Make and Sell Brush Sets using Procreate - Learn the Complete Listing Process

 In this class, Make and Sell Brush Sets using Procreate, you will be guided step-by-step through my process of creating a Creative Market listing using my recent floral design brushes from my most recent classes. This course will arm you with all the knowledge necessary for selling on the Creative Market site, selling really anything, to add to your passive income streams. I teach you how and where to find good reference for writing your copy and guide you step-by-step in making the listing. This creating a listing skillset is an ideal competence to help you if you are a graphic designer, illustrator or surface pattern designer on a crusade to add to your monthly income streams. Many nuggets of wisdom about the biz in general will be peppered throughout.

This Make and Sell Brush Sets using Procreate class is suitable for designers with some knowledge of Procreate brush making who want to learn additional techniques to take it to the next level: selling brush sets. Many basic skills are reinforced throughout the process. My end-game with the classes I teach is to help you build a sustainable business with diversified methods of doing so. For this class, you will need the Procreate software, or similar programs which offer the same capabilities. I use Photoshop for part of the class, but I do explain how you can complete all screenshots in Procreate.

The verbal guidance and demonstrations will help you learn all the cornerstone skills that can be applied to so many of your imminent design projects. You probably have hundreds of items you could be making money from! Whether you are a dabbler in design or illustration, or a polished and skillful designer, you are sure to learn that you too can start making money on Creative Market!

In this class we will go through specific concepts that cover:

• the process for being accepted as an artist on Creative Market
• why your visuals are so important and what to include
• how to plan the screenshots you need and where to look for reference
• how to create each of the screenshots and what to include
• how to add enticing details and labels on your screenshots
• how to write dynamic descriptions and upload and create your listings (in detail)

If you’re an aspiring pattern designer with a good basic knowledge of Procreate, you’ll be able to go through all the steps. This class will benefit anyone who wishes to introduce new income streams into their business. This is an ideal class for you, even if you are not sure what you will use the brushes for initially! Learning new workflows is always desirable. I guarantee you will create something really appealing and saleable, and it’s so much fun,once you get the hang of it!

Intro for Procreate Brushes to Make and Sell

This short intro will give you an overview of the class.

Lesson 1: Discussing the Overview and Objectives

In this lesson, I will show you the objectives for class and explain the merits of the technique I use. I walk you through the beginning of planning. I show you examples of all the screenshots I plan to use for my listing.

Lesson 2: Brush Loading and Creating Your Own

In this lesson, I will break down the complete process of creating your own custom brushes. I show you how to add your logo to the brush. I show you everything from creating the source file, to importing it into Procreate, and finally, adjusting settings. Knowing how to adjust brushes is very important in Procreate.

Lesson 3: Show Off Your Brushes

In this lesson, I will explain the settings and sizing of the brushes. I will show you some of the key techniques I use for showing my brushes in their best light and explain every step of the way. By the end of the lesson, you will have the beginnings of a lovely layout with plenty of interest.

Lesson 4: Gathering Your Relevant Content

This is the lesson in which I explain the importance of the screenshots and review with you other content you will need to make this into a good Creative Market listing. We look at examples and I explain the mockup I purchased in detail.

Lesson 5: Finalizing Your Screenshots

In this lesson, we review all the screenshots and I explain the use of the flat lay mockup scene creator. I show you the replacement of images on the mockups, and a few other tidbits that should help you with creating screenshots of your own. I also save out the chart I created for the customer package as a PDF. By the end of the lesson, we have over 10 screenshots prepared for the Creative Market listing.

Lesson 6: Finishing Touches and Listing

At this stage, I show you how to make all screenshots consistent in size using a custom action to speed up the process. We can use this action to automate the batch so all of the screenshots are resized consistently. We then finalize the listing by populating all of the details in the listing with info we cut and paste from a master document.

Lesson 7: Conclusion and Next Steps

We will conclude everything in this lesson. I show you a couple of quick mock-ups with the pattern and we end with a chat about next steps.

Concepts covered:

Concepts covered include but are not limited to, call to action and other marketing lingo, brush set descriptive text, the Creative Market platform, passive income, marketing yourself, brush set design fundamentals, mockups, mockup design, exporting brush sets, creating screenshots for Procreate, making a listing, creative market dos and don’ts, Procreate brush stamps, Procreate snapping and guides, Procreate floral brush creation, art licensing, creating original brush stamps in Procreate, the Brush Studio in Procreate, adjusting Procreate brushes, sizing of documents and brushes, compositions with brush stamps, adding texture brush stamps, procreate brushes for adding interest, workflow best practices, Photoshop mockup use, composites, and much more.

You will get the bonus of…

• 1hr 23 minutes of direction from an instructor who has been in graphic design business and education for over 40 years
• knowledge of multiple ways to solve each design challenge
• an outline with links to further research
• a list of helpful online sites to further your education into surface pattern design