Hi, this is Michelle.
Today I'm gonna introduce my favourite tips
for Procreate brush settings for beginners.
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First things first,
Remember to back up our brush setting before we make any changes.
Procreate itself comes with a lot of default brushes
that we can always reset back to normal.
Just swipe the brush layer to the left,
then we can find the reset button.
Also we can tap the Duplicate button here
to generate a new one to back up the original brush directly.
Once we create a new brush,
we can also create a new reset point by ourselves.
Just tap on the brush and go into the Brush Studio.
And then go to the 'about this brush' section,
we can hit the 'create a new reset point' here,
and save before we make any changes.
So later on, if we want to go back and reset it,
we can just go into this brush, and hit the 'reset' button here.
Number 2.
Let’s talk about the weight of the line.
For example, when we're using the ‘studio pen’
which is under ‘inking’ to draw the outline,
the harder we press down, the thicker the line will be;
and the lighter that we press, the thinner the line will be.
This is a brush that makes images look more organic.
But sometimes, we will notice that some brushes
can not give us a wide range of the weight,
like ‘6B Pencil’ under ‘sketching’.
Even though you already change the brush size to 100%,
and press down hard,
the line you draw still looks quite thin.
One way to increase the brush weight is to tap on the brush
and go into the ‘Properties’ setting
and increase the ‘Maximum Size’ of the brush.
Then we will notice the range of the weight has increased.
That's the way that we can make your brush bigger.
Next section is Jitter.
Adjusting this can change the random amount
of the brush texture along the path and offsets,
which means you can adjust the edge or the texture of our brush.
For example, let's choose the ‘Evolve’ under ‘Drawing’,
this brush edge itself is quite rough and random.
To make it smoother, we can tap on the brush
and go into the ‘Stoke Path’,
and then change the Jitter to 0.
Once we do this, we can see the brush edge becomes much smoother than before.
Another thing that I found is quite useful is
the Jitter setting for the ‘Watercolor’ brush under ‘Painting’.
When we use the original setting to draw watercolor painting,
we will notice some textures overlap together,
which makes the result not look like a watercolor.
But when you increase the Jitter Setting to around 50%,
the result looks more real.
The brush edges also blend more naturally when you overlap paint.
Number 4.
How to combine two brushes together.
First let’s choose 2 brushes that you want to combine.
This time I want to use the ‘Hard Brush’ under ‘Airbrushing’
with the ‘Watercolor Brush’ under ‘Painting’.
Because procreate will combine the brush and not leave behind the original one
so we need to make sure we’ve got the duplicate brushes first,
and then move them into the same brush group to combine.
Now let’s select those two brushes,
swipe to the right to select both and then tap the combine button on top.
Now they are merged into one.
One thing we need to pay attention to is
when we're combining brushes, it does matter which we select first.
The brush we select first is going to be our primary brush.
The result will be totally different in appearance.
After combining, if we go inside,
we can select these brushes independently of each other
and change the properties separately.
Another thing we can do is to change the combine mode,
so this is going to make a totally different result.
You can experiment yourself with different brushes
and look at how they might look together.
This time I’m gonna change it from ‘Normal’ to ‘Multiply’.
We can test the result using the drawing pad on the right,
and if we want to clear the drawing pad
we can just use three fingers scrubing on the drawing pad
and it will be clear.
Now let’s have a look how it goes.
As we can see, the new brush keeps the watercolor texture.
But, at the same time, the brush edge becomes as sharp as the hard brush.
If we want to revert and go back and uncombine these brushes,
what we need to do is simply tap on the secondary brush once
and then the uncombines button will come up.
Tap on it and then we will get the two separate original brushes again.
Number 5.
How to change settings to draw a smooth line.
Tap on the brush, and then go to the Stabilisation,
you can see an option called streamline.
The higher the amount is, the smoother the lines are.
I also have another video talking about procreate top 10 tips.
You can learn more details about this
by clicking on my other video in the upper right corner.
Okay that’s my favourite tips for Procreate brush settings for beginners.
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