Creating Flat Brushes In Procreate

Flat Brushes

• Taper
  • Drag both controls all the way to side for Pressure Taper and Touch Taper.
  • Size: None
• Shape
  • Shape source. Select a source that is skinny and oriented so that it is tall and not short. The grain comes from Grain, so solid shapes work better here over distressed shapes.
  • Count multiplies the sampling of the brush shape, effectively making strokes darker.
    This is typically used with Scatter and Rotation to increase the number of stamps at each point where stamp is applied.
  • Azimuth: turn on. This makes for a chisel-edged calligraphy style brush where some strokes are thick and other are thin.
  • Brush Roundness Graph The green control will determine the orientation of the brush shape.
    • For a flat brush this means that this direction is the direction where the brush will be the most flat.
    • When the apple pencil is held at a 90° angle to the green dot vector the brush will be at its thinnest, as if the brush is being applied on its side.
• Grain
  In order to see streaks in a flat brushes as if seeing the bristles unevenly applying pigment, use a texture that has variation between lights and darks distributed evenly in both an up-and-down direction and side-to-side. If the texture contains a strong horizontal or vertical grain, the bristle effect will be visible in one direction, but will be blurred out when moving the brush perpendicular to that direction.
  • Grain Behavior: Moving
  • Movement will allow the grain to follow along with the brush stroke. On the high end of the spectrum, the grain texture is like a static screen through which the stroke is filtered, similar to setting Grain Behavior to "texturized". The low end creates more "drag" as if the grain texture follows the stroke.
  • Scale has a large effect on the impression of bristle size. Scale increases the size of the grain texture as if the source image was scaled up.
    • Low scale values simulate fine bristles.
    • High scale values emulate coarser bristles.
  • Zoom Zoom scales the grain texture relative to the brush shape source.
    • All the way to the right is "cropped" which means that the grain texture size stays fixed and doesn't change as the brush size is increased or decreased.
    • All the way to the left if "follow size" which means the grain texture stays constant relative to the brush tip shape independent of brush size.

See also =

• Brush Studio User Manual - Procreate User Manual