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Modern Brushcraft - Create Procreate Brushes Using Plants

teacher avatar The Artmother, Professional Art Teacher and Artist

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      2:21

    • 2.

      The Class Project

      3:02

    • 3.

      How Procreate Brushes Work

      4:15

    • 4.

      Find Your Plants

      7:52

    • 5.

      Capture Your Plants

      4:34

    • 6.

      Prepare Your Images

      10:26

    • 7.

      The Silhouette Stamp Brush

      6:32

    • 8.

      The Grass Brush

      5:38

    • 9.

      The Foliage Brush

      4:37

    • 10.

      Test and Refine

      5:13

    • 11.

      The Scenery

      7:21

    • 12.

      Creating The Grass

      2:27

    • 13.

      Creating The Trees

      5:32

    • 14.

      Adding The Foliage

      2:05

    • 15.

      Make It Cool

      4:14

    • 16.

      Final Thoughts

      1:32

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About This Class

In this class, you'll learn how to create beautiful and professional-grade brushes for use in the popular digital art software, Procreate. 

During the class, you will learn how to use botanical elements such as leaves, flowers, and other natural elements to create unique and versatile brushes. We will start with a basic overview of the Procreate software and its brush-making tools and techniques.

Next, we will dive into the process of creating 3 custom brushes from scratch - a plant silhouette stamp brush, a grass brush and a brush for foliage. You will learn how to use various settings to create a brush that meets your specific needs. We will cover important concepts like pressure sensitivity and explore color dynamics to ensure that your brushes give you a joyful experience when using them.

Whether you're a seasoned artist or just starting out, this class will provide you with the skills and knowledge needed to take your digital art to the next level.

You will only need your iPad, Procreate, a little working knowledge of the program and a bit of a motivation.

By the end of the class, you will have a solid understanding of brush-making in Procreate, will be able to think outside the box and create your own unique brushes to use in your digital art projects.

So, are you ready to join me? See you inside the class!

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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.