Make Wreaths in Procreate 4 - A Procreate for Lunch™ Class

1. Make Wreaths in Procreate - A Procreate for Lunch™ Class: Hello and welcome to this class. Draw wreaths in Procreate using brushes. My name's Helen Bradley and I'm a Skillshare top teacher. I have over 200 courses on Skillshare, and over 90,000 student enrollments. In this class, we're Creating Wreaths in Procreate using brushes that we'll make ourselves. You'll learn some techniques for creating and working with brushes in Procreate, and how to create wreaths using them. You will also learn to make regular shapes look a little less regular, and how to re-color elements created using a brush. By the time you've completed this course, you'll have enhanced your knowledge of Procreate and you'll have some fun brushes to use, and potentially sell or give away. Without further ado, let's get started making wreaths in procreate. 2. First Wreath Brush: To get started with our restoring, we're going to create a brand new document. I'm going to tap on the plus sign and create a square document. Now the reason for this is that wreath are pretty much square. Well, they are circles inside squares. But also we're going to have to create our own brushes here. They need to be based on a square document if they're going to be reliably made. I'm going to the brushes tool here and I've got my Brush Library. What I'm looking for is a Monoline Brush, just a simple brush that I can use to create the first of my leaf brushes. I'm using this Monoline Brush. You could also use something from the inking category. Even the studio pen would be just fine to use. Now, I'm making sure that I have black selectors my color, and I'm going to draw out a leaf for this brush. I'm going to draw this as a pigeon pair, but I'm going to copy them to get the actual second ones. I'm just going to draw out a shape here. No, that's way, too narrow. Let me just go and get a better shape to use. I'm just going to fill it with black. It doesn't really matter too much what your shape looks like at this point, it's just a starting point for having a look at drawing your wreath. Now I'm going to transform tool. I'm just going to enlarge this a little bit, and rotate it around just a little bit more. It looks a little bit better. Now that I've done that, I'm going to make a duplicate of this shape. The easiest way to do that is to go to this gear icon, or spanner icon. Go to Add, and tap here on Copy. Then you're going straight back there, and you're going to tap on Paste. That creates a second one right on top of the first on its own layer. That's really handy because now we can flip it and move it into position. So again, I'm going to transform tool. I'll tap, Flip Horizontal, and I'll just drag this out into position. I think that's pretty good. Let's go back into the last pallet, and let's put these two shapes on the same layer. I'm going to tap the topmost one and just tap Merge Down. That puts them both on the same layer. Now I'm just going to use the transform tool just to square them up inside the document. It will also help if you place them pretty far down towards the bottom of the document, so that it's going to behave a little bit better when we created as a brush. Now we've got the shapes that we need to start off with. What we're going to do, is go and make a copy of the entire Canvas. We're going back to the [inaudible] , spanner icon, going back to Add, and we're going to tap here on Copy Canvas. That makes a copy of this shape to the clipboard. That's the clipboard on your iPad. Now we're going through brushes tool. I'm going to make a library for these brushes. I'm going all the way up to the top here. I'm just going to call this one Wreaths. Now, I've already got one called HB Wreaths, but we're going to be working in the Wreath one today. Just so that you can see that everything that we're creating is freshly created in this class. Now that I've got the library created, I'm going to tap on the plus symbol here to create a new brush. We're taken straight into the area where the brush is created. Now, this is going to be Solid Leaf brush. I'm just going to call it Solid Leaf. I'm going to press and hold on the shape source until the word paste appears, and then just tap Paste. The shape that I've just created has been pasted in here. Now, for the Grain, that's going to be the blank from the pro library. We just tap on Swap from Pro Library, and just scroll down until we find blank. Tap on Blank. Then we're going back to the Source. Because we need to flip this source image. The source image right now is a black shape on a white background. It needs to be the other way to paint correctly. I'll tap on Invert Shape. Now, let's come back out into our document. Let's turn off the visibility on that layer, and add a brand new layer, so we can test out this brush. I'm just starting to draw with it. As you can see, it's highly unspectacular. Let's go back into brushes palette and let's fix up this brush. I'm going to start with Stroke here, and I'm going to increase the spacing on this brush. You can see now that it's painting a little bit better, not a lot better, but a little bit better. But there's something wrong with the beginning and end of the brush. One of the things that you might think of doing at this point, is to change this orient to screen option and disable it. Sometimes that will have an effect on a brush and make it paint the right way. Well, as you can see, it's not really having a desired effect here. Let's go back to this brush, and let's have a look at another setting which might work for us. I'm going back this time into the shape area, and I'm going to take the rotation and drag it all the way up to 100 percent. Then it says, Follow Stroke. Let's go back and test this brush. Well, now it's doing exactly what I want. It's certainly, following the stroke and it's a nice and even result. The problem is, it's just not rotated correctly. Let's go back to the Brush again, and let's go back to Orient to Screen, and see if by orienting it to the screen, and having it follow the brush, we're going to get the exact settings that we want. Let's test it. This time I'm getting exactly what I want. Instead of telling you which settings to use here, I wanted to step through my thought process when I'm setting up one of these brushes. Thinking in terms of which of the tools inside the brush panel can affect how this brush is going to behave. For me, that's obviously, going to be stroke. Because we need to increase the spacing, so that these brushes aren't painting right on top of each other. In shape, rotation, follow stroke, is always an option that you would consider. Sometimes this orient to screen, turning it on, or off, can have an effect on how the brush paints. We have our first brush for creating our wreath already created. In the next video, we're going to see how we can put it to use. 3. Make the First Wreath: It's now time to draw a Wreath using the brush that we just created. I'm going to confirm that I have that brush selected. I'm going to just draw it just to make sure it's drawing correctly and the spacing is pretty good. I'm pretty happy with that. I'll go and select a color to use. I'm going to do it in a green color, but I'm going for a bit more olive green here. The first method of drawing this Wreath is to use a half circle, or something a little bit less than half a circle. I'm going to just draw it now and then stop. As I do, you'll see at the very top of the screen it says, "Arc created". That's what I want to say. I'll let go the screen, so II'll just remove my finger or my pencil from the screen and tap "Edit Shape". This gives me access to the Arc settings. You'll say that there's a blue dot at the top of the shape, at the bottom of the shape and in the middle. We can use those to reshape the shape. What I'm going to do is just, change the shape of this arc, and we can pull it in all sorts of directions. Good lot of flexibility using this feature in Procreate, it's really handy. What I want to end up with is something that is half of my Wreath. I think that's pretty good. I'll just tap away from the shape. Now I'm going to make a duplicate of it and I could do it the way that I made the other half of the original leaf or I could come into the Layers palette as I am here now, scrub across the topmost layer and choose duplicate, making sure that only this layer is selected, I'm going back to the Transform tool, I'm going to tap on "Flip Horizontal", then I'm going to just drag this shape across. Now, it's a little hard for me to see what's going on here, because the bottom of the screen is missing. Let me just tap away from there, shrink the artboard area a little bit and go back and try this again. The one thing that you want to make sure at this point does not happen, is that if you've got a really big shape that you don't do something like this. Because if you come out of the Transform tool with an element over the edge of the artboard area in Procreate, it just gets locked off. Doesn't happen if you're using text, but it happens if you're using shapes. You don't want to ever put anything over the adage of the artboard that you want to keep because it will just disappear. Let me just put this back into position looking at the whole shape at this point. Now that I've got that, I'll just tap again on the Transform tool to turn this transformation off. Now, I can go and put these two layers together, tapping on the image thumbnail for the topmost layer and tap "Merge Down". Now we can go back to the Transform tool and just place this in perhaps a better position, should I wish to do so. There's one way to make the sort of basic Wreath shape here in Procreate, but let's see another method. I'm going to turn Visibility off on that. I'm going to make another brand-new layer to work with. Now we're going over to this gear or Spanner icon, and we're going to tap on "Canvas". I'm going to tap on "Drawing Guide", and I'm going to tap on "Edit Drawing Guide". Now in this area, I'm going to tap on "Symmetry" because I want to use the symmetry drawing function here in Procreate. I've got symmetry selected and I'm going to select this very first symmetry, which is a vertical symmetry. I'll tap "Done". Now, we're going back to our brush on color there already preselected. I'm going to draw that same arc. But this time I can say what things look like as I draw it. I'm going to tap again on "Edit Shape". Now I can see the symmetrical object that I'm creating. This gives me a lot of control over how things look. You might prefer using this option rather than creating half of the shape and then just flipping it. But there's a second way of creating the basic Wreath shape in Procreate. Now be aware that if you use this symmetrical drawing when you wanted to turn it off, there're two places to do it. The first place is to go back to the Spanner or gear icon, back to "Canvas" and disable drawing guide. The second place you need to turn it off is over here in the last pallet, you'll see that this top most layer has the word Assisted underneath it. Well, you're going to tap on the thumbnail and disable Drawing Assist and that turns off that symmetrical drawing feature for that particular layer. 4. Make a Second Leaf Brush: Let's look now at creating a second wreath brush to use. I'm going to turn everything off, add brand new layer to this document I'm working in, and again go and get black as my color. Now, just as we use the symmetrical drawing to create a wreath, we can also use it to create these brushes too. I'm going back to my spanner icon, I'm going to turn my Drawing Guide on. I'm going to tap to edit the Drawing Guide and just make sure that I have this symmetry set up, and it's set up previously, it's set up again now. So I'll tap "Done". Now I'm going to draw out a different leaf shape. Now for this, I want to start with this Studio Pen With Streamline because it's got a taper on it. Now, the basic shape that I want to use is a loopy thing, something like this, but I've lost my taper entirely, so I need to go and find out what's happening here. Let's just add a bit more taper to this brush. That's looking much better. I'm pretty happy with that as a basic brush shape. I'm going back to turn off the Drawing Guide and I'll go and turn off assisted drawing on this layer. I'll go to the Transform tool and just move this brush shape all the way down to pretty much the bottom of the document. Then I'll go and make a copy of this, again from the Add option here, I'm going to tap, copy canvas. Let's go back into our brushes. I'll go and re-select my wreath collection, tap the plus sign. Now, at this stage, we're going to use pretty much the exact same setup for this brush as we used for the previous brush. I could save a lot of time if I just stopped what I was doing and thought about it a little bit better. What I'm going to do is just tap the brush tool again. Let's go back and re-think this. I'll tap the brush tool and I've already got a brush that's setup exactly as I want this new brush to be set up. What I'm going to do is just scrub across it and duplicate this brush, and then tap on the duplicate, and go straight into the source area and press and hold on the Shape Source and tap Paste. What that does is it paste the brush in place and all the other settings are exactly the same as the settings we had for that double leaf thick brush that we used previously. We know this was going to work. We don't have to waste time setting it up. All we have to do is change its name. I'll come into the last pallet and turn off the layer visibility for this brush shape layer. I'll tap the plus sign to create a new layer. I'm going to select a color to use, this time I'm going to use a sort of dusky blue color. Let's make sure that we have this open leaf brush selected, which we do. Let's go and draw it out. Now this is a very faint brush. You can see that it's very faint. But this is a good filler brush for elements that you create when you want to lay out different layers on top of each other. So what we could do with this brush as a filler is to actually spread it apart a little bit. Come in to the stroke area and just increase the spacing on the brush so that it paints a little bit more spaced out and then we could use it as a filler with other elements. But this is a really good example of a image which looked sort of pretty dark and pretty obvious when we actually saw it on the screen, but when we paint it on a layer, it ends up being really, really light. What we could do is to go back to the shape that we had here and perhaps thicken it up. I'm going back to working in black. I'll go back to a tool that I can use, one of my inking brushes, for example, the Studio Pen With Streamline and just see what I can do in terms of thickening it. Because I like the basic shape, is just not thick enough, I'm just going to drag and drop the black into this area. Now, I have a slight problem here in that both sides of the brush aren't being drawn at the same time. But it's an easy solution. I'm going to make a duplicate of this brush with a Brush Shape. I'm going to the Transform Tool, I'm going to flip it horizontally. Because the original shapes were perfectly symmetrical and symmetrical within the document, this flip job has just worked perfectly. It won't work perfectly if you stick these things together manually, but if you use the Symmetry Tool to draw them, then you do have this ability. I'm going to come back into the last palette and merge these together just to make this single shape. I'm going to make a duplicate of it, so I'll tap Copy canvas. I'll go back into my race brushes. I'm going to make a duplicate of the open leaf. I'll tap on this one, go to the source and just paste in my new source. Let's go and see how that paints. I'm going to do it back on the lab that I was working on. I'd like my blue color back again, so I'm going to tap and hold on the paint dropper in the top corner. That's going to flip between the color I used previously and the black. So I can flip between the two of them by just pressing and holding. Let's see how this brush paints now. I think it's a better brush and I think that darkness in the brush really helped. It's also an indication of how important it is to keep the brush elements in a file until you really are sure that you've got what you wanted. Because it's very easy to come back in an Editor Brush. It's much more time consuming to go and create it again from scratch. 5. Make the Second Wreath: The first time that we drew a wreath using these brushes, we just drew the wreath itself, the leaves. We didn't actually add any stems. This time we're going to see how we would add some stems running along the same place as the leaves are. So I'm going to turn this all off and add a new layer that I can work on. Let's check the brush. I'm using the brush that we just created, that's perfect. I'm using a blue color. I'm happy with that. Now, I'm going to set up symmetrical drawing here. So I'm going to the spanner icon, I'm going to Canvas, I'm going to turn my drawing guide on. Now, I don't have to raise setup symmetry, because if I go to Edit Drawing guide, you'll see that it's still set up for the vertical symmetry that we had previously. This setting is sticky. It's going to stay in place until we change something in the drawing guide setup. So we're just assuming that we are going to be working with this symmetry pretty much all the way through this class. So I now have a brand new layer. I'm just going to start drawing out my half of a wreath which will give me the whole of a wreath. I'm just tweaking the shape to suit and when I'm done, I'll just tap outside it. I really like to do that draw and then hold your finger on the screen until procreate catches up and recognizes it as an arc, because it does give you the ability to edit things as you're working. So now, for the stems that are going to run through these layers, I'm going to add a brand new layer. That's critical because if I want to be able to manipulate this shape independent of the laser, it's going to have to be on a separate layer. I'm going to tap on the thumbnail and turn on Drawing Assist, because otherwise it's not going to draw using that symmetry. That's a little confusing in Procreate, particularly when you're just starting out with a symmetrical drawing. It's this two-step process that you have to make sure that assisted is turned on for the layer that you're working on or else, even though symmetrical drawing is set up and enabled, you won't get it on that particular layer. So you're looking for the word assisted to appear in the layer name for the layer that you're working on. Now, I am going back to my inking brushes and I'm going to select the Gel Pen here. I like that, provided I don't press too hard on it so that it actually thins out. It's a pretty good size for me. Now, I can draw on either side of this symmetrical shape. I drew on the right-hand side to start off with, but I'm finding it easier to put the lining using the left-hand side, but doesn't matter because it draws on either side. So what I'm trying to do here is, get something that's going to be near enough, and then I'm going to Edit Shape and I'm going to edit the ark. Now, you're not going to be able to get this perfectly aligned, except by total accident, and that's just fine. What you want to do is get it pretty near or as near as you can now, I've lost the setting. I'm just going to go with that because what I wanted to do is show you how to fix this up. So we're going to the adjustments and we're going to tap on Liquefy. I'm going to tap on Push and make sure that the size is quite large. I'm looking in the area at the bottom of the wreath and what I'm going to do is just put my brush on the screen and just give it a little push. Then down at the very bottom where the two sides join up, it's out a little bit, but I need to be pretty detailed in getting in there. So I'm going to reduce my size a little bit. I'm just going to come in here and just push that down. Now, there is a risk that you'll lose a little bit of thickness of the line. You'll generally lose less thickness if you use a bigger brush. But that's how you can sort of bend your lines into shape, so that they actually appear in the right place. We've got a little bit of tweaking to do here. Perhaps tweak the very tip of this line up here. Because I'm working on a layer that has Drawing Assist and because I've still got that cemetery turned on, adjusting one side of the shape is adjusting the other side of the shape exactly. So they're mirror images of each other. So I'll just tap the Adjustments to get out of there. To finish up, I'm going to turn the drawing guide off and I'll come back in here and disable Assisted Drawing for each of those layers that has it enabled. 6. Make a Grunge Multi-Leaf Brush: So far the leaf brushes that we've created are very solid brushes, they paint with solid sets of colors. It's time now to have a look in creating one that is a little bit more grungy, a little bit more eaten away. Now, I've created a brand new document for this. I'm going to the brushes palette. I'm going to use the dry ink brush, which is in the inking category. Now, I had made some changes to that. Let's just go and reset this one to what it was like when it was shipped with Procreate. I'm just going to open it up. I think it's going to be just fine here. I think I probably just want it to be a little bit thicker. Probably at its maximum size it's going to paint just fine for me. Let's go with that brush. what I'm going to do is create a stem and some leaves. It's going to be at a slight curve. I'm going to draw out the basic curve line. Now, if I wanted a little bit more room to work, I'm actually going to undo that. I'm going to take the whole of this square document to draw it in, because I can come back in a minute and re-size it. now, I'm going to draw the top end of this leaf, which is just going to be a single patently thing. Then I'm going to draw successively larger [inaudible] leaf elements on this stem. You certainly don't want this to be solid lines, which is why we're using this brush in the first place because it's got some texture in it. Having created this stem that we're going to use for our brush, I'm going to the eraser tool. In the eraser tool, I'm going down to the touch ups area. In the touch ups area is a brush called zombie skin. I'm just going to tap on that to use it as an eraser. Now, I've got it at a fairly low opacity here, about halfway on the opacity scale. I'm just going to scrub over the leaves just to destroy them a little bit. This is a pretty good result I'm quite liking that. Everything is currently on a single leaf. I'm going to the transform tool. I'm going to make sure that uniform or magnetics are selected, so that I can just shrink this down in size. I want it to take up about half the width of this document, but I'm also going to rotate it while it's here because I'm thinking it's not quite at the angle I want it to be on. Now, I'm going to make a duplicate of that layer. I'm going back to the transform tool. I'm going to tap flip horizontal and I'm going to move this up into position. Now, I'm thinking that they're too big because they're not fitting the way I'm going to want them to fit. What I want to happen in a minute is I want this line here to be lined up through the bottom of that other leaf element and it's not quite. Let's go back to the one on the right and let's just scale it down. Maybe rotate it a little bit as well. Just try and get it into a good position. I think that's better. I'm going to remove the duplicate that I'd already created and just go and redo that process of getting the second leaf in. Let's see how this is going to work as a brush. I'm going to again choose copy canvas. I'm going to the brushes and we'll go back to our erase collection. I'm going to again select one of these brushes that I've already created and duplicate it. I'll come into the source area and I'm going to paste in my news source brush. That's all I need to do right now apart from renaming the brush. Let's see how that brush is going to draw now. Well, it's just perfect. By copying those brush settings, we really do give ourselves the best possible chance of having things work really well every time. This is the brush, this is how it's going to paint. Even though it looks like a texture brush and everything, it's still going to draw as an arc. We can still use that same arc feature to create an element with that brush. Then I'm going to duplicate this and flip it and just move it into position. We can go back and merge this down to make a single shape, which we can then move into position in the document. Now, the kind of line that we're going to want to add a stem for this particular shape is going to be very different because we grunge the brush itself, we're going to need to create a grunge stem. We're going to see how to do that in the next video. 7. Create a Grunge Stem: To create a brush to use for the stem for this shape, let's just go and turn everything off in this document and add a brand new "Layer". I'm going back to the same brush that I used, which is this "Dry Ink" brush, because it's a really good brush to use for this effect. Because we want this brush for the stem that we're going to create as a brush to look pretty similar to the leaves themselves using the same brush to create it makes good sense. For this one, I'm going to draw something that looks like this. I want my stem to have some shape to it. So I'm going to add some bubbles in here and then create another element here that is a little bit oval in shape. Again, I'm going to use the same "Zombie Skin" brush because we want to destroy this a little bit. Let's come in here, and let's just brush over with the zombie skin to get the same look in the stem as we had in the leaves themselves. Having done that, I'm just going to copy the canvas. I'm going back into the brushes, and of course we are going back into our "Wreaths" collection. I'm going to make a "Duplicate" of the "Grunge Leaves", going to tap on it, go to the source, and then paste in the shape that I'm working with. Now just a quick look at what the brush looks like in the top panel here is telling us that this may not work the way we expect it to, but we can edit it, but let's for now, give it a name. In actual fact, this brush is going to paint just perfectly provided we take off in the direction that we want to head in, it's going to paint just fine. It is however overlapping a little bit. So I'm going to the spacing area and I'm going to increase the spacing on it. I think provided I take off in the direction I'm headed in, we should be right with this brush. Let's go and turn our layers back on. Let's add a new layer for this brush stroke. Again, I'm going to make sure that I'm working with a brush that's the right size, that's looking pretty good. Again, I'm going to try and position it where it needs to be but not lose too much sleep if I mess it up. I've got it pretty much where I want it to be, now I'm just going back in with the "Liquify" tool to position it more exactly. I use a small brush setting to realign the very ends of the brush because that allows me to get in and really put them in the right place. So far as the middle of the brush is concerned, I'm going to use a larger size, but let's just shrink this so we can actually see where we are. Having got that pretty much in position, I'm going to make a duplicate of that layer. I'm going to flip that shape and just move it into position because it should align pretty well with the other side of the wreaths. If you need to nudge it in position, just tap above the shape or wherever you want to move it to, just tap it with your pencil and it will just nudge into position. Once I've done that, I will generally merge these two layers together and then place them behind the actual wreath to where they should be. So the leaves in the wreath will appear above the stems if you like. 8. Make a Grunge Dots Brush: You can add extra interest to your wreath by adding some other elements to them. A pretty obvious option is to add a series of dots. We're going to make a brush to do just that. I'm going to turn off all the layers in the document, I'm going to add a new layer above everything else. Well, let's just go and put it above everything else. I'm working with black and I'm going back to the brush that I was using in the inking category and that's set Dry Ink brush. So with the Dry Ink brush selected, I'm going to draw out a circle in the middle of my document here and just color it in but a bit scrappy, and then I'm going to apply that same Zombie Skin brush to it using the eraser to just arise parts of it now. I think that was a bit hefty, so let's just go and erase a little bit less. Now, I'm going to copy the Canvas and I'm going to make a brush out of this. We're going to the Wreaths brushes. I'm going to tap the "Plus" sign. I'm going to paste in the brush that I just created or the brush shape that I just created. We're going to tap "Swap" from Pro library and go and get the blank option. Now, the reason why we're not copying the brush and pasting for this one is because the setup for this brush is going to be totally different. Now, I do want to invert the shape, so that's going to paint as a dot and not as a square with a hole in the middle. Let's go back and turn this layer off, add a new layer so we can see how it paints. Well, right now that's pretty uninspiring, so let's see what we're going to do to fix it. The first thing is to go into the Stroke area and increase the spacing. It paints as a series of dots. But we also want to get more mileage out of the brush, so I'm going to increase the Jitter. Now, it's going to paint all over the place rather than in a straight line. I would like some additional variety to this brush so I am going into the Shape area, and we'll see if Scatter will give us anything. Well, it will actually rotate these dots around and since they are not a perfect circle, that would be of some value here. Randomized might also help give us a more random look to the brush. Grain is not going to help us at all because there's no grain in this brush. If you have a look in the source area, you'll see that the grain source itself is just nothing, it's blank, and so messing around with grain at this stage is going to give us no value at all. Dynamics, however will. In Dynamics we can actually use size dynamics, and so what we could do is jitter the size. What that's going to do, is make the size of the dots vary. All we need to do now is to adjust the spacing just a back a little bit so that we get a more intense application of the brush. I think that's looking pretty good, if you want it to double up, you can just run over it a second time. Let's see how it looks in place on the wreath that we've been drawing here. I've got my layers. I am going to tap on this top most layer, which is where I've been drawing with this new brush. Let's go and make sure that we have Dots brush. I'm actually going to name it too. It's always a good idea to name the brush. Let's just see what it's looking like. I think it's probably a bit big, and all I'll do is just paint it over in the same direction as the original wreath was drawn. You can do multiple layers just to flesh it out a little bit. Now, of course, this all created in color would look really good. We can actually make it colored, even though it's not colored at the moment. What I'm going to do is set Alpha Lock on on this dots layer, and then I'll go and choose a color to use. I'm thinking of Christmas theme maybe with these leaves. Let's go and get a red to use here. I'll just tap "Fill Layer", and what that does is it fills all the painted areas on this layer with this red color. Now, I can go and do the same thing here on the lase themselves. I'm going to turn Alpha Lock on. I'll go and get a green to use. I want some subtle colors here. I'm not looking for saturated colors, but you can use whatever colors you like. I'll just tap on "Fill layer." Now, that's probably a bit too subtle, so let's go and try a different color there. Then we would do the same with the stems. Again, Alpha Lock. Again, getting a color to use for the stem, which doesn't have to be the same as the lace and just fill a layer. Here is a more subtle approach, it's a colored approach to the wreath. But you'll find that adding dots and other elements to beef out the wreath will take your eye away from any potential flaws in the actual design, and you're just going to see the overall effect. 9. Make a Finishing Leaf Brush: When you're thinking about the other brushes that you might want to create to enhance these wreath one of them is a brush that would finish off the wreath. You'll see that the very top, we just run out of stem. Well, we could create a brush that actually put the tip on each of these wreath elements.. Let's see how we do that. Now, one of the first things I'm going to do is turn everything off in the last palette that I'm not wanting to see. But before I do that, a heads up. If you haven't done this before I made the mistake, you're probably going to make it. I'm going to show you how to solve it before you do. Right now, when we came to recolor these layers, we set Alpha lock on. That means that tries we won't be able to paint anything on these layers that have Alpha lock turned on unless we're painting where there already is content. This can just be so frustrating because you're sitting there trying to paint and you've got everything working and nothing will paint. What I suggest you do is wherever you set Alpha lock on, that you turn it off so that you just don't get in that position. I'm turning Alpha lock off and just hiding these layers. I'm also going to move all this wraith bits down so that they're close to each other. I'm going to move all the brush bits down so that they're close to each other too. Just trying to keep my layers palette as neat as I can. I'm going to add a new layer in here and I'm going to choose black and we're going back to the inking brush. Let's go to inking, going back to dry ink. I'm just going to create the brush tip here. It's going to have a stem and then it's going to have a set of leaves. Now if you're not a 100 percent sure what it should look like, you could turn on one of these layers that you already have to get an idea as to what you did previously because you want this particular brush to work in with the others. It needs to look similar. The last thing you want to do is to be too careful with this brush because it really should be a grungy looking brush. It should have character if you like. I'm going to turn that layer back off. We're going back into the Eraser again with this zombie skin texture brush and just erase a fair bit of this brush because we want again to match up with the original. Now I'm coming over here to the spanner icon into the ad options copy Canvas. We'll go back into our wraith brushes. I'm going to add a new brush. I'm going to do this from scratch because it doesn't need all the settings of the previous brushes. I'm going to paste my shape in here. The green is going to be from the Pro library and it's just going to be blank. We don't want any grain at all. We have to select something so blank is a really good choice. We're going back into the source because the brush is not painting the right way round, we have to invert the shape. We'll go to stroke and just increase the spacing so that we can see the actual brush elements. Now I'm going to turn the brush layer off. I'm going to turn my wraith layers back on again. I made a blank layer for this element. The reason for this is that you are not going to get this brush at the right size and in the right orientation the first time, it's just not going to be possible. We need to put her on a separate layer so we can manipulate it. It's on a layer by itself. Let's just tap and hold here to get the green color back again. I'm just going to draw my brush in. You can say that the size is pretty good but the orientation of course is totally wrong. I'm going through the transform tool. I'm just going to rotate it and then just drag it into position. You probably want more magnetics on while you're working with this brush because you'll just want to line it up with the end of your wraith. That's going to be wherever that happens to need to be. That end is now in position. I think the leaf is a little bit out, so I'm actually going to come back in here and just squash it up a bit. Now again, we're going to need a brand new layer for the next wraith because again, we're going to need to manipulate it. I'm just going to draw in a leaf. Let's rotate it. I'm going to squeeze it up a bit. Because I don't think I did the world's best job in actually drawing this leaf in the first place. I think I would probably go back and redraw it. But for now, all I'm interested in is showing you how this is going to work. Now that we've got the tips on the wraith, so you obviously, you could fine tune those. What you can do at that point is you can put them back onto the wraith that they belong with if you like. But don't do that until you've got them working and you're really happy with their position and size. To do that, just tap on the Layer Thumbnail for each of these layers and just tap merged down. That put these leaves on the rest of the wraith object which makes sense. 10. Exploring Other Brush Ideas: Before we finish up, I want to show you some additional wreath brushes, some elements that I've created to make wreath with, that I think will be of value to you to say. These are stored in my HB wreath collection. I'm just going to run through them. Some of them will be familiar, some of them will not. This is a brush that has a sort of curly Q in it. It's got little curls in the leaves. It's also being setup so that it has some dimension on the ends of the brush. You can see that it paints thick and thin. Let's see what it looks like inside. This is the source for the brush, you can see that I just drew a little curly cues in it. The grain is as you would expect, no grain at all. Now this brush has a little bit of taper on the ends of the brush. You can see the pressure taper is set to the end of the brush, but also in the pencil area, you'll see that the size of the brush is going to vary with pencil pressure. The harder I press with the pencil, the bigger the brush is going to be and the lighter I press, the smaller it's going to be. Now that can be helpful when you're drawing wreath because if you press really hard to start off with, you get really big leaves. Then when you press a little bit lighter you're going to get smaller leaves. This one is similar, it just hasn't been configured to work the same way and it just looks a little bit like that. Here are the leaves that I created originally, very similar to the ones that we created already in this class. This just draw on one side. Let's have a look at this particular brush. It's just a single one of those paired leaves so instead of creating two, one ongoing in each direction, this one is just drawing in one direction and the way that you can use that is to draw around a single shape. You won't to be able to draw the other side because it goes in the wrong direction, but if you come in here into the brushes area, you can actually rotate the brush. It is possible to rotate it and in that case it's going to draw a different way. So by rotating the brush, you can get it to behave a little bit differently. Don't use that one so much, but I just wanted to show it to you. Let's have a look at this one, this is again going to behave very much like the one we created only this one's got a taper on it. When we have a look at the taper options, there are typos as a pressure taper here and there's no touch-taper, but if we add a touch taper then that would work the same way if we were using our finger rather than the Apple pencil. This pressure taper obviously is the Apple pencil version, the touch-taper is what happens when you use your finger to draw. The pencil this has obviously got some size pressure here to go with the Apple pencil. This is the way the brush looks, now this one has been rotated around. It's rotated a quarter turn but if we go into general, you say that it's not oriented to the screen, so that's why it's behaving as it does and it's behaving correctly for the setup that it has. Again pressing heavily to get a big leaf and lighter to get a smaller leaf. Now this is one of the brushes I did want to show you because of the way that it draws. It's actually got some little buds in with it. I'm going to draw it out. I'm just going to ignore the ends because I will probably erase them. They're just not looking very good, but what I want to show you is how you could actually change the color of the buds. I'll go into the last pallet and I'm going to turn alpha lock on. What that's going to do is ensure that the only place that I can paint or drop paint in is where there are already painted elements in this layer. I'm going to go and get red as my color. Let's go and get a inking brush, so what I'm going to choose here is just a mono line with no streamline. This is just a brush that paints in a line. Now I can't show it to you because I've got alpha lock on this layer. This is how it's painting. I'm going to just shrink it size down a little bit. Let's go back to the layer we were working on that has alpha lock on it and all I'm going to do is paint over the top end of these elements. Now, even though my brush is painting in a large circle, because I've got alpha lock on, the paint is only going where they are already colored pixels on this layer, which is obviously where this little buds actually are. I can even just tap on them. One little circular dot is all it needs to color these. You can see I've gone over at the end and that's just proving to you that it's all about that alpha lock and when we're finished we would of course turn alpha lock off. But that's a nice little brush to use when you want to create some colored elements. It's nice and isolated. It's very easy to just recolor the tips of those leaves. I'm going into the eraser. I'm going to pick up that same monoline brush as an eraser. It's going to change its size down and just erase out these two that I don't want. Now, also in this brush collection for these brushes that I was showing you, is an ending brush. What I've done is I've created a brush that would be the ending point for the brush above and it's got a single leaf in the middle. Let's just see how that's going to paint. I'm just going to go sample my color. Let's add a new layer for this, I'm just going to tap to draw it. It's a bit small and I'll just rotate it and position it off the end of this wreath design. Same thing, I can go and alpha lock this, go back to my red color by just tapping and pressing on that color. Go back to my monoline brush and just re-color the tips of this brush. Now everything's looking okay. What I would do is just merge this down to finish off the wreath. So you can see we've got double leaves and buds all the way around the leaf and then finishing off with this three leaf element. This is another set of wreath leaves, very similar to the ones that we created but it looks like it's got a fair bit of taper on it. It's got no touch taper, it's got a little bit of pressure taper but there's a lot of pencil taper. This is the Apple pencil and so the harder I press, the thicker it's going to be and the lighter I press it goes down to very, very thin indeed. It is however, probably just a little bit more bulbous than the one we created. It's a little bit more round shape. Now this is another interesting brush. Let's just go and have a look at the source. You'll see here that it's very similar to the bulbous ones that we've created, except that it's got a little stem in it. This is how it's going to draw, it's a little bit offset as well. That can be a nice element, just adding a little bit of transparency in the middle of the leaves just to give them some additional character. Then there's a grunge version of this particular brush and this is just the same basic brush shape that has had something fairly similar to the zombie skin. I don't think it is the zombie skin, but something to erode it away. You can use one brush shape to make two brushes, one for a very clean looking wreath and one for something that's a little bit more grungy. 11. Make Flourishes with Wreath Brushes: Before we finish up, I want to show you an additional way that you can put these wreath brushes to use. Let's go to our wreath brushes. I'm going to make a duplicate of this solid leaf brush. Right now, this is how it's painting. Well, I'm going to add a little bit of taper it, so I'm going to the Pencil area here, and I'll just add a little bit of pencil pressure taper. Not a lot, but just a little bit. I'm going to choose a color to work with, so let's just go and get a dusky blue. I'm going to set my Symmetry options on, so let's just go and make sure that we've got Symmetry enabled. I'm going to draw from the inside out., so I'm going to draw something that looks a bit like this, but obviously much smaller, and I'm going to press hard at the beginning and lighter at the end. Now, you can work to get the look that you want, I just want to show you the possibilities. I'm going to the eraser and I have this set to the Monoline brush, so that it's going to be a nice eraser. I'm just going to come in here and erase the middle element that I don't want. I'm going to add a new layer here, and I'm going to use a heart brush. Now if you don't have a heart brush, it's simplicity itself to create since we already have the symmetry enabled. Let's just go in turn Drawing Assist on for this layer. I'm going to hide the layer that we were working on. I'm going to go and get black, and I'm just going to draw a heart shape, but I'll do it with a Monoline brush, I think. I'm going to let Procreate create the shape for me. I could edit it if I wish to, but I'm not going to bother, I'm just going to drag and drop the color into this. The only thing I need to neaten up is just a little bit at the bottom here. Of course, because it's a symmetrical shape, you only have to neaten up one side and then the other side is automatically fixed. Let's go and make a copy of this. Go to the Brushes, I'm going to put this in with the other Wreath brushes, because if I was selling this as a case of brushes, for example, I would want to include this so that people could create these elements that we're creating right now. I'm going to tap the plus sign and we're going to paste our shape in. For this one, I'm just going to choose blank as the grain source. Now, you could of course, create this brush also using the zombie brush to degrade it if you wanted to create it, to go with those other elements that were all very grunge. I'm going to invert the shape, and for this one, I'm just going to space it out so it's going to be easy to say what this brush actually does. Now, I'm going into the Layers palette, I don't actually need that layer any longer. Let's turn back on the layer we were working on. I'm going to add a new layer here. I'm not going to turn Drawing Assist on because my heart is already a symmetrical shape. So I'm going to go pick red to use, make sure that we're using the heart, let's just test and see how big it is, and I'm just going to position it in place. Now I'm going to use the guides here just to put it in the right spot. Then if I wanted to, I could create a line that went through these leaves, and we know how to do that, we've been doing that all along. I'm going to pick up an inking brush, and for this one, the gel pen or the technical pen would be just fine. I want to go back to using my blue color, so I've got that selected. Let's make sure we're on a new layer. We want drawing assist enabled for this layer because we want it to be symmetrical. Again, I'm going to try and approximate the line and not worry too much about it because we can come back in with the Liquify tool and just position it a bit more accurately. When I'm done, I'll turn my drawing guide off and disable Assisted for any of the layers that has Drawing Assist associated with it. It's possible to use your wreath elements to also create graphic designs like this, and if you were selling these or giving them away, you would probably want to show you the audience how they could be used, in addition to creating wreaths. 12. Project and Wrapup: We've now completed the video content for this class and it's over to you to put this to work. Your project for the class is to create some wreath brushes and then to use them to create a wreath or a flourish like you saw in the last video. When you've completed your piece of art, post it as your class project. Now as you were watching these videos you would have seen a prompt which asked if you would recommend this class to others. Please, if you are enjoying the class and learning from it, would you do two things for me. Would you firstly answer yes, that you would recommend the class and then just complete the survey that appears on the screen explaining what you thought was good about the class. These recommendations help other students to say that this is the class that they too might enjoy and learn from. Now if you see the following link on the screen, that means you are not following me yet. Click it to keep up to date with my classes as they are released. As always, if you want to leave a comment or a question, please do so. I read and respond to all of your comments and questions and I look at and respond to all of your class projects. My name is Helen Bradley thank you so much for joining me for this episode of procreate for lunch, making wreaths in procreate, I look forward to seeing you in an upcoming class soon.