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1. Intro: I'm always looking for creative and time efficient ways to transform basic
flat illustrations into vibrant works of art. I want to share my
best trick with you. Creating my own
pattern brushes in procreate Ola Sandra Mejia. And I create illustrations
and patterns for companies worldwide
to put on their products. My art can be found
in greeting cards, editorial children's clothing,
children's accessories, home decor, and much more. I'm also a top teacher here
on skillshare and I have taught over 100,000 students
how to do the same. I'll be guiding you
every step of the way, teaching you how a
seamless pattern repeat works in procreate, how to turn those
patterns into brushes, to fast track your
illustration process, and to add those
extra details and textures to make your illustrations
have a special touch. Here's a sneak peek
of what you'll learn, the best combat settings to
use for your pattern brushes. Creating basic patterns
and testing them. My favorite step, making
them into brushes. You won't be able to stop
adding more and more brushes. To grow your toolbox
from hearts to docks, lines, bricks and
intricate pile brushes. We'll craft a collection of versatile brushes that you
can use in multiple ways. But the very best part is when you use the brushes on
your own illustrations. I'll show you the best way to plan your illustrations
for when you're adding textures so that using your brushes
on them is a breeze. And I'll show you
several examples of how I use this
technique in real life. Whether you're a
beginner and you're just starting to
learn how to use procreate or you're a pro that wants to spice up
your illustrations. This class is for
you because I'll guide you every step of the way. By the end of this class,
you'll be able to create simple patterns and
pattern brushes to enhance your art with them. And you can even use
these skills to come up with new pattern brush
sets and sell them, creating a new revenue
stream for your business. For this class, you'll only need an ipad with appropriate
app installed. I'll be using an Apple pencil. If you have a Silus,
that's amazing. If you're ready to grow
your appropriate skills and take your art to a whole
new level, join me.
2. Class Project: For the class project,
you're going to create an illustration that
uses pattern brushes, or you're going to
create your own set of pattern brushes. You can download the
brushes that I created for this class in
the resources area. If you want to download
the expanded set of brushes, join my newsletter. I'll leave a link in
the cloud description. Okay, it's time to
start creating. Now let's go on to
the next lesson.
3. Setting Up the Canvas: The first thing we're going to do is we're going to create a square canvas where we're
going to create our patterns. I'm going to go
to the plus sign. I have my preset sizes here. I have my 12 by 12
inch at 300 RGB. And that's what I
usually use for my square illustrations and
also to create my brushes. But if you don't have
that preset yet, just stop here and here. You can set the
width and height. I'd like to do it in inches. That's 12 by 12. Then keep it at 300 DPI, which is the minimum resolution
you want to print in. You want this to be crisp here, it will show you
the maximum number of layers in procreate. I always work in this
color profile because I think CMYK in procreate
looks very muted. I just keep that there. Then you can give a
name to your preset. 12 by 12, 300 DPI, and
then you create it. Then the next time you come
back when you press here, you don't have to do all that. Your preset will be here. Then if you don't like a
price that you already have, you can drag to the
left and delete it, and that way you
can organize it. Let's go back here
and we can name the basic pattern, for example. Then we have our file
where we're going to create all our patterns and
our pattern brushes today. Let's go to the next lesson.
4. Creating a Repeat Pattern: In this lesson, I'm
going to show you how to create a basic pattern. You understand how patterns work and how to make
patterns in procreate. Let's go to this file. The first thing
I'm going to do is choose my color palette. I am going to be using
my forest color palette. It's included with the class. If you haven't downloaded, go ahead and download it. When you import it, it's not going to be your
default palette, so it's not going to
have this checkmark. If you want to make any
palette a default palette, just stop here and
set as default. And that's the
palette that when you drag this out, is
going to come out. Let's go and choose Forest Set as default,
and drag this out. This is super useful because
then you don't have to be going in to choose colors.
You can choose them here. Now I'm going to go
to my layers panel and I'm going to choose
my background color. When I tap here, the
palettes open here. You can change the color views so you can see it as a disc. Classic harmony values and palettes for the
background color. I'm going to choose this
first color here and press. You can follow along
with this pattern or you can create your own. I'm going to be using the
ultimate feel rough from my watercolor set they said you can get for free when
you join my newsletter. But you don't need these. You can use any brush
you would like. I like this one because it
gives a watercolor effect. And I'm going to choose
this yellow color. I'm going to start drawing icons in the middle
of the canvas. I don't want the icons
to touch the border, it's going to cut off. And then this is not going to
work because, for example, in procreate, if I
have this icon here and I move it out of the
canvas, I let it go. When I grab it again
and I want to move it, I have lost the part that
went outside the canvas. This is a thing that
we have to have in mind when we create
patterns in procreate. That everything
that goes outside the canvas is going to be
cropped and we're going to lose that part of
the artwork swipe with three fingers
and clear that. We're going to draw our
icons on layer one. Tap here to close the layers. And we're going
to start drawing. I'm going to be
creating little stars. I'm not letting my brush go. I start again, then it
creates this overlay effect, which is really cool, but I
don't want it all the time. If you end up with something like this and you
don't like that, then you can choose
this other brush that's called water blend. And you can just
blend the edges out, make it a bit bigger, and blend this out, and then it has like more of
a watercolory effect. I'm blending out the borders. Sometimes I like
the borders to be like watered down, like these. That's my first star. I'm going to continue
doing other stars. Again, you can be using
any brush you want. I just want these to have
the water color effect. I'm going to keep going with my yellow color and I'm
going to create a moon. I'm also going to create
a sun. What else? Let's create other stars. Let's create a full Moon. Maybe some shooting stars. See that? I'm trying to leave similar spacing
between elements. The ones are a bit closer. If I want to move
something I already drew, I grab the selection here, then I can move it, that's a better spacing. And I'm going to continue adding some other things to these before we go on
to build the pattern. Maybe here we can have another moon very thin
and facing the other way. I'm just going to add
some little eyes to these illustrations because
I'm going to make it cute. I'm going to go and
grab another brush. Maybe this shape builder solid, make sure that the
opacity is up here. You control the
transparency of the brush. Here, you control the
size of the brush. I'm going to choose
this dark color, Make sure it's chosen here. Sometimes you have
to tap it twice. I'm just going to go and
add some little pass. Here, maybe this one sleeping. Okay, very simple illustration I have now my center
of the pattern. So we're going to start creating the sides for patterns to work. Whatever is cut off here
has to repeat on this side. And whatever is cut off here
has to repeat on this side. That's what we're
going to do now, because I don't want to
cut off my pretty icons. I'm going to duplicate this layer by
dragging to the left. And I'm going to hide this one. That way if I ever want to
come back to these icons, I have them there because now they're going
to get cut off. We're going to
duplicate this layer. If we were to move
this right now, see that the bounding
box is here, like it's where the icons end. We need the bounding
box to cover exactly the size of the canvas. We're going to release that. And to do that
we're going to add a new layer on top of this one. Just drag any color
you have there. Then you're going to
duplicate this layer two and drag it up here that this one has a background and this
one has a background. Now we're going to select
the two top layers, drag to the right and
they're both selected. Tap here and make sure
that uniform is selected. And snapping has
magnetics and snapping on this is going to make
the pattern snap to the size of the canvas
and it's going to be easier. Let's make it a bit smaller so we can see
what we're doing. I'm going to drag to the left and see that those
orange lines are there. They mean that I'm moving
it straight to the left. When this orange
line appears here, then I know I am in the
center of the canvas. And I can release,
and I can tap here. We're going to do the same
thing to the other side. Select the two by dragging
this one to the left, grab it here, and then
move it to the right. See, the orange line
has appeared here. It's not showing an
orange line here anymore. Sometimes it doesn't.
The important thing is that you see this
orange line appear here, so that this is
exactly in the middle. Release it there, Tap here. Now we're going to
erase that background. Select this layer to the left. Deleted these layers. Swipe to the left and delete it. Now we're going to
merge these two layers. I'm going to use
another layer to create the icons that I'm
going to fill this part with. I could do it in the same layer, but because this layer
we're going to do exactly the same thing
we did right now. It's going to get cut
off and I want to keep my icons intact
for next time. Maybe I want to make a sticker sheet with this or something. Then I want to keep them
safe from the cutting off. I'm going to create
another layer there. I'm going to go and
choose my ultimate feel, rough brush again,
choose the yellow color. I am going to fill in
this part in the middle. I can draw anywhere I want, but I cannot touch the borders. Don't touch this border, because this border is done. Now, I think here I
need something else. I'm going to draw
another little star. Maybe another one here
that's even smaller. Maybe here I'm going
to draw another sun. Maybe here we'll
have a half moon. Maybe we'll have a
little planet here. I'm just going to start
filling in some spaces with some little stars.
I'm happy with that. I'm just going to add
some ice to them. That's it. I'm
going to leave some without eyes like this
one and this one. Now I have that part filled. I'm going to duplicate it. I can drag it
underneath here and I can save it with
my original art. I am going to take this and
merge it down. Pinch it. Until it's merged.
Now we're going to do the same thing that we did
before, we did the sides. Now we're going to do
the top and the bottom. I'm going to duplicate
this layer again. I'm going to create
another layer, drag the background into it, and put it underneath
the first layer. Duplicate, drag it
under the second layer. And now each one has
icons and background. We're going to start
doing the same thing. Drag to the right,
they're both selected. Grab here and we're
going to go up. Sometimes it will snap there
and you think you're done. But see that this middle point is not at the border
of the canvas. You need this to be
exactly in the middle, and you need an orange
line to appear. Go up a bit more, and there you have
the orange line. So there you can release it. Now we're going to
select the bottom ones, Grab both of them, and now we're going to go down and see you think it's not
there, but it's not there yet. Keep going down. Now you'll see the orange line appear
here in the middle. You know you're in
the correct place and just release them. Now we're going to delete
these background layers. We're going to merge
these two layers. Right now, all the borders
of our pattern are correct. We're just going
to have to fill in some spaces here without
touching the borders. I'm going to go back to my
brush and the yellow color. I'm just going to have a smaller brush and
add some little stars, maybe a bigger one. The idea here is that the spacing is even
for example here, there's too much space
and this has less space. I would have to fill something in when you're
creating a pattern. It doesn't look
good when you have so much space in some areas
and then not in other areas. That's how you try
to get flow and a balance is to fill in the spacing so that
it looks better. Let's add a little
here like this then. I love little details
that will fill spaces. I love adding little dots. I can get close to the borders, but I'm never touching them. Because if you draw
something here, then this will not be repeated here and your
pattern won't work. Okay, I think that looks good. So we have our pattern. Now, in the next lesson, I'm going to show
you how to test the pattern to make
sure it works well.
5. Testing the Pattern: Now that we have our
pattern file here, what I like to do is go to the gallery and
duplicate this file, and then go back in there. This way, whatever I'm doing here is not going to
affect my other file. And if I have to go back to it, I have it there and my icons are perfect and I
haven't ruined anything. In case I mess up here. I'm going to delete
these two layers. I don't need these ones. I'm going to add
another layer with a background color and drag
it underneath my layer. Now we're going to
select these two layers. I'm going to drag up
here until it snaps. And I see the orange
lines up here. That means it's covering
a fourth of my canvas. So I can release it now. I can just duplicate
this and this one. Then drag this one
up here, again, it has back background
and grab these two, and I'm going to move them down. Great. Now I can move
this one down here and merge the two backgrounds
and merge the two layers. And then just duplicate, duplicate the, place
it here in order, select the top both
and bring them to the right again until I see the orange lines here and the corners are in
the correct place. And set it. Now when I delete the backgrounds, I
merge these two. My pattern should be working
when you go and check it, it's a seamless pattern. There you have it. It works. This is how you create a
simple pattern in procreate. And this is the same theory
we're going to use to create even simpler patterns
for our pattern brushes. Let's go to the next lesson
and create our first brush.
6. Creating the Hearts Brush: Now we're going to create
a pattern for first brush, but we're going to have
to understand first how four brushes work. The technique to
create a pattern is exactly the same as we just saw. The only difference here is that we're only going to be
using black and white. White for the background
and black for our icons to create our pattern. Because when you
create the brushes, the brush will just translate everything into black and white. So it's better to
work with just black. Anyway. The first
thing you need to understand here is how
transparencies work. I have created a very basic and ugly pattern for you to see. I have icons that
I have drawn with a solid brush and then icons that I have drawn
with a transparent brush. This is my watercolor
brush and it has variations in the black see, there's no like
really black spaces. It's like shades of gray. When I create a
brush with these, let's hide this and
create another layer. When I use this brush, it keeps the variation in shades here in the things
that are solid. It paints solids. Have that in mind for when
you're creating your pattern. If you want a
variation in shades, you can use a brush
that has them. Or if you want solid images, just use a solid brush. Let's delete that. I'm just going to start creating
my brush here. I'm going to delete this. I'm using the same
canvas we used before at 12 by 12
inch, at 300 DPI. I'm going to go to
the classic view and tap on this corner
to choose a black. I'm going to keep
using this brush. Maybe I'll choose
the ultimate feel smooth to create my heart. We're going to be creating
very basic patterns. I'm trying to space
my hearts out evenly. Again, I am not
touching the borders. Now we're going to build
the pattern the same way we built it in
the last lesson. Go here, duplicate this. I'm going to add another layer, and I'm going to choose
a different color for my background
and drag it in. Let's arrange this here, duplicate, and arrange
it underneath. And then we select these two, and we're going to move them to the left orange line,
here, here, release. Now these two, and move them
to the right orange lines. Release. Now I'm going to delete this part of the pattern
and merge these two. I'll go back to my black color, Maybe I'll start adding smaller hearts to
fill in these shapes. Again, you can touch any part of the pattern,
but not the sides. And the patterns here don't
have to be so perfect because we're just going to use them to enhance our illustrations. I think that's looking good. And I'm going to
do the same thing to the top and the bottom. Go to the layers.
Duplicate these. Add another layer. Bring in a background color. Bring it to the bottom. Duplicated. Bring
it to the bottom. Select the top two. Now
we're going to go up and down the orange lines appear. Select the two, go down the
orange lines and release. Now we can delete the
backgrounds and merge these. Now we can just go
in and fill in some, fill in some spaces here. You can also use these to
move some objects around. That's better. Although we're
happy with the pattern, now we can go and create
our pattern brush. Now, make sure that
you have download the pattern brushes
set from the class. It will include all
the brushes that we developed here in class, but for now, mine only
shows the base brush. Yours will include
the base brush plus all the other brushes that we're going to develop here together. This is the brush
that we're going to use to create all
of our brushes. Before we go into there, let's swipe down with three
fingers and select Copy All. It will copy the whole canvas. Now when we go into our brushes, again, we're going to
duplicate this brush. That way we always have the base brush to come back
and create more brushes with. And we're going to go into it, and this is the brush studio. We're going to go about this brush and change
the name here, call it hearts Here, you can write your name. You can add your logo from
your camera, from your photos. You can sign it here. Once you save the logo
and the signature, you won't be able to remove it. Have that in mind for now. Let's go to the grain. We're not going
to touch anything else from the brushes
except the grain. This is where we're going to
add our pattern. Go to edit. Then here in Import,
you'll see paste. You can paste your brush there. What you see here in white is
what the brush will paint. We don't want this brush
painting the background and leaving the hearts on
painting. We want the opposite. If you tap with two
fingers, it will invert it. Now what it's going to paint is the hearts and
not the background. If you press here, you can test your brush.
That's working great. You can just press here. Now you have your hearts brush. If we create a new layer,
let's hide this one. Create a new one. And
choose a different color. Choose the pink for example. Be able to paint with
your hearts here. You can change the size of it. Then you'll have little brushes. But if you have the maximum size here and you want the
hearts to be even bigger, you're going to have
to go to your brushes and tap here, ingrain. You see scale. You can
make the scale bigger. Now you'll be able to
paint with bigger hearts. You can also make them smaller. You can also choose
different colors. You see that because we
used a brush that has some transparency when we created the watercolor
brush is transparent, then it will keep
that same property here when you apply it. You can create some
cool effects with that too. There we have it. You have your very first brush. Let's go to the next lesson
and build another one.
7. Creating the Rain Brush: In this lesson, we're
going to create another very simple brush, but this one we're going
to make with solid lines. This is the same file I had. I'm just going to create another layer on top of my heart. I'm going to go back here
and choose the black again. I'm going to choose
a solid brush. I really like this one in the calligraphy
section called mono line. I'm just going to create little lines, random
little lines. I'm going to speed this up, but what I'm doing is
that I'm filling in the middle of the canvas and I'm not touching
the borders. When I'm done with the middle, we're going to do
exactly the same thing. Duplicate this,
add another layer. Choose a different color. Bring it to the background.
Bring it underneath. Duplicated. Bring it
underneath this one. Now we're going to select
this two and go to the left orange
lines. They're okay. I release and then I
select this two and drag to the right the
orange line is there. Release it. Now I'm going
to delete this two. Merge the two. I'm going to continue filling this part in the middle and not
touching the border. Now that the middle is filled, I can go back to
duplicating this, adding another layer,
fill in the background, and do exactly the same thing. Duplicate this one,
bring it down, select these two, and now
I'm going to move them to the top orange lines. I'm going to select these two and drag them to the bottom. There we have the orange lines. I'm going to release them. Now I can delete the
backgrounds and merge these two and see all the sites are done and we're just missing
the line in the middle. I'm going to grab the black again and just fill
in these areas. If you see any other
areas that need filling, you can go ahead and fill them. Just make sure you're not
touching the borders. I keep repeating that, but that's the only way
you can mess this up, is if you draw something
that goes off the border. Okay, I'm happy with that. I'm going to drag
three fingers down. Copy all, and go to my brushes. Go back to the pattern brushes. Duplicate the base
brush, tap on it. I'm going to change
the name to rain. Then I'm going to go
to the grain tap, Edit, import paste. And I'm going to tap
with two fingers so that it inverts the image. And press done. Here we have our brush now let's
try that one out. Let's create a new
layer and choose this purple painted out. See here, it's obvious
where the repeat is because for some reason I made these little lines too small. You can see the repeat. If you want to fix that, you can just go back and
erase this whole section. I can't erase the ones that are cut off or touching the site. I'm just erasing the
ones in the middle. I can erase this whole section. Then I can just go back, go to the reasons to choose the mono line and
fill this in with bigger lines and then
three finger Sound Copy All go into the brushes, to the rain, brush
to the source, and edit here, import paste. And see that part got fixed. Now when I press and I pressed, I try out my brush, let's hide this one
and choose purple. Then the repeat is
not so obvious. See what happened here? They overlapped is because I was drawing and I lifted my pencil and then I
put it down again. When you do that,
the brush starts painting again in a different
place of the pattern. It's going to overlap it. If you don't want that, you want your pattern to repeat
seamlessly without overlapping, you have to fill in
the whole area without lifting your pencil again. Let's choose another color. If you want this to be bigger, you'll see that the biggest
size here is this one. If you want it to
be even bigger, just go into your brush ingrain. You can change the scale
and go as big as you want. Sometimes if you make
it too big and you go and paint in your canvas,
you don't see anything. It's because you made it so big that you're just like seeing the space in
between the dots. Don't make it too big either. Let's have it like this now. The biggest size is even
bigger than before. Now you have your second brush. We're going to go and build a different type of brush
in the next lesson.
8. Creating the Leopard Spots Brush: In this lesson, I'm
going to show you how to create some
leopard spots. This is great, in case you
have a book commission, or you're creating a sticker set and you have to
draw ten leopards. And you don't want
to go in and draw every little spot
over and over again. This is going to speed up
your workflow so much. You can do this with
any other type of pad. Let's create another layer. She was black again. In sketching, I'm going
to use a six pencil brush because it's like a
colored pencil brush and I like that effect. I'm going to start creating the leopard
patterns like these. I'm just making
them very abstract. I want them to be like
kids book type of pattern. You can make it as
realistic as you want. And I'm going to spit this up. A trick when you have to fill in a big area and you want
to speed things up, is that you can
grab some of these. Slide down with three
fingers and duplicate, then you can move this around. It's going to be hard
to move them because we have the snapping selected. I'd like to turn that off. You can move here, for example, and set it there. And then just merge
those two layers. And keep drawing there. That way you'll save some time. You can do that again too. Maybe grab a piece here, three fingers down, duplicate.
And then move it here. You can rotate it
and then merge it. For example, here they're
touching and I don't like that. I'm just going to
erase this part. Change this up here,
and keep drawing. Once I have the middle
of my canvas done, I can start making
the pattern again. Duplicate the, create a new
layer. Bring in a color. Bring it underneath. Duplicate.
Bring it underneath. Select this to the left. See we didn't have
snapping on its randomly. Let's undo that and make
sure that snapping is on. Now it moves in a straight line and we can see the orange lines. Then grab these two
and to the left, to the right again, delete the background and merge. Now we're going to fill
in the middle here. Let's grab black again
and start drawing. And here, it's easy to start
filling in those gaps. I'm not going to
go to this side. I'm leaving these ones
open so that when I finish this part
I can close them. Okay, so the middle
looks right again. Duplicate, create a new layer, bring in a color, drag
it to the bottom. Duplicate that one,
drag it to the bottom, select the top two. Now we're going to the
top, to the bottom. Delete the backgrounds, merge these two,
choose black again. And now we can complete these spots and just
finish the middle. See here, I cannot touch that, so I'm going to go very
close, but not touch it. Great, now I'm done
with my pattern. So three fingers down, copy all, and go to the brushes. I'm going to duplicate
the paste brush. Go in it, change the name, done, and then go
to the grain edit. Import paste. Tap with two fingers
to invert it. Done. Done. Now let's test our brush layer. This one see so much faster than drawing
that 1 million times. In the next lesson,
we're going to draw a brush that
creates styles.
9. Creating Tile Brushes: In this lesson we're
going to be using a super cool feature that
procreate has called symmetry. To create a tiles pattern brush. Still in my same file. I'm going to create
another layer. I'm going to choose black. I'm going to choose
the monoline brush that I was using before. I'm going to go here to the wrench and
choose canvas here. I'm going to turn
on Drawing Guide, and you'll see that
this grade appears. I'm going to go to
Edit Drawing Guide. Here you get the symmetry. Here you have vertical symmetry. Whatever you draw on this side will be mirrored on this side. Then you have
horizontal symmetry, which is the same thing
but horizontally. And then you have quadrant. Whatever you draw here gets
mirrored here, here and here. And radial, which
has eight spaces. Then you have rotational
symmetry. It's press done. If I draw here, you'll see
it rotates in the same way. If I turn off
rotational symmetry, pressed on, I draw
the same thing now, instead of them all
going the same way, it starts turning
it around here, and here, and here. I really like this effect
when I'm creating tiles. I'm going to clear this layer by scrubbing with three fingers. And now we can start
drawing our tile. There's two ways to do this, and I'm going to show
you the two ways. First is just to have one tile that repeats
the whole time. Let's say it's like this. I can fill in the
spaces still if I want. Now we have a tile. If I drag down with three
fingers and I copy all, I'll go to my brush
pattern brushes. I'll duplicate this one. Change the name to basic tile. Go to the grain, add
it, Import paste. I'm going to invert
that and press done. Now I have this one tile
repeating itself the whole time. And see it doesn't
have any lines in between them. I'll show you. See it's repeating without any lines separating the tiles. And that's very pretty. But if we want lines
separating the tiles, let's delete these.
Turn this on. You can go back to your brush and you can just
add a line here. Now when you copy all, we're going to create
another brush here. We're going to keep
that basic tile, we're just going
to duplicate that one and change the name
to basic tile with lines. When you go to grain,
we're going to go edit in part paste, And this one actually
has a line around it when we test that out. You'll see that it includes the lines and it actually
looks more like tiles. A very basic change just
transforms this pattern. This is awesome to
fill in things. I'm going to show you later. When you're drawing a
building, for example, and you want to add tiles
like this is so fast. Let me delete this. I'm
going to show you what else you can do with this
once you have this style. Let's say we don't want the same tile repeating the
whole time. That's boring. Let's select here
and make sure that snapping is on
magnetics and snapping. We're going to bring to make it a fourth of our
canvas release there. I am going to hide it for now. Now I'm going to go ahead and
create three other tiles. I'm going to create
another layer. See that these layers assisted. If I draw on that one, it will have the
symmetry activated. But if I draw on a layer
that does not say assisted, the symmetry won't work. What I need to do is
go to that layer, tap on it, and select
drawing assist. Now I draw on this one, has the symmetry
activated again. I'm going to create
another tile. I'm going to start
by doing this, the border, and now I'm going to create a
totally different one. I'm going really fast here. Okay, let's say
that's another tile. I'm just going to reduce it. I can create a brush
with this one if I want, or I can just reduce
it to a quarter. And now I'm going
to move it here to this side and release it. Now I have two tiles, Now I want to
create another two. I'm going to go super fast
through that process, so you don't have to
sit here while I do it, because it's exactly
the same thing. I'm going to add a layer, make it assist, hide this two, and draw another pattern. Okay, I don't like
this one as much, but it will look good
once they're altogether, I'm going to reduce
this one to this side. Now I have three of them. I'm missing one here. Hide them. Create a new
one. Trying to assist. Let's start by making the line. I wanted to look hand drawn, but if you want it to
be super straight, you just press here
and then leave your pencil without lifting it, and then you can make a
totally straight line. Okay, so now I
have this one too, so I will reduce it. Now I can go here
to the canvas and hide the drawing guide because I won't be
needing it anymore. When I turn on these three
layers, I have this. When I go down with three
fingers and I copy all, I go to my brushes, I duplicate this one. You can duplicate anyone
that you have already made, or you can duplicate the base
brush. It's the same thing. If I duplicate this one and
I go to about this brush, I want to call it
fancy dial grain. Add it in port paste. You'll see all the
four tiles there. I'm going to invert
them and press Done. Done. Now when I
go to my layers, I'm going to hide the
ones, create a new layer. I go to my layers, I paint with that one. It's much more intricate
than the basic one we had. You'll see here that this
one has much more black. It's because I inverted it. If I go back to that one and I go to edit here and
I tap to invert it, when I press on, it
will be inverted. If you want a darker version, you use that one,
and if you want a lighter version,
you use this one. I absolutely love this. I have even licensed and sold patterns that are
made just like these. They're super easy to make, they're really fun to make. They totally change the feeling of your illustration
in 1 second. In the next lesson,
I'm going to teach you how to make a different
type of pattern.
10. Creating Lines and Bricks Brushes: In this lesson, we're
going to create a pattern that
looks super simple, but that I want you to
know how to make it. I'm going to choose black. First of all, I'm going to go
back to my monoline brush. I'm still in the same file. I'm going to create
a new layer here. We're going to create a
horizontal line brush. If you want the brush
to be continuous, you can't just do that because
it's not going to match. You're going to have
to do it this way. You start your line here, then if you want
it to be straight, just hold on your finger and
it'll make a straight line. It will snap, release it there. If you want your line
to be more hand drawn. It's like the not so straight. Try to make it not like this
because then it's not going, it's going to be very
hard to match it, try to make it in
a straight line. Or if this is, for example, a branch of a tree that has
little branches like these, this is a very fast
and ugly tree branch, but it's just an example. Then this is how you
make the pattern. You add all of your lines. I'm going to make them
all hand drawn like this. You don't touch the borders.
You know how that goes. Duplicate that,
create a new layer. Bring in a different color. Bring it down. Duplicate it. Bring it down. Then let's
start with the top ones. Select them. Snapping is on, go here to the left. Orange lines are
on, that's great. Then the next ones, go to the right orange lines. Okay, now we delete
the backgrounds. We merge these two. Let's go back to black. Now you have the, the
lines here are seamless, but here they need to connect. We're going to a lot and we're going to create
a new layer for the. This one is a straight line. If you start here and you place your finger
here, it will snap. Sometimes you'll get
it perfectly fine the first time. That's amazing. If not just stab here. Let's say that when you drew it, it's like that, it's a bit off. You just select
here and then you tap with your finger once, twice, maybe three times, however many times you need
until that line is perfect. Now, your line is
connecting perfectly. Now, for these ones that
are not totally straight, it's easier to just merge everything and work
in the same layer. You just go in with your brush
and you complete the line. Then with that eraser, you just smooth it out. Same with the trees.
You just make your trunk bigger and then
you add the branches. If you want to smooth
something out, you just use the eraser. There you go. Same with all these lines. See this one, the drop is a lot, it's going to look weird
when you connect them. What you can do is you
can erase a big part of this line here and a big
part of this line here. And then just connect
it like this. Because this way the transition will be smoother and they
won't look so weird. Just use the eraser but
in a smaller scale. And fix the connections. So on. What I'm going to do now, so I can speed things up, is I'm going to delete
these lines here. I'm going to
duplicate this here. Just slide down with
three fingers duplicate. And I'm going to
bring this down. Then maybe I'll just
duplicate this part. And then bring it down here. Let's say we have a
pattern like that ready. We're going to merge
all that we want to do. The top part of
the repeat again, we're going to duplicate this, create a new layer with a
background color. Same process. Now we're going to do
the top and the bottom. Delete the backgrounds merge. Now we can decide what we
want to do with the middle. You can draw more things in
if you want more branches, for example, don't
touch the borders. Or you can just move some lines around to adjust the spacing. Take your selection tool, and let's move this line, for example, and
move it down a bit. You can also move
it down like this. If you want to go really slowly, just tap, tap, tap. Make sure, like for example, that you're not
tapping on the sides because then if this happens, your pattern is
not going to work. Let's undo that. When you're, make sure
you're tapping right here in the middle or than
when you're moving it, you're keeping the orange lines so that it's not
moving to the sides, just moving up and down. See there you don't see the
orange sides on the side. Only in the middle. But there
I see them in the middle. I know I'm okay and I'm
going to release it. This is a horizontal
lines pattern. And you can do the same
thing with verticals. I'm not going to create this as a brush because it's
obviously very ugly. But I'm going to show
you how you can create a break brush from
a horizontal brush. This line is already
repeated perfectly. I just want to grab that
one selected cut and paste. And then I'm going to
delete this layer. I'm just going to duplicate
these layers several times. I'm making sure that it's going up perfectly aligned
with the orange lines. I'm going to merge those
two and then duplicate them. Then go up. They don't have to be exactly
the same distance they can, but I'm not making
them like that. If this is not working
with the snapping, you can go to the snapping, You can turn the distance to one so that it actually
moves a bit slower. There you go, and merge that. I'm going to duplicate it again. It's going to get cut off, but as long as that line is not touching the
border, I'm okay. Now if I merge all these, I can make sure that the line, orange line is still showing
and I can go up a bit. Let's say that's
our line pattern. It's very easy to come back
to brushes and edit them. You get a ton of brushes
without so much work. For example, if I select this and copy all and I
go to my brushes, I duplicate this one. We call this one lines. We go to grain
edit, Import paste. We invert that. We
have our lines brush. But then if we go
in and we select a monoline brush and we create
little lines like this, I'm not going to be touching the borders so that I don't have to repeat
that part of the pattern. I'm just going to add
lines like these. I'm going very fast. I'm just showing you this so that you know that you can make little alterations to the
patterns you've already made. That way you can create way
more brushes, way faster. Now I have this, I have to
make the lines for this part, but not this part because I
didn't touch anything there. And it seems to be
repeating perfectly. What I'm going to do is just do the top and bottom
of the pattern. If you duplicate this,
you add a new layer. You know the real now I just
have to go up and down. See the orange is there. I want to increase the
distance of the snapping now a bit so that it
goes faster there. Now I get rid of the background. I merge, and now I can do this line with blue, with black. Now my pattern is done. When I copy all and I go
to the pattern brushes, I can duplicate the
lines brush for example, and call it bricks. Go to grain, edit, import paste. It's already inverted.
Just click on, then it's a totally
different brush. That's how you grow your
brush library really fast. Now that you know how to make
all these types of brushes, your imagination is the limit. You can create as
many as you want. In the next lesson, I'm going
to show you how I prepare my illustrations to add the
pattern brushes to them.
11. Preparing Your Illustrations for Adding Patterns: Now you have all these
brushes and I'm going to show you how to use them
in actual illustrations. Let's start with
something really simpul. Let's start with this
illustration here. When I created the
illustration I had in mind, I wanted to add patterns
to different parts of it. I wanted to add patterns to the background circle and
to the girl's clothes. When I made my illustration, I had this in mind. I created a layer just for
the background circle. Then I have these
leaves here that I still don't know if I'm
going to use or not. I have them in a separate layer. I have the girl's background
hair and chest here. I have her shirt in
a separate layer. Then these little decorations, I have the little creature she's holding in
a separate layer, and then her face and hands. Then I'm not sure if I should
make her smiling or not. I'm going to make her smile. Here. I have two textures that I can make it look
more water coloring, but don't matter right now. What matters right now is that you have your
illustration in layers. Because if you had the
little animal attached to the hands and attached to the shirt all in the same layer, when you're going to
use your pattern brush, it's going to be very
difficult to keep it only in the shirt and not go into
the creature and the hands. That's why when you're
creating your illustrations, it's very useful to
have different layers. For example, let's use the brushes we created for
the background circle. Let's go to that layer. If you're new to procreate and you don't know about masks, masks are something
really cool in procreate there as if you're
layering tracing paper, one on top of another, every layer is like
a piece of paper. When I delete this one
or I alter this one, nothing happens to the
layers on top. Same here. I can delete the shirt, I can change the color, I can do whatever I want, and it's isolated from
the other layers. There's two ways
that you can use your pattern brushes to add
textures to this circle. For example, one is alpha log, which you activate by swiping
right with two fingers. Then you'll see a
checkerboard on the back. What that does is let's
choose this in brush, for example. Let's
choose yellow. So you see what's happening. What that does is that it
only colors inside the shape. It's not going
outside the circle, it's staying within the circle. But later, if I don't like that yellow and I
want to change the color, I can't because it is
attached to the circle. Let's undo that. Let's
create a top layer. And when you tap on it, you can create a clipping mask, which does exactly
the same thing. Visually, like you see
exactly the same thing, That it's not going
outside the circle. But if I ever want
to change that, I can either hide
it. I can delete it. I can change the color of it. For example, if I turn
alpha lock on that, I choose a black color and then I choose
to fill that layer. I can change the color of that because it's separated
from the circle. This is my preferred way
of adding textures to things because then I can change my mind and move them
around, for example. I can also change the size. I can move it around.
Maybe I just want it here. It's a non destructive
way of working. That's my preferred way. If you don't have enough layers, then the best way is to use alpha log and paint
directly on the object. But if you have enough layers, just use the clipping masks. It will make your life so much
easier. Let's delete that. I'm going to choose
the summer palette and set that as default
and bring it here. You can download that palette
from my freebies also, when you subscribe
to my newsletter. So if you want it,
just go grab it. I'm going to use maybe discolor. I'm going to delete this and create another
clipping mask layer. And I'm going to
add some rain here, but I think that's too big. I'm going to reduce
the size a bit. Yeah, that's better.
I call this rain, but it's just a cute texture. I'm not lifting my pencil
so that it doesn't overlap. Great. Once that's done, I can also come to
the layers panels and tap on the end and play
with the opacity modes. I love playing with
the opacity modes because sometimes it gives you unexpected results that
you weren't even planning. I just like to go
and try everyone. Soft light is very
pretty because it merges to the background. I like that on luminosity,
I'm going to keep it. I can also make it
more transparent here. If I want See that's
more subtle and then that's more in your face.
Let's leave it like that. Let's add something
else to the shirt. I'm going to go to
the shirt layer, create a new layer on top. And I'm going to tap on it
and create a clipping mask. I'm going to add those hearts
that we made to the shirt. I'm going to go here
and choose the heart. I'm going to use that same
cream color and start painting the shirt without lifting. That looks so cute. But
because this is clothing, it would be very unrealistic for this heart to be
cut off in the arm. And then repeating
the same part here. What you can do is you can use the eraser and make
sure it's small. Just erase this part. Just that makes it look
a bit more realistic. Not so obvious that you
use a pattern brush. Same here. In the chest here. Yeah, that looks so much better. In 5 minutes, we transform
this illustration from something very basic to something with more
details that looks like. It took you very long to draw. Now that you know
how to use this, we're going to go use
the tile patterns in a building and
those leopard spots in a jungle illustration. Let's go to the next lesson.
12. Using the Brushes in Illustrations: In this lesson, I'm going to show you even more ways that you can use your brushes
in illustrations Here, I have created an
illustration of a door. As you can see, it has
a lot of detail here, but it looks plain in the walls. It's boring. I want to add more
interest to it. What I'm going to
do is I'm going to add some textures with
the process we created. Again, the way I prepared this illustration was by
keeping my layers separate. We have everything
in its own layer. For example, if I want to add a pattern to this
blue area here, it's in its own
layer and same with these blue columns and
same with the pink wall. It's going to be very easy
for us to add textures. Let's start with this blue area here and create another layer on top and make it
a clipping mask. And I am going to
go choose a brush. I think we add
tiles to this area, then we make this brick. Or should we add tiles
to this area and make this brick? Well, let's try. Let's add brick to this part and tiles to the pink.
Choose our bricks. I'm going to choose a color
from the illustration. You just leave it here pressed. I want to make it a bit lighter. I'm going to go to
my classic view and make a lighter color. I'm going to start
painting this, See instantly it's transformed. It looks like you paid a lot
of attention to that area and it creates a
totally different vibe. I think I lifted my pencil here because see how
it's overlapping. So I'm just going
to undo that and then go around it without
lifting it perfect. I could do it a bit
lighter if I want. Just make it less transparent. I think that's much better. I was going to try that
in the columns also, but I think it's
going to be too much. Great. Now I'm going to add
some tiles to this pink area. Let's go and find the pink area and add
a new layer on top, clipping mask. Choose our tiles. I'm going to choose
a fancy tiles, the ones that have
four different ones. I'm going to this dark color
here and see what happens. I'm going to make
the maximum size and see if that's too
big. That's too big. It's smaller, that's perfect. I'll just fill it in
without lifting my pencil. That is way too dark. I'm going to go here and try
different blending modes. That's cute, but
it's a bit light. You can make it
more transparent. You can keep it in normal turn on the alpha lock swipe with
two fingers to the right, so you see the
checkerboard there. Then you can either
choose a color from here. Let's choose this
yellow tap on it, fill layer, and then
you'll feel it, that doesn't look good. Or you can go here, hue
saturation, brightness. And you can start
changing the hue here, how saturated it is, how dark or light it is, and see if something looks good to you. I like that. I'm just
going to set that there. I really like how that looks. Then finally to these walls, you can go here, create a new layer
clipping mask. Then you can choose
the rain, for example. I'm going to choose
that dark blue, and I'm going to color this in. Now I'm going to reduce
the opacity a lot there. You can barely see it, but it adds some interest. Again, I can go use my
eraser to erase it. In these parts like this, it's not so obvious
there. You can see it. Great, that is looking
so much better. Now, we can even go
into the trees and create layers clipping mask and add some interest
to them too. So I can go to the back players, create another
clipping mask and add some of these parts
to it too. Why not? There the illustration
has been transformed. I absolutely love details
and textures and everything. I find that this is an amazing way to add
that to my illustrations. Also, if you're creating
illustrations for puzzles, for example, companies that make puzzles need a lot of texture. This is a great way
to add interest to those areas that otherwise would be impossible to
build in a puzzle. I'm just going to go to
another illustration and show you one last
time how to use this. I have my little jungle
illustration here, for example. I am going to, I have
each mountain on its own layer so I can add different texture
brushes to it. But let's start with
our little leopard, because that's the brush we created in the class
together at a clipping mask. I'm going to choose
the leopard spots. I'm going to choose this color. I'm just going to
start painting on him. Maybe they're a bit big, I'm going to make them
a tiny bit smaller. I'm going to skip the
top part of his face. We're done, he's
been transformed. Then you can change the
blending mode if you want. That one looks cute.
I'm going to make it a bit more transparent. I really like how it looks 2
seconds now for the giraffe, we didn't create
this one together, but it will be included in the brush set that you can
download from the class. Let's try this color. Let's go to the giraffe layer, create a new clipping mask. And that's huge, let's
make it smaller. That's too small, just
start filling it in. I don't like that color, but we're going to use
the blending modes afterwards to find a better
color. Now we go here. That one's really cool
color burn because you see it's more orange
where it has shadows. I'm going to reduce
the opacity a bit. I really like how
that looks great. Now let's add some
things to the mountains. Go to this blue mountain, add a new layer, create
that as a clipping mask. Let's use our rain, for example. I'm going to choose this color. I think that looks great. I'm going to add that rain
brush to all the mountains, but I'm going to do
it in different sizes so that we can
create more texture. Now I'm going to go to this
mountain. Let's find it here. Create a new layer.
Select clipping mask and make it smaller. Select this very
light color here. You can't see it too much. But we're going to change
the blending mode later. If you want it to
be more visible, just go here and there.
That one looks good. See it's exactly the same brush, but because we're
changing the sizes, it's changing the feeling
of it with that same size. I'm going to do this mountain, go there at a new
layer clipping mask. I'm going to choose this color. But here I actually want to
make it darker. I'll go here. And in classic I can go down and it will
choose the same color. But now let's start painting. Great. If you wanted
to show more, you can go to the multiply, oh oh, that one's cute. Let's try this pink one. Add a clipping mask layer. I'm going to choose this color. I'm going to change
the size here. I'm going to make it way bigger. Again, I'm going to play with the blending modes.
I like that one. Finally, this one, which
is this one clipping mask, let's add a dark color, maybe make that the biggest
and see what happens. Yeah, that looks great. This is another way
of transforming an illustration by using just one brush here
in the mountains. But changing the sizes, we have changed
the feeling of it. Now you've also seen how the animal fur brushes are super useful when you're
creating animals. The sky is the limit. Now let's go to the
next lesson and learn how to export and share
our pattern brushes.
13. Exporting the Brush Set: In this lesson, I'm
going to show you how to export your brush set. So you can share it with your friends or so
you can sell it. When you go to your
brushes and you want to start creating
your brushes in a library, you can swipe down
here and press plus and then you can
create your new set. Then you can start creating
your brushes there, or you can move them
from other brush sets. If you grab it here and you press new set and you
drop it in there, it will go to your new set. When you want to
share each brush, you can swipe to the
left and you can share it, duplicate, or delete. You can share
individual brushes, or you can do the
same with the set by tapping on its name. And then you can
rename it Deleted, share it, or duplicate it. When you hit share,
it will export it. I'm going to save
it to my files. For example, pattern brushes. Add your name. By Sandra Mahia. Return safe. Now you can share that file and people can
download your brushes. I hope this sparks
a lot of ideas. Now this is the
end of the class. Let's go to the next
lesson and wrap things up.
14. Wrapping Things Up: We've come to the
end of the class, I hope you have lots of fun. And that you have lots of ideas of new pattern
brushes to create, to enhance your illustrations, or even to sell the
brushes as a digital acid. Remember to post your project
in the project gallery. I can't wait to see
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