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DIY Project: Craft an Embroidered Enamel Pin Banner
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to quickly and easily create your own hand-lettered embroidered enamel pin banner using a fun embroidery technique method for black felt.
Create an Embroidered Travel Pincushion
Whether you need a travel pincushion for commutes, vacation, or just for cuteness, this simple hand lettered and embroidered tutorial will give you a nice little solution!
DIY hand lettered coloring book page
It's super easy and so fun to create your own coloring book page! I just launched this course on Skillshare: make sure to check it out and enroll in my newest Skillshare class. This can be whatever you want it to be. For my coloring book page, I started by hand lettering my newborn son's name with block lettering. All I used to do this was a Sharpie marker and printer paper. Then I began to add illustrative and doodle-y details with the sharpie. Next up is digitizing, vectorizing, printing, and finally coloring!
Create simple watercolor wash backgrounds
There are so many things you can do with watercolor backgrounds: hand letter on top of them, cut them out and make some mixed media art, digitize them and use them as watercolor textures, and more. In this video I'll show you a few methods to create easy watercolor backgrounds for your projects, using simple tools that you may already have lying around your house.
How to create faux watercolor hand lettering in Photoshop
If watercolor is part of your brand’s aesthetic, it’s important you learn how to use watercolor in a digital form so you can continue to make branded graphics without having to hire a designer. This will save you time, money, and will add another tool to your creative entrepreneur toolbelt!
Digital Drawing Made Easy with iPad or iPhone and Paper by FiftyThree
Learn how to create digital drawings easily with Paper by FiftyThree app using the transparent background feature. Add handwriting and doodles on top of images using Photoshop and PNG exports.
Easily create a color palette in Illustrator from a photograph
Color palette inspiration can come from anywhere. A lot of times, beautiful, harmoniously-colored photography is a great place to start. In this tutorial, I walk you through the best and most fool-proof way to develop and build a beautiful color palette from a photograph using Illustrator and the crystallize tool.
Create confetti by creating a custom scatter brush in Illustrator
Adding “confetti” to your artwork is a great way to add depth, dimension, and interest. It's easy to create your own confetti in Illustrator. Follow my tutorial to create your own digital confetti by creating a custom scatter brush in Illustrator.
How to create a hand-drawn font with minimal sketching
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how thinking critically about your letterforms is a great way to save time, while simultaneously making your uppercase block letters feel more cohesive.
How to make a watercolor blog header from start to finish
In this tutorial, I'll walk you through how to make a personalized watercolor blog header from start to finish. This particular tutorial features hand lettering too, but feel free to mix and match the sections of the tutorial so you're working with mediums and styles you're comfortable with.
Equipment I use for lettering and illustration
Here are some tools I use to make my life easier for my illustration process and showcasing my work.
Learn how to create your own hand drawn font with me on Skillshare
BIG NEWS GUYS - I'm pumped about this one. A bit ago, Skillshare reached out and asked if I could teach a class on their platform. What? Mind blown! So I said yes, and my class on how to Create your Own Hand Drawn Font is live!
How to make your own font using Glyphs and Illustrator
Have you always wanted to learn how to make your own font? Creating a font is easier than you think. You can learn how to create a font by reading this post. I'll walk you through how to use Glyphs and Illustrator to make your own hand-drawn font that you can use for personal use or to sell for profit!
How to vectorize hand lettering without Photoshop, Illustrator, or a scanner
I've shown you a lot of ways to digitize hand lettering, but most of these involved Photoshop, Illustrator, or a combination of the two. Here’s how to digitize your art and lettering without an Adobe program.
How to add color and texture to your type with Photoshop
Do you wish you could add more texture to your text for your blog or branding? You can, easily! And the possibilities are endless.
How to create 3D hand lettered text in Illustrator
Create 3D hand lettered text with personality. Follow along with this step by step tutorial in Photoshop and Illustrator to achieve a fun effect.
The Paperweight Font - My hand drawn font available for download
The hand drawn, brush calligraphy style Paperweight Font is available for free and for commercial purchase. A couple of other exciting announcements for Hello Brio Studio, too.