Procreate Brushes - Hair And Grass Effects Made Easy!

Hey: what's up, everybody rob Marzullo here, ram studio, Comics welcome back! So in today's video. I want to show you another brush this time. I'M gon na show you the brush in action by you know, screen grabbing the iPad pro as I do this, but this is a fun brush that I've created and I'm gon na be making a lot of these cuz. I got ta admit the brush creation process inside of procreate is one of the best. It has some of the best controls and I'm gon na explain these in a series of videos. As I go, I'm actually filming a Skillshare class right now, where I teach how to create some of these brushes. So you're welcome to check that out once it goes, live I'll, make sure to let everybody know, but basically one of the brushes that I tend to create because I just feel like it saves so much time is none other than a hair brush. Imagine that brush hair brush no but anyways, it's it's a great brush, because what happens is it saves you a lot of time. I actually started using a brush like this after working with a buddy Chris scalp that does a lot of creature design. He actually showed me how you use the spatter brush inside a Photoshop to make this effect. Well, then, over time I just kept modifying it and modifying it in various software's, I've made one for Monica studio, clip studio paint, and I would say that this one's probably the best that I've made so far. So what happens is remember? You can do a three-finger, sometimes you can do a three finger swipe and it'll erase the layer. So what happens is this particular brush will do a nice ease in and ease out? So you get the nice little points at the end. So once you get the flow of the hair going, then you just keep building onto that. You know you're. Obviously, gon na want to do a lot of overlapping strokes and things like that. Can I get the design of it going I'll, usually draw it first, and then I use this brush to paint over top. You also want to scale this brush up and down and after you start to overlap a lot of this pattern. You really start to see this come together. So another way to do this is to actually you know you can create the color as you go as well, but I'll show you once they get enough of this in place. I'Ll show you how I bring out the highlights, so I'm already starting to picture at this edge right here. This part right here is gon na, be a highlight right. So what I'm gon na do is dark and kind of before and after that, and you know, keep in mind - you can also erase with a brush like this, but the other thing that you can do is you can start to build in with layers or the Brushes themselves actually have blending modes now, which I don't think they originally did. I think they added this, but or maybe I just never noted it noticed it, but there's the blending mode. So what you can do is you can set this like lighten ad pick. A highlight, color and you'll probably need a little bit more of this in place for it to stand out. You see it's kind of doing like a Dodge effect too. You know I kind of like dodge and burn and not Photoshop, so see how it's getting those little bits of highlight right there that I want to see and remember too, that you can really just duplicate the brush and you can save some of these settings. So if you want one, that's a highlight brush, save that setting duplicate that brush. It'S real easy to. Do you just take the brush itself, go back to the initial setting here swipe over duplicate. You know, maybe change this name it you know, hair brush, highlights! Well, all kinds of double entendres or whatever those things are called going to here. You know set this one back to maybe multiply or darken whatever a normal doesn't matter, but because the brush itself already has some translucency, where it does that for you. But the neat thing about brush is that they can save a tremendous amount of time. It'S really the whole purpose of them. I mean there's, there's lots of things you can do with brushes. You know texturize your backgrounds this. This could actually make a pretty neat background. Texture as well, but instead of trying to paint all these little strands in and get all this kind of, rich detail, rich texture in place, this really expediate the process, we'll just kind of keep painting it over again it justice sized. Now I need to actually make this brush a little bit bigger. Remember that you can adjust your size controls in here as well, or is it at overall size, that's giving us the size of the taper? That'S why it says taper there just kind of read from the horizon myself. I used so many different programs that now that's for the Apple pencil and all maybe size limits it's set to max. Sometimes, when you add a little bit of spacing here, then you go back to here. Yeah see what happened there, so I just stood the spacing to just a smidge and then went back over to general and now look at the range huge amount of range. So now, if I go back to this, this brush can be massive. Now. This is the difference. So just keep that in mind, it's a little a little bit of a trick. Therefore, you don't it's a trick or nothing, but it's just something that you got to pay attention to. It'S all tricks are really is paying attention. Ok, so you know you see, there's there's a little bit to it. We start adding color and stuff like this. This will really start to pop, and then we don't want all of it to be in focus. So what I generally do is I'll take the smudge brush, maybe like a soft brush, bump that up I'll just blend some of this stuff. Back because, like I said you don't want it all in tight focus and extreme clarity, you know the subtlety is, is what really helps sell a lot of paint work? You just want to blend some of that back here and there and kind of keep repeating that process. But hopefully you see there that you start getting a pretty nice hair effect. This works for fuzzy creatures and gnarly hairy arms and whatever you got to do so. Just keep in mind that brushes like this can be fantastic, I'll, go ahead and share this one with you, I'm also going to create another one. Let'S see if I've already got it here and I'll share it as well. This grass brush and all this one is, let me show you the the source code. It'S not my source code source image. I just drew these little grass blades. I didn't even draw them that well, but then what happens is by time you adjust all your settings and cycle through here, so we can copy the settings pause. The video, if you want to relearn the settings that I'm using for this particular type of brush, and if you want more this in more detail, you can, you know, check out the class that I'm going to create. But we're gon na create a few different types of brushes but see how just with that brush in that pattern and that overlapping kind of paint style, texturizing effect. Okay, you see right there and I just probably some greens and yellows for that. Just to show you, let's grab a green start off light. You like the dark. I guess you want to paint it away with this. Let'S see how just it's got that little stamping effect, and you can get some variation with this and again see how I maxed out at my size there. So let's try that little trick again, we go over to spacing well, we've already got some space in there. So, let's go over to here our size limits weren't as large as they could have been well bump that right up now, it's massive, let's scale that down over here there it is play around with it. You know you're gon na do some of the foreground. Remember to that you're gon na use layers, you can use the blending modes of the layers and you know right here to combine effects to so you could add a layer set this one to maybe multiply even grab a little bit darker green. You always kind of put the colors as you go and then just you know, things are generally dark around the foreground, so kind of throw in some darker whole areas. There make sure it's a bit patchy, so it doesn't look too repetitive and since it's on another layer you can blend parts of that back as well and then come back with a highlight into the edges. So, as you start to build all this paint stuff together, it starts to make more sense, but hopefully you can see that just these two types of brushes alone can be huge time. Savers, like I said I'll, make sure there's a link in the description box below so you can check them out and if you want to know more about brushes and procreate, and things like that, let me know, and let me know be specific in the comments. What would you like to know? What would you like to see in future videos - and do you like this format of recording all that stuff, is great food for thought, as I move forward on the videos that I create for you, so I appreciate tuning and watching, as always, keep drawing keep em Fun - and I will talk to you soon - you