Tag: hand lettering

Halloween brushes are on sale now at Etsy

Halloween spooky sale on Etsy

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Halloween is one of few truly great holidays. You don’t have to deal with feuding family members and costume pajamas are perfectly acceptable attire. Not to mention, it’s one of the few occasions when you can eat candy all day and nobody bats an eye. My personal favorite thing about it is that it’s a holiday that celebrates creativity. Halloween is a DIY dream. You can create your own unique costume, decorate your house, and even make your own tasty treats to share with friends.

Recently, I created a Procreate brush pack that’s all about Halloween. It includes several fun lettering brushes and a cool skull pattern brush. You can pick it up on Etsy and Creative Market right now.

But wait, there’s more!

For the next week, you can get all my brushes for 40% off on Etsy with the code AGHALLOWEEN. This means you can get the Halloween brush pack, Shady Lady, the Mandala pack, and even my hand-lettered fonts for 40% off the regular price. This code won’t be around forever, so I’d encourage you to swing by Etsy and get some cool new stuff today!

New brush available – Zig Marker

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Zig Market Procreate brush

I just added one of my oldest brushes, Zig Marker, to my Creative Market or Etsy. I made this brush about a year ago and forgot all about it, but recently revisited it and tweaked the settings until I really loved the look. It reminds me of one of those old, angled markers my mom used to use when she was making garage sale signs.

Here’s an example of something I made with the Zig brush. Check out more on the brush page and download it from Creative Market or Etsy.

When you’re trying out a different #lettering style while watching #rickandmorty. #getschwifty #ipadlettering

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Letter Like a Boss – My Favorite Tutorials for Learning Lettering

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I just recently reached my one-year calligraversary, and I can’t believe how much my lettering has improved. Here’s a quick before and after, if you need proof that practice pays off.
My first hand-lettered post on Instagram:

A recent hand-lettered post on Instagram:

I can't believe how quickly July flew by! #helloaugust #ipadlettering #procreatelettering

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So how did I go from the first one to the second one? Where did I start? What tips and advice can I give to people who are just beginning with lettering?

The number one thing you can do to improve your lettering: practice. I have done some kind of lettering almost every single day for a year. My Camera Roll is filled with photos of lettering I’ve done with Crayola markers, Tombows, and my personal fave, an iPad Pro and Procreate. Practice makes your hand steadier, it gets you used to pressure and speed with a marker or with an Apple Pencil, and it makes you feel more confident to try out something you might have seen online. For me, practice never feels like work. I love lettering, so it’s something I do to mellow out at the end of the day or to take my mind off work during my lunch break. If you really love it, practicing all the time is easy and fun.

Okay, you know you need to practice, but you want to take it a step further and learn some new techniques. My advice: start with YouTube. Almost everything I learned about using Procreate on iPad Pro came from watching YouTube tutorials. I have lots of favorites, but here are a few I found particularly helpful… Continue reading →

Quick tutorial – Adding textures to existing lettering in Procreate

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You’ve done all your lettering on one layer, but now you want to apply a foil texture to part of it and not the entire layer. Don’t worry! You can separate out the words and apply foil where you want without having to worry about recoloring or erasing anything. This quick tutorial takes you step-by-step through the process.

Pick up my foil texture mandala kit on Creative Market or Etsy to try this technique with a beautiful mandala stamp, and view my first tutorial about adding texture to a layer here. Continue reading →