UPLOADING NEW BRUSHES

1. Once unzipped, either move the unzipped folder into your dropbox account (which can be accessed from your ipad) or
airdrop it right to your ipad (and select ‘Procreate’ when prompted.

2. On your ipad, go into dropbox (or access via your online dropbox) and find that brush folder you just placed inside

3. Click into the folder and select the brush.

4. On the upper right, choose the three dot ‘share’ icon and select ‘EXPORT’

5. Choose ‘OPEN IN..’ and ‘COPY TO PROCREATE.

2. SELECT SHARE

1. SELECT
BRUSH

3. CHOOSE ‘EXPORT’

4. OPEN IN...

This will automatically open it up within the app under 5. COPY TO

‘Imported’ brush set. IN which you can then drag and drop P R OC R E AT E

into a folder of your choice.

R E-A R R A N G E / R E-N A M E

If you select and hold onto a brush you are able to re-arrange and drag it around. To move to another brush set folder, you just
have to place the brush over that folder set and drop it in.

Re-Name the brush by open it up and simply clicking on the name (which will bring up the keyboard).
NOTE: If editing a brush, I recommend duplicating it first (so you have an original copy), just swipe the brush to the left.
 MY SETTINGS

- A R T B O A R D/ C A N VA S : I prefer to set the resolutions (for vector reasons) and

You’ll notice how different your brush may look based on the size of your canvas.
When you import my brushes they are set at around 10%, so on smaller canvases
the brush will be thicker/bigger and on larger canvases it will be thinner/delicate.
Feel free to increase/decrease the size to your liking based on your preferences!

- PRESSURE CURVE: Found under

heavy handed (pull curve down, won’t need

to push into it as much).

Light handed (need more pressure, pull the

curve up). min vol.

light pressure strong pressure

V E C T O R I Z I N G F O R I L L U S T R AT O R

Go to ‘Actions’ then ‘Share’ and then ‘Share Artwork’ (JPG or PNG) - You can airdrop or
save to dropbox, etc.

1. Within Illustrator: Place/Import the image into your artboard (above)

2. Select that image and go to ‘Image Trace’ (and I use the following presets)

3. I then just adjust the ‘THRESHOLD’ setting to increase thickness if needed

4. Once done (and selected ‘ignore white’ box) go to the top bar and hit ‘EXPAND

5. This will vectorize it for you, you can play with the settings to your liking.

BRUSH FOR PHOTOSHOP

Go to ‘Actions’ then ‘Share’ and then ‘Share Artwork’ (JPG or PNG) - You can airdrop or save to dropbox, etc.

1. Make sure you have your background layer turned off (so it’s transparent)

2. Once in photoshop you can clean up/arrange your artwork and then crop down the canvas to fit the artwork

3. Go To EDIT -- Define Brush Preset -- And name your brush.

4. You will now find this brush at the bottom of your brush library (you can change the color, size, angle, etc)!
TIPS & TOOLS

- BRUSH THICKNESS : Feel free to change the thin and

thickness of upstrokes and downstokes by going into the

brush settings under ‘GENERAL’. Here you can move the ‘MAX’

to the right to create a thicker downstroke, or the ‘MIN’ to the

left to create a thinner upstroke (and vise-versa).

- B R U S H O PAC I T Y : Some brushes can have an opacity,

which can be set within the ‘Opacity Limits’ or on the left

opacity bar. (Best used with the art brushes)!

- TOGGLE + COLOR BOX : In between the two settings is

a box that can be used to help eyedrop color within the

canvas. You can also click and swipe this box to move the

toolbar around.

- V I D E O R E P L AY : Each artboard can be recorded in order to do a video replay (under video, turn on ‘time-lapse recording)

- I recommend going to SETTINGS -- HELP -- ADVANCED SETTINGS and Selecting 4K under ‘Time-Lapse Recording Quality’. You can make

additional changes under these (aka: preferred file formats).

- If you want to replay your video: Go to VIDEO -- ‘Time Lapse Replay’ or you can ‘Export Time Lapse’

- REPLACING/FILLING COLOR : If you want to change the color of any items/letters/words you have to select the color of your choice

from the color picker and then just click and drag the color onto the item you want to change. If you drag the color onto the word and hold it

there you can then move it from left to right to change the ‘color threshold’ on how much it fills the item. I typically have mine at 80% (when

using any art brushes). See below!

- BRUSH PEN SETTINGS : If using the brush pen I recommend trying it with a dark ‘fill’ background (and making the pen color

white). To do so, go into ‘layers’ and tap on the background layer and change to black. - On ‘layer 1’ you can choose your pen/brush

color (white) and go to town! (I love the look of the white on black ;)

- STRAIGHT LINE : If needing to draw in a straight line you can either draw a line yourself (preferable on a seaprate layer) by

drawing a line and holding it until it ‘snaps’ into a straight line.

- GRID: Create a new layer, go to your brushes and select ‘TEXTURES’ to find ‘GRID’. Adjust the size and simply paint it on your

canvas. You can drop the opacity by hitting the ‘N’ on that layer and using the slider. You can create a new layer on top to draw on.

- M O V E A N D R E-A R R A N G E : If you are anything like me you

may need to re-arrange/edit/drag specific letters or words

around. Simply click on the selection/draw tool and trace

around the object you want to move. THEN, choose the pointer

mouse to re-arrange.

SHARE WITH ME!

I would love to see what you create with these brushes, so feel free to use #saffronavenuecalligraphy so I can see

your work and share it! Also, let me know if you have any issues, comments, or items I might want to add to this PDF by

emailing me below!

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- H A N D M A D E PA P E R : You’ll find my custom handmade paper background within your new brush folder. You can insert this image

background into any canvas by simply choosing ‘IMAGE’ -- ‘INSERT A PHOTO’ and then placing it under your other layers.

- You can adjust the background brightness, etc under ‘ADJUSTMENTS’ in the top left. (curves, brightness, etc)

- PA P E R CO LO R : You can change the color of the paper texture by doing the following:

1. Import image into canvas

2. Add new layer above image and paint the background with the color of your choice

3. On that new layer, hit the ‘N’ and choose ‘LINEAR BURN’ and adjust opacity as you wish.

- BRUSH TEXTURE : You can apply that same ‘linear burn’ to your brush layers to give it that saame textured look.