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Welcome! This part of the blog is dedicated to all things digital watercolour in Procreate, with a special focus on botanical illustration. Whether you’re just starting out or looking to develop your style, you’ll find tools, tips, and tutorials to help you create natural, painterly artwork using your iPad.
The Realistic Watercolour Brush Set was designed with traditional techniques in mind – soft textures, layered washes, and subtle details that work beautifully for painting plants, flowers, and nature-inspired subjects. Alongside the brushes, I’ll be sharing process breakdowns, Procreate tips, and step-by-step tutorials to guide you through creating your own botanical pieces.
This space is for experimenting, learning, and enjoying the slower process of building detailed illustrations with a handmade feel – all within Procreate.
For artists who love the organic feel of watercolour but crave the flexibility of digital tools, my first brush set for Procreate delivers an exceptional experience—with just four brushes and one canvas.
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Whether you’re a digital artist or a traditional watercolour enthusiast, this carefully crafted step-by-step PDF tutorial will guide you through painting a detailed hydrangea botanical illustration using watercolour techniques.
This is the second tutorial in the Botanical Illustration series for Procreate – designed to help you master floral painting at your own pace.
Designed for use with the Realistic Watercolour Brush Set for Procreate (sold separately), but works beautifully with any brush set – or even real watercolours!
6-7 hours
(It took me 6 hours and 11 minutes!)
[Realistic Watercolour Brush Set for Procreate]
(Not required, but recommended for similar watercolour effects!)
Click below to view pricing and option to purchase. File will be available to download instantly once payment has been made.
Purchase includes:
Click below to view pricing and option to purchase. File will be available to download instantly once payment has been made.
Purchase includes:
Or for more details, click HERE.
For artists who love the organic feel of watercolour but crave the flexibility of digital tools, my first brush set for Procreate delivers an exceptional experience—with just four brushes and one canvas.
Whether you’re a beginner exploring the basics of watercolour or a seasoned illustrator looking for efficiency and realism, this set is designed to offer a seamless and inspiring workflow.
Rather than overwhelming you with dozens of brush options, I have honed it down to four versatile tools—each crafted to emulate the natural flow, texture, and transparency of traditional watercolour paint.
Start your artwork with clean, expressive lines. This brush mimics the feel of a fine watercolour/drawing brush on textured paper, giving structure to your compositions while preserving a hand-drawn feel.
The hero of your watercolour toolkit, this brush offers fluid strokes, rich pigment, and subtle texture. Perfect for layering colours, creating gradients, or filling larger areas with lush, painterly washes. This brush responds to pressure – the more pressure you apply with your Pencil, the more concentrated and intense the watercolour effect will be. Lightening the pressure will create a softer, more diluted look, just like real watercolour.
Mimic the soft diffusion of wet-on-wet watercolour with this brush. It allows colours to bleed and blend naturally, helping you achieve those beautifully unpredictable transitions that define the medium.
Add realism and depth with gentle feathering and edge bleeds. This brush is perfect for finishing touches that make your artwork look like it was painted with real water on paper.
Included with the brush set is a high-quality watercolour canvas designed to respond beautifully to each brush. This custom Procreate canvas recreates the texture and absorbency of real watercolour paper, making every stroke feel authentic and dynamic.
Whether you’re just starting out or you’re a professional illustrator, this set allows you to focus on creativity without being bogged down by complexity. The intuitive brushes and responsive canvas work together to simulate traditional watercolour techniques—without the mess or setup.
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Bring the elegance of nature into your digital sketchbook with this ash leaf botanical illustration tutorial—designed especially for Procreate and created using my Realistic Watercolour Minimalist Brush Set. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced artist exploring digital watercolour, this guided lesson will help you develop a clean, minimalistic style like real watercolour.
This step-by-step tutorial is available as a downloadable PDF, perfect for following along at your own pace within the Procreate app.
The ash leaf is a beautiful subject for botanical illustration thanks to its elegant structure and distinctive details. Composed of multiple slender leaflets arranged in pairs along a central stem (or rachis), the ash leaf has a graceful, feather-like form that naturally lends itself to minimalist design. Each leaflet tapers to a fine point and often features gently serrated edges and a delicate central vein, providing just the right amount of detail for watercolour texture to shine through. This combination of symmetry, variation, and organic flow makes the ash leaf both visually striking and meditative to paint—perfect for practicing layering, brush control, and subtle colour blending in digital watercolour.
To complete this illustration, you’ll first need:
Here’s a preview of what you’ll receive:
See a timelapse of the illustration here:
The step-by-step tutorial is available for purchase here:
The brush set used to create this tutorial is available for purchase here:
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