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!

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!

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!

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!

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

Do you wish you could add more texture to your text for your blog or branding? You can, easily! And the possibilities are endless.

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.

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 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.

Here's how to set up your Wacom Tablet for Illustrator to be able to have fun with brush pen lettering.