Beautiful Lettering in Procreate

Are your letters at the party, but they’re not dancing?

This isn’t your ‘how to letter along a guideline’ kind of class.

This is a ‘break the rules, inject personality and create endless original lettering styles’ kind of class.

Where your letters don’t just sit pretty on a baseline, they bounce, dip, flourish and glide along, below and above it.

What you will learn in Beautiful lettering in Procreate

EXPAND YOUR SKILLS

What you’ll learn in this course

Foundational Lettering Principles

Understand all the rules before you break ‘em

Breaking the Rules

Strategically break traditional rules to alter dynamics and add more character

Bounce Lettering

Add energy by using the natural rhythm of the letters to create baseline bounce

Shifting Weights

Alter emphasis and meaning with custom rules where stroke weight is added

Adding Embellishments

Enhance meaning + style with several embellishment options

Emphasis with Style

Create focus + hierarchy by adding emphasis to specific words via style

Flourishing Essentials

Flourishing guidelines with practice demos, cheat sheets and a full project

Establishing your Style

Several unique exercises for finding and developing your unique styles

Imitate Exercise

How to be inspired by other styles to find your own and develop new, original styles

Lettering with Emotion

Convey the right feeling with your lettering by evaluating specific letter characteristics

Mixing Styles

Choose the best styles to pair together based on the message you’re conveying

Exporting + Recoloring Lettering

Easily adjust your lettering’s color and export it for future use

CUSTOM LETTERING BRUSHES

24 lettering brushes included with your enrollment

This set was specifically designed to practice lettering and then become proficient with it. With 12 unique style brushes in a practice and pro format, you’re ready to elevate your lettering with this single set.

Extended License included, so you can sell unlimited artwork created with the brushes.

All practice brushes include pressure responding color dynamics, so you can monitor your downstroke and upstroke weight for consistent, beautiful strokes. The pro brush versions eliminate the dynamics and reduce streamline, perfect for when you’re lettering faster and your muscle memory is refined.

Monoweight

Signature

Brush Lettering

Inky Edge

Rough Sketch

Pencil

Mono Pencil

Tuesday Watercolor

Streaky Paint

Blunt Crayon

Big Marker

Dried Ink

CUSTOM GUIDE BRUSHES

10 Lettering Guide Brushes included with your enrollment

Need a lettering guide fast? Paint one in whenever you need it with this set of 10 unique brushes. 7 Guide brushes are included with altered x-height, ascenders and descenders to enhance style, as well as an italic, subtle italic and vertical pattern brush so all of your angles stay consistent.

Lettering Guide Anatomy

Standard

Taller X-Height

Shorter X-Height

Taller Ascenders + Descenders

Extra Tall Ascenders + Descenders

Short Ascenders + Descenders

Extra Short Ascenders + Descenders

Italics

Subtle Italics

Vertical

GOING DIGITAL

Why Beautiful Lettering in Procreate?

Instantly Reusable

No scanning your lettering into a computer or cutting out background paper textures in Photoshop. Since it’s already digital, it’s ready to be used in countless, unlimited applications.

Unlimited Paper + Supplies

Save money and time from experimenting with pricey lettering supplies and wasted paper; an unlimited art supply is packed right into Procreate.

Letter from Anywhere

With just an iPad and a stylus, you have everything you need to create beautiful lettering no matter where you are.

Extra Vibrancies

Digital lettering can utilize color vibrancies beyond traditional art supplies because you’re working in the RGB (light) spectrum vs. CMYK (pigment).

No Mess, No Clean Up

Need to start over? Simply create a new layer and you’re ready to go. No wasted art supplies or time consuming cleanups.

Instantly Shareable

Because everything is already digital, just export the file type you need and within seconds you can be posting it on social media or sharing it with others.

CLASS PROJECTS

8 Beautiful Lettering Style Developing Projects

Project 1

We perfect bounce lettering in Project one with an assignment to add bounce to any 3 spices you’d like.

Project 2

Shifting weights is one of the most impactful ways to add style by intentionally breaking traditional lettering rules.

Project 3

By adding simple embellishments, a message can be enhanced substantially; no illustration background required!

Project 4

When you establish hierarchy in a lettering composition, it’s important to emphasize your most meaningful words. In this assignment, we alter style and add what we’ve learned in the class to this point to deliver a beautiful layout.

Project 5

Flourishing can take any word to a more beautiful and dynamic place. In this assignment, we test that by turning an ugly word beautiful using only flourishing essentials.

Project 6

Style informs feeling. For this project’s assignment, we take a two word phrase and we give it different meaning by only changing the lettering style.

Project 7

Mixing styles in a lettering layout can create visual breaks, focus and emphasis to make a message more impactful.

Project 8

We bring everything together from what we learned in the course in this final lettering layout project.

BONUS Project: 1

The first of 4 bonus lettering layouts provided in a tutorial-style format, so you can see different scenarios fully and why certain choices are made.

BONUS Project: 2

The second of 4 bonus lettering layouts provided in a tutorial-style format, so you can see different scenarios fully and why certain choices are made.

BONUS Project: 3

The third of 4 bonus lettering layouts provided in a tutorial-style format, so you can see different scenarios fully and why certain choices are made.

BONUS Project: 4

The final bonus lettering layout provided in a tutorial-style format, so you can see different scenarios fully and why certain choices are made.

your instructor

Hey, I'm Teela

I help creatives build and improve their digital skills to open new opportunities.

If you’re familiar with Every Tuesday, then you know my love for lettering, design and illustration runs deep. In fact, in the last 7 years, I’ve taught over 200,000 students and my tutorials on YouTube have accumulated over 20 million views.

I love sharing what I’ve learned throughout my career and motivating others to create something new every week.

Beginner Friendly and 100% Self Paced

Enrollment includes pre-recorded videos with lifetime access to all of them

Take the course at your own pace whenever it works with your schedule. There’s no pressure to finish anything within a certain amount of time.

This course was made with beginners in mind. Even if you’ve never hand lettered before or opened up Procreate, you’ll be able to follow along as long as you watch each lesson in order. The class increases in complexity as it progresses, so there's something for everyone.

And with lifetime access, you can refer back to it and watch it as many times as you’d like.

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Module 1

Getting Started

Class Overview
6:42
Bonuses Location + Install Instructions
4:16
How to Use the Beautiful Lettering Brushes
6:32
How to Use the Lettering Guides Brushes
6:14
DO THIS BEFORE STARTING THE CLASS! DON'T SKIP!
2:19

Module 2

Lettering Foundations: Understanding the Rules

Rhythm Exercise
9:04
Core Strokes
10:16
Simple Script Practice
10:27
Different ways to practice
3:11

Module 3

Breaking the Rules + Adding Personality

Bounce Lettering Basics
13:20
Bounce Lettering Practice: Part 1
11:55
Bounce Lettering Practice: Part 2
8:36
Bounce Lettering: Project 1
10:47
Shifting Weights
5:21
Shifting Weights: Project 2
5:56
Adding Embellishments: Part 1
13:29
Adding Embellishments: Part 2
10:12
Adding Embellishments: Project 3
3:20
Emphasis with Style
6:36
Emphasis with Style: Project 4, Part 1
9:47
Emphasis with Style: Project 4, Part 2
6:36

Module 4

BONUS: Flourishing Essentials

Basic Flourishing Guidelines
9:49
Flourishing Practice: Part 1
6:11
Flourishing Practice: Part 2
15:22
Flourishing Essentials: Project 5
4:59

Module 5

Establishing Your Style

Imitate Exercise: Part 1
12:08
Imitate Exercise: Part 2
11:19
Emotion Basics
9:06
Emotion Practice
4:26
Emotion: Project 6
2:57
Mixing Styles
7:20
Mixing Styles: Project 7
11:11
Lettering Layout/Final Project: Project 8, Part 1
13:34
Lettering Layout/Final Project: Project 8, Part 2
13:34

Module 6

Finishing Up

Bonus: The Making of 4 Lettering Compositions
15:18
Bonus: Exporting Artwork
3:31
DO THIS LAST! DON'T SKIP!
1:54
Next Steps + Thank You
2:29

Beautiful Lettering Brush Set

The full Procreate brush set (24 brushes!) are included with your enrollment, so you can follow along exactly. 12 unique style brushes with a practice version and pro version make up this set; use the practice versions to perfect your thicks and thins with color dynamics and the pro when you’re ready to level up.

Extended License of Beautiful Lettering Brushes

An extended license of the brush set ($30 value) is included, so you can create unlimited artwork now and in the future with full permissions to sell it.

Lettering Guides Brush Set

Paint in guides and oblique lines quickly with this set of 10 guide brushes ($10 value)! Set includes 7 different guides providing you the flexibility to add exaggeration to your letterforms where you want it most. 3 oblique pattern brushes are also included: vertical, subtle italic and italic, so you can paint them on top of any preferred guide.

Lesson Cheat Sheets

A cheat sheet of what was taught for each style-enhancing method is included, so you can have them handy, whenever you’re practicing or working on your next lettering project.

Core Stroke Practice Sheets

Get the basic lettering forms down quickly with this practice sheet and learn how to integrate those strokes within all of your future lettering.

Simple Script Practice Sheets

Learn standard script lettering with this set of Procreate-specific practice sheets! Includes uppercase, lowercase, numbers and simple phrases.

Tuesday Freestyle Lettering Practice Sheets

A bonus set of free practice sheets ($10 value). Once you have Simple Script perfected, practice your thicks and thins in a loose, freestyle modern script style with these practice sheets. Uppercase, lowercase, numbers and simple phrases are provided.

8 Project Cards

A Procreate project card file is included for each course project with the assignment and example lettering options provided. Follow along using the card to create your own projects!

3 Color Swatches

3 color swatch files are provided so you can follow along with each lesson and project exactly. These work perfectly with the practice style Beautiful Lettering brushes for vibrant/eye candy outcomes!

Create custom modern lettering styles that are unique to you.

By utilizing traditional lettering guidelines, we’re able to create custom and strategic new rules that alter our styles, inject personality and create cravable, eye candy outcomes. Because each rule you create is tailored to your own lettering interests and goals, your styles stay authentic to you.

Follow along as each lettering method adds new options for you, leading to a final lettering composition injected with style and meaning. In addition to the 8 class projects, you’ll also learn how to try out new lettering color combinations non destructively and export your digital lettering for infinite future use.

Your enrollment includes:

6 Modules

38 Videos

Over 5 Hours

HD step-by step videos

Beautiful Lettering Brush Set (24 brushes)

Brush Set Extended License ($30 value)

Lettering Guide Brush Set (10 brushes)

Style Method Cheat Sheets

Core Strokes Practice Sheet

Simple Script Practice Sheets

Tuesday Freestyle Practice Sheets

8 Procreate Project Cards

3 Course Color Swatches

Flourishing Essentials Module

Bonus: Exporting Artwork

Successfully completing this course requires:

Procreate App(v. 5.1.8 or newer)

This course was created using v.5.1.8, so you’ll need to be on that version or newer to follow along. The iPad version of Procreate is recommended for this course.

Apple iPad

Because we utilize the pressure sensitivity of our custom lettering brushes, you’ll need to have an iPad that supports pressure sensitivity. A list of iPads that offer this are available here.

An iPad Stylus(pressure sensitive)

We’re utilizing pressure sensitivity in the lettering we create, so you’ll need a stylus that is compatible with your iPad. I recommend the Apple Pencil, as many 3rd party styluses can be unreliable.

HERE TO HELP

Frequently Asked Questions

Do you offer any refunds or guarantees?

Yep! If you finish the course and feel you haven’t learned anything new, email me within 14 days of purchase for a full refund.

How long can I access the course for?

Forever! As long as Every Tuesday exists, this course will be available to watch. Take it at whatever pace you’d like, watch whenever, wherever and as many times as you’d like.

Is this a live or pre-recorded course?

This course is entirely pre-recorded, so you can take it whenever it works best with your schedule.

Does this class come with subtitles/closed captions?

Yep! There are English subtitles available for all videos.

I’m new to hand lettering, is this course meant for beginners?

It is! You’ll want to spend more time practicing the foundations before moving onto breaking foundational rules, but everything is included that you need to know to get started.

I’m new to Procreate, will I be able to follow along?

You will! We use all basic Procreate tools within the course and everything is explained in detail as you go. If anything is ever unclear, refer to my free Procreate for Beginners course which includes every tool explanation in detail that is used throughout the course.

Do I need to have an iPad to take this course?

This course was fully recorded using the Procreate app on an iPad, so it’s recommended that you have a pressure sensitive iPad to follow along.

Do I need any special Procreate brushes to create these projects?

You can use any brushes you’d like, but all brushes shown in the course are provided with your enrollment.

I noticed there’s a similar course offered on Skillshare. What’s the difference?

The course on Skillshare is an intro version of this course that only includes the first 3 lessons. For a full comparison of the two versions, please view this chart.

What will I need to take this class?

You’ll need a pressure sensitive iPad (any of these will work), a compatible pressure sensitive stylus (the Apple Pencil is recommended) and the Procreate app installed (version 5.1.8 or newer).

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