Free Mallow Flower Tutorial for Procreate

This free tutorial focuses on a mallow (malva) bloom in Procreate: open petals, gentle value shifts, and clean layering. Download the free files first so your sketch and palette match the demo.

Follow along in the video, then keep the piece as a study or add it to a botanical scene. The brushes used here pair with Twotap’s Effortless Flower Brush Set.

To recreate this flower, we are going to use three brushes from the Effortless Brush Set. Namely, Petal 21 R, Pollen 5, and Stem 5, Make sure that your Dynamic Scaling is turned on when you're using this brush set,  you can find this under Actions > Preferences.

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Step 1: Let's start with a 3000 x 3000-pixel canvas at 300 DPI. Then using the Petal 21 R, draw in a clockwise motion.

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Step 2: Use the Soft Brush from the default Airbrushing Group to draw the middle color.

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Step 3: Now go to the Adjustment Settings > Liquify. Choose Push. Then push the petals inward so that it looks more oval instead of a perfect circle.

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Step 4: Use the Stem 5 brush to draw the stem. And create 4 layers of pollen using the Pollen 5 brush. The color should get darker the closer you get to the middle part of the flower. Add a bit of green in the middle using the Petal Shadow brush and erase sa bit where the pollen should show. Finally use the Stem 5 brush to draw the stem. You can duplicate the flowers or draw them facing away to create variety in the composition.

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There you have it! We've just completed this soft mallow flower tutorial using the premium brushes from the Effortless Flower Brush Set! Please share your versionline and tag Twotap. We love resharing finished studies.

Your mallow study is done. Repeat the petal sequence on a second flower for muscle memory, or jump into another Twotap flower tutorial on the blog.

Continue with the Effortless Flower Brush Set, or level up through a full botanical-friendly course in the catalog.