that aren't cut off the edges. And then I tap the transform tool and I tap fit to Canvas. So now we have a circle that is filling the whole Canvas. So I will duplicate this layer, and then I will turn on the drawing guide. So tap your actions panel Canvas drawing guide, edit drawing guide, and make sure that you have two degrades selected and bring up the grid size to maximum, which will bring you four equally sized squares. With my copy, I will tap the transform tool on that layer and make sure that I have snapping and magnetics turned on under snapping, turn on magnetics and turn on snapping, and then I will tap and drag the new layer to the bottom right until it snaps, and you have these yellow guidelines, so you know that it's placed in the center. And then we tap the transform tool again to place that layer. Then we will duplicate the first layer again with the circle, tap the transform tool and tap and drag that one down to the bottom left until you get your yellow guidelines and it snips perfectly to the bottom left corner. And then we tap the transform tool again. The next thing that we will do is to go into our original circle layer over here, and we will select the part of the circle that are falling off here. So tap the selections tool, make sure that you have free hand selecting, and then we will zoom in it's okay if it's not perfect because this is just a guide layer, but I will select what was falling off there, and I will just zoom in over here, drag down, zoom out, and then just drag up and tap the gray dot to close the selection. Now I've selected this part of the circle that are falling off the scallop shape. So I will tap the transform tool, and then I will just drag that one out to delete it. I will make sure that I have the original circle layer selected, and then I will go in and do the same thing on the other side. I will zoom in and select the part there that are falling off the scallop shape, and just draw over here, make sure that you select the whole shape, drag up, oops, something like that, and then close the shape over here. When you have the selection, you tap the transform tool and tap and drag out of your canvas to delete the selection. So now we have one scallop shape, and we can merge these layers together. So swipe with your fingers these layers together to merge them, or you can tap merge down on both of the layers, and this is our original scallop shape. I will actually rename this layer to original scallop. And then I will just duplicate this and I can just rename this to scallop. So I will save my original scallop because maybe you want to use that in another pattern later on and to use it as a bigger scallop shape because now we will minimize the size of this scallop shape. And what we will do is to select the scallop layer which is our copy of our original scallop, and I will tap the transform tool, and I will just tap and drag in one of the corner nodes to drag it down until it meets perfectly in the center, and it says half of the size of the Canvas here, 1,500 pixels, and then we tap the transform tool. You can also see that it is perfectly placed here. So you have made the scallop half of the size of its original size. Then I will duplicate this layer and tap the transform tool to drag it to the right so that it snaps and is placed perfectly to the bottom right. So you know where it snaps when you have the yellow guidelines, and then we tap the transform tool to place it. Now we can merge these layers together, tap the layer and tap merge down or swipe the layers together, and now we have them in one layer. So duplicate that layer again and tap the Transform tool and drag up your copy until it snaps up here, and then tap the Transform tool. If we turn off the drawing guide now, you can see that we have one, two, three, four, five scallops that are hole. The whole shape is in the center of the canvas, and then we have some cut off here in the edges where you can see half of the scallops. So this is our guide layer, the template layer, where we will draw our motifs. The last thing that we can do is just to merge these together. So tap the layer and tap merge down. And here you have your scallop layer. 4. Draw the Motifs: Okay, so now it's time to start to draw the actual motifs. So the first thing that we will do is to tap the layer's panel, and on the scallop layer, we will drag down the opacity on that layer. I will go for around 20%. You can go even lower if you want to, and then we will add a new layer on top of the scallop layer. So tap plus to add a new layer. And here we will draw our scallop shaped motifs. So the first thing that I will do is to drag out my color panel and tap the palettes over here, and I have my Seashell Scallop color palettes. I have saved a bunch of different green hues here for you to use. I will use at least five of these maybe more. Let's see when we start to create our pattern. So I will choose the first one, which is called grayish blue green in my color palette, and I will choose the watercolor base brush in the Seashell Scallop brush set. Then I will drag up my size to around 20%. And what I want to do now is to turn my canvas around because I think that it's harder to draw a half circle or any kind of geometric shape on the horizontal direction. I will just twist my canvas around because it's easier for me at least to draw in this vertical direction. So what we want to do is to create a half circle. And you can choose to do this really organic look where you just draw like this, and it's a little bit wonky, and that's completely fine if that is the look that you want to have. I will go for the more geometric half circle shape. So what I want to make sure then is that I have my quick shape turned on. So tap the actions panel preferences to control, quick shape and make sure that you have draw and hold tapped in over here so that you will get a geometric shape when you just hold with your Apple pencil to make a shape. So as I said, with the watercolor base brush, we will zoom in a bit, and I want to follow the line here. So I will start in the center in the center scallop shape, and I will just draw this shape. And if you feel that it doesn't work out perfectly from the first try, that's perfectly fine. You can do it a few times before you find the shape that you actually want to keep. So I didn't really like this shape, but I will do it once again. So I will tap and drag and I will make sure that I meet up the other scallop shape over here somewhere so that I don't go below it. And I will go for I have around 20% in brush size, and I will tap and drag. And when I have quick shape selected, it will make me half circle. So if you want a perfect geometric shape, you tap with one finger, but I want mine to be more aligned to my template layer here. So I don't want to hold down my finger. You can if you want to, but I will just align it with the template layer over here. So I want to have the edges kind of the same the ends of the shape. So I will just undo that and try to have the same pressure on my brush at the ends here. So I want to make sure that my line don't go beneath this line and above this line. So I will try once again here. It can be a little bit detailed to get it right. So something like that maybe. Yeah, I really like the look of this. So this should work. Good. Yeah. And then I will lower my brush size to around 10%, and I will draw a thinner line over here and hold to make the quick shape and let go. Okay, so that looks good to me. You might need to try it out a few times until get a shape that you really like. So the next thing that we will do is to draw some dots here. So what I will do is just to fetch the center and draw a dot over here somewhere. And then I want to draw the same things on this side as on this side. You don't have to do that, but I would do it to make it quicker and also to make it a more symmetric shape. So what I would do then is to zoom out bit, tap the actions panel, Canvas drawing guide, edit drawing guide, tap symmetry options, and make sure that you have vertical symmetry selected. Then you can just zoom in to see that it's in the center and it is. And then you tap done. So now it should say assisted on that layer. If you tap the layer, you should have drawing assist selected. And with the same brush, if we draw a dot here, it should end up on the other side. So that way, it will be perfectly symmetrical, and what you draw on this side will also end up on that side. I didn't use the symmetry tool when I created the lines because that is a bit harder to make the meet up, but I want to use them now for the rest of the motifs or at least for these dots. So with the symmetry tool, I will just draw some dots here. You can zoom in hoops to make sure that you like the placement of them. Okay, so it was a little bit too crowded there. I will actually start here and try to go up with the dots and meet them so that they are meeting up over here. Okay, so that looks good to me. So what I want to do next is just to draw a few lines. So I will start here underneath that dot and draw kind of a line. It can be a bit messy, but I want it to be kind of underneath the dots. Maybe I want those to be a little bit longer. I will just delete them, undo and just make the lines a little bit longer and a little bit tilted in the same direction as the dots. For the center one, I don't want the drawing assist. I will tap the layer, tap off drawing assist, and I will just draw that line without the drawing assist. Okay, so that looks good. And then I think that I want another line over here. So maybe we should do a thicker line. Let's try the 20%, and then we'll just turn my canvas around and make sure that I don't have drawing assist. And then I want to draw a line and make sure that it doesn't go underneath the guide layer here, the line. And I will hold to make the shape. No, I didn't like that. Oops, I will try to have the same pressure at the end. So that was a thinner line. Maybe I like that or maybe I don't, I think I kind of like that. So I'm happy with that. Then I want to draw some dots again. So I will draw a.in the center here, smaller dots this time. And then I will turn on the drawing assist and I will start at the edge here. And draw smaller dots. Okay, so that looks good to me. And then I can see if I want to have the drawing assist selected or not because here I want to kind of create a drop shape. Yeah, that looks good. Let's zoom out and see if we're happy with that. Maybe not completely happy. Maybe try one more time. Not that thick. Swimming out. I think it looks good, but I think that I maybe want it a little bit more thick in the edges so that it meets up the other shape. Let's try once again. So it might take a few tries with all of these shape until you find that they are balanced. But what is good is that we will just duplicate this motif later on, so you won't need to do this for all of the scallop shaped motifs. So as you can see, I'm trying this out quite a few times before I'm happy with the result. I think that this one will probably look good. Turn off your guide layer to see how it looks. Yeah, and I think that that looks good, so I'm quite happy with how that looks, and now it's time to add some texture. 5. Add Texture: Next thing that we will do is to add some texture. So what we will do then is too. We can just unshake the assisted on that layer. So tap the layer, tap drawing assist, and I will tap to add a new layer on top. And on this layer, I will tap the N and drag to Caliburn, and I will choose the watercolor mix blobby and go for a gray color. So somewhere around here, and then I will actually tap the layer and tap clipping mask. So if you go higher in the gray, you will get more color. So it depends on the look that you're after. I will go a bit lower, so light gray or a bit over the center here in the gray. And then I will just tap to add some differences in the color. If I zoom in, I think you can see what happens, and you can also see what happens on your own screen. And then you can change so you have lighter gray color and darker gray color. And just go over to add some differences in the texture. So something like that. So that is how we create the texture on the actual motifs. And then we will also create an overall texture. But I will do that in a later lesson. So for now, this is all that you needed to do. 6. Add More Motifs: Next, we will create the actual pattern. But the first thing that we will do is to create the other scallop motifs. You can, if you want to draw all of these scallop shapes separately. I won't because I want to create this pattern quickly. But if you do want to create different shapes, you will create one for each of these five scallop shapes. But for me, I will duplicate these. I will swipe it right on both of these layers and then I will tap group. We can just rename the layers. I will rename layer five, to texture, and rename layer one, two. I don't know. Let's say motif. Then with the group selected, I will swipe to the right and duplicate it, tap the transform tool, and I don't want snapping and magnetics turned on here, I will tap the snapping and turn off magnetics and snapping, and then I will tap and drag to place my motif over here. You don't want it to fall out of the edge of your canvas, so you want to make sure that you place it within your canvas and within the scallop shape. So something like that, maybe. Yeah, that looks good. Then I will duplicate the original shape again, tap and drag that one down so that if it's over here, if you just make sure that it's in within the guideline here, then you will be fine when they meet up, something like that. And then duplicate the original shape again, tap and drag it to somewhere around there. And then once again, duplicate the original shape and tap and drag it to the top right scallop shape. Somewhere around there and tap the transform tool to place it. So now we have placed four other scallop shapes over here, and they are in different groups. So if we just tap the different groups, visibility of them. You can see that you have your different scallop shapes here in different groups. And that is great if you want these to be different colors. So I will create mine in various hues of green. If you want all the same colors, then you can create them on the same layer. But I want mine in different colors. I will start with this one, the top left one. And I will tap the Mati layer and tap paloq on that layer. And then I will actually just drag out my color panel again and tap the palette. And let's see. Let's go for a darker green. And this one, I will tap the darker green, and I have Alpalq on that layer, so I will tap the layer and tap fill layer. And there you have created a whole different color of that green. So it might happen that when you change the hue of the color, you might not be perfectly happy with the texture as darker colors will bring darker textures as it did here. If you want to add new texture, you can, of course, do that, add a new layer and add texture as we did previously. You can also grab the layer and drag down opacity and see if that works better for you. So I think that that's fine for this pattern. And then I will move along on the next one. So it's this bottom left one, and I will tap the Muti layer in that one, tap Alok. And here, I think that I want to go for an even lighter green, maybe this one, like a real mint green. So tap that color and tap fi layer, and that looks really good. So I'm happy with that and then I'll move on to the next one, which is the bottom right one. And maybe I want a bit darker there again or somewhere in between, like a medium green. Let's try this one out and see how we like that. So I will open up the motif layer, tap the layer, tap apho and tap the layer. I kind of like that, but I don't like that those two are in the same hue. So let's try another one, maybe this darker green. That looks pretty cool. Maybe that can work. Yeah, let's try that one out. And then I can go into the texture on that layer and just bring down the opacity a little bit because I think it's too much when it's 100%. So I'll drag that one down, and then I will tap the last group, tap the motif layer, Apalok and let's see if we can do this really bright green on this layer. Yeah, I think that looks good. If you want to, you can even try other hues here. Maybe this one will look good. Yeah, I really like the look of that, I will go for that one. It's let's see which was it, the blue green. Okay, so now we have changed the colors, and I'm happy with how this looks. The next thing that we will do is to flip the pattern around and add the other scallop shapes, and we will do that in the next lesson. 7. Add Overall Texture: So we will add some more texture, and this is absolutely optional, but it can be a nice way to really bring out the watercolor effect. So I will add a new layer on top of all of these layers, and I will go for a grey color. So somewhere around two thirds up, I would try that. And I will go for the watercolor magic texture wet. And with the largest brush size, I will just swipe over the whole canvas. As you can see, this is a little bit irregular texture, and that's completely fine. So just make sure that my whole canvas is filled, and then I will tap the layer, taped in and drag to Caliburn. If we zoom in, you can see what happens when we don't have the texture and when we have the texture. So we get a little bit of irregularity in the watercolor effect, which will make it look even more realistic and not digitally drawn. So that is the first one, and then I will tap the plus to add a new layer, and I will go for the watercolor magic texture light 100% in brush size, and then just swipe over the whole canvas. And tap the layer N and color burn and drag down. You can see now, if we remove the texture and add the texture that you get some more watercolor effect. If you feel that it's too much, you can use one of the textures, for example, you can also drag down the opacity of the textures, and you can even change the gray color. If you tap the layer, tap Alpha o and go a little bit lighter in the gray color, tap the layer again and fill layer, you will see that you will get a lighter texture. So it all depends on the look that you're after. I usually think that a little bit is good but not too much, so it's too saturated. So I will bring down my opacity to around 70 or 80% on both of these layers. Okay, so that was how we added overall texture. 8. Make the Pattern: So now it's time to create the actual repeat. The first thing that we will do is just to tap above the original scallop layer to add a new layer with a plus, and I will go for white as my color and tap and drag to fill that layer with a color. And this is our background layer. We can rename it to background, tap the layer, tap rename, and right background. And then I will swipe to the right on all of these layers above and tap. Now I want to select the group with the original scallop in the center, and I want to duplicate that one and drag it above the group. So we have it over here and then turn off the visibility of that layer. The next thing that I want to do is to tap the group, and now we want to choose our selections from the Pattern Perfect template as we're using that. So I will tap the selections, tap Save and load, selection five, tap the transform tool, flip vertical, and flip horizontal, tap the selection tool again, save a load, selection six, the transform tool, flip vertical, and flip horizontal, and in between, you can tap the transform tool or the selection tool to place it. And the selection tool again, selection seven, transform tool, flip vertical, and flip horizontal. Selection eight, tap the transform tool, flip vertical, and flip horizontal, and then we can just tap the transform tool and a rotate 45 degrees four times until we get our scallops in the right position. Now it's time to add the scallop in the center, and we have our scallop saved here. So we want the same color of this one as the ones at the edges. So before I move it, I will duplicate that one again, and then I will tap and drag to move that one underneath our texture layers that we haven't named. Let's name them. Overall, texture one on that layer, and overall texture two on that layer. So we have our duplicate of our original scholar shape above the group. So now we place that one in the center, and now it's time to place the ones on the sides. And to do that, I will flip around my motifs again. So I will tap the group. And now I want to tap the selections tool, tap saving load, and here I will go for selection four, tap the Transform tool and flip Vertical, and then I will tap the selections tool again to deselect, tap saving load and selection three, tap the Transform tool and flip vertical. Then I will tap the transform tool and rotate four times to turn the motifs around, the whole group around so that you get them in the right direction again. And now we want to add one more color because that will be the color that is in the center here and on the edges there. So I want to add a new color on that. So tap to add that motif in the center on the group that we had outside of our general group. And then I will change the color. So I will make sure that I have aphlox selected on that layer. And let's choose maybe we can choose this really green color now. Let's try it out. So I will go for the very green over there and tap the motif layer and tap layer. So I think that that looks really good, so I will keep it like that. Before we drag it in the group, I will swipe the right on the group with that scallop shape, and I will tap one of these groups and drag it beneath the overall texture layers. Then I will check off the visibility of that layer, tap the general group, and now we want to flip the sides in again. So I will tap the selection tool, tap selection five, tap the transform to, flip vertical, and flip horizontal. Selection two, saving loads, selection six, flip vertical and flip horizontal. Saving load, selection seven, flip vertical and flip horizontal, Save and load, selection eight, flip vertical and flip horizontal. Then with the transform tool, I will tap and rotate four times 45 degrees. And now we only have one motif left to add, and that's the one in the center. So I will just turn on the visibility of that layer and drag it beneath the overall texture. Now we want to turn off our guide layers. I'll just turn off the scallop layer so we can see our whole pattern. So this looks really good, and I can't see any visible lines in our overall texture or in our textures. But if you do have visible lines in your textures, you can go ahead and add more texture and also delete texture. So I know that this texture was the watercolor made magic texture light. So I will just show you how to do that. We don't have any visible lines in this, but if you would have a visible line, this is how you would do it. So I would choose the same brush, and I can with the eraser tool, choose the same brush. That one. And on that layer, I can go in Oops, eraser tool, and I can erase a little bit of texture where I see the lines. And I can also go in and actually add some texture with the gray color. So I can choose the gray color, and I can add some more texture. So that is how you would fix. If you had some visible lines in your overall texture, you can go in and erase a little bit and add a little bit. It's a little bit hard to show you here as we don't have any visible lines, but maybe we can create a visible line. Let's add a new layer. You don't have to do this, but I just want to show you. So I will add a new layer, and I will go for a darker gray so you can see the difference and go for color burn on that layer. So here I have a very visible line. And it's much darker. But if you would like to do something about this, you go in and erase with the same brush, and you can also add on the other side with the same brush to even out the texture. So that is how you would do if you would have really sharp lines in your overall texture. So now we created this pattern, and it's time to test the patenti. 9. Test the Pattern: Okay, so it's time to test this pattern out. So what we will do is to swipe down with three fingers, tap Copy, swipe down with three fingers and paste. And then we have our flattened image over here. I will just tap and drag it above our group, and I will tap the three little dots. Up here, can find them over there, split screen, Safari, and then I will tap and drag my image into the pattern tester, which is linked to in the description of this class. And here you can zoom in and out and see how your pattern is repeated. And I think that this is a really, really cool pattern. It will look awesome as wallpaper, for example. I would love this as wallpaper. Okay, so now we have tested it in the pattern tester and the loose grade. So now we can test it in Procreate. And what I will do is swipe to the right on this layer because I want to keep that pattern tile image and tap the new layer, tap the transform tool, and I can tap in the top left corner right in 1,500 pixels, and then I will swipe to the right on that layer to duplicate it and make sure I have snapping and magnetics turned on with the transform tool and tap and drag to place it perfectly to the top, right. Then I can merge these layers together. So tap the top layer, tap, merge down. Swap to the right to duplicate that layer and tap and drag to place it perfectly beneath the other ones. So tap the layer and tap merge down. And here you can see that here you have your repeated pattern, and here you have your parentile. 10. Make Changes and Recolor: So this pattern looks great for me. I hope that it does that for you, too. If you would want to make changes to this pattern or recolor some motifs, I will show you how to do that. So I will turn off the visibility on my flatten image over here. And in my group, I will show you how to recolor the pattern first. So what I will do then is to go into some of the motifs. Let's say the motif with the supergreen over here, and I will tap. Let's go for a blue then. A blue color, maybe something like that, and tap the layer and tap the layer. And there I have recolored the shape, and that way, the texture moves along with it because it is in coliburn and it's gray. So it's enough if you recolor the motif layers, and it will work perfectly fine for the texture to just follow along. That is the best thing about having caliburn on your texture. So let's just undo that because I don't want to recolor. So I like it like this. If you would want to make some changes to your pattern, this is a little bit harder when you created the whole repeat. So I would actually suggest that you go back to where you only have the five, it doesn't matter if you have the ones that we had in the start or these ones. I would start here and create changes here. So actually, as we copied all the scallop shapes, I would actually just keep one of them. So let's just keep this one, and then I would turn on the scallop template layer, and I will go in on that layer, just turn off Apalq. And if you want to change something here, I will go in here. Maybe erase something. I don't know what you want to do, but let's say that you're not happy with this dot over here, and then I would erase it, and I would make sure to add a dot with the same brush that I use, so you need to keep track of the brushes and the colors and then add that one there, and then I would copy this motif and make the whole pattern once again. But I would just undo that and turn on the visibility of all of my scallop shapes. But basically, in this type of geometric pattern, where we've actually copied just one motif, I would just go all the way back to my original motif and make the changes if you end up that something is looking a little bit strange. So that is how I would make changes to the pattern. 11. Export the Pattern: So to export this pattern to export the patent tile, so that you can share it here in class, you will go to the actions panel, share JPEG, and then you can just save your image to your camerao for example, and share it in this class. If you want to export your repeated pattern, you tap on the layer with the repeated pattern, and then you tap the actions panel, share JPEG, and save your image. And then you have both of these in your camera roll and you're ready to share them here in class. 12. Next Step: Grab Your Free Starter Pack: Before we end this class, I want to give you something extra. If you enjoy this class and want to keep building your pattern design skills, I put together a free Pattern Rebels Starter Pack just for you. Inside, you will find two mini classes, procreate brushes, a playful color palette, time saving templates, and even a procreate mockup. All designed to help you create beautiful patterns with more confidence and less overwhelm. It's a real taste of the classes tools and resources that you find inside the Pattern Rebels membership without the commitment. No credit card, no deadline, no catch. Everything is yours to keep forever. 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