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Use One Brush in Procreate to Draw a Flower Composition

teacher avatar Iva Mikles, Illustrator | Top Teacher | Art Side of Life

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      1:20

    • 2.

      Brush Overview

      1:43

    • 3.

      References

      4:23

    • 4.

      Color Palettes

      6:00

    • 5.

      Brush Setup

      6:51

    • 6.

      Using the Brush

      9:39

    • 7.

      Base Colors

      7:37

    • 8.

      Define the Florals

      10:37

    • 9.

      Bonus Details

      7:52

    • 10.

      How Did it Go?

      1:21

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What if you could use only one Procreate brush to achieve an interesting look, nice texture, and crisp edges in your Illustration?

Join me in the class to find out how!

Some of the most common questions artists ask me are about the brushes - which brush should I use, what size, what settings … Brushes are indeed important for the outcome of your digital painting. Especially if you want to have some texture in your illustration.

So in this class, you will discover how you can turn one of the pre-defined Procreate brushes into a versatile brushso you save yourself time, by pressing the pause button on your next “best brush hunt”. 

Basic Procreate knowledge is helpful but not necessary for this class as I will guide you through it. 

So without further ado, let's start.

See you in the class!

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Iva Mikles

Illustrator | Top Teacher | Art Side of Life

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I am Iva (rhymes with "viva"), and I'm a full-time illustrator, teacher, and nature enthusiast.

I love illustration in all its forms and my goal is to bring you to a world full of happiness, color, and wonder in the form of fun and helpful classes.

I'd love for you to have fun while learning, so I always aim for a fun, positive, actionable, and inspiring creative experience with all my classes.

I love when you share you had many "AHA" moments, learned valuable time-saving tips, gained confidence in your skills, and that it is much easier for you to illustrate what you imagine and you are very proud of your finished work.

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1. Introduction: [MUSIC] What if you could use just one Procreate brush to achieve an interesting look, nice texture and crisp edges in your illustration? Join me in the class to find out how. Hi, I'm Eva [inaudible], an illustrator and designer based in Central Europe. I've been a commercial artist for over a decade and I run my art business online, working on my own and client project. Some of the most common questions artists ask me are about brushes. Which brush should I use? What size? What settings? And so on. Brushes are indeed important for the outcome of your digital painting, especially if you want to have some texture in your illustration. In this class, you will discover how you can turn one of the predefined Procreate brushes into a versatile brush, so you save yourself time. Pressing the pause button on your next best brush hunt. As a project for this class, you will be using the new brush to create a loose, abstract floral illustration. Basic Procreate knowledge is helpful but not necessary for this class as I will guide you through it. Without further ado, let's start. See you in the class. [MUSIC] 2. Brush Overview: [MUSIC] First, let me show you a few examples on how you will be able to use the brush before we start working on the project in the following lessons. You will be able to use this brush for both sketching and painting. You can fill in a large area with a solid color that you like. [MUSIC] You can also create beautiful gradient of transitioning colors. For example, general shading using dark tones, mid tones, and highlights. While sketching, you can seamlessly create a texture to your artwork [MUSIC] and at the end, fine tune the details too. [MUSIC] Some of you might already know that I have one brush which I love to use, especially when sketching. This is the brush I'm talking about. Even though I love the texture of this brush, the thing is that it creates this rough edge and sometimes I would prefer the edge of my drawings to be crispier and more defined. This is where the new brush comes into play. Before we get into the brush setup, let's prepare for the project with some inspiration and color palette. See you in the next video. 3. References: [MUSIC] If you ever tried drawing something from your imagination and outcome wasn't as good as you imagined it, don't be afraid to turn to references and make them your friend. We all have to learn somehow, and I believe that using references is the best way to build our visual library. I really liked to draw flowers from real life because I just loved to be around flowers, enjoying the scent, colors, and texture. You can imagine that I take every opportunity I get to draw flowers and plants, which in turn helps me to build my visual library and it becomes easier to draw from my imagination. Therefore, I recommend that you take time regularly to practice observing and sketching, even if for 5-10 minutes every day, outside, or at home. Even if you can't every day, 5-10 minutes from time to time is better than nothing because regular practice makes a lot of progress. You can use any tools that you like to practice, observing and sketching the shapes and details. For example, I either take a pencil and sketchbook and draw mostly line sketches on the bench under a tree or in cafes, or I practice shapes by shading in a tone paper sketchbook. When I have a space in my backpack, I also take my iPad and sketch shapes and colors in Procreate. If I can't draw on location, I just take a picture and save it as a reference for later, or I buy a bunch of fresh flowers for home and practice drawing while enjoying the beautiful house decoration. If you prefer online references, let's take a look at those too. Besides Pinterest and Google Images, I also like to use Unsplash, which is a stock photo site. The advantage of Unsplash is that you can use the images in your own project too if you created the creators properly. You can find many photos which are great for inspiration on Unsplash. It has almost everything you can think of, from people in different poses, animals, places, and a lot of objects. You can find a lot of different flowers and flower shapes as a reference for your class project. When observing the references, after you notice all the colors and details, try to notice and single out the shapes and silhouettes too, then try to create a mental picture of these shapes so you can use them when drawing from imagination later on. It is also a good thing when you practice sketching a few silhouettes and shapes of the petals and other details of the flowers. [MUSIC] To get even more inspiration on how to draw flowers, make sure to check out my other class about drawing flowers in Procreate. You can just visit my teacher profile to find it. When you find the variety of images that you like, you can save them to your tablet or make a print screen on your computer and send them to your iPad either by AirDrop, through Cloud, Dropbox, or email. As you can see, I collected a few images which I like for the flower shapes, as well as for their lovely color combinations. In the next lesson, let's talk about the color palettes for our class project. See you in the next video. [MUSIC] 4. Color Palettes: [MUSIC] In this lesson, you will discover how you can use different stock photos with similar subject to build a limited color palette for more balanced artworks. To bring your reference images on the side of your iPad, swipe up to see the icons first on the bottom of your tablet and then drag the camera row window to the side so you can have your references at hand when you need them. Here, you can see my color inspiration for the class project. Here I first selected the darker and lighter orange tone, and afterwards the yellow as a supporting color in this color palette. As you can see, it's inspired by the flowers in this photo reference. To balance out the warm orange and the yellow colors, I selected few greens inspired by the leaves and greenery in the bouquet. Let me show you another example. As you can see, I'm using a limited color palette. Why a limited color palette, you may ask. Overall with a limited color palette, you can create a greater balance in your illustration because it is easier to create color harmonies. In other words, to use colors that work well together. If you have too many colors, it is more difficult to combine them well. Also, a limited color palette means you have less chance to over mix the colors. This makes your life easier. In addition to that, limiting your colors also allows you to paint and create faster as you don't have to make too many hue color choices. What is more, by using a limited color palette, you can spend more time focusing on elements of your illustrations, meaning what to draw, and on your composition as well. From this photo reference, I'm selecting the purple as one of the main colors for the new color palette. Then I will add a lighter version of this purple to support the darker one in this color palette. As a third color here, I'm adding even lighter value. This time, also little bit warmer hue, inspired again by the flowers in the bouquet as you can see in the pale rose or a pale color of the tulip there on the right top. [MUSIC] Then if you don't see the colors properly, you can also test out your color choices and color palettes against different backgrounds. Here I can select darker background or I can switch off the background so I would see it against live gray. [MUSIC] As you can see, I'm looking at the different reference images for a variety of color palettes. This next bouquet is quite similar in colors, so I can adjust only few color hues from the previous palette. To quickly test more swatches, you can also copy the layer and replace only few hues in the palette. To draw within the shape, just activate the Alpha Lock. [MUSIC] If you want, you can sample the colors directly from the reference photos with the color picker. But I believe it's better to practice just using the color wheel and try to observe the colors from the photo references without sampling directly from the photo with the color picker. Like that, you're practicing more of the warmer hues, colder hues, and overall noticing the colors better. [MUSIC] I prepared these reference images for you so you can practice building limited color palettes as well. You can download them in the resource section. [MUSIC] When you sample few colors on your Canvas, you can use the eyedropper on your existing colors and adjust the hue and value further with the sliders on the color wheel. [MUSIC] Outer color wheel to adjust the hue and inner circle to adjust the value, or in other words, the lightness or darkness of the color. [MUSIC] Now let's move on to the next lesson where you can find out how to create your new Procreate brush. [MUSIC] See you in the next video. 5. Brush Setup: [MUSIC] Believe it or not, you can actually achieve so many different textures and effects with just one brush, as long as you know how to take advantage of the brush settings. Essentially, this one brush becomes the equivalent of having dozens of brushes on hand simply because the settings make it so versatile. In here, we will be using one of the brushes which can be procreate and changing its settings to make it versatile. How cool is that? You don't have to buy a whole new pack of brushes and just adjust with you already have. Let's do that. Tap on the brush icon and in your brush library, find the sketching brush folder. You can see different brushes here. The ones with the little wave icon on the top right corner next to the brush name are either adjusted brushes or imported brushes I got. In this sketching folder, find these brush. Click on it, so it highlights, and then swipe to the left to duplicate the brush. Always duplicate the brush you want to change in case you want to go back to the original brush with its settings. Also, always try to keep your brushes organized so you can quickly and easily find them when you want to use them. When the brush is highlighted, you can drag it to the new folder. Let's do that. To drop this duplicated brush in the new brush folder, just hover over the folder until it opens and then drop it into that folder. You can rename the folder with the relevant name. For example, texture sketching, so you know, what do you want to use the brushes for in the future. When you want to create a new folder in this brush folder library, just swipe down on the list of brush folders. Then on top of the brush list folder plus sign will appear. When you tap on it, you will create a new brush folder that you can easily rename. You can categorize and move your favorite brushes based on your style, projects or topic. To delete a folder you don't want anymore, just click on the wave squiggly icon on the left and the pop-up window will open to adjust or delete the folder. I will delete these examples folder for now. Now, let's look at the settings of our duplicated brush. If you don't know, on the drawing pad on the right, you can always test out the brush while adjusting the settings. Now, go to the properties tab of the brush, which you can see in the list on the left. Then adjust the maximum size option under the brush behavior options section. You can see that the brush preview on the brush drawing pad is already changing. How cool is that? What this means is that we are able to use this brush for coloring and drawing big surfaces quickly and with texture. Also try to test out different sizes and the maximum size option to find out the right percentage to fit their preferences. Let me show you what are the other aspects that you can adjust. When you are in the brush settings, you will see the stroke path tab as one of the options. Then you can click on the "Shape" button to see how the brush tip shape looks like. You can create a new shape and upload it here as well to create a different effect when drawing. You can import a new shape by clicking on the "Edit" button on the top. After importing a new shape, this preview should be white on black, and you can invert this with a double-tap. In addition to this, the brush has a grain texture which you can adjust by uploading different textures here too, by just clicking on the "Edit" button. The current shape of the brush tip is quite useful for sketching in my opinion because it has a flat top part and the rough bottom part. The flat top part helps you to create crisp and clean edges, and the bottom rough part allows you to create soft texture gradients when blending the colors. I will be showing you how you can use it for both blending and crisp edges in the following lessons. If you have more similar brushes with different shapes, you can use a stamp preview to see the shape on the list when drawing. I think I still prefer the brushstroke preview, so I will change it back. But at least you know, you have that option there. If you want to rename the brush, obviously to find it easier, just go to the about the brush section and type on the name on top of the screen. When you are happy, just tap "Done". That's it for the settings. Now, let's practice with the brush in the first exercise in the next lesson. See you in the next video [MUSIC] 6. Using the Brush: [MUSIC] In this lesson, I will show you how to work with a pencil pressure for blending the brush size and the Alpha Lock. In this first practice example, we will draw leaves. Why leaves and not flowers just yet? Well, the shape of the leaf is more simple compared to the flowers. It is great for practice, especially if you are just starting out using new brushes. On a new layer, I will choose a mid-value green color, not too dark and not too light as we will be adding darker and lighter tones on top later on. If you remember, I saved this green in my previous color palette exploration from references. Please feel free to use any other mid-value color from your own color palette exploration for this exercise. Select the new brush to draw with and set it to bigger brush size and create an almond shape. A bigger brush tip size helps you to create a more flowy and organic moves. You can modify the size of the brush with the sliders on the left side of the screen. Try to use high pressure with your pencil to achieve solid and opaque color for this shape. Here, we are using the drag and drop function of the color instead of the manual coloring. To fill the color shape, just drag the color from the top right into the shape. Before releasing the pencil, you can adjust the threshold. Why to adjust the threshold? Just to avoid the white halo around the fill color. You can see the threshold percentage on top of the screen. Drag the pencil from left to right without releasing the pressure to adjust the threshold and see the amount of fill color. Then do the same for the other leaf. Outline and drag and drop the color. If you are wondering why dragging and dropping the color and not manually coloring in the shape, well, drag and drop color it's faster as you can imagine. The disadvantage of this drag and drop function is that you can achieve only solid color and not texture, which you can achieve with manual coloring. But we don't need the texture on the base color just yet. We will add texture by adding more colors and blending later on top. Now, let's reduce the brush tip size to adjust the shape of the leaf. For example, you can make the leaves more pointy or more round depending on your style preference. Why using small brush size? Well, you have more control over smaller shapes, edges of shapes, and details with a smaller brush tip size. Making the brush tip size smaller not only helps you to control the shape details in more precise way, but it also helps you to create nice crisp edges. You can modify the size of the brush with the sliders on the left side of the screen. Because I'm now happy with the shapes of the leaves, I will continue with the other shapes on the separate layer. I will mix up the leaves as they are now. To continue on the layer below, I will draw a branch for the leaves to sit on. [MUSIC] If you struggle with drawing more straight and smooth lines for this branch, the brush settings can help you through. Open the brushes, duplicate the brush again so we can create another version of this brush for the smooth strokes. Then, adjust the stabilization. This quick adjustment is very useful in this case. [MUSIC] Now you have another version of this brush for smoother strokes. This is a pretty cool adjustment if you feel like your hand is not steady when drawing just yet. [MUSIC] When I'm happy with the shapes of the branches, I will merge the layers together with the leaf layer. After merging these layers, I can blend the colors together and create a nice gradient. Then tap on the layer to activate the Alpha Lock. This function locks the pixels so you are able to draw within the shapes that you already created, the leaves and the branch. Now, I will use a lower pressure with my pencil to blend the colors. This way I can create smooth transitions of colors with subtle texture. [MUSIC] To speed up the coloring process, you can use the other hand, the one you are not using for drawing, to activate the eyedropper. Then continue blending the colors. Then choose a darker and lighter value of the green you started with and practice blending the colors with low pencil pressure. [MUSIC] As you can see, I'm using the eyedropper a lot to sample the colors from the gradient. This helps me to create smoother transitions, and I'm always sampling the color in between the lighter and darker tones. [MUSIC] You can also test out tilting the pencil to try different blending outcomes. In addition to that, you can try out shading and building up the colors from one side to another, and the other way too. From top to bottom, from left to right, and so on. I like the gradient the most while building the colors from right to left. That way you will utilize the textured end of the brush shape for blending. It almost behaves like a soft edge brush with this low pencil pressure. [MUSIC] If you are wondering why I'm talking about soft edge brushes. Well, it's because soft edge brushes can also help you to create smooth transitions and realistic coloring, while hard edge brushes help you scalp their shapes. I generally use approximately 30-50 percent pressure when shading and blending colors. I use 100 percent pressure for the base colors when defining the shapes. [MUSIC] To achieve even smoother edges, you can reduce the brush size and erase some parts on the outer edges. [MUSIC] We have nice leaves with smooth gradient transitions, some nice texture, and crisp edges with just one brush, I love that. I hope you do too. In the next lesson, we will continue practicing with our new brush and start with the flower illustration. See you in the next video. 7. Base Colors: [MUSIC] In this lesson, we will start with the project illustration, and practice more with our new sketching brush. I will be using the colors that I selected in the color palette stage of the process. Let's start drawing some flowers. We are in a new Canvas, and I'm using Canvas in a medium size, in this case, A4 which is around 8 by 11 inches. A higher resolution is usually better than a smaller one when creating new Canvas. A higher resolution Canvas allows you to create illustrations with lots of details. That is a catch though. The bigger the resolution Canvas you use, the harder it is to use the files because the document size becomes massive and loading, saving, and exporting time can be tricky in some programs. Procreate is pretty fast, but the layers are limited with bigger size Canvases which is not great. To sum up, try to use bigger Canvas resolution that is not massive and it doesn't limit you too much. In this illustration, I'll be using a process of first laying down the base colors and silhouettes of the flowers with a bigger brush size. Then I will be defining the petal shapes with a small brush size and more delicate brushstrokes. [NOISE] Afterward, I will be adjusting the base flowers silhouette shape to match the petal shapes on top. I find this process quite fun as I'm drawing the blobs of color for the flowers silhouette rather than a line art first. When sketching, I'm not too precious about those shapes. Compared to if you start with the line art, you have to be more precise when applying the colors below the line art. I believe starting with silhouettes is more fun way to play with shapes, colors, and brushes. Here, you let your creativity flow and lay down abstract base shapes for the flowers. [MUSIC] You can invent the shapes from your memory or use the reference. For this composition, I'm using few bigger blob color shapes and few smaller blob color shapes for the flowers. [MUSIC] When you are not sure what flower shapes to draw, just use reference as I mentioned. Remember, if you are using a reference, always try to notice and get inspired by the overall silhouette of the flower first before adding any details. When drawing the initial shapes, I'm using quick loose movements. Try to use a bigger brush tip size, which will allow you to quickly apply colors and more organic flow to build up your shapes. You can either use soft or hard pressure depending on the amount of texture you want to see in your illustration. High pressure has less texture and low pressure has more texture with this brush. When drawing the shapes, try to create a visually interesting composition. I'm trying to balance out the bigger shapes of open flowers together with smaller half closed flower shapes. To make the drawing more lush, I'm adding few leaves around the flowers. Try to combine different flower shapes as we saw in the references. You can experiment with the placement of the flowers and the leaves until you have composition you want. I talked more about the flower compositions with different examples in my drawing flower class, just visit my picture profile to find it. To explore your own compositions, look at the different references. When drawing the leaves, you can try out different shapes. For example, almonds shape, teardrop, or oval shape. [MUSIC] When you are happy with the base color shapes and the composition, you can add gradient colors on the flowers the same way as I showed you on the leaf example. First locking the layer pixels with the Alpha lock and then with a low brush pressure, you can create gradients. Some flowers, I imagine in a top view and fully open, and other smaller flowers, I imagine in a side view and half open. On the fully open flowers, I'm adding darker tones in the middle because that's usually where the shadows are. The other flowers on the side view, we'll have a darker tone on the bottom side. While drawing, you might find out that you want the brush tip size even bigger, because maybe you started with quite big Canvas. If that's the case, you can just adjust the settings in the brush. [MUSIC] You can observe and learn about the shadow placement when you're looking at the flowers in the real-life or in the pictures. [MUSIC] You can add more colors to create little bit of color variation in the composition too. As you can see, I'm adding another color to this composition on some of the smaller flowers, but only on the smaller flowers so it doesn't overrule my main limited color palette. [MUSIC] Now, let's move to the next lesson where we will define the flowers with more delicate and precise brushstrokes. [MUSIC] See you in the next video. [MUSIC] 8. Define the Florals: [MUSIC] In this lesson, we will create flower petals with a thinner brush strokes on top of the base colors. I sometimes feel like it looks like magic. You can change random blobs of color to something which looks like a flower by just adding few lines. Let's do that. Before adding any details, I like to test out the brush tip size on the side of the canvas before drawing. Now create a separate layer above your base color layer with a smaller brush tip size, start drawing thinner lines to form petals of the flowers. Generally speaking, try to use smaller brushes to help you create lovely details in your illustration. I'm using high pressure when drawing to create opaque, solid, crisp lines. [MUSIC] I'm using 60-100 percent of the pressure to achieve this crease details. Don't worry to get exact pressure, and also don't worry about following the exact silhouette of the color base. We can adjust that later. That's what I find so cool about this process. [MUSIC] As a reminder, if you don't draw from real-life reference too much, don't forget that in a real life, the bigger petals are usually on the outer edge of the flower and smaller petals are in the middle. I am following the rule from bigger to smaller petal shapes. If you're using reference, try to notice the shapes of the flower petals to create these lines. When looking at the references, notice where they have bigger petals and smaller ones. Also notice if they have smooth edges or the petals have more bubbly shape. [MUSIC] Here I'm using an eraser to adjust the base shape. We will talk about this method more in a moment. [MUSIC] Then to balance out your illustration, try to match the amount of details of the flowers and add few lines on the leaves too. To add variety, try to play around with different details on the flowers and on the leaves with this small brush tip size. For example, you can add details like dots, swirls, wave shapes, or more lines. These types of details can add a lot of personality and style to your illustrations. Try different ones to find your favorite styling and the details. [MUSIC] When you are happy with your line details, defining the flower petals. You can adjust the base colors underneath to match the lines. To do that, you can erase parts of the flower base from the flower color base layer. I really like this scouting method and working with an eraser when drawing. Yes, you hear that correctly. What I mean by this is that you don't have to limit your perception of an eraser as something that you only use and need when you make a mistake. In traditional art, a lot of people use erasers to create highlights too, for example, in pencil drawings or in charcoal illustrations. Because you can of course create highlights by erasing parts of the dark values. As you can imagine, you can use the same principle in digital illustration. For example, if you draw too much in one area, just switch over to eraser and take some of the shape away. Another great thing about this is that you can use the eraser to clean up or soften edges depending on the eraser brush hardness and edge. To use our new brush as an eraser, go to the eraser icon and select the brush. To achieve hard edges, use higher pressure when erasing with this brush. You will see another example of scouting with an eraser in the bonus lesson, when will be adding birds. Afterwards, continue adding lines on top of the flower shapes with a small brush tip size and higher pencil pressure to achieve crisp lines and high opacity. [MUSIC] You can also try using light color lines for the petals, or darker color lines. Or try using both. Lighter on one flower and darker on another flower and see which style you like better. Another fun thing about this process is that you don't have to be precious about creating these lines either. They can be verbally and messy and I think it will still look cool. [MUSIC] In addition to the leaves in color and as an outline, you can test out adding few smaller scale flowers to fill empty spaces in the composition. [MUSIC] At the end, you can add more dark values as shadows to some of the flowers. For simplicity, I'm adding the shadows only to some flowers. The darker flowers I'm keeping without shadows, so this sketchy illustration doesn't become too detailed and too realistic. I'm adding few darker tones, mainly where the leaves are overlapping to create more sense of depth and little a bit of realism. As a reminder for blending and softer transitions with some texture, I use around 50 percent pressure. Overall, very little pressure helps you create smooth, realistic shadows. Well, bigger pressure helps you create hard edges and to scalp. You are done with your flower illustration using one brush and just modifying the brush deep size and the pressure when you are using it with your pencil. [MUSIC] In the next lesson, you can see how I will add few birds with the same technique to add variety to our illustration. See you in the next video. [MUSIC] 9. Bonus Details: [MUSIC] In this bonus lesson, I will show you how you can add additional elements to your floral illustration. For example, I will be adding a couple of birds to make it a little bit more interesting. Here I will be using the technique of sculpting with an eraser, as I mentioned to you before. For the birds, I'm selecting a light and pale colors so they will stand out against the already colorful backdrop with all the flowers and leaves. The pale color will also match with the light lines on the flowers. First, I'm focusing on the overall shape of the birds by marking their approximate silhouettes and using simple geometrical shapes. I'm using a circle shape for the head and oval shape for the body of the bird. [MUSIC] Then using the eraser, I'm sculpting the shapes to end up with more defined bird shape. Again, please feel free to use references in the same way as I showed you with the flowers. [MUSIC] Then as you can see, I'm using a triangle shape for the beak and a diamond shape as a base for the tail. To achieve my simplified style of drawing birds, I will erase parts at the end of the tail to end up with three geometrical feather shapes. Of course, please try different styles. Explore drawing more feathers maybe, longer or shorter tail or curving the feather shapes on the tail outwards or inwards. Once I'm happy with the overall silhouette of the birds, I will use the alpha lock to lock the pixels and add subtle pale gradient to the tail and the belly of the birds, so they are not just white. Another idea is to try different colors to add to these birds as a decoration. You can try out, for example, light pink, orange, brown or yellow, which I think would still fit nicely with this pale base color. [MUSIC] Then on a separate layer, on the top of the base white color layer, I will add few details to define the birds. The eye, beak, head, belly, and few lines on the tail. I'm using the small tip size of the brush and high pressure to achieve crisp lines again. [MUSIC] At the end, we can add an additional subtle gradient to the birds for more visual interests. To create these gradient decorative shapes, first I'm using the bigger brush tip size. If you want more flow and smaller line when drawing these, you can go ahead and choose, again the stabilized option of the brush which we created previously. This will help you to create nice flowy and organized shapes. [MUSIC] When I'm happy with the flow shape, I will activate the alpha lock and this time with a shortcut, I have set up in the settings. If you're not sure where to find it, it's called the quick menu setup. For more tips on shortcuts and deep dive on Procreate, please check out my class on Procreate which you will find in my teachers profile too. After using the alpha lock, I will add one more subtle color as a gradient to this flowy decorative lines. When creating this additional color, I'm using very small pressure with the pencil to achieve smooth gradient. [MUSIC] Again, regarding different style, try drawing the wings maybe in more detail, or you can add feathers on the head of the birds. [MUSIC] Another idea is to try different colors. For example, for the beak, or add different colors on the wings, or change the color of the tail instead of drawing decorative gradients. [MUSIC] That's it. I really like this process. Using just one brush and creating nice sketchy illustration with texture and smooth gradients and crisp details and crisp edges. I hope you love your illustration too, and I can't wait to see it in the project section. [MUSIC] 10. How Did it Go?: [MUSIC] How did it go? I hope you had a lot of fun using the new brush in your floral illustration. If you want to expand on the knowledge you learned in this class, you can watch my class about florals, compositions, colors, and Procreate. Just visit my teacher profile to find them. Don't forget to share your class project in the project section because I can't wait to see all of your awesome artworks. If you would like me to also share your illustrations on Instagram, please tag me when posting so I can help you and your art to be discovered by more people. 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