Hand Lettering

Class: Beginner Procreate class on Skillshare (use this link for 2 free weeks of Premium; I get one free month per sign up) by Cat Coquillette

I’ve done hand lettering with brush pens and paper in the past, so I was pretty excited for this lesson. So the lesson itself isn’t with a brush pen style paintbrush on Procreate, but I applied what I knew previously about brush lettering to this lesson. Basically making the downstrokes of the letters thicker and the upstrokes thinner as seen in the word “love” in my iterations below.

The first version following the lesson step by step.

Playing around with a different background color.

The text with the dark background feels more noticeable due to the higher contrast of the text colors and the background color. When I first tried this, I really liked it. It feels interesting.

Accidentally discovered how to make very straight lines with assistive drawing when I was playing around with the settings.