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1. Introduction: Do you love nature? Do you love creating
Procreate brushes? Do you want to learn what
modern brush craft is? Then this is the class for you. Hi, my name is Alexandra,
aka the Artmother. I'm an artist, illustrator, online educator and I
have the obsession of creating Procreate brushes from all different kind of things. Perhaps you have
already bumped into my tutorial on
TikTok or Instagram. I'm often known for the amazing effects that you can create with these brushes, which can be made from anything from ****** to all
different kinds of objects. Of course, this wouldn't
be possible without the unremarkable
Procreate brush studio. In this class, we
are going to create Procreate brushes from
botanical elements. We're going to create three
different brushes for three different
functions that we will need to create the
class project. One of the greatest
advantage of creating your own brushes is that it helps to bring the real world closer
to digital art. Using these brushes
can give your art a personal and unique touch, while also making your
portfolio cohesive. To participate in this class, you will only need
your iPad with Procreate on it and a little
bit of working knowledge of the program but don't
worry as I'm going to comment on the whole
process step-by-step. This class is perfect
for beginners. By the end of this class,
you will have acquired the skills to think
outside the box and use botanical elements to
create Procreate brushes with different functions
that will fulfill your needs in your
illustration process. You will also have a
finished illustration of a beautiful forest scene. Are you ready to learn the
art of modern brushcraft? If yes, join me
inside the class.
2. The Class Project: Welcome to the class. I'm
super happy to have you here. In this video, I'm
going to talk to you about the class structure, the class resources,
and the class project. As I already mentioned, basically we are going
to collect plants and create Procreate
brushes from them. In the first part of the class, I will guide you
through the process of finding the best plants, capturing them in high quality, and then I will show
you how to prepare your images for brush creation. Then we will create the
three brushes together, test and refine them. Lastly, we will create a beautiful natural
scene together. This will be your class project. Create and use these brushes to create a natural
scenery of a forest. I will tell you everything
about the composition of the scene and how to choose
your colors and everything. You have, of course, artistic freedom to take this
class project your own way and use your illustration style or add elements that you wish. So personalize the artwork. But you will have the
guidelines that you can follow. In the resources you can find the brushes that I
create in this class, use them as a reference. Maybe you miss a
setting, don't worry. Just open the brush and the brush studio
through that brush and you will see
everything there. I'm providing you the raw images and the edited images of
the plants that I collect. Maybe if you don't have the possibility to go
out to the nature, and I hope that's not your case, but if that's the reality, you will have the
images to practice on. Finally, if creating
brushes is not your thing or it's just
not working for you, we are here to have fun. You can freely use my brushes
to only create the scenery. I'm also providing
the color palette that I'm going to use. When you are done
with your artwork, I invite you to upload it into
the project gallery below. Please include some words about your experiences
during the class or during the creation process. It is always so good
to read about them. Lastly, I would love
to encourage you to check out the
project that others have done for this class to get a little inspiration and an extra motivation to work
on your class project. I think that was
all for this video. As a first step, download the resources and then see you in the next
video where I'm going to talk to you about
basics that you need to understand about Procreate
brushes. See you there.
3. How Procreate Brushes Work: In this video, I would
love to talk to you about how Procreate
brushes work. You might already
know the basis of it, so you might skip this video. But if you don't really understand how this
works, keep watching. Where do you find the
Procreate Brush Studio? When you hit this paint button, where you choose your brushes, you have this plus sign here. If you click that, the Procreate Brush
Studio will open up. There are several things you can start within the brush studio. The most basic thing you need to know is that this
is how brushes work, in a way that you have a base shape that
is carried along.
4. Find Your Plants: Identifying suitable plants for brush-making requires a plan. You will need to know in advance what brushes you want to create, what is the desired
effect in approximate? In our case now, we will create three
different brushes. We want a single
plant silhouette, we want a brush for grass, and one for foliage. It is always a good idea to sketch out the desired effect, so that you can visualize what plants you will
need to look for. You can do this digitally
or traditionally, I will do this
traditionally now so that you can relate
to it better maybe. We will need three
different brushes. You might not always know
immediately what you want, [LAUGHTER] but you
might have an image in your head and it is just
a great starting point. Not just to go out and just
grab plants and do whatever, but really to have a
plan in your heart, so you need to imagine the
scene you want to create. At first, I want a single plant silhouette that
I can use for decoration. I want a plant with a
strong interesting shape. I want floral elements that
I can place around randomly. It will fit everywhere and it will have this
decorative function. There is a floral shape that I usually draw
to my artworks, and it is this one. I might want a plant
that looks like this and I can place it
everywhere I want. It has to have a strong shape. It can be something like this. But I can also imagine I will find a very interesting
leaf shape. It will have a strong
and long stem. It might have some kind
of an interesting leaf, maybe, so something like this. Something really, really simple. It is a single plant,
as you can see. Now, if I want to create grass, I have to think about how
grass looks like actually. It has several stems in
different directions, and I really want a flowy brush that will
cover a bigger spaces. Therefore, I will need a
plant that has grasp-shaped leaves that I can arrange or
I can even use grass itself. I imagine that a single part
of a grass looks like this. It goes into several directions. I can grab grass itself and then place into these
directions or I can get a plant that has a single
stem and I can arrange it to have this little
county-based shape so that can then drag around. Lastly, for foliage, I will need a plant with
a stem with leaves on it that will create a
nice effect on my tree. Something similar to this one. Maybe I will need a stem
with leaves like this, or something like that. Now I have a plant, now I know what to look for and the end result might
be totally different. That doesn't matter. Just keep in mind your plan. Go outside and grab the plants that you find
interesting and you might match them afterwards as well or if you don't have the
possibility to go outside to the nature and I would be really sad if that would
be your case you can use stock photo sites to find
plants or you can just use the raw images that
you can find in the resources that I will find
and just capture for you, so that you can use them. Let's just go for
the plant hunt. I'm back from the plant hunt. Let me show you what
I just got here. I have some grass
here, real grass. I have something like this. This is so beautiful. This is from my
[LAUGHTER] rose leaves. I have this from the tree
in front of my house. This has the stems and this
is why I have chosen it because it would make a
really nice grass brush. Lastly, I have this shape, shaped a little plant
and it is gorgeous. It has these heart-shaped little leaves around. I love it. I will just match these
plants to my plant at first. I'm sure that I
will use this for the silhouette brush
so this plant. It will be totally cute with
these heart-shaped leaves. I'm sure about that. Then for the tree foliage, I will go with this one. These little leaf shapes are beautiful and really delicate, I might remove the
small leaf from here, but it is beautiful,
so that's that. For the grass, I actually created already
a grass brush from these. Thanks. I removed
them from the stem and arranged them to
create a grass brush. But I now just took real grass, and I think I will
try to do this with real grass this time. Oh my god, this smell so good. It smells like Christmas. [LAUGHTER I will use real grass. I have a friend here now. [LAUGHTER] He's
joining the party. This is what I'm going to use these plants for
creating my brushes. Now I will need
to capture these. There are several
ways I can do that. I will see you in the next video where
I'm going to show you how to capture your
plants in high quality.
5. Capture Your Plants: Once you have
chosen your plants, you will need to capture them
in a way that allows you to create high-quality
images for your brushes. Let me just share a few
ways you can do so. First, if you don't want to
grab the plants themselves, you can just take
photos of them, right in nature and
then work with those, remove background, etc, in the iPad and the
procreate brush studio. Like you can do that, if you don't want to pick really the plant and care
for nature that much, it is totally okay. What you need to make sure is that the image is
sharp, that you take, and it can be separated
from its background that the plant is sharp. You can place your
hand or a piece of white paper behind it
so that you can really distinguish the shape from its background that
will really help you in the after work of the images. Then if you grab your plants, you need to keep in mind
it's lightness or darkness. You will have
different results on a black background or
on a white background. Now as we are using simple
plants that are dark green, it is better to take
photos of these plants on a white background
because then it will give you a more contrastive shape. You will need a
background to capture on. Don't think about
anything fancy, a single white sheet
of paper or book cover or a light dusk might
just work totally okay. Lastly, you can even scan
your plants with a scanner. This might be a good
option if you really want high resolution images but remember the scanner might
flatten the plant that might lose from its
natural shape this way. For example, with this plant, if you place it to a scanner, it will flatten it, and this 3-dimensional feeling
of the plant will be gone. Either way you make sure to capture all of your
collected plants, maybe even for more angles. What I'm going to do
is to capture them. I can capture them
right on this paper, but it is textured paper, so it might leave me some
textures on the image that I need to deal
with later when I'm creating the images. I have a plain sheet
of paper here, a white sheet of paper it is
already a little bit used but whatever and I will
just place my plants on it. With this grass,
I want this to be not just an upward direction, but to into a round the shape. I want this to be like this
way as well, all round. What I'm going to do is to
just grab my iPad's camera, you can capture the image with a normal camera if you
wish but to be honest, we are working in a 300 DPI with these
images so you don't really need too high definition
image or images. The camera of your
iPad is just enough, so I will just open it. I now have the images
that I'm going to use. Don't worry about them
being too dark or something like that they
are high resolution, so it will be super
fun to work with them. After you have your photos, see you in the next
video in which we will prepare these images
for brash creation. When you are ready, see
you in the next video.
6. Prepare Your Images: Let's just prepare the plant
images for brush creation. I already told you
that we will need a square-sized Canvas because the base shapes of our
brushes need a square size. You can place differently-sized
images into it, but they will be
simply distorted, and we don't want that. What I want from you now is to create a square-sized Canvas. I'll hit there and simply
square-sized Canvas. This can be your working file, so you don't need to create
a separate Canvas for all of the plant images we are going to work in this particular canvas. What we are going
to do is to import the image that we wanted
for the silhouette. Let's start with the
silhouette image. I will make it bigger and don't worry about
these things around, we can just work on it. I will place my plant shape into the middle of the Canvas. The first thing I need to
do is to invert the image, so to make it black
background and white shape. There are two ways
I can do that. The first one is that you go to "Adjustments" and
to "Gradient Map". I already have set
it to gradients, so you might need
to click there. You might have a different
default setting here. At this toggle bar, you might
have something like this. If you want to invert the image because this is just
simply grayscale, just go to this bar and just exchange these toggles
at the bottom. This is one way to make
the image black and white, and I will show you the other
way in the other plant. We have this black and white, and if you go to "Curves", just hit that "Curves". You need to toggle this at the bottom to this side
and don't raise it, keep it at the bottom and
make it to the extent that here you cannot see a white texture
of the paper around, so I'll just take it like this. If you think that this is
too gray or it is not white, if you toggle this
one to this side, you will make the
shape fully white. Can you see that? You can keep as well details
within your image. If I go closer, can you see that? That if I just push this this will fill
in the whole shape and you can keep some of the details of the
original photo? I'll let you decide this, I will just keep it
somehow like this. Now how to get rid
of these shapes, simply choose black
and a solid brush. I will go to the utmost ultimate brush
set and the clean shaper, and I will just simply
paint into the image. This is a good way to get rid
of paper textures as well, and you can also
play around with the shape and adjust angles. I don't like, for
example, this thing here, so I will just fill
it, like this. Wonderful. I might just go
with the selection tool, I will adjust this part. Place it to a different angle. Then I will just fill
this in, for example. You can either paint into it. You can adjust this
image as you wish. This is my first image, and I will do all
the others as well. Before I create the brushes, I will just work on those. I will create a new layer, maybe I don't even need that. Add, Insert a Photo, and insert another one. Again about the grass, I will just place
it to the middle, and I will just show you what is the other option to
invert your image. If you go to the
layer of the photo, hit the layer and you can
just hit "Invert" and voila, this image is inverted, so it is a little bit more
simple than the gradient, but this inverts it but
doesn't make it grayscale. You might see that
it has a little bit of violet tint, doesn't
matter actually. I will go to Curves again,
and as you can see, my curves look a little bit different because there
are colors there now, because it is not a grayscale. But again, does or
doesn't matter. What I'm going to do is to again go with this toggle
to this part, with this one a little
bit to the side. I don't see anything I want
to paint in with black so I will just move
on to the last shape. Maybe this one, so I
will make it again big, and I will go with
the gradient maps. As you can see if I just hit "Gradient Map" and I
already have those settings set it will automatically
do this for me so I don't need to replace
this toggles, so I will just go there
and again, go to Curves. Again, can you see that? There's no color there, so I will just go with this. Now, I don't really want too
much of detail within it, but as you can see, I have some things here, so I will just go in
with my clean shaper, fill in these things. I don't really want this
stem to be this big, so I will just make
it shorter and I will paint in here like this, maybe here as well. I will paint with
white to get rid of these textures I
don't want them, I really just want
a silhouette now. It looks good to me. I have all free base shapes
now here at my layers, there are two more things
I want to show you. The first one is how to
check if the background is completely black because it would just toggle in the curve, so how do you know
it will not show? You can just pick the color
of the background and open up this color palette here, and if it shows at this corner, can you see if I pick
the white it goes there, if I go here it
goes to the corner. If I go around of my image
and just pick up the colors, I can see that it is true
black so it will not show. You can adjust this
afterwards as well. Maybe you make a mistake of
not checking the background, doesn't matter, when
you are creating the brush it will just show
and you can just adjust it. This is why it is good to
keep your base shapes in a working file so
you can get back to it as many times as you want. I don't like this single leaf to be here like this alone, I want to mirror it. One way I can do it is
just select "Freehand", and I will duplicate. Then flip horizontal, and I will just place it here, for example, like this and I can
just paint in with white to connect it to the stem. You can also use the
clone tool if you have something you
want to clone. The clone tool works in
a way that you paste there somewhere and for example, where you are painting,
it will clone that shape that you have here. If I paint, I will have
another stem here, etc. It might look good, and it is very useful tool in creating different textures, but I don't need that I just
wanted to show you that the clone tool is pretty cool. Now that you have your base
shapes here in the layers, you might also save this
as PNG if you want to create a brush shape
library for yourself. That is a good idea to keep them also in your library so
that you can revisit them. It is also a good idea to create more versions of
these base shapes. As you create a
different angled images, you might use more angles as well so that you have more
options when creating. But now I'm going to
work only if it is free. Let's move on and
create the brushes. See you in the next
video where I'm going to work with this one, the Silhouette Stamp
Brush that I'm going to use. See you there.
7. The Silhouette Stamp Brush: In this video, we
are going to create the silhouette stamp brush. We have our base shape prepared. What I need now is to go
to the brush library. You can create a new brush set by sliding this library app, so that this plus
sign shows and hit that and name your brush set. I will name it plant brushes. I can click the plus sign here. But first, let me copy this. There are two ways you
can use this base shape. The first one is that you
save it as a PNG or copy it. If you just go to the layer
that you have the shape in, that turned on swipe with
three fingers and hit Copy. Now if you go to
the new brush set, hit the plus sign
and go to shape. Now here you can edit
the shape source. Here's the add it, hit
that and import and paste. This will just paste this image into your brush. I'll hit Done. As you can see, this changed. On to change the
size of the preview, go to drawing pad here
and just increase the preview size so you
can really see this shape. Now as you can see, I'm
dragging this shape along with the line
that I'm creating. This is not exactly what I want. I want this to be a stamp brush. That means that when I click, I have this shape. I can go to stroke path. With stroke path,
you are editing the spacing between
these two shapes. If you increase it,
as you can see, you'll have this separately. You can drag a line like this. One thing that we
need is to have a constant opacity so
that it doesn't change from transparent and opaque. We can set this if we go to
Apple pencil setting here. With the pressure
you have in default, that's the opacity to max
and just decrease that. Now you can see that
all of the shapes that I have here are
the same opacity, so they are fully opaque I
will clear this drawing pad, and I'm going to show
you that if I do this, this shape will just
be in one angle. Placed in one angle, the same angle
throughout a whole line. I want to change that. If I go to shape, I can play with
scatter rotation. I don't want that now. I want to change
this flipping thing. Here are some settings
I can play with. If I toggle randomized, it will change my shape
to random directions. I don't want that. If I click the azimuth,
again, different direction. If I toggle flip x, this is what I want. I will just clear
the drawing pad. This way it will randomly
change it horizontally. If I hit Flip y it will also do this like vertically
and I don't want that. Make sure to have the
flip x like this. If you want to change
the sizing as well, you want smaller
and bigger shapes. You can go to Apple Pencil
and just increase the size. This way you will have smaller
and bigger shapes as well. This looks pretty amazing. I will again clear drawing
paths so that you can see, I will have smaller, bigger based on how I
press my Apple pencil. As you can see, this is not too big and the maximum size of the brush is usually set to 100% by default, I
can change that. I can make it even bigger. So to 300%, starting this will allow me
to create bigger shapes. I can set that
outside of the brush set or brush library as well. Here you have the preview size. I will just hit Done, and the preview size is setting how I am seeing desk brush
in the brush library. I will just decrease
that so that I can really see this brush better. Let's just do a
little recap on what we have done with this brush. I imported the base shape and I want it to
be a stamp brush. I increase the spacing
here in the stroke path. Then in the Apple
pencil I will decrease the opacity and increase the size so that it
varies with size. Then in the shape, I flipped x here so that the shape is not
only onto one direction, but it is flipping around. Let's see what we have done. I will create a new
layer above it all. I will just turn off this shape. I will choose a color, let's say this green, and choose my brush. If I'm just doing this as creating a wonderful
effect, I love it. [NOISE] Can you see that? I
think it looks beautiful. See you in the next video where we are going to
create the grass brush.
8. The Grass Brush: Now let's just work
on the grass brush. Make sure to turn on the base shape layer of
that and select the layer. Again, I'm just going
to copy the base shape. I will go back to
the Brush Library and create a new brush. Again, I will go to Shape, Edit, Import and just paste
this base shape here. As you can see, it
automatically became grayscale, even though we had the base shape in a little
bit of awhile it's done. I will hit "Done"
and I can again increase the preview size to
see what I am doing here. Now as you can see the
size a little bit off. What I want to do with
the shape is to scatter. Scatter will randomize the
shape as how is it placed around this line that I'm drawing and also rotation
to follow stroke. This random placement will follow the stroke
that I'm making. I will clear the drawing
pad and now let's think about what we
want with this brush. I'm totally okay with having this opacity with the
pressure sensitivity, but I also want to
increase the size, so I will go to Apple Pencil
and add size as well. This way, if I am pressing less, I will create smaller grass
and as I'm increasing, I will create a bigger one. I will clear it again. Basically that's it what
I wanted for the grass, we will play with color
dynamics just in second, let's just see what
we have created here. I will again go to this
new layer and turn off this base shape and
just choose a green. If I'm doing this, I have wonderful
grass shape here. This is grass,
[LAUGHTER] looks fine. It's randomized, it has these different
directions in the stamp, but we have some
incredible settings in the brush studio that
will help us with something. Let me just show you. I will go here and again
play with two properties. I can increase the brush
maximum size a bit. I will go for a
250 approximately and just decrease the
preview size and hit "Done". If I go to Color dynamics, you can find settings
like stamp color jitter, stroke color jitter, etc. We are going to play with
the stamp color jitter. If I set lightness up, it will play with
the selected hue and place it into a stamp
in a various lightness. I will just hit "Done"
and show you what I mean. I have selected this dark green, and now if I do this, I have various stamps. Can you see that? I think
this is super cool. It has getting a lighter hue of the color that I've chosen
and it created this various shades and variety within the grass
that I have just painted and it looks super cool. This is one thing that we
can do with this brush. Let's just try out another one. I will just decrease this, but I have the
secondary color here. If I put secondary color
up and hit "Done", if I go to the color palettes, as you can see, I can
choose two colors up here. If I select another
color and let that be a little bit yellowish green, and I do that, I can control a little bit more what kind the
other color will be. It will not just make the
selected hue lighter, but I can combine different hues and
not just go lighter, but if I choose for example, darker one, I can have a
little bit darker version. This is what I'm
going to go with, so let's just do again
a little recap on how we created this grass brush. We put the base shape here, increased scatter and a
rotation to follow strokes, so we have this variety
within the shape itself. Within the upper pencil, we increased the size so
that we have a variety. In the size, we kept the opacity there. In the properties we increased the maximum size and
decreased the preview size, and in color dynamics, we added a secondary color. Now we can create a wonderful grass with our
brush. What do you say? I think it looks pretty amazing and it allows us
to do so many things. I hope you like this. See you in the next video
where we're going to create a foliage brush and we
will be almost done.
9. The Foliage Brush: Let's move on to the third brush and just turn on this one. I will turn off the
layer of the testing. I have my base shape. I will select it, free finger slide, and copy the base shape. I will go back to
the Brush Library and create a new brush. Shape, Edit, Import, and Paste, and I have the base shape here. I will hit "Done". Done. As you can see, now that I'm dragging it, I will need to increase
the spacing again. I will go to Stroke Path
and I will increase the spacing so that I
have a little bit less. I will increase the
previous size and clear the drawing pad so that
I can see what I'm doing. Now I will go to Stroke Path and increase
jitter a little bit. What jitter does is that it
places the base shape into different distances from
the line that I'm drawing. As you can see here I
have a simple line. Now we're just going
to drawing pad. If I increase jitter I
can turn around randomly, but I can just do just
a little bit of jitter. Let's say 50% approximately.
It looks good. Then I will go to Shape and I will increase only the
rotation to follow stroke. I will go back to Spacing and just decrease
the spacing a little bit, maybe to 36%, so that I can see through
what I'm painting but still creates a solid
thing for my foliage. I will go to Apple
Pencil and again, increase the size so that I have variety within the size
that I'm creating. I will keep the opacity. Again, I will go to Properties, decrease the Preview Size, and increase the Maximum Size
to maybe 250%. Hit "Done". I will decrease the
preview size again. Done. Let's just try this. I will turn this off, create a new layer, and voila, I have a foliage. I will add color dynamics
to this as well. But I will just go now with the lightness and I will just increase a little bit
of lightness, let's say 30%. I'll hit "Done". Let's see. Wonderful. Can you see that? Maybe I can increase that
lightness a little bit. For this foliage, I think this is beautiful. Wow, I love this so much. If I choose a darker
color, what does it do? Wonderful. I can play with that. Let's again do a little recap on what we have done
with this brush. I just put the base shape
to this as a shape source. Then in the Stroke Path, I'll edit a little bit of
spacing so that I can see through the base shapes but
still create something solid. So it is not a stamp brush, a little bit closer. I added a little
bit of jitter to add a little variety of the
placement of the shape. At the shape I added a
rotation follow stroke. Again, I edited the
maximum size and the preview size and
in the Apple Pencil, I increased the pressure
sensitivity of the size as well. In the Color Dynamics, I added a little bit of stamp
color jitter and I added a little lightness to it and I created this wonderful brush. It was easy peasy. [LAUGHTER] In the next video, we are going to test and refine our brushes
a little bit more. Then we are going to move
on to the illustration. But let's just make these
brushes really work for us. I'll see you in the next video.
10. Test and Refine: In this video we
are going to test and refine our brushes. What I'm going to
do is to delete all these extra layers and
just try them all out. I will create a new layer. I will just quickly try
to use these brushes. I will choose the brush
of the grass at first, and I will just place a little
bit of grass down here. I will choose a
lighter color, maybe. Go for this, looks nice. I will add then this
base shape of mine, let's say with even lighter
here and there into it. This will look a
little color thick, but I want to see how these
brushes work. Pretty cool. I will decrease the size
to see how it works. Incredible. You can
test the opacity of it just to see how these brushes work
with different settings. What if I decrease the opacity? Wonderful. This is really
chaotic scene but whatever, and then I will choose a foliage brush and let's say
we have a tree up here so I will choose a darker
version of the color and just place a little
foliage around. It is already a cute scene. [LAUGHTER] What do you say? Well, it looks amazing. I think all brushes
work pretty well. But what I wanted
here to tell you basically is to try
your brushes out in relation to each
other so that you really use them
together as a set, not just an individual brush. Maybe you want to
start these sizes, et cetera, and see how
that works for you. What I wanted to do at this last refining part
is to naming the brushes. If you enter the brush studio, if you go to About the brush, you can name your brush, and I will name this silhouette stamp brush. You can add your logo here. If you click, you
can add a photo from your camera or your photos. I will not do that now. You can write your name here, and you can sign it. Now, what does this mean, this Create new reset point? It basically saves
your settings. If you want to experiment
with your brushes later, you can just then go back and reset the brush to the
settings that you have now. I will just hit "Create a
reset point" and save it. When I change
something, for example, I will change this
silhouette, et cetera, go back to About this brush
and just hit "Reset brush", reset and it will go
back to the settings that I have saved at it as. You can always create
a new reset point. I will hit "Done" and basically
do it with all the other. How to share and organize your brushes is our last
point of this video. If you swipe a brush, you can share it. It will save as a dot brush file that can be
opened only in Procreate. You can duplicate this brush. You can share, you can add, drop it to save to files or post it or share with
others so that's one thing. What I wanted hear that
here is the brush set. I always organize my
brushes into brush sets. That way I always know
what to look for. I'm creating a lot of brushes, so it really helps me to find
the brushes that I'm using. Here is a good
category the recent. It goes back to the recent brushes that
you have just used. If you're working from
different brush sets, it is totally good because it will help you to quickly
change between brushes. But what I wanted to
show you is to if you want to share a full brush set, you click on the "Brush set" and you can rename,
delete or share. This way, it will share
the whole brush set, so all of the brushes that
are within that brush set. That's what I
wanted to tell you. Now let us move on to the
illustration part and create the beautiful
scenery. See you there.
11. The Scenery: Welcome to the
illustration part. This is going to be so exciting. In this video, we are going
to discuss the scenery, the canvas settings,
the composition, and the color palette. The first thing is the canvas, so as you can see I, again, created a square-sized canvas because I'm illustrating
for Instagram. But you are totally free to do whatever size or dimension
that you prefer. But keep in mind that the composition that
I'm going to just introduce you to here will fit the best the
square-sized canvas. Let's talk about
the composition. We are going to do a really simple composition
for the scenery because our main goal now is to use the brushes in action and see
what we can do with them. We're going to work with the
simplest composition rule, the rule of thirds, which means that if
you divide your canvas into thirds, vertically
and horizontally, you will get a points of interest where
they are crossing, and creating compositions
with them in mind will just help you to create a harmonious
composition or artwork. You can draw your
guides if you wish, but there is a wonderful tool in Procreate that we can use. Now, go to the Wrench button, go to Canvas, and hit Drawing Guide. Then this checked background
will just open up, but we need just nine squares. Hit Edit Drawing Guide, and you can see a
dot in the middle. Please place it to the corner. This way, this checked
guide will fit better and you can increase
the grid size here, as you can see. Now, make sure that it
is three squares big. If you fit that, for me, it is at 688 pixels. You don't need to be
100% perfect with this. Now, I have a guide. You can up here change
the color of this guide, but I will keep it at black
so that I can see it. Hit "Done" and you have a guide here for
the rule of thirds. Now, I'm going to create
a really rough sketch of the placement of the
elements that we are going to have in this scene. I will create a new layer. I will choose black, and I will go to the sketching pencil set
that comes with Procreate, and then, there we will have the 6B pencil that
I'm going to use now. First thing we need to
set is the horizon line, and placing it to the lower third will bring
to scene closer to us. Here at these lower third, we will have the grass. I will just place it till this part because we
will have a tree here. We will have a tree. I don't want to take
a whole 1/3 with this tree trunk
because it will take too much from the image, so approximately at half, there will be this
tree trunk with the roots coming approximately to the middle of the image. This is going to be our tree. As you can see, I
kept this upper third empty because there will be
the branches of the tree. I can go to this line,
the first third, there is from where
the branches will come out or be there. This is just a rough
sketch of the tree, so don't worry about it. Up here, we will
have the foliage. Here is the tree,
you can just draw some fun things from it like branches and stuff like that, you can add animals later on. We have the grass,
we have the tree, and this is going to
be our background. In the background, we
will have shadows of trees in the background, so I will just roughly
draw them there. As you can see, everything
is in this side, so it focuses here. I thought that there
should be a bush here to create a little bit
of balance in the image. Let's do a little
recap on the sketch. We have the horizon line
in the lower third, at the middle our
roots come out, at approximately half
or a little bit bigger, there is the tree trunk. Then in the upper third, we will have to foliage
and the branches, at the background,
we will have trees, and here will be a bush. We have now a
really rough sketch and what we need is
a color palette. Now, I will use this color
palette I have created here, I will include it
in the resources. But let me just help you with
the colors a little bit. There is a rule that we want
to keep that things that are further away are a little bit colder and the things that are in the focus and closer
to us are warmer. I thought that we would use greenery at the front
and a little bit colder bluish tones at the
background for these trees, and I also want a little
bit of a yellow where the sun hits the trees
and the foliage, etc. because it will just look good. I have chosen here five colors, a dark blue, a little bit lighter blue, a mid-tone green,
a yellowish green, and an almost yellow color, or it is actually like yellow but a little bit
like greenish yellow. These are just five,
but in the process, I can choose other
colors to fit my needs. This is just a base. What you can notice about
this color palette is that it goes from dark to light
with different hues, but to keep your image readable, you will need to have dark
colors and light colors. It is good if you create
just a scale of these five, whatever hues you choose, so there should be a
light, a mid-tone, and a dark color and something
within to fill the spaces. I'm so excited. Let's move on to the next
video where we are going to start and create the
ground. See you there.
12. Creating The Grass: Let's just start with the
ground and the grass. I will lower the
opacity of the sketch, and create a new layer below it. This is the first step. Now I will go back
to my plant brushes, and choose my grass brush. Now, remember, the grass
brush uses two colors. Go to the color palette, and up here you can see
which colors are selected. I will need for the grass, this darker green, and this lighter green. Let's see what it does. [LAUGHTER] It looks
pretty amazing. Now, once you need
to remember as well, is that things that
are further away are a little smaller than things
that are closer to us. If I place my hand this close to the camera,
it looks giant, big, and if it is like here, it looks like smaller. This is why we needed to make the brush pressure
sensitive with the size. If you don't push that hard
the grass will be smaller, if you push hard the
grass will be bigger. We will try to create space
with this within the artwork. I will lower the
opacity of this sketch, again, so that I can see
better what I'm doing. At the horizon line, try to draw smaller grass. I will make this even smaller. Smaller grass at the back, and as you come closer, you will just push a
little bit harder. Don't worry if you leave
out some white spaces, we can feel them later. It is good to do
this in one line, so that you just keep track of the size that
you have created. As you can see, I can
just add this here, and we already have a beautiful grass with a
variety of colors here. Just below it it looks amazing. That's about the grass. Let's move on to the
next video where we're going to add the trees.
13. Creating The Trees: In this video, we're going
to add the tree that is here and also the background trees. Now, what will you need for this tree is a brush
that is solid. I will include my clean shaper
brush from my brush set, the art Monroe's
ultimate brush set. Here is the clean shaper. You can learn how to create this brush in my other class, Check it out, but you can't
find it in the resources. Now what color the tree will be? You can go for a more
a mystical scenery where the tree is like blue
or purple or whatever. I will go for the
traditional tree, and I haven't chosen brown hair. This is why I told you
need to be flexible. Here is a dark brown and I will add it just here so that you have
this color as well. Create a new layer for the tree. I will start with the branches. This brush is also
pressure sensitive, so if you don't push that hard, it is thinner and
then if you push, it becomes this thick. I will just start
with the branches. I can make them
bigger later as well. I just try to, here is the root. I will add the branch here. Maybe one here, and
maybe one here. I can spend time on
defining this tree. Maybe you noticed that I've
chosen a darker color, mainly because things that are so close to us look pretty dark. Maybe I will even go darker. I will just place this
here and do this. I will select layer, and again select and
fill layer and I will get more dark tree. I have a style of illustrating trees so I am going to paint just this tree texture onto it with the
sketching pencil again. I will go back to sketching the 6B pencil and maybe choose this lighter
brown that I had before and just go through
these branches and add some textures like this
to the tree, like this. It will be not that noticeable. But it will add so much to
the whole illustration. You can shade your tree and
add more details if you wish. Maybe I will add this very
dark brown and just add this dark hole into the tree and I can spend so much time
on creating details, but I don't want to right now. Let's just do the
background trees now. I will create a layer
below the grass, and I will choose a
background color. I will go to
background and choose maybe a little lighter blue. On this layer, I will go to the recent and I
will keep to clean shaper, and with this a darker blue, I will just draw this
tree silhouettes here. Don't worry, I know that it looks a little bit chaotic now. [LAUGHTER] But what
I'm going to do is to go to adjustments and Gaussian blur and
I will just blur these trees to the background. Also, don't worry, this
will look gray because we will have foliage up here. I will create another layer
and just go a little lighter. Or maybe just choose
this simple dark blue and keep the clean shaper
and just do another layer. I will just do some more
trees as if behind this. I will just place it behind my desk and I will
Gaussian blur it down as well. Maybe a little bit more
so there are behind. Can you see that space there? [LAUGHTER] Looks so much fun. See you in the next
video where we're going to add the foliage.
14. Adding The Foliage: All right, so let's
just do the foliage. I will create a layer
behind the tree, and choose this dark green. Now I can go to my
plant brushes and the foliage brush and add foliage to this
tree like this, with this darker color. It already has some variation, but I will add even more. So I will choose this lighter green and create
a layer above the tree. I will make this a
little bit smaller. This will add foliage
over these branches, but still can be seen through, and on top of that, I will add one layer of yellow branches and it
will add light to it. Looks so fun. What I thought is
that I will create the bush with the same method. So I will create a new layer and just do the same
with this shape. Wonderful [LAUGHTER]
It looks so good. So that's about the foliage. What we have left out is
the silhouette stamp brush. I will choose this
really dark blue, create a layer above it all, and to the front, I will just add this stamp here. [NOISE] So we will have
this front silhouettes. It looks cool. Let's make this scene even cooler in the next
video. So see you there.
15. Make It Cool: We're going to make
this cool with some rays of light,
and long details. I will create another
layer behind the tree, and about the grass. I will choose yellow. I will go to the
painting brush star that comes with Procreate, and we have the round
brush here, choose that. This brush is pretty
good for painting light. Make sure that it is set
to at least 30% opacity. Just draw rays of light
with the same direction. Let's say the sun is
coming from here, and you can just hold down
to make them more straight, and you can just add
these light things here, maybe this bush is lit
as well, like this. Go to Gaussian blur, and blur it a bit. Amazing. Now, I will just
add some glowing details, so I will go to luminance, we have the light pan, and you can just add these glowing things into
these rays of light. Cool. What we can do is to create a value check layer if you
want to adjust things, so that our image
is really readable. I will create a top layer, and fill it with gray. Go to the N button, and go to color. See if my image is readable. I think that maybe the
background is too light, so what I can do
about it is to go to this background color and maybe do it a little bit darker. You can even play with
the hue if you wish, you can create
different effects. It is so good to just
play with the colors. I will keep it dark
blue like this. Let's check the values
again. It is more readable. You can see the rays
of light even better. Maybe the bush is a
little bit too light, so I can just click on the bush, go to Adjustments, Hue, Saturation, Brightness, and just make it a little
bit darker, or even lighter. It looks good to me. I know it is a
very simple scene, but it is totally up to you what you do with
these instructions, and how much time you put
into this a little, Siri. I didn't want to
over-complicate it. You can see that you can
do the exact same thing in different colors to
create different moods, so it is totally
up to you how you solve this class project. I hope that you liked it, and that it was fun to create
these brushes from plants, and that now you are ready
to think outside the box, and just see the possibilities
around you what you can create brushes from because
you can literally create brushes from everything
[LAUGHTER], or anything. I hope you liked it. See you in the next
video where we're going to wrap it all up.
16. Final Thoughts: Congratulations, you
have finished the class. I'm so proud of you. I hope that you enjoy
the process and that you are satisfied
with your brushes. I'm sure that you
can be proud of your little
illustration as well. Make sure to upload
your project into the project gallery
below so that we can see them and also, again, I want to invite
you to like and comment on the projects of your peers as well to give some
extra feedback. Also if you like the class, please make sure
to leave a review. It is really important to me to know what you think
about the class. If you want to stay up-to-date, follow me on social media, on Instagram and Facebook and most importantly here
on Skillshare so that you get updates about the latest classes and
challenges and announcements. It was such a pleasure
to have you here. I hope to see you in my
other classes as well. I hope that you get obsessed with Procreate brush creation as well and that we can experiment together
in the future. I wish you all the best
and happy creating.