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1. Introduction: Hello and welcome to
this course on creating procreate brushes and
making a fantasy map. My name is Ben Nielsen and I will be your instructor
for this course. I'm a media design educator
with over seven years of experience teaching
creative programs both in person and online. I hope you enjoy
this course and are able to really up your
skills in procreate. Now, one thing that I found with procreate is that a lot of people are intimidated by
creating their own brushes. I know that this was true for me myself and that's because there's so much going on in
the brush creation window that it's hard to
know what you should even be touching and what
you should be doing. So I decided to
create this course as an easy on ramp into the
world of brush creation. Now we're going to
be doing an intro, so we won't touch
everything that is in that brush creation
panel, and that's intentional. So you can focus in on the
things that matter within a specific purpose because that will change how you
do your brushes. So for this course
we're going to be creating a fantasy map. We're going to do something
similar to what you might find in the
front of a book, like the Hobbit or the
Lord of the Rings. So this is the map
of wilder land. And you can see that
there's a lot of different pieces
going on in there. You know, you've got mountains
and forests and rivers, different types of environments. And that's really good
for creating some simple brushes is creating different types of
environments like that. So we're going to work on our very own fantasy map throughout this course and we'll
talk more about that in the project video. Now, like I said, we are
not going to talk about every single thing that happens within the brush creation panel. In procreate, there is just
too much going on in there. So we're going to focus in on just the basics and the
things that we need to do. But we are going to learn a few different types of brushes. These will include
stamp brushes, texture brushes, and
outline brushes, which are really, really
useful when you're doing this kind of map
making and cartography. Now you might be wondering,
what do you need to take this course? Well,
it's pretty simple. You need an ipad
running procreate. If you don't have that, it's not really going
to work out for you, so you're going to want
that. The other thing that I do recommend is that you
have an apple pencil. The apple pencil just makes procreate so much more useful. And so if you don't already
have one of these and you're planning to use procreate a lot for drawing
different things, then I really recommend
that you get one. It's a good investment, even though they are expensive. Next, you might be wondering,
do you need any experience? Well, we aren't
going to cover all of the basics in procreate here. So it would be good if you have a basic understanding
of how procreate works. Just so that you can do the
drawing portions of this. Because we're mostly going to be focusing on brush creation. So the basics of procreate, like how to draw
on the canvas and adding things like
guides or using layers. Those kinds of basics you
want to be familiar with. And there's lots of
different courses online that offer up that kind of basic intro level
into procreate. But you don't need any prior
experience making brushes. We're going to start
with the very beginning. So even if you've
never seen the brush making screen before,
that's totally fine. We are going to jump in and we're going to learn
what we need to know to create our fantasy map brushes
right here, right now. In the next video, we'll talk more about the project
for this course.
2. Project: The very best way
to learn something is to do it and to practice. And so we do have a project for this course that I really
encourage you to complete. Because if you don't and you just watch and
don't follow along, then you're going to not really have anything to show
for it at the end. And you aren't really going to internalize the concepts either. And so you really need to do it if you want to learn
the concepts here. The project for
this course is to create a fantasy
map in procreate, so you're going to create a
map of an imaginary place. Now that can be someplace from a world that
you really like that maybe is in a book or a movie or
something like that. Or it can be something from your own imagination,
whatever you want. But the key thing is that you
need to create the brushes that are used in this map. So you should use at least
five brushes that you made. Don't use brushes that came with procreate or that
other people made. You need to use your own
brushes because that's the whole point of
learning to make brushes. So make sure that you've done at least five because that's really going to help you to
internalize what's there. Now of course, if you
make more than five and you want to use
those in your map, you're more than welcome to. Now, you should have several
different types of brushes. So three of the basic types of brushes
that we're going to learn here should be included
in those five that you use. You want to make sure
you have a stamp brush, a pattern brush, and
an outline brush, so we're going to
talk more about that. But stamp brushes are great for things like forests
and mountains. Textured brushes help with things like deserts and plains. And outline brushes are good for doing things like
rivers and lakes. So make sure that you've used at least those three types within the five
brushes that you use. Don't do a map, that's
only pattern brushes or only stamp brushes, because that won't give you
the breadth of experience in creating brushes that we
want to get in this class. When you're done
with your project, please export it as a Jpeg file and then upload it to the project section
for this course. That will really help
you to learn and grow. As you share your
work with others and as I'm able to provide
feedback to you. That's the project
for this course. Make sure that you follow
along with me so that you're ready at the end
to submit your project. Now in the next
video, we're going to introduce you to the
procreate interface.
3. Procreate Interface: So the first thing that
we're going to do here in procreate is learn
about the interface. If you haven't used
procreate before, this will be really
useful for you. If you have used it before,
you can use this as a review or you can skip
ahead to the next video. But I really want you to feel comfortable in the interface. Now, we're not going to
cover all the basics of procreate in this class,
like I said in the intro. But I do want you to
have a good grasp of where things are so
we aren't confused. When I start pointing
to them, I'm going to be using a mouse
so that you can see this cursor move across the screen and you can see
what I'm highlighting. That's much easier
than knowing where I'm pointing with my
fingers that you can't see. So we are in a new
document here in procreate and there is a
tool bar across the top. So like I said, we won't
go into everything but just know that there is
the tool bar across the top. So if I refer to the tool bar, that's what I'm talking about. There's going to be some options for you on the left hand side. So the wrench is
obviously going to contain a lot of different
settings and things. And there's a few times that
we will delve into here, but not too often in this class. Then you're going to
find your adjustments. We won't really need to deal
with that in this class, so you won't have to
worry about selections. We will work within this class as we work on
making our brushes. And then the movement tool,
which we can't actually click on right now because our
layer is blank and empty. But we will use that as well to move and transform
things when we need to. Then on the right, we
have our drawing tools. Obviously the most
important one is going to be our actual brushes. This is the brush
library and where we'll select we're doing, and also where we will
go to make new brushes, which is the point
of this course. So you will have a lot
of brushes down here. You will probably have all
of these standard ones. I have a whole bunch that I've purchased over time that
are loaded in here as well. But you should have
the standard ones with the special icons in
your procreate as well. We'll talk a lot
more about that. Then you have the smudge tool. The smudge tool actually uses the same brush library
as the regular brushes, but it's used for
pushing things around. We won't need to worry about the smudge tool in this class. And then you have the
eraser tool again. The eraser tool uses the same brush library
as the regular brush, but it removes with that pattern instead
of adding more of it. Now we will use the eraser
probably a little bit, but not too much in this class. And then this is not a drawing tool, but
this is your layers. Panel layers are really, really critical when
working in procreate. Talk more about that
in a little bit. And then over here, you
have your color palette. So there's lots of different
versions of the way that you can deal
with your color, depending on what you like. But for the most part,
we'll just be using a black color to
create our brushes. Then on the right hand
side, you have sliders. The first one will make your
brush bigger or smaller. And the second one will change
your brush opacity from being fully opaque to being
completely transparent. Then you have this
little button here that will do different
actions for me. It pulls up my eye dropper tool, then you have undo
and redo here. But I think the
easiest way to do it is to do a two finger tap. So let me draw something here. And then I will do
a two finger tap on the screen. And
it will undo it. And if I want to redo it, I will do a three finger
tap on the screen. So those gestures
are good to know. The other thing to know is this varies depending on how you
have your things set up. But for me, I can bring
up a menu by taking three fingers and swiping down that will bring up the
copy and paste menu. And then of course, the one thing I haven't
mentioned is that the canvas is here in the
middle of the screen. That's the main attraction, That's where you're
going to draw. You can zoom in and out by pinching and you can pull it around just by
moving it just to pan it. That's useful sometimes if you have your layer panel open, then you might not
be able to see it all so you can move it over. So just knowing how to navigate the interface will be
really useful to you. All right, that is the basics of the interface
here in procreate. In the next video,
we're going to start by talking about
creating stamp brushes.
4. Making a Stamp Brush: We're going to go ahead and
make our first brushes, which are going to
be stamp brushes. Stamp brushes are kind
of the simplest brush because they're just going
to lay down a stamp, basically a small picture
of the thing that you made. So they aren't going
to lay down lines so much as they are going
to lay down the pictures. And these are really useful in maps for things like trees, where you're making a
forest or things like mountains or different icons that you want to
place on the map. So we're going to go ahead
and create a tree first. So let's go to our layers here. And we're just going
to go ahead and delete this layer one here. We don't need that. So let's go ahead and swipe
and then we'll clear. So let's go to our
brushes For this, I want a nice clean line, so let's try
Baskerville for now. And generally, you want to
be doing this in black. So make sure that your
color is set to black. I can see that mine is
not quite set to black. So I'm going to
go ahead and just drag my all the way down. I'm on the value setting and my saturation all
the way down so that I'm getting a black here. Because that's when you're
actually going to create the, I want to go ahead
and make a tree. If you have done some sketching ahead of
time and you've figured out what you want your stamp to look like before you get
here into procreate, I know that I want my tree to look like a standard tree here. You don't want too
much detail in this because remember it's
going to be part of a map, it's going to be small, it
just needs to be iconic. That's just a little tree
that I've drawn out there. Your tree can look
like anything. It can be a deciduous tree or it can be an evergreen tree. There's lots of
different options there, but basically you want
to make this icon here. Then we're going to
go ahead and we're actually going to copy this, so that we can make
a brush out of it. Going up to your wrench, you're going to go
to your ad button and then down to your
copy canvas menu item. Click copy canvas. From there, that's now copy to the canvas and we can go
make a brush with it. Going into our brushes, we're going to go ahead and
make ourselves a new section. So scroll all the way up to
the top and hit the plus. And I'm going to call this
one map class. Put that away. And now I want to make a
new brush in map class. So I'm going to hit plus again. And the first thing that I
want to do is go ahead and set my shape on the left hand
side of the brush studio. There are lots of options here. Remember, we're not
going into all of them. There are so many different
things you can do here. We're just going
learning the basics. But I want to set my shape. Coming to the shape, you can
see that it always starts out with a round brush
that just uses a circle. And then on the same line as Shape Source, we're
going to hit Edit. Now we want to import our shape, so we're going to click Import. And we're going to choose Paste, because that's why we copied
it. So there's our tree. And it's really important
that we then tap with two fingers, which
is normally undo. But here it's invert.
So tap with two fingers and now that's inverted.
Then click done. So you can see over
on the drawing pad, you can see that it still
wants to draw a line here and put all of
those trees together. And that is not what we want, so we need to go
ahead and change this so that it's
basically a stamp. Let's go over here
to stroke path, and we're going to take our
spacing all the way up, so you can see that each one is happening individually there. Then we want to go down to Apple pencil and we want to take our opacity all the
way down so that we aren't handling any opacity with the pressure of
our apple pencil. We just want to be able to tap on the screen and get a tree. We want to name this brush. So let's go to our about this brush section and come up here to where
it says untitled brush. And we will call
this one basic tree. Okay, so now we have
a basic tree brush. Let's go to our layers. And we will uncheck this layer
one so that we can't see that anymore and we'll
make a new layer that we can draw on
with our new brush. We have basic tree.
Every place that I tap, I will get a tree. That's the basics of that. Let's just walk through
it one more time. Let's do another tree so that we have some options
for our forest. Make sure that we switch
back to our brush. It's useful to go to your
resins so you can find it. There's Baskerville, you
can use whatever you want and let's go ahead
and do a pine tree. Sometimes you might want to add in shading on your stamp brushes that can give a little bit more dimension to your stamp brush. Let's go ahead and walk
through that one more time. Now that we have
this ready to go, we're going to go
up to our wrench. Make sure that you're on
ad and then copy canvas. Copy everything on the canvas
that's currently displayed. It won't copy any of
those other layers. Now we go to our brushes. We go to our map
and we hit plus, then we go to Shape, Edit, and import and paste. Then don't forget to do the two finger tap to
invert and then click Done. Now we need to set
our stroke path to have lots of spacing. And we need to go
down to Apple pencil and set our opacity to non. Then we can go ahead
and name our brush under about this
brush, untitled brush. Delete that and call this one
pine tree. Done and done. And now we have a
pine tree brush. So we go ahead, turn this off. We make a new layer. We can
use our pine tree brush here. And of course, we could mix
that with our basic tree. That's all we need to do there. That's how you create
a stamp brush. I will do a couple more examples of stamp brushes
in the next video, but if you're feeling
confident in that, you can go ahead and move on
to the next type of brush.
5. More Stamp Brushes: In this video, I'm just
going to go ahead and make a few more stamp brushes that would be good
icons in my map, so I'm not going to
talk through at all, but I'm going to
show you so that you can kind of see what's going on. But I'll kind of speed it up
so that you can just kind of get the idea of what you might do for some different brushes. I'm going to try
and do a mountain, a cave, a town, and a castle here. I'm just
using my move tool to just reposition this in the frame just to line it up in the middle of it before I
actually make the brush. A trick that would probably
make this easier would be to just go ahead and
duplicate one of these. And then just make the
change to the shape so that you don't have to change
everything else each time. So that probably is even easier there and everything kind
of stays like it should. And then all you have
to do is rename it, okay. So with this all done, we now have six brushes
that we could use. And obviously you could go on
and do a lot more of them. You could work really hard
on matching the style. You could try and do
all of the shading on all the same side so that
everything kind of matches. It's really up to you kind
of your personal preference of how you want it to look, Whether you want to
look really hand drawn, or whether you want it
to look not hand drawn. It all is kind of up to you
as far as the style goes, but that's how you're going
to make those stamp brushes. Now we're going to go
ahead and we're going to learn how to create
an outline brush so that we can do things like
rivers and roads with that.
6. Make an Outline Brush: All right, so now
we're going to go ahead and create
an outline brush. So the stamp brushes
were really simple. And now we're going to
take it a step further and we're actually going
to need to combine two brushes together to form one brush to create
an outline brush. Now, an outline brush
is really useful for doing things like
roads and rivers, things that have two sides to them when you're doing a map. So let's go ahead and
learn how to make this. First, of course, we're
going to go to our brushes, and we're actually
going to need to grab two brushes
from somewhere else. So I'm going to go down to my inking group and I'm
going to choose tinderbox. And then from tinderbox
I'm going to go ahead and swipe to the left
and choose Duplicate. So now I have tinderbox
and tinderbox one, I actually want
another tinderbox. So swipe to the
left and duplicate. And now with those
two, I can select both of them by making sure I'm selected on that first one, and then swiping
across the second one. So with those two together,
I can then click combine. So now I have this Tinderbox 11. At this point I'm going
to go ahead and move this into my Map group. So I'm going to scroll
all the way back up to the top where
it says Map class. I'm going to grab this
just with my finger or pencil and drop it
into the Map class. Now let's go back
to map class here. And we have Tinderbox 11, which is going to be
our outline brush. So let's go ahead
and tap on that. And now you can see we have two brushes up here in
the top left hand corner. That's really important because
with these two brushes, we're going to set one to
subtract from the other. So let's go ahead and tap on the brush, and
then tap it again. And you can see
this combined mode. So these are blend modes and
what we want is difference, so that one will
remove the other. Now here in the
drawing pad area, you can already see kind
of what's happening here, but it's a little fuzzy and not quite clear
what we're doing yet. So we need to make
a little bit of an adjustment to the size
of one of these brushes. So I'm going to choose
the bottom one. And we're just going
to go straight to properties and use this
to adjust the size. You can see here's
the maximum size. As I drag that down, you can see that the
amount that's being cut away is less, okay. If I draw out here, this brush, I can control some of the
size with the pressure, okay? And you can see when
you cross yourself, it gets rid of more of it, okay? This can be quite useful when you're doing roads or streams
or something like that. That is a pretty easy way
to go about and get that. Now you could mess with a lot
of different settings here, but that's the basics of
creating the outline brush. So let's go ahead
and click Done. We forgot to rename it, so
let's tap back in there. Go back to about this brush area and change this to
our river brush. We'll click then. Now one thing that you do want to
be aware of when you're using this
is it's going to create lines on beginning
and the end as well. Let me just go out and
draw a river here, new layer, you can see that at the beginning and
the end, it's closed off. A lot of times I will
take my eraser brush, make it nice and small. Sure my eraser is set
to something a little bit harder here then I'll, that was really big eraser. Make my eraser smaller. Then just go ahead and
erase right there. And do the same thing
on the other end. Okay? And then I get
more of a river feel. Now, when you are
drawing with this brush, just remember that you can affect it somewhat by the size. Depending on which
brush you start with. Your pressure may
affect the size. Like I can make
it small and big. Every time I cross over, it will disappear.
Let me undo that. If you want to, you can create a larger area by crossing
back over like this. If you want to
create a larger area than what you can do
just with pressure, you could even use that to basically create like
a lake with an island. So these outline brushes can be really useful for
that kind of thing. And they're not too
hard to make once you understand how
it's happening. So just to review, when you're in the
outline brush, you have two brushes. One is going to be
the difference, so you tap on them and you
set that mode to difference, and then you can make one
cut away from the other. Okay, so that's it
for outline brushes. Now we're going to go
ahead and we're going to create a texture brush
because we need to be able to create some large areas here for things like plains, and water and deserts.
7. Make a Pattern Brush: All right, Now that
we've learned how to stamp brushes and
outline brushes, it's now time for us
to move on to the most difficult of
the brush types, and that is pattern brushes. And this is where it's
really important that we are using a square canvas. So we've been using
that all along. But here's where it's really important because we need that in order to create a
repeating pattern that works. This one is the most complicated of all the brushes that
we're going to work on here. And so don't feel
frustrated if it takes you a couple times to get this right because
it is difficult. And you'll even see that with
me that I will have to make corrections and
things like that as we go ahead and we make this. And it's going to involve using more tools than we've
ever used before. So let's go ahead
and let's select a brush that we think
will work well. So I'm going to go back to
my inking here and I think I like this Pandini brush for this a little bit
of texture to it. When we create the
pattern, we're going to draw all
over the canvas. But we aren't going to draw over the edge because we need
those edges to repeat. And it's not going to make a whole lot of sense right now, but as you watch me, it will. So we're going to start
off with some waves. I'm going to lower the size of my brush quite a
bit here because we want just some small waves here that we would
use for water. So I'm just giving some
wave shapes and I'm just kind of going
randomly around here. Basically, you want to fill in most of it with your pattern. I'll speed this up here as I go ahead and just fill in
different parts of this. Okay, so now we've got quite
a bit of this fill in here. It's time for us to go and do kind of the thing that
makes a pattern brush work. And that is to
copy and duplicate this a couple times so that
it goes over the edges. You'll see what I mean
in just a second here. We're going to go ahead
and go to our layers. Here we are on layer seven. All of our other
layers are turned off. We're going to swipe to the left and we're going to duplicate it. Then we're going to
go ahead and select it with our selection tool. And we select the whole thing. And then make sure that
snapping is turned on in your bottom bar here.
This little lightning bolt. And then we're going to go
ahead and we are going to duplicate this over to the left. And we want to make sure
that we are snapped right into the middle there,
right to the edge. Then we're going to go back
to our layer seven again. We're going to duplicate
it one more time. And then we're going to turn off layer seven, the bottom one. And then using this top one, we are again going to
duplicate it and move it over. Okay, now that we
have that done, we go ahead and we're going to draw some more and
fill in our gaps. But only after we merge
these two layers together, we're going to go ahead
and select both of them. And then we're going to push them together with our fingers. Just push those two
together to merge them. Okay, now we have
our merged layer. And on that layer we're going
to go ahead and draw with our brush again to
fill in the gaps. Okay, so now that
we've done that, we need to do the
same process again, except this time
we're going to go up and down instead
of left and right. So let's go ahead and
swipe and duplicate. Take our duplicated labor and use our move
tool to drag it up, keeping it in line again. Now we'll duplicate our
layer one more time. Turn off the one below. Use our move tool
to move this one down until it snaps
into the middle there. And now we can fill in
the rest of our gaps. After we merge these
two layers together, swipe across both of
them and pinch to merge. So you can spend a long
time perfecting this, but now with our
little waves done, let me just put in
actually a little one up here just to break up
that area a little bit. Now we can go ahead and we
can actually make our brush. So making sure that we just
have this layer turned on. We're going to do a
copy again by going to the wrench add and copy canvas. Now we're going to
make a new brush. So go back to our new
group, the map class group. We're going to start
a new brush here and we're going to go down to where it says grain and make sure that the grain
behavior is set to moving. And choose Edit up at the top, and then import and paste. And make sure that you tap with two fingers to invert that, just like we normally
have been doing. And then you can click
this auto repeat here to see how your repeat
is going to work out. What you're looking for here is to make sure
that you don't have any obvious lines
running through your pattern so
that it doesn't end up looking too much like a grid. You can change your scale here
with the grain scale tool. You can change your rotation depending on what
you want to do. So there's a few things
that you can mix up here, but mostly you're
just checking to make sure that it looks okay. You can go ahead
and turn off auto repeat, and click done. Now what you want to look
for here is just make sure that your offset
jitter is turned off. So that way when you come
in and you practice this, you'll see that it works. Whereas if you have that
offset jitter turned on, it won't work quite as well be cause it will
keep going over it. So just turn that off and then you'll just kind of
fill in the pattern. So again, you want to come down to apple pencil and turn down the opacity so that you're just getting it straight every time. And then you want to go to about this brush and you
want to rename it, so we will call this one water. And that's basically
all we need to do here. So we'll go ahead
and hit it done. And now we have a
new water brush. So let's test this one out. Let's go ahead and we'll delete all except the last layer seven. We'll delete
all of those. We'll make a new layer and
we'll turn off layer seven. And now with our
water brush selected, we can come in and
we can put down some water. And
that's pretty good. You can see where there is a
slight issue going on here. So we could do some
work to kind of repair that on our original and then remake the brush
if we wanted to. Now I know that that's a
lot of different steps. So I'm going to go ahead
and in the next video, I'm going to do another one
of these pattern brushes, so that you can see me go
through the steps again with something of a little bit different environment here.
8. Another Pattern Brush: Okay, so now we're going to
try and do a desert pattern. So I'm going to come back down
to my inking options here, and I'm going to
choose Mercury again. Let's try that one.
And the desert is kind of just a
speckled pattern. Bring my brush up a
little bit so that I can easily create
some bigger dots. Okay, so now that we have our
speckled pattern done here, we're going to go ahead
and do the duplicate and move process again. So remember, come up to your layers, swipe,
choose duplicate. Go ahead and choose
your move tool. Then you're going to move
that over to the left, keeping it in
alignment there with the center until you've snapped
it to both center lines. And then go ahead and
go to your layer again. Duplicate it and move it over. The first layer turned off so that you don't get mixed up, so just move that over, then go heads like
both of those layers. Merge them together
with a pinch. Well, now you're
just looking for any places where gaps
have been revealed. And filling in those gaps so that you don't get too
obvious of repeating lines. Okay, now we need to go ahead
and do the duplicate again. Same thing again for the down. Now we'll fill in any
gaps that we find. All right, now let's go ahead and make sure that we
merge those two together. Then we'll go ahead
and copy that canvas. Make a new brush
in our new group. Go down to grain and
import and paste. Don't forget to tap it with
two fingers to invert it. And check your auto repeat
where it gets a little fuzzy, it's where it's doing
this border overlap. Just bring that border
overlap down so that we don't have so many pixels overlapping so that we
don't get that fuzziness. Turn off auto repeat. Okay, Then we can go ahead
and we can test it out. Here we go to make sure that
we scroll down and turn off the offset jitter so that it will all
go on correctly. Then we're going to come
down to the apple pencil, turn down the opacity, go about this brush and
type in our desert name. Then we'll go ahead
and click Done. Now we have our desert brush. Let's go ahead and
delete our other layers. Make a new layer
and turn off layer nine so that we can
see this in action. Okay, so that is
our desert brush. So you could continue
to do pattern brushes for things like
planes or swamps, or any of those kinds of repeating pattern terrains
that you might want to do. So now that we've learned how
to make the pattern brush, we're ready to go ahead
and actually draw our map. We have all of the
pieces together that we need to go ahead and
draw our fantasy map, which is what we'll be
doing in the next video.
9. Drawing the Map: We've created our brushes.
It's time for us to take those brushes and apply
them to our project, which is making a fantasy map so you can do whatever
you want for this. Maybe you have an idea, a story that's been floating around your head
that needs a map. Maybe you want to do a map from one of your favorite books.
That's what I'm going to do. I'm going to roughly
approximate kind of the map from the Hobbit, just because I really
like that one. I'm not going to try and do an exact rendering of it because obviously my brushes won't completely mimic what was there, but just kind of a rough
approximation of it. So make sure that you use your brushes that you
made for the map class. If you find you need new
brushes as you go along, you can, of course, always
go ahead and create those. And you might not use every single brush that
you've created. Let's go ahead and get
started with this. I'm going to go ahead
and use my river brush, my outline brush to lay out
my rivers and my paths first. So let me go ahead and
grab that and you can adjust your size and
your opacity as needed. Over here, lay out a few rivers here, like this. On the outline brush,
you sometimes need to go in and just clean
up a little bit. Okay, Now go ahead and
switch to some stamp brushes to lay out my mountains
and my forests here. Adjust the size of my
brush a little bit to fill in some smaller
mountains here. Now we'll do the forests. Go ahead and use our pine tree. Then we want to go ahead and use our pattern brush to fill in
a little bit more of this. This particular map
doesn't have an ocean, but I'm going to maybe
pretend that we've got one so that I can use
that a little bit. The ocean would be over here, the sea going to fill
in our ocean there. Then over here around
the big mountain we're going to add
in our desert. Wastes a race away part of this pattern, so we can put it down
here trying to get the size just right here. Okay, So that is
the basics of it. This is a really
simple map and this is the kind of thing I want you to do for your first project. I do want you to
be more focused on the brushes that
you've made than on getting the map
exactly right. So do something that's fairly simple with a few
different regions in it to kind of display
your fantasy map brushes. And in the next video, I'll
go ahead and show you how to export this so that
you can put it in the project section
for the course.
10. Exporting: With our map done, obviously, there's a lot more that we could do here to finish it off. We could definitely take
another brush and add in some hand lettering here to show where specific things are. But for the purposes
of this project just showing off your brushes, this is all you need to do. Although you're welcome to
go as far as you want to. Now, we need to
export it though, so that we can put it in
the class project section. So for that you're
going to go up to your wrench icon and you're
going to go to share. From here you can
choose what type of file format you want for
submitting your project. You're going to want to
go ahead and choose Jpeg. Then you're going to go ahead and you can either
save it to your files, or you can just choose
to save an image. And that will just
save that into my photos app and then I
can go ahead and share it. So make sure that you go into the class project section and upload this picture and tell us what kind of a place you've
tried to make a map for. And remember to make
sure that you put the image into the body
section of the project, not just in the thumbnail. The thumbnail does not
show us the entire image. So make sure that you put it in the body of the project so that we can see
the whole thing. And that is basically it. In the next video, we'll go
ahead and wrap up the course.
11. 11 Wrap Up: Okay, I hope you have
enjoyed taking this course, learning how to create
your first brushes in procreate and
making a fantasy map. I hope that you feel confident now in creating stamp brushes, outline brushes and
pattern brushes, so that you can be able
to make your own maps or brushes for other art projects
that you might want to do. If you have any
questions, please go ahead and ask those in
the discussion tab. And don't forget to
finish up your project. Make sure that you export it as a Jpeg and then upload it into your project section here on skill share so that
we can see that. Make sure that you
put that image into the body section of
your project because it doesn't show up completely. If you put it just in the thumbnail portion
of that project, if you're wondering what
steps you should take next. Well, if you want to continue learning about how
to use procreate, I have a whole nother
course here that talks just about the animation
features in procreate. So that might be something that you want to check out as well. There are also tons of different courses
here on skillshare to talk about how to use procreate and how to do
different things with it. Continue your journey
and keep learning how to draw better and to do more
with this amazing app. And that's going to
wrap up this course. Thank you so much for
watching and I will see you in the next course.