My iPad was acting super weird over the past few weeks. I kept getting the “iPad storage full” message, even though I knew I had at least 30 gigs of free space on it and whenever I tried to open the Settings app, the whole thing would crash. After researching for days, I concluded that the only thing to do was a full backup/restore. I’ve had this iPad for a couple years now and have thousands of Procreate canvases on it, so I was terrified of losing it all, but I knew it might be the only way to get by favorite Apple device working again.

This weekend, I manually backed up all my Procreate brushes and canvases just in case the iCloud backup didn’t work. Then I erased the iPad, started the iCloud restore, and hoped for the best. It took a full four freaking days for Procreate to load from the iCloud backup (the icon was grayed out and I couldn’t open it) but once it was done, everything was exactly where it should be. So happy to not have to manually restore all that stuff! The “storage full” message is gone and I have almost a third of the total storage space free again. I have no idea what the problem was in the first place, but it’s such a ginormous relief to have my iPad back and to be able to do some lettering on that big screen again!

To celebrate, I’m releasing two new free brushes here and here. The first one is the stipple brush I used in this piece and the second is a dot brush I used for this one:

Today’s #HOMwork is for the little things that make your day. My tiny moment of joy is when some of the amazing letterers I follow like something I post on Instagram. I really love the whole lettering community on here, so it’s amazing to interact with people who inspire me so much. #ipadlettering #procreatelettering #ipadprolettering #handlettering #lettering #letteringpractice #calligrabesties #calligrabuddies #letteringcommunity

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