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1. Introduction to Making Layered Pattern Brushes in Procreate - A Procreate for Lunch™ class: Hello and welcome to this course, create multicolored layered pattern brushes in Procreate 5X. This is of course, a Procreate for Lunch? class. My name's Helen Bradley and I'm a Skillshare top teacher. I have over 250 courses on Skillshare and over a 125,000 student enrollments. In this class, we'll be creating layered pattern brushes that let you paint objects in multiple colors in Procreate 5X. Now, you could use these brushes for your own art, you could sell them, and you can share them on social media. In the class, you'll learn to create layered designs and turn them first into seamless repeating patterns, and then take those patterns to make procreate brushes from them. These brushes will let you paint objects in multiple colors inside Procreate. Now, there is so much packed into this course. By the time you've completed it, you will have new pattern making skills, you'll have some brush making skills, and you'll be ready to design custom brushes just like these all on your own. Without further ado, let's get started.
2. Pt 2 How the Multi Layer Pattern Brushes Work: Before we investigate how we're going to actually make these multi-colored pattern brushes. Let's have a look and see how they work in practice. I've got a set of brushes, they're all here in Helen's Layered. I'm going to just look at the donut ones. I'm going to start by putting down the donut itself. I am going to select some brown for the donut. I've got a nice large brush here, and I'm just going to paint down the donut. Now, the donut itself is a standalone pattern brush. You could actually use this as just a design, but of course, it was designed to be a donut. Let's go and get some color for the icing. I'm going to use this brush here, Donut1 Icing. Now when I lay down the icing, you'll see that it's going over the top of the donut. This is one of the critical things that we need to do in designing these brushes is to make sure that everything lines up perfectly because it is no good if your icing and your donut itself are not flared on top of each other if the icing was set aside, for example, from the donut. Just going to finish up here, I don't need to go any further. Let's go and add some sprinkle. I'm going to add some blue sprinkles. Let's go back to our brushes. Here's Donut1 Sprinkles1. Now, this sprinkles are just a few of the sprinkles that actually appear on the donut. Let me just paint those onto a few of those, and let's go and get a different color for this second set of sprinkles. Let's go and get a darker red. Go back to our brushes. Here's the second set of sprinkles. I'll go ahead and just brush those after the donut. You'll see that the pattern brushes themselves are made up of multiple brushes. We not only have to get the brushes so that they're going to paint on the single color that we want. But we also have to make sure that they're going to stack correctly. Because if you're going to give away or sell these, obviously, they need to function. So that's the basis of what the brushes themselves are going to look like. It's time now to go and make ourselves our own donut brush.
3. Pt 3 Create the Donut Pattern Design: The starting point for our brush is going to be the same starting point as we would have for any brush design, and that's going to be a square document and it's going to be 2048 by 2048 or smaller. Any larger and you can't make it a brush. The first layer of our brush is going to be the donut itself. I'm going to select black, and you want to make sure that you are working with black, which is going to be RGB. All of those values should be zero. I'm going to select a brush to use. In the new calligraphy set, inside procreate is a monoline brush. That's just a really handy brush to use. Mine's got streamline turned on. It doesn't really matter at this stage too much whether you have streamline turned on or off. I'm going to draw out my donut, which is just going to be a circle. Let's draw out a circle. Go to edit shape, select ''Circle'', and position it roughly central in the document. I'm going to drag my black in here and I'm going to just fill the shape with black. Now the donut's going to need a hole in the middle. We need to go and make a hole. For this, I'm going to select just a different color. This is going to be disposed off later on. I'm not too worried about what color I'm using. I'll go back and add a brand new layer and I'm going to draw a donut hole here. Again, it's going to be a circle and I'm going to position it in the middle of my donut. If I want it to be smaller, I can just tap and drag on the edge of it. I'm pretty happy with that. I'll just fill that with color. Then we'll go back to that layer, select that layer, and then go back down to this layer and just tap ''Clear''. What that does is it makes this size hole in that layer. Of course we don't need a hole any longer, so I'm just going to delete that. We now have the donut with the hole. At this point, it's critical that you take care because what we want is everything on separate layers. We want the donut on a layer, we want the icing on a layer, and then we want two layers of sprinkles, which means we need a new layer. Let's come to the layers here. Let's tap on the plus sign. Now, I would like to see where my donut is. But I also want my icing layer to be in black because ultimately that's going to make the best brush. What I'm going to do is I'm going to tap on the ''End'' button here for the donut and just make it gray. That's only temporary at this stage. Let's go back and target layer 2, let's go back and get black. Now I'm going to draw the icing for my donut. All I'm going to do is draw wiggly line around my donut. Now I don't have to join it up perfectly. This is what I'm going to do is just drag and drop color into it. That's the shape of my icing. At this stage, if you want to make some adjustments to your icing, feel free to go and do that. You could smooth off some edges. Just paint some bits in. I'm not going to be too fast about this. I just want to get through showing you how you're going to do this. Let's go back to this layer here. I'm just going to turn this one off. What I need to do is to select this hole to punch it out of the icing. With this layer targeted, I'm going to the selection option. I'm going to tap on automatic here and I'm going to tap on the hole. Now I have the donut hole selected. Let's go back to our layers. Let's go back to the icing. We've got the hole selected. So if I want to get rid of the hole from the icing, I'm just going to tap ''Clear''. Now the hole in the doughnut and the hole in the icing are lined up perfectly. Again because I want to be able to see where my sprinkles are, let's go back and let's just turn down the opacity on the icing. It's going to make things a lot easier. Let's tap the plus sign here to add a brand new layer. Now I need some sprinkles. For this, I'm just using the monoline brush, but I'm going to want to make sure that the size of it is going to work. I'd like bigger sprinkles. I'm just going to draw them, press and hold until they're made into straight lines. This is the first layer of sprinkles. They are going to be two layers because that will give us potentially two different colors of sprinkles on our donut. Once you've done the first layer, go to the layers palette here, tap the plus sign, and we're going to do the second layer. At this stage, we don't have to change the color of the first set of sprinkles simply because we're still able to see where they're going. At this point, you've done all the drawing work that you need to create a pattern brush from these objects.
4. Pt 4 Create the Donut Pattern Swatch: Now that we've got all the bits and pieces that we need for the donut, obviously the donut is really big. Inside this document, it's way too big to make our pattern out of. But I'd just like to make my designs big to start off because it's easy enough to make smaller later on. Let's go to the layers, and what I'm going to do is just drag across so that all of these layers are selected. Now when I go to the transform tool, I can just tap on that and now we can make this smaller. I've got uniform turned on, so I'm just going to drag to make this a smaller circle, and I'm going to position it in the middle of this document. Now, I'm getting the middle by making sure that the snapping is set to snapping. Magnetics can be a little bit annoying at this stage, so I wouldn't turn that on at all. I would just have snapping turned on, I would make distance max and velocity somewhere in the middle, and that makes it easy enough to just snap this shape into the center of the document. Now, at this point we're looking to see if we are going to be able to fit another donut wall, coat of a donut in each of these corners. I think it's going to be perhaps a little bit tight, I'm just going to bring my donut down in size just a little bit. Now I can tap on one of these little blue dots, to get this little selector up and just make sure that it is still circular. You want the width and height to be the same and they are the same, so we're good there. There's my first donut, now I need to put this donut, a quarter of it in each of these corners. Now, if it this going to be a pattern brush, you want to make sure that it's dead right, so this is what I suggest you do. The first thing is we're going to put all of these objects in a group. I'm just going to tap here on group, and then I'm going to make four more copies of this. We have five in total. The bottom one is going to be the one in the middle, and the others are going to the four corners. Don't worry that you can't see anything right now, that's just fine. We're also going to tap the plus sign and I'm going to fill this layer with a color. Doesn't matter what color it is, I'm going to use orange. Then I'm going back to this layer, I'm going to tap on the end button, and I'm going to bring the opacity down to about halfway. Again, this is not rocket science just something so that you can see what's underneath. Now, we're going to make three more copies of this. We're going to use this opacity just to make sure that everything lines up, because if it's out by a pixel it's going to affect your brush, and I'm concerned that if you're making these brushes to give away or to sell they need to be perfect. Back to the last palette, the bottom-most one of this group is going to be the one in the middle. For now we can just turn that off, we don't even need to see it. The other four need to go into the various corners of the document, you just need to set yourself up with a system for this. What I'm going to do is select the second to bottom layer which is the first of these four that needs to go into the corners, and then I'll just select the first of these orange layers. Now, I've got these two paces selected. I'll go back to the Transform tool and I'm going to move this to the top corner. I'm looking for this snap, but I want these dots here to be right on the mark. If they're out by a pixel, it's not going to work. Again, this is really critical, so I'm making sure that I'm just using snapping not using magnetics, and that I've got the settings as they were previously. Now, if this is not perfect we're going to be advised of that. We're going to see an indication that's not perfect, then we can go back and fix it. I'm pretty happy with that for now. Let's go and get the next one. Well, that's going to be this layer here and the second one of these. Go back to the transformed tool. This time we're going to that top corner. Looking to snap it in place. Let's tap the Transform tool again. Now, at this point if there is a problem, it's going to be in this line, really obviously and it will be that you'll see a space, a very sparse small space telling you that you've moved one pixel in the wrong direction, or you might see a darker line which means that this shape is on top of the other ones slightly. If that's the case, just unwind it, stop and go back and start all over again, because any doubling up of these oranges it makes a darker little line through your document, or any movement of the orange sorts not lined up perfectly against the other one is an indication that your design is out by one or more pixels. The other place that you might see an issue is if these lines are not equal. If you don't see a smooth line across here. If you just zoom in, I can actually see here that my line is not smooth. You can say that it's got a little step in it. Well, that's telling me that something is wrong. Let's go back and try that again. This time I don't have a bump in that center line, that's telling me that probably the, problem last time was this paste that went into this corner. Let's keep going. The next one from the bottom and then this one here, these are going to this bottom corner, smacking short snapping into place, and then go back and check the problem that's going to be visible. If there's any problem is going to be along this line here. There is no a problem, I'm not seeing a lighter area or a very much darker line through it, so everything looks just fine. Now let's do the last one. That's going to be this layer here and this one here, and they're going to the bottom right. Just make sure they're in place, you can see this is outside, so that's not going to work. It's out again, I think possibly that this one is out. Let's go and work on the second to last set, and then the last set. If everything is looking correct, if you don't have any light lines or any dark lines, then it's probably going to be just fine. At this point, you can get rid of the oranges. I can get rid of all of these. I can turn on my middle shape as well. At this point it is possible to test your pattern and I'll show you how to do it in the next video.
5. Pt 5 Test the Pattern Swatch: If you want to test your pattern to prove to yourself that it's going to work, go to the gear icon here, go to Add and tap Copy Canvas. Then you'll go and add a brand new layer and go to Paste. You'll paste that object, the copy of the Canvas into this top most layer. At this point I would just press and hold that plus sign, because what you want to do is turn off all the other layers so that the only layer you're seeing is this top most one. Now let's go and tap on one of the dots at the corner. The document was 2,048 pixels by 2,048 pixels. If we want to test our pattern, we're going to reduce this to half of its original width and half of its original height, which is 1,024. Because this little icon here is selected, it's automatically going to be made a square. Now I have a square that is a quarter of the size of the document, and it's placed in the corner. I'm just going to leave it there, that's perfect. Let's go and make three more copies. This we're going to move into the opposite corners. Now at this point, having magnetics turned on might work to your advantage. Let me just reset that and let's move that across. Magnetics may make it easier for you to move perfectly horizontally. When you line these places up to the edges of the document, you should see that you don't have any stepping lines around your donut and thus is working just perfectly. I've got some more pieces here to move this one here. I'm going to move it perfectly downwards and just snap it into position. Again, it's lining up perfectly. There's one more piece here that can come down into this bottom corner. There it is, it's perfect. That's proving to me that my pattern is working just fine. I don't need this and I don't want it at this stage, but what I did want to do is to prove that my pattern is going to work before I go to all the trouble of making it into brushes because the next step is to make it into the brushes that we need to be able to use this as a design.
6. Pt 6 Organize the Elements Ready to Make the Brushes: I've gone ahead and removed the layers that I used to prove that my pattern works. My next step is to make this design here into the various elements that we need for the brushes. For that, we're going to spend some time in the layers palette. Every one of these pieces of a donut is a group. But in actual fact from now on, we don't want to be dealing with things as quarter of a donut or a whole donut. What we want to be dealing with is all of the sprinkle pieces and all the icing pieces. We're going to open up this panel. Now, it might have been easier had I named things before I did this and certainly I think that that would be something I would recommend, but I'm going to be mindful that layer 4 are all one piece of the donut. Layer 3 is a different piece, layer 2 is the icing, layer 1 is going to be the donut itself, and that's going to be consistent all the way through here. It's just that you need to remember that you're working with layers not with named pieces. Let's pull layer 4 out. I'm just going to tap and drag it above everything. Let's go and get it from this group. I'm going to drop this one on top. Let's go and get layer 4 from this group. We should end up with five pieces that are layer 4. Drag it to the top. Drop it in here. Make sure you don't drop it on top of another piece because that's going to make a group within a group and that's just messy. This is the one for the middle donut. That didn't go in. This is one layer of sprinkles. I'll call it sprinkles 1. I can close this up because I don't need to do anything more with it. Layer 3 is sprinkles 2. Let's go and drag it above everything. Let's go and get the next layer 3, and I'm going to drop it on top of this one to make a new group. Then I'll go and get this layer 3. Now we've already got our groups so I'm just dropping my layers into that group. Here's another layer 3, we should end up with five of them in this group. We need the last one, which has a lot more sprinkles in it because it's a whole donut not one of these corner pieces. Second layer of sprinkles. Now we need to pull out our icing and we may as well just reuse one of the groups that we've already got. Let's put this layer 2 in here. This layer 2 in here. This layer 2 in here, and this one. The layer 1 we don't need in with the icing because it's not part of the icing, so let's put it up and put it in with what's now going to be the group of objects that all comprise layer 1. These are not going in the right place so let's just make sure that they do go in the right place. Now we have three groups at the bottom that we don't need, so I'm just going to delete those. This is the donut group, five pieces in it. This is the icing group, and its got five pieces in it too. We're almost ready to go ahead and to make our brushes, but right now all the colors are wrong. All of these layers should be black. Let's go back to our layers, let's go back to the sprinkles. We're going to make sure that every one of these layers when we tap on it and look at its opacity make sure it's at maximum opacity. Well, we don't actually need to do that for sprinkles 2 and sprinkles 1, because they were painted on at full opacity. It's the icing on the donut that we need to be aware of. All of these are at a load opacity. Now as you do this, everything's just going to get black, and that's fine. That's exactly as it should be. All the icing is now black. Let's go and make all the donuts black. Now we've done all the preparation work that we need to do to be able to make these into the brushes that we need, and we're going to do that in the next video.
7. Pt 7 Make the Donut Brushes: We're now ready to make our brushes. I'm going to the layers palette, and what I'm going to do is turn off everything except the donut layer, because this is going to be our donut brush. I'll go to the Actions menu, go to Add, and go to Copy Canvas. We're now ready to make our brushes. I'm going to tap on the brush tool. Let's make a new library group for them. I'll tap here on the plus, and I'll just call this Donuts. I'll tap the plus symbol. Now the way that these brushes are setup, what we have just taken a photograph of is going to be the brush grain. Let's go to the Grain. Let's tap on Edit, let's tap on Import, and tap on Paste. This is your donut. The trouble is that the donut is the wrong way round. We need to invert it. Use two fingers and just tap on it to invert it. When you're looking at grain on brushes, the white area is the bit that's going to paint. I'll tap Done. There are a couple of things that we need to set on this brush before we go any further. One is turning off Offset Jitter. We want the brush to be laid down in exactly the same place every time we use it. Turning Offset Jitter off, we'll make sure that the brush doesn't move if we use multiple strokes to put it down on the surface. The other thing you'll notice is that it paints really light when the Apple pencil isn't pressed hard, and it paints very dark when I press down the Apple pencil. It would look better if this brush went down at the same opacity every time, so go to the Apple Pencil, and drag down on opacity until it is none. That will just make sure that it paints in a consistent opacity. The opacity setting will be set by the settings on the side of your Procreate screen, not by the Apple pencil. One word of warning here. If you're going to change the scale on any of these brushes, you have to change the scale on every single one of them to the exact same amount. Otherwise, it's not going to work. A scale has to maintain its consistency across all the brushes that go to make up this particular donut. Let's just do that. Let's just change that. Let's say that we want it to be a really big pattern. So I'm going to type 50 percent. This brush is going to be a really, really big donut. It's going to be huge. I'm done with that, but it will really help if I name this brush, so let's go to About this brush, let's go to Untitled Brush, and let's call this, I like to number my brushes, so this is Donut1, and the part of the brush that this is is the actual donut. It's Donut1 Donut. We're finished with the donut itself, so let's turn it off and let's turn the Icing on. We'll go and make a copy of the screen. We'll go to the Brush, we'll tap the plus sign here, we'll go to Grain, we'll go to Edit, Import, Paste. We need to invert this, so tap with your fingers on it. White will paint, black will not. In the grain behavior area, we have to do two things. Because we changed the size of the donut itself, then we need to change the size of the icing, it needs to be the exact same 50 percent. We also need to turn Offset Jitter off, so that the Icing will always go down in the correct place, which is on top of the donut. We'll go to Apple Pencil, and we're going to remove the opacity setting. There is our icing. Let's go to the first set of sprinkles, same thing. Tap on the Actions, Add, Copy Canvas, go to the brushes, tap the plus sign. Go to Grain, Edit, Import, Paste, tap with two fingers to invert it, tap Done. This needs to be the same 50 percent in size, and the offset jitter needs to be disabled. We also wanted to paint at an even opacity, so we're removing the opacity from the Apple pencil. I forgot to do this last time, so I'll go back and do that in a minute, but let's just name the brush. This is Donut1, and it is Sprinkles1. Let's go back to this one and let's name it Donut1, and this is the Icing. The only other thing we need to do is to go and make the second set of sprinkles. Turn off the Sprinkles1 layer, turn on Sprinkles2. Go on, take a picture of it. Go to the brushes, add a brand new brush, go to Grain, Edit, Import, Paste, tap to invert it because white paints, black does not. Two things we need to do here: we need to set the scale to the exact same scale as we're using for the other bits. Go down here, turn off Offset Jitter off. Go to the Apple Pencil and disable the opacity. Go to About this Brush, and name it. We now have all the pieces that we need for the brush, let see in the next video how it's going to paint.
8. Pt 8 Test the New Donut Brushes: We've got our donut brush already created. Let's go and create a brand new document for this. Let's just tap here and let's do a document that is the size of the screen. I want to lay down my donut first of all, because the way that we design these brush is it has to be painted on in order, so you need to paint the donut, and then the icing, and then the sprinkles. Let's go and get a brown for the donut. Let's go and get the brush for the donut. Now, it doesn't matter what size brush we use and it doesn't matter whether you use your finger or the pencil. This is the size that we have set our donut to, and the way that we've set this up, the size of the doughnut is controlled by the size of the grain, not by the size of the brush, so it's going to paint on identically whether you have a really big brush or a really small brush. There is our donut. Let's go and add some icing. So I'm going to select a pink for the icing. Let's go to the donut icing. This time my brush is a bit smaller, it doesn't matter. You can make it bigger, it still doesn't matter, it's going to paint on in the exact correct position. So we're painting on our icing. Then we have the sprinkles. Let's go and get a dark red for one set of sprinkles. Now you can paint with the Apple pencil or you can paint with your finger. They're all going to work exactly the same and everything's lined up perfectly. So if your fingers skips or your Apple pencil skips, it doesn't matter, you're going to lay down the exact same sprinkle in the exact same place when you try again. Let's go and make some blue sprinkles, and that's going to be Sprinkles2. There is our dominant brush. If you wanted to paint smaller than this, you can do so, you would need to go back into every single one of these brushes. You would need to go to the grain for every single one of them, and you would need to set it to the exact same size. Let's take it down to 35. So there is one of the brushes finished and fixed. Let's go to this one, let's go to Grain, take the scale down to 35. We'll add a new layer. I'm not going to brush on all of these, I'm just going to brush on enough to prove ourselves that it's all working, there's the donut. Here is a 35 percent size piece of donut. Get some pink for the icing. The icing is going in exactly the right place. First set of sprinkles, they're going over the top of the icing and they are scaled down to match the size of the donut. Second set of sprinkles. Again, they're working perfectly. Provided you scaled the grain to the exact same percentage for every one of these brushes that go to make up this colored pattern, then you're good to go.
9. Pt 9 Draw the Cactus Pattern Design: Let's have a look at an example of a slightly more detailed brush. Again, I'm going to create a square document. Again, it's going to be 2048 pixels in size or less. I'm working in black. I'm checking it's zero, zero, zero. I'm going back to my calligraphy brushes and I want to pick up my monoline brush. So I'm just going to double-check and make sure it does have streamlined turned on, that will be a bit helpful. I'm going to draw a cactus, so I'm going to start with the pot that the cactus is in. Let me just rough this out. I'm going to fill it with my color. Now, I want this pot to be too toned, and we can build the brush so it can be too toned. We just have to have our wits about us. Let's go and add another layer. Let's go and get a gray, but this time not quite so darker gray. I'm thinking probably something like about this will be good. This is the bottom of the pot. I'm going to put this layer underneath this layer and I'm going to merge the two together. This is going to be the pot for my cactus and ultimately it's going to paint in dark brown and a slightly lighter brown. That's why we're using two grays. Let me just move this out of the way a little bit, I want to get it a bit further down the document. Next up, I'm going to design the cactus itself. I'm going to add a brand new layer. For this, I want to be working in black because this is going to be the main leaf of my cactus, which is going to be the darkest color. Now if I want to be able to color drop into this, I need to make sure it's a closed shape, which it is, so I'm just going to drop in my black color. Now I'm going to add two more leaves to the cactus, these are going to be a lighter color. Let me just add a new layer. Let's go back to the second gray that we are using. Making sure that I've got closed shapes here, so it is just easier to drop my color in. Let's move these behind the rest of the cactus, and then I'll merge down. This is going to be the green leaf for my cactus. I can draw it in green and it's going to give me two different colors or two different shades of green. I'm just going to move my cactus a little bit closer into the pot. Now, one of the things that you need to be super aware of with a brush like this cactus one, is that there's not going to be a really obvious order in which you're going to put down these brushes. It's not like the doughnut where it's pretty obvious that you put the doughnut down first and then the icing and then the sprinkles. The question is, do you put the leaves of the cactus down first or do you put the pot down first? You want this brush set to work perfectly regardless of what happens. Right now, our problem is that the leaves and the plant pot overlap each other. The issue is going to be if they put down the pot first and then do the leaves, then you're going to end up with green leaves over the top of your pot and that's not going to look particularly good. What we're going do here is we're going to select the pot layer, so I'm going to tap on here and tap "Select". This is the layer that contains the pot. I'm going to subtract that from this leaves layer. I'm going up to the leaves and I'm just going to tap "Clear". Now you can see that the leaves are cut-off, so that they're going to bat up against the top of the pot, not overlap it. If they the pot down first and then the leaves or the leaves and then the pot, they're going to end up with exactly the same result from using it. It's building this as a more robust pattern brush. So there are lots of things to think about with this brush. One is to make sure that the various objects don't overlap each other at all, unless you want them to, and the second thing is we're going to be using different shades in our brushes to get a bit more dimension. Let's add the flowers, so let's go back to black. Now, my flowers are going to be all the exact same shade of red probably ultimately, so let's just fill them with color. That's fine, except that, of course, they are now overlapping the leaves of the cactus, and if they were put down last, then they're going to look like this. I'm not happy with that. I would rather that we had the full shape of the cactus leaf with the flowers just on the end. Well, we're going to go and get this layer, tap on it and tap "Select". We now have selected everything that is on that cactus leaf layer. Let's go back to the flower layer, tap on it and tap "Clear". Now the flowers are cut-off so that they bat up against the edge of the cactus leaf, they don't actually go over the top. Next up, I want to put the spines on the cactus. Now for that, I do want them to go over the top. Let's just go and get the cactus leaf layer and let's reduce the opacity of that so that when we're painting on the spines, on the cactus, we can actually see where we are. Let's go and add a brand new layer, this is going to be the spines of the cactus. I want this in black. That's exactly how I want the spines of my cactus to look. I'm happy with those, I don't need to trim them or anything because they're going to go on as the last layer. That one itself is pretty self-evident that it would go on last. Now I've got the layers, so I go to make my brush. I've got the pot, I've got the leaves, I've got the flowers and I've got the spines. We are ready in the next video to go and make our pattern out of these elements.
10. Pt 10 Create and Test the Cactus Pattern: To get to work and make our pattern, we're going to select all of these objects because obviously the entire shape is too big. I'm going to size it down. It's going to be split up into four and placed in the corners of the documents. I'm just working out that there's probably going to be enough room for it here. Let's turn snapping on so that we can put this in the middle of the document. Before we go any further. It will really help if we put everything on a 100 percent opacity so that we don't have to do that later on. The thing that we altered the opacity of was the leaves. So let's just go and push them back up to maximum opacity. It's just hiding the prickly bits over the top, but that's fine. This is a 100 percent opacity. So all the elements are here. At this point, you could name your layers if you want to, It might be a little bit easier to put it together later on. I'm not going to bother. So let's go and grab all these elements and put them in a group. As before, we need four more copies. We need a brand new layer fill with a color and again, it doesn't matter what that color is. We are going to dial down the opacity on this layer to something fairly low, about 40 percent or something, and you need three more copies of this. The very bottom line of these groups is going to be the shape in the middle, you can just turn it off, you don't need that It's going to stay exactly where it is. These four here and these four colors are all going to go together so let's select the bottom most one of these objects that are the cactus and this one here just drag across it quickly to the right to select it. Go to the Transform tool and we're going to push it to the top corner. It doesn't matter where you push it, first of all, you just have to push it there. Make sure it's in the right spot. Turning snapping on will really help you there. Turning magnetics on may or may not help you you'll just need to determine whether it's working for you or not. Let's go back and select the second of these grain layers and that would be the second of these visible cactus layers. Let's go in this direction. Lie it down, and then just check the joins. Make sure that there's not a bump here, which there is a saying that bumps so let's go and try that again. The bump is gone this time and the line is perfect down here. The third one of these and the third visible cactus, they're coming down to this bottom corner. This is where the problem's going to be across here, there it is. This one's a pixel overlapped. Not overlap this time everything is looking pretty good. So we want the last set, this one, and this one, they coming down to the bottom corner here. Double-check that there's no gaps and there's no dark align. Everything looks perfect, we'll come back in and remove all the grains and we'll turn back on the middle cactus. At this point, I'm going to go ahead and double-check that my patent works exactly as it should and I'm going to do it the same way as I did previously. Copy the canvas, add a new layer, pasted in position, press and hold on it. So I see this layer only size this down to a quarter of the document size, make three more copies, snap them into position, and check that they're lining up properly. I think this is out, this last one. That's looking just fine. I don't need those any longer because that was only to check that my pattern works perfectly. In the next video, we'll go and make all the brushes that make our cactus pattern.
11. Pt 11 Make the Cactus Brushes: So for our cactus pattern, we need to do the same thing as we did previously and break these out into their component parts. I'm going to put all the layer fours in this bundle here, so I'm just going to drop them in. Again, there should be five of them, one for each corner and one for the middle. Now I'm going to pull out these layers, and I've ended up with two layer threes. I know which pieces they are, but that is just a bit embarrassing. Here are the flowers. They're going to be at the top. I don't know how I ended up with layers with all the same name, but that is certainly not ideal. There's certainly a really good reason there for naming your layers with the content that's actually on them, and not trusting that the layer names are going to be correct. This version of layer three is the leaves. They're fairly easily identifiable. Layer two is the pot. So I'm going to put the plots all together, and these are leaves. Now just looking at the design, this portion of the cactus here and this portion of the cactus here don't have any pots because this is where the pots are. We probably only got three pieces of pot to worry about and that's these three here. We don't need to worry that we're missing these pieces here because they're not got pots on them anyway. Let's get rid of this. I don't need this. This is the pots. This is all the cactus leaves. I've got five of them. These are all the flowers and I've got three lots of flowers. Well, there are no flowers here and no flowers here, but there flowers here, here, and here. So if I've got three lots of flowers, life's good. I can actually get rid of anything else that is just causing me grief to look at. Then in terms of the spikes on the cactus, it looks to me like everything's got spikes on the cactus. I should have five of those, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, which I do. Get rid of anything that doesn't have content. I've now got the spikes from my cactus, I've got the flowers, I've got the leaves, and I've got the pots. Now we're ready to create our brushes and we're going to start with the pots. We'll go to add, and go to copy canvas. We'll go to our brushes. Going to add one for cactus. Add a plus, go to grain, edit, import, paste, double-tap to invert it, tap done. I'm going to set the scale this time to say 35 percent. I'm going to need to do that on all the elements. I'm also going to deselect offset jitter, that's a given, you need to do that. I'm also going to remove the opacity. Now, there is one issue with this particular brush that was not the case with the donut brush. If you ever look as I'm painting this on, we're not seeing the difference between this bit and this bit of the brush. The reason for that is the rendering. Let's go to rendering here, and let's turn it onto light glaze because when we select light glaze, we're getting the light and dark bits in the brush. That's just critical. It's different for this brush than the other brush. We're working at 35 percent, just checking on that. Let's go and name this brush, The Cactus Pot. Turn off the pot, turn on the leaves. Add a new brush. Invert it so it paints here and here, but not where the black is. Set our scale to 35 percent. Deselect offset jitter. Go to the Apple Pencil and remove the opacity from the brush. Then finally, because this one's got color in it, we need to go to rendering and set it to light glaze, so that we can see the difference in colors here. Well, let's just clear the drawing pad. You can see it's going to paint with different shades. Cactus flowers. Exactly the same as before. We're just going to edit our grain, import, paste, double-tap to invert it because white is going to paint, black won't. Set our scale. If we're changing the scale, we do it here. Turn off offset jitter because we want the flowers to go down in exactly the correct place. Go to Apple Pencil and remove the opacity, so the brush is going to paint with the opacity that we choose for the brush setting, and it's going to have no response to the Apple Pencil at all. Finally, just for reminding yourself as to what you need to do if you've got glaze, go and set it to light glaze. We'll name the brush. We've got one bit still to go. We've got the spines on our cactus. Inverted, all of these brushes need to be inverted. Make sure the scale is set correctly. Make sure offset jitter is turned off. Make sure the Apple Pencil is disabled in terms of opacity. If this were multiple grays in here, then you would go to rendering and set it to light glaze. Don't forget to name your brush just for consistency. We now have all the brushes created for our cactus. In the next video, let's see how it paints up.
12. Pt 12 Test the Cactus Brushes: Let's see now how our brand new cactus brush is going to paint. I'll create a document screen size. I'm going to start with the cactus leaves because this brush or this brush set, it doesn't matter which ones I put down first, as long as I put down the spines last of all. Let's go to the cactus. Let's go and select leaves. Here are my cactus leaves, you'll see that there's different shades of gray in the brush are resulting in different colors of green or different shades of green on the cactus leaf. Now there is one slight issue with these lighter gray areas and that is that if you overpaint them over and over again, they're going to darken up every time. You can see that, I'm not getting the exact shade of green. If I lift my finger up and then restart painting, the actual leaves are getting a little bit darker. Now, if you don't like that, just wipe it out and start all over again, I'm fine with that. Let's go to brown. We'll do the pot. The pot is going to have this same shade of gray thing happening with it. If you can get the pot down all at once, if you want it to look really neat. If you take your finger off, then you're going to and you paint over an area that you've already painted over, then the lighter part of the pot is just going to get darker. That's all. There are our pots. Let's go and get some red for the cactus flower. You want to check your brushes after you've made them just to make sure that you've got the scale correct, and also to make sure that you've turned that offset jitter off. I always lift my finger up and try painting again because if the offset jitter had not been turned off, then these flowers would not be joining up with the cactus. They do, so that tells me that my offset jitter setting is correct. I'm going to choose black for the spines for my cactus, and let's just paint them on. Our cactus brushes are now working as expected. There are four brushes that we can put together to make this multicolored cactus. They all sized correctly. They're all set up so that they're going to paint as they should.
13. Pt 13 Provide Brush Data and Instructions: If your plan is to create these brushes to sell or to give away as assets, for example, to your blog readers, then you may want to consider adding a text brush. Let me just explain what I mean by this. I have created a document again. It's the exact same size of the brushes, 2,048 by 2,048, it's square. It's really important that it is those dimensions because this is going to become another brush. Into this document, I have typed some information about the brushes, and this is where I suggest that you put the information that's relevant to you. I've explained that these donut brushes that we've created, that before they use the brushes, they should set a restore point for them. Now, you could tell them how to do that or you could refer to, for example, a video that tells them how to do it. I've also suggested that they work with duplicates of the originals rather than the originals themselves. That way if something goes wrong, they still got the originals they can use. I've also explained that the brushes need to be used in order, and I said that the brushes are copyright to me. Now, a few things about this. To add this text to a document, you will just go to the Actions menu and tap "Add text." Now this text is really big so before I start typing, I'm going to this Aa option here, and I'm just going to scale down my text now. I used about 50 points for the base text, and a little bit larger for the heading, but I'm just going to size this to about 50 points, and then we can go to the keyboard, and you can start typing. So do just add the details that you want to include in your brush that you're giving away or selling. Let me just get out of here because I don't actually need that layer. Once you've formatted all your text and got it looking exactly the way you want it to, we're going to create it as a brush, but it's going to be a slightly different brush to the other ones we've been creating. That's why we're going to step through this together. As we've been doing in the past, we're going to the Actions menu, we're going to add, and we're going to tap "Copy Canvas" because we need a picture of this document to make our brush out of. I'll go to the brushes panel and going back to the donuts collection because I wanted to put it in with the donuts. I'm going to tap the plus symbol to add my new brush. In this case, the brush is going into the shape area, not into grains. So we'll go to shape, we'll tap Edit, Import, Paste. As we've been doing previously, we need to invert this. We're going to double tap on it so that we get black background, white text. I'll tap done. Now for this stroke, it needs just applying grain and that's going to be given to it by default, but if you want to go into the grain area, you'll tap, Edit and Import, and then go to source library because there's the grains that are shaped with procreate, and blank is the one that you want. That's just perfect. Let's go back to the stroke path because this is really important. We need to increase the spacing all the way to maximum so that this brush when it goes down is going to be spaced. You're not going to be painting with it per se as just tapping on the screen to see it. Now the same settings is when being setting previously are going to work to, we're going to take the opacity of this with the Apple Pencil, we'll go to properties. I'm going to increase the maximum size for this brush because that will allow people to paint it on at a larger size so it's going to be potentially more legible. Let's tap down, let's see how it's looking right now. We'll just turn this layer often, add a brand new layer. We'll make sure that we have the brush selected, and I'll just tap to stamp it into the document. Now that's quite small. So I can tap away, and I can enlarge it. I can make it as big as I need it to be so it's easily read. Now, this brush can be packaged inside the brush sets so that when you sell it to someone or give it away, the actual details that you want them to see will be included in the brush set. For that, I would suggest that you go into this, and go to about this brush, and also make up one of those donut brushes. It's donut 1, and this is going to be instructions. I'll just tap done. This is donut 1 Instructions. Now, a word about this copyright symbol because you might find that a little difficult to get to. It is difficult to get to. Let's go and do an add text. I'm going to show you where you will find the copyright symbol. You'll go down to your emojis, and you will tap here on this group of emojis, and then just scroll across, and here's your copyright symbol. You'll just tap that to add it to your text area, added in the appropriate place when you're typing. That's just a tip on getting that copyright symbol. We've now got all the brushes ready, all the donut brushes plus the instruction. Let's see how we will get it out to a user, because we need to get her off the iPad and get it somewhere where we can give it to them.
14. Pt 14 Export and Import Brushes: To get your brush to some other person, you need to get it off your iPad. One method that you can use that's pretty easy is using Google Drive. I've already installed Google Drive on this computer, so here's my Google Drive. I'm just going back into Procreate. Because Google Drive is already open, if I scrub up from the bottom of the screen, you can see that Google Drive is here. I'm going to tap on it and drag it over to the side here so it will open up alongside my Procreate screen. Now with Google Drive open, I'm going to the brushes panel. Now inside Google Drive, I've already created a folder for my brushes so I'm going to files and I'm just going to tap on Procreate brushes. There are no files in this folder at this stage, so I'm just going to drag and drop my brush into the folder. I'm going to do that with all of them. Now in my Google Drive is the donut brush, the donut part, the icing, the sprinkles 1 and 2, and the instructions. Now that they're in Google Drive, that means that I can go to my computer, I can download them, I can zip them up in a zip file, and then I can distribute them however it is that you choose to distribute your brushes. This is one of the ways that you can get your data off your iPad and into a place where you can actually do something with it. This is also a handy way for you to be able to backup your brushes. So once you've created them, if you want to back them up so that you have them safe somewhere, that's a place to put them. Now if you need to get access to those brushes, this is what you're going to do. I'm going to open up my brush panel in Procreate and any imported brushes are going to appear in the imported area, just be warned about that. I'm going to open Google Drive and you can open Google Drive exactly as we did just then. Open it on your iPad, so if you just double-tap here, you'll see Google Drive is opened on the iPad. You can do it just from Google Drive. You don't have to have it at alongside Procreate. Let's just see how we do that. Let's go to files. Let's go to my donut brush, I'll tap the three dots there, and I'm going to choose open in. In open in, I'm going to scrub across here until I get to more. I'm going to drop down until I find Procreate. When I ask for it to be opened in Procreate, you can see that Procreate is launching and the brush is being installed. Now you can also do that with Google Drive alongside. Let's just go and get Google Drive. I'm in the Procreate brushes area of Google Drive, but that's easy enough to get to from your home screen. You'll just tap files and just go and get your brushes folder. The icing brush is the next one to be installed, tap these little three dots here. Go to open in. Again, go and find Procreate, which is going to be in the more area here and just scroll down until you hit Procreate, and the brush is imported. If we go to the brushes panel here in Procreate, imported brush is here at donut icing, it's already been added to Procreate. Let's just tap done, close this. We're going to do the sprinkles brush this time. Tap on the three dots, open in, go and find Procreate. It's now installed into Procreate. Let's just do the last one and then we'll go and just separate store points for them. Open in, go and find more, go and find Procreate, brush is installed into Procreate. Now, I don't need Google Drive open any longer, so I can just drag on it and just send it off the screen. Now, inside the imported area on my donut brushes. If you want to show people how to do this or if you want to do this yourself, and you want to move them out of imported into their own folder, let's tap here on the plus symbol. Let's call this New Donuts. We now have a folder for our donuts. We'll go down to imported and we'll locate all the donut brushes. Well, let's just make sure that we select only those four brushes. Of course, you'd bring your instructions and I just didn't bother to do that right now. I've got my four brushes lined up here from the imported folder down here. I've got my new folder visible on the screen. You really need that to be the case otherwise it's going to be really difficult to move these. You're going to pick them up and you're going to drop them on top of new donuts. So you just have to make sure that you position your finger over this and you actually see that little colored bar. When you let go, the brushes are moved to new donut. So you can see that they're in new donuts here and when we go to imported, they're no longer in imported. It is a little bit tricky. Just be aware that you do need to make sure that you're seeing where they're going before you drop them otherwise they just don't go where you want them to be. But that's how you're going to install brushes. I suggest that Google Drive is a nice handy way of working with these brushes, storing them long term, as well as giving you a way of getting them off the iPad and into a format that's easy to distribute elsewhere. Now as far as setting restore points for brushes, you're going to tap on the brush, going to about this brush and you're going to click create a new reset point and save it. Now, the point of a reset point is that you can get back to that point at any stage. Let's go and do something pretty terrible to our brush. Let's go and change the scale of this and the zoom. Now it's not going to work as a brush in this set, it's damaged. If we want to undo that, we're going to tap on this brush and tap to open it. We're going to about this brush and we're going to reset it. Now the reset or restore point for this brush is accessed differently to the reset or restore point for Procreate's own brushes. Just be aware of that. You have to do that through the about this brush area. We go to reset brush, reset it. Now if we go back to grain, you'll save that back to 35 percent and the zoom is back to what it was. So that's what we're suggesting to users or our buyers that they should do so that they protect themselves against damaging these brushes by accident. Let's just see that how that differs to a brush that actually is shipped with Procreate. For example, the calligraphy mono line brush here. When I drag across it, you'll see that it has a reset point because it's one of Procreate's brushes. We can reset it back to the factory settings. But for our own brushes, they don't come with that reset point and their reset tool is not on this drag across menu. It's actually in about this brush and here is where you go and reset it. Just be clear about that because it can be a little bit confusing.
15. Pt 15 Add Extra Functionality to Brushes: Before we finish up with this class, let's have a look at something that we can do that will add even additional functionality to our brushes and for this we're going to re-visit our donuts. Let's just have a look at the document that I painted using a donut brush set, and of course this has got the donut brush, it's got the icing and two lots of sprinkles. But you'll see that every single donut here is identical to every other donut. With a little bit of work and I mean a really little bit of work, we could have these donuts paint alternate colors of icing. Let's see how we would do that. For this I'm going back to the document that contains all the pieces for the brushes I used in this particular piece of artwork. In other words, you want to save the document that has all the pieces of your brushes for a particular brush set. This is the one I've got here. Let's just open it up, and let's go into the layers panel and here I've got icing, two lots of sprinkles, and a donut. Now if I'm going to alternate my icing, it's the icing I'm interested in. I'm going to turn the icing on and everything else off and I'm going to open up the icing panel. For this, I don't want the corner pieces of icing. I just want to focus on this middle piece because it's a nice, easy way of changing the color of my icing. I've only got the middle piece of icing visible. For this, I'm going to create another brush. I'll go to the actions menu, add, copy Canvas, going into my brushes. This is the brush set here. I've got my donut icing, two sets of sprinkles, and my instructions, while I'm going to add some alternate icing. I'll tap the plus symbol here, go to grain, edit, import, paste, double tap to invert this soak white is the icing. We're going to set this to the same size, and I was working with 35 percent on this particular set of brushes, turn off that jitter off, go back into the Apple pencil, reduce the opacity setting to zero, about this brush and I'm going to call this donut1, because it belongs to that same set and this is icing alternate, and I'll type done. Let's see how we could use that with these other brushes to create a even a more complex donut. Just create a new document screen size. I'll go back and select a brown color. We're going to select obviously, add donut. We're going to paint all of this in. Let's just get enough that we can test it with. Let's go to add donut1 icing and we will select a color for our first icing. Now this icing is going over all of the doughnuts. If we want to use our alternate icing, then we're going to select a different color. For this, I'm going to choose a purply color. Let's actually see if we can get it to be even a bit more purple. I'm thinking that's a pretty good color. Let's go to our icing alternate. We're just going to brush that over. Because it was made from the exact same starting illustration, it's only going over every alternate donut, but it is painting right over the top of the existing icing color. It's setup so it's going to paint perfectly. But already we've got a much more complex illustration and it's done with just a single brush. Of course you'd finish this off with your sprinkles. Let's go and get a color for one of our sets of sprinkles. Miss same job, miss that color there. We'll lay down one set of sprinkles that's in this dark color. Let's go and this time let's actually do a very light set of sprinkles. We could even use white. Here is our second set of sprinkles. This design is either more complex than the original, but it's being done very, very simply. We already had all the illustration that we needed. We just needed to isolate the one piece that was different, which is one of the pieces of icing, the one in the middle, not the one in the four corners and create a brush from it. In a similar way, you could have your donuts vary in color. Just use the middle donut to make a second donut brush on donut alternate brush. But be sure that when you're telling your user or your buyer about your brushes, just explain how that alternate is going to work. You could of course, do exactly the same with alternate for the brushes that we made for the characters. Really the limit is going to be your imagination and also the practicalities of just trying to explain to a buyer or somebody who receives your brushes exactly how to use them. You probably want to add on the side of an element of simplicity, but this is a pretty easy variation to add to your brush set.
16. Project and Wrapup: We've now completed the video portion of this course, so it's over to you. Your class project will be to create a layered pattern brush of your own. Create your design, make a seamless repeating pattern from it, and then convert it into the various brushes that you'll need to paint your design in multiple colors. When this is done, test your brushes in a new document and post an image of that document as your class project. Now as you are watching these videos, you will have seen a prompt asking if you would recommend this class to others. Please, if you enjoyed the class and learned from it, would you do two things for me? Firstly, answer yes that you would recommend this class to others, and secondly, write a few words about why you are enjoying this class. These recommendations help other students to say that this is a class that they too might enjoy and learn from. Now if you see the Follow link on the screen, click it and you'll be notified when my new classes are released. If you'd like to leave me a comment or a question, please do so. I read and respond to all of your comments and questions, and I look at and respond to all of your class project. My name's Helen Bradley. I hope you enjoy this course and I hope that you learn things about procreate, of which you were unaware. I look forward to seeing you in another procreate for lunch course here on skill share in the future.