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Intro to Making Procreate Brushes: Fantasy Map Making

teacher avatar Ben Nielsen, Good design is the beginning of learning

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      2:54

    • 2.

      Project

      1:54

    • 3.

      Procreate Interface

      3:33

    • 4.

      Making a Stamp Brush

      5:53

    • 5.

      More Stamp Brushes

      3:41

    • 6.

      Make an Outline Brush

      4:33

    • 7.

      Make a Pattern Brush

      6:19

    • 8.

      Another Pattern Brush

      4:05

    • 9.

      Drawing the Map

      3:42

    • 10.

      Exporting

      1:05

    • 11.

      11 Wrap Up

      1:06

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About This Class

One of the most intimidating things about Procreate for many people is creating their own brushes. This is because there are so many different settings with the brush creation interface that it can be completely overwhelming. So I decided to create this course to show how to get started simply and do a fun project with the brushes we create. We are going to be creating a fantasy map like you might find in the front of a book like the Lord of the Rings. Along the way we will learn how to create a few different types of brushes

  • stamp brushes
  • texture brushes
  • and outline brushes

You might be wondering what you need to know already to take this course. The answer is that you should already be familiar with Procreate since this is not an intro course to the whole app, you should know the basics of drawing in procreate but you don’t need to be an advanced artist. You don’t need any prior experience with creating brushes either, we will be starting from the very beginning of that.

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Ben Nielsen

Good design is the beginning of learning

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I am passionate about good design and good teaching. I believe that anyone can learn simple design principles and tools that can help them create content that is both beautiful and functional.

 

Background: I am a media designer and librarian. My masters degree is in instructional design with an emphasis on informal learning.

 

Motto: Good design is the beginning of learning.

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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.