Procreate Brush Studio: Color Dynamics
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This is part 7 of our 11-part series covering Brush Studio. In this video we'll be focusing on the
Color Dynamics settings. For this example we'll create a new brush in this set with the plus
button just here. Let's start by making our preview brush a little bigger and grab a color to work
with. Orange is nice and on the left side we'll find Color Dynamics just here. The first set of
options is Stamp Color Jitter. These settings will randomly affect each individual stamp of the brush
With the first option, Hue, if we move this up to 25% then each stamp is getting a potential push
of 25% through the color spectrum from the starting point of our selected orange. If we move the hue
to 100% then the range of potential color variation will include the entire spectrum.
The other settings that we can have jitter between each stamp are the amount of saturation,
variation in lightness and darkness of our color, or the amount of our selected secondary color.
And all of the settings found within Stamp Jitter can be triggered using different amounts of
pressure or tilt. We can access this by tapping on the value field and then here under pressure
we can toggle pressure enabled on and then create a custom pressure curve. Next to this is tilt. If
we toggle this on we can choose at which angle this setting will begin to take effect. Next down
is Stroke Color Jitter. The settings here are the same as the ones above except that here our
settings will be random between each unique stroke. So let's push the hue to 100% and now as
we draw consecutive lines we'll get a random chance of landing on a variation of hue that's
within that percentage range. The next set of options is Color Pressure. First let's draw a
line that has a bit of variation in the amount of pressure applied and then increase our hue.
We can see now in real time where we've pressed a little harder in our stroke but more importantly
how that range of color is drawn when we're using that amount of pressure. By default all of our
color pressure settings will use a linear curve but we can add nodes and customize the pressure
curve just as before. Any of the nodes that we place down we can tap on and we get the options
to delete the node or to reset the curve completely. The last set of options is Color Tilt. The same
options as above except triggered here by the tilt angle of the Apple Pencil. So let's draw a line
starting at a very flat angle and moving more upright towards the end. Let's use the hue slider
again to see this working. We can see here the change in hue begins to fall away just at the
point we started raising the pencil. If we tap on the value field and move across to tilt we can now
edit the angle at which this setting is triggered. There's a lot of powerful settings to play with
in Color Dynamics but finding interesting ways of combining Color Dynamics with the other settings
in Brush Studio can be a great first step to building a brush that is uniquely your own.