How to Make a Stamp Brush in Procreate (Solid & Textured)

A stamp brush is the closest thing Procreate has to a rubber stamp: you tap once, and a whole flower, leaf or logo appears on the canvas. Ink it in any color, scale it with pressure, scatter a field of them in seconds.

The good news is that Procreate lets you turn any shape you can draw into one of these brushes. Freya builds a full set of them in her Procreate Masterclass, first a clean solid set of flowers and grasses for landscape art, then a rough-textured rubber stamp built around her logo. Both walkthroughs are below, plus a five-minute shortcut version at the end.

The one rule: black background, white shape

Every stamp brush starts life as a black and white image. Procreate reads that image as a transparency map, so the colors have to be exact.

"The most important thing is to ensure that the background color is completely black, and the color for the brush should be a pure white. This is because it will affect the transparency of the brush."

Freya, in Lesson 026 (Create Your Own Solid Stamp Brushes), Procreate Masterclass

White areas become the visible stamp. Black areas become nothing. Grays land in between, which is exactly what you'll use later for texture. Get this backwards and your brush stamps a filled square with a shape-shaped hole in it.

Step 1: draw your shape sources

In the Masterclass exercise, Freya prepares thirteen shapes for a landscape set: six flowers, five kinds of grass, a branch of leaves and a tree. The method is the same for every one of them.

1. Create a square canvas at 1000 px and set the background color to pure black in the Layers panel.
2. Go to Actions, then Canvas, and turn on Page Assist. This lets you treat each layer as a page, so you can draw all your shapes in one file without juggling layer visibility.
3. Pick a clean inking brush. Freya uses the Syrup brush from the Inking group at 25%, in pure white.
4. Draw the outline of your shape, then fill it with white. If an edge looks rough, paint over it until it's solid.
5. Finish each shape with the Transformation tool: tap Fit to Canvas to center it, then use Uniform to shrink it slightly so nothing touches the edge and gets cut off.

For each new shape, tap New Page and repeat. Small tricks from the lesson: for a daisy-style flower she draws every petal pointing at the same center, and for leaves she switches to the eraser (hold the eraser icon to load the same Syrup brush into it) and erases a thin line down the middle of each leaf as a vein.

When all your shapes are done, export the whole stack at once: Actions, Share, then under Share Layers choose PNG Files and tap Save Images. Every layer lands in your photo gallery as its own image.

Step 2: build the brush in Brush Studio

Open the Brush Library, scroll to the top and tap the + icon to create a new set (Freya names hers Landscape Stamps). Then tap + in the top right corner to create a brush. These are the settings from the lesson:

• Shape: tap Edit, then Import, then Import a photo, and pick your first shape from the gallery.
• Stroke Path: set Spacing to 70%, so dragging the brush lays down separate stamps instead of a smeared line.
• Color Dynamics: a Hue value around 7% gives each stamp a slightly different shade, which makes a field of flowers look natural instead of copy-pasted. Set it to 0% if you want every stamp identical.
• Apple Pencil: under Pressure, set Size to about 60% so pressing harder stamps bigger. Set Opacity to 0% so pressure never fades the stamp.
• Properties: turn on Use Stamp Preview, set the preview size to 25% and the maximum size to 300%.

Finally, go to About This Brush, name it, and create a reset point so you can always get back to these settings.

Here's the part that makes a thirteen-brush set fast: you only build this once. For every other shape, duplicate the finished brush, open Brush Studio, and swap the Shape source for the next image. Freya varies a few of them as she goes: flattening the Brush Roundness graph for a side-view flower, adding 10% Scatter so grass stamps rotate randomly, and turning on Flip X for the leaf branch so it alternates direction as you stamp.

The textured version: a real rubber stamp

The solid method gives you clean edges. Lesson 028 roughs them up so the result looks pressed in ink. The setup is bigger (a 2000 px square canvas, still pure black) and the shape source is assembled from parts: Freya imports her logo in white, stamps a frame around it from her bonus frame brushes, adds a few sparkles, then merges it all into one layer.

The texture comes from a layer mask. Tap the merged layer, choose Mask, and work directly on the mask with two brushes: Rusted Decay (from the Industrial group) in pure black, tapped randomly over the design to eat holes in it, and Copperhead (from the Drawing group) in white to draw grain back in where the erosion went too far. On a separate layer she adds white flecks around the edges so the ink looks like it's spreading.

Then the whole canvas becomes the brush: Actions, Copy Canvas, create a new brush, set Stroke Path spacing to maximum, and paste the canvas into the Shape source. Three finishing settings push it from good to convincing: a paper grain (she imports Stained Paper 2 from the Source Library at 22% scale), Rendering set to maximum Wet Edges with the blend mode on Multiply, and Apple Pencil opacity pressure at none. Stamped in pink on a hand-drawn envelope, it genuinely reads as a physical stamp.

The five-minute shortcut

If you just want one motif stamp, the Character Design Essentials Bundle shows the compressed version: draw your motif in white, hide the background, share the layer as a PNG, then import it as a Shape source in a new brush with Spacing at maximum. Two extras worth stealing from that lesson: tap Randomized in the Shape settings so each stamp lands with a random rotation, and raise Maximum Size under Properties so the stamp can go big.

What to make with them

Freya's landscape set exists for a reason: the lesson right after it uses those thirteen stamps to build a full meadow scene, flowers and grasses layered in minutes. That's the real payoff of stamp brushes. They turn your most repeated drawing tasks into single taps, and every set you build is yours to keep, reuse, and even sell.

The stamp brush lessons are part of the brush-making section of Freya's Procreate Masterclass, which goes on to cover every Brush Studio setting in detail. If you make a set of your own, share it and tag Freya, she loves seeing what students build.