Now for this lesson, let's take a look at the brushes sub menu here procreate, and I'll show you how to actually select brushes, how to tweak brushes, and how to export and even import brushes into procreate. So the brushes sub menu is located on the right side of the why of procreate, and is this first icon right here with the brush and the way that is divided, we have the brush library divided into each theme. So for example sketching, inking, calligraphy painting brushes, and then here on the right side we have the brushes themselves that are contained within each section. So for example, let's go into sketching and I can choose any of these brushes and start sketching them on my canvas and just notice how procreate really respects angle and also pressure and opacity and these are options that are contained. Within each brush so we can tweak those options to actually cater them to exactly the need that we have.

So first going back here into the themes and brushes themselves. As I was just saying, we can choose any of these themes and then choose the brushes themselves. I'm going to choose for example, the flat brush. And one thing that I want to show you is that it can slide this brush right here, and I can make a duplicate of that brush in case I want to change or make any tweaks to an existing version of procreate, but I don't want to I don't want to actually change the original brush, which is actually a smart thing to do. You can also click and select these brushes and drop into any of the other categories in in a way to actually organize these brushes on procreate. For example, I have now just duplicated this brush that I've made from the painting section and put it into my own personal library of brushes.

And now that I have this one, I can click on the brush and make any other changes and that's not going to change the original brush Sadie. So another thing that I can do is again, drag this to the left and I can click on share. And now let's export this brush. I'm going to export to my Dropbox and now it's going to take me into my Dropbox and I'm just going to select my sub folder procreate brushes. I'm going to click Choose and now save that brush. So back into procreate.

Now I can bring the menu and it can bring on files. And although we're here on files, I'm going to go into brushes. So now that I have my file here on my Dropbox, I'm just going to click and select this brush and I can drop it into my brush library into the section that I've created for my own brushes. And I have one more copy off the flat brush one. So I'm just gonna slide to the left and click Delete as this is actually now molt For copies of that same brush, I'm just going to go here and close my files. And let's continue with this tutorial.

Another thing that we can do here is that I can click on the flat brush. And I can draw on this little preview window. So I can, so I can see what's actually happening here with that specific brush. So, I'm not going to go super deep into the multiple options that we have here, because that will require an actual whole tutorial for the advanced brush techniques. But I'll definitely show you a couple things here, which are the most important things that you can tweak on a brush. So the very first thing that we can do is that we can increase the spacing spacing and as you can see, it kind of breaks the brush experience.

So every brush has it's like, almost like it's perfect settings for it to be as convincing as possible. In the case of this flat brush, actually having less spacing is better. It's more convincing than Having just this really like loose kind of spacing, things that they now look like textures, they can actually now look kind of like bricks. But if I go back into the brush settings, bring the spacing really tight. Now I have more of a brush continuous stroke. So we can also increase the streamline.

And for that, I'm actually going to go into my studio pan. And that's one of the best ways to show what streamline actually does. So right here, I don't have any spacing, because as you can see, again, bringing up the spacing make makes this into like a dotted line. So I'm just going to bring it back to zero, but I'm going to leave streamline at 30%. For now, what streamlining is going to do for us, I'm just going to increase the size here. It's going to correct any sort of jitteriness that we can have on the line.

So if I bring this to all the way to 100% to Max, as I'm making a circle, you see that it's the line is actually correcting itself. And if I make a curvy line, you see that again, it's trying to correct itself to the maximum amount that it can do in order to give me a very smooth line. So if I bring this now to zero percent, and if I start drawing, you see that it's picking up any imperfections that I do on my stroke. So sometimes, you know, artists like to use the streamline, I would say about halfway through, so that it corrects some of the imperfections, but you still have some control of what you actually want to do with your stroke. Or you can leave it around 30%, for example, so it only does about a third of its corrections, or you can just leave it as zero.

And in case that you really want to have a line perfect as you're really drawing that line. So, what other options do we have here we have jitter and jitter is going to, you know, make the source of your brush. Kind of like offset its position so that you have something that looks more like this, like, like a cloudy brush. And we also have the fall off and fall off really is just like on a pacity that dies off. As you paint. It's almost like as if you had real ink with a brush, and you start with like lots of ink in your brush and he keeps dying down as you paint or draw.

So if I bring this to zero, you really see this effect off fade. This could be really cool if you're drawing some reflection for example onto an ocean if you're just throwing the white reflection lines on top of the notion layer and things like that or like shooting stars in the sky. So let's bring fall off down and what other options do we have here we have some tapering options here in procreate so now to try to show you what that Do I'm actually going to show you that you know, you have the tapering amounts, as you see here, they can be linked or not. And you also have the size that you want to for your tapering. And at the bottom, we have pressure. So you see that it increases the tapering, because it also adds the pressure that I was putting on with my pen.

See, like really, really nice effect here. It's really tapered at the very beginning. And finally, you have a tip, which can be blunt, or very sharp. Other options that I would say they're very important for your brush are these options here on the shapes of menu, and those are the shape filtering options. So if you have this option set to none, you're probably going to get something that looks at very aliased. So it's not really a smooth kind of outline on the edges.

And you can also do the classic option. But I would actually encourage you to use the improved if you actually want something that looks a little bit more anti aliased for your outline. So that's probably going to look like less crispy, but it's going to give you that a better look for your outlines. Now for the rest of these options, such as green dynamics pencil, I encourage you to actually go back into the Layers panel and try some of the texturing options or the abstract, or let's just say, some of these like calligraphy options such as the blotching. And try some of these options here because you're really gonna see, you know, changes to the grain, such as like scale, and zoom, and even some rotation that you can see here on your texture, as well as some of the dynamics glazed for example, as you paint I'm just going to choose like a white color right here.

As you keep doing these brushes over and over and over, you see that they're actually getting stronger and stronger. I'm actually going to undo this and just make it into a new layer. And I'm actually going to choose a brightest color that I can get. And now, if I pink, this again, you see that is adding over and over and over, I can even try to bring down the opacity and you see that glazed as a paint. I actually get that color just over and over and over it like in terms of capacity. And I've changed the normal for example, as soon as I paint, I already have it set to 100% capacity.

So glaze is a really cool option if you actually want to start to bring in that brush, but you don't want to really start with the 100% opacity like full on that brush. And finally you have wet mix which will look like this. What you would have with let's say, for example, a water color setting with a real brush. So that's why I really encourage you to actually go through all of these options and test them out and try to find the best settings for your brushes for your own art style. And finally, if you want to create a new brush set, you just have to go back to a brush library and do a little scroll down here on your brush library list. And you see this plus sign in upon clicking on the plus sign, you have the option to create a new set and I'm just going to call it new set and there you go.

You have a new blank kind of container where you can save your own brushes, duplicate the brushes and kind of keep it keep it as organized as possible. Maybe this is your favorites where you know you can test off the brushes that procreate has and you can save your favorites to this top set so that they have quick access whenever you're creating your own illustrations. And finally, we can click on sets We can rename them you can share a set with your own brushes, again, through multiple channels such as Dropbox for example, or we can also click on sets and delete them. So this is a really nice way to keep your brushes as organized as possible. Now for the next lesson, let's take a look at one of the most powerful tools on procreate which is quick shape.