Modern Brushcraft - Create Procreate Brushes From Plants

Plan in advance to create three brushes: a single plant silhouette, grass, and foliage, by sketching the desired effects, gathering plants or stock photos, and capturing high-quality references for Procreate brushes.

Capture your plants with sharp, background-separated images for high-quality Procreate brush textures. Choose photos in nature, white backgrounds, or scans, then prepare them for brush creation.

Prepare plant images for brush creation by building a square canvas, creating silhouettes, inverting to black and white, refining with curves and clean shaper, and saving pngs for brush library.

Create a silhouette stamp brush in Procreate from a plant base shape, adjust spacing, opacity, and flip X to generate consistent, scalable plant brush patterns for grass effects.

Create a grass brush in Procreate by importing a base shape, enabling scatter and rotation to follow strokes, and using color dynamics with a secondary color for varied greens.

Create a foliage brush in Procreate by importing a base shape, adjusting stroke path spacing, jitter, and rotation, and applying Apple Pencil size and color dynamics for varied foliage textures.

test and refine your plant-inspired procreate brushes by layering, adjusting opacity and size, naming brushes, and saving reset points to organize them into sets.

Set up square Instagram canvas, apply rule of thirds with Procreate drawing guide, place a tree on lower third, and build a five-color palette with warm foreground and cool background.

Create grass in procreate with the grass brush using two greens, vary size by pressure for depth along the horizon, and keep strokes in one line to create color variety.

Use the clean shaper brush to build a brown tree with textured branches on its own layer, then add blue background silhouettes and Gaussian blur them into foliage.

Add foliage by layering foliage brush strokes behind and above the tree. Blend dark and light greens, add yellow branches, and finish with a silhouette stem brush.

Paint rays of light with a round brush in Procreate, apply Gaussian blur, and add glow with luminance. Adjust background color and hue to improve readability, using plant-derived brushes.

Celebrate finishing class by sharing your Procreate brushes from plants in the project gallery, and invite peers to like, comment, and leave a review. Stay connected for updates on challenges.