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Add Digital Stickers to Notability for Digital Planning and Journaling
Here’s how to use digital stickers in your digital journal or planner in Notability.
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!
Easy Baby DIY Project for a Changing Table Pad for the IKEA Sniglar
We purchased an IKEA SNIGLAR changing table for our newborn son. Turns out the the changing table pad was too big. I found a DIY and am now sharing that with you! With some scissors, sewing clips and thread, I made the changing pad so it would fit in our furniture. Follow along with this step-by-step DIY and budget-friendly project.
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!
Create a blog header with pre-drawn illustrations, clip art, and fonts
In this week's quick tutorial, I'm going to show you how to make your blog header using existing illustrations/clip art and an existing font. The hand-drawn look is awesome, but I realize not everyone wants to make graphics from scratch!
Make your own hand lettered blog header: design tutorial in Photoshop
Creating your own hand lettered blog header is a lot easier than it sounds. Plus, it's fun! There's something super rewarding in getting your hands dirty and creating your own blog graphics. There are a lot of hand lettering styles you can try to create your blog header. For this tutorial, I'll be working with the popular handwritten style, because I think it's a great personalized option for lifestyle blogs. Learn how to add black and white lettering, or even colorize your work to match your blog's color scheme!
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.
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 watermark your blog photos quickly, plus a Photoshop tutorial video
You worked hard to create your blog images. Do you really want someone stealing your hard work? It's a good idea to watermark your photos and images so that you will get credit for your images in the future.
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.
Blog commenting isn’t dead: Optimize your communication with a branded photo
Always wanted to get your beautiful face to show up next to your comments, but never knew how? In a couple of easy steps, you’ll be rolling in no time.
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.
Hand lettering styles: block lettering tutorial
The beauty of a block hand lettering style is that you don't have to outline your letters perfectly from scratch. If you're using a pencil, you can start with the overall structure of the letters and then later go around and ink or darken the outermost edges.
Illustrator and hand lettering tutorial: brush calligraphy using a Wacom tablet
Here's how to set up your Wacom Tablet for Illustrator to be able to have fun with brush pen lettering.