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December 2022

Animation, Freebies, Hand Drawn, Hand Lettering, Holiday, Illustration, Intermediate, Procreate, Tutorials

Just a few more days left in 2022! To ring in the new year this week, I’ve got a glittery new year’s firework animation for you! ✨

This is a beginner to intermediate animation tutorial, so if you’ve taken my free Procreate for Beginners class, you’ll have no trouble following along. I’ve sized it perfectly for Instagram reels, but please feel free to adjust it however you’d like!

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Advanced, Freebies, Gouache, Hand Drawn, Hand Lettering, Holiday, Illustration, Procreate, Tutorials

I’ve been playing around with my new Bouquet Maker brush set non stop lately and combining it with some of my past brush sets to see what I could come up with. Once I started experimenting with the gouache set, I knew I had to share this process! 

This one’s definitely on the more advanced side, but if you’ve taken my new Flat Florals course or my free Procreate for Beginners course, you’ll be all set for it!

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Color, Freebies, Hand Drawn, Hand Lettering, Holiday, Illustration, Intermediate, Patterns, Procreate, Tutorials

Our daughter’s birthday is December 28th (she’ll be 4 this year!) and she knows as soon as ‘the leaves are off the trees and the lights are up’ it means her birthday is getting close 🥰 Spence and I never used to decorate right after Thanksgiving, but now that we’ve got a little one that the lights mean so much to, we’re on it like clockwork. Since we’ll be shivering on ladders in a few days, it felt only fitting to share that holiday tradition in tutorial form this week 🤩

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Animation, Freebies, Hand Drawn, Hand Lettering, Holiday, Illustration, Intermediate, Procreate, Tutorials

I’ve been playing around with several different Halloween-themed animations, trying to pick the right one for this year (here’s last year’s!), but once I landed on this one, I knew it was the one. It’s definitely a little different than what you usually see from me, but the (surprisingly easy) animated flame/smoke effect was something I couldn’t resist sharing. 

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Beginner, Freebies, Hand Drawn, Illustration, Procreate, Quick Tip, Tutorials

At some point in Procreate, most of us have experienced the frustration when we realize we painted more than we should have on the same layer. This is especially painful when you’d like to put an element behind one and in front of the other. If this is final artwork, then redrawing would be required to maintain line quality, but if you’re trying out some ideas, there’s a quick way to convert that flattened artwork into layers in Procreate that I wanted to share.

This tip works best for solid colored artwork (vs. gradients/shading) and it’s a process you can easily adapt for replicating elements, too!

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Color, Freebies, Hand Drawn, Hand Lettering, Illustration, Intermediate, Patterns, Procreate, Tutorials

The *slightly* cooler almost-fall temps here in Georgia have been dreamy this past week. We took a bunch of nice (humidity free!) walks and even visited Gibbs Gardens for the first time (highly recommend!). I felt so inspired after the trip to Gibbs that of course I spent hours doodling flowers afterwards. It also got me thinking about the different ways to use that floral artwork and that’s where today’s tutorial comes in 🌼

This week I’m sharing not only how to paint a sketchy style fall bouquet (no drawing experience necessary!), but how to save it out as a transparent graphic and then how to use that graphic on 3 different applications. So it’s basically 5 tutorials in one: paint a fall bouquet, save it as a transparent graphic, then how to make 3 different designs with it. Get ready for lots of fun this week! 🤩 

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Color, Freebies, Hand Drawn, Illustration, Intermediate, Procreate, Textures, Tutorials, Watercolor

The other night I felt like Procreate playing – no set plan in mind, I just wanted to make something pretty with the messy watercolor brushes. I haven’t shared a Procreate abstract art tutorial (until today!), so I was extra excited when this messy watercolor background came together organically + quickly!

In the video, you’ll see how easy it is to make any kind of abstract watercolor backgrounds with the brushes, but what I’m *most* excited about is one of the biggest procreate tips I’ve shared to date. You know how Procreate crops off any artwork that goes beyond the edges of your canvas? Well, I’ve got a workaround that you’ll want to use + remember! 😉

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Color, Freebies, Hand Drawn, Hand Lettering, Illustration, Intermediate, iPad Lettering, Procreate, Resources, Tutorials

I love experimenting with simple illusions in Procreate – especially when it comes to paper and stationery. My latest idea was to see if I could create a peeling paper effect and apply it to typography. Once I got it working the way I imagined it, I couldn’t wait to share it with you! This one is wayyyy easier than it looks, too – aren’t those always the best? 😉

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Beginner, Color, Freebies, Hand Drawn, Hand Lettering, Illustration, Procreate, Resources, Tutorials

To celebrate my new hand drawn envelope stamp set, this week, we’re making some envelope art! And if you’ve been here for any length of time, you already know that means we’re bringing florals to the party 🌸

I couldn’t pick a favorite project, so this week’s tutorial is 3 put together 😂These are all beginner friendly and quick to create!

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Animation, Beginner, Freebies, Hand Drawn, Hand Lettering, Holiday, Illustration, Intermediate, Procreate, Tutorials

It’s been far too long since I’ve shared an animation tutorial, so this week, we’re creating an easy birthday sparkler! If you have a basic to intermediate understanding of Procreate, but haven’t explored animating yet, this tutorial was made for you 🙂

We’ll start by creating our base illustration, then create a new canvas and set the flattened artwork as our background layer. Next, we’ll start creating our different frames and I’ll share my favorite animation + export settings so it’ll be ready to share once finished! 💥

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Color, Freebies, Gouache, Hand Drawn, Illustration, Procreate, Quick Tip, Resources, Tutorials

I discovered this trick a couple weeks ago and I couldn’t wait to make a quick tip video (less than 3 minutes!) to share it! If you use reference images (or any temporary image to influence your work) in Procreate, you’ve probably noticed it’s always a part of the timelapse replay. Well, not anymore!

This week, I’m sharing how to guarantee no image you use in any of your Procreate artwork will ever appear in the timelapse replays – it’s a realllllly simple step that you’ll want to use for everything going forward!

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Advanced, Freebies, Hand Drawn, Hand Lettering, Illustration, Procreate, Tutorials

3D lettering is definitely up there with my favorite things to make in Procreate. I tried out a new dry media brush set this week from Envato Elements, and once I tried some 3D lettering experiments with the brushes, I was hooked. The texture is so beautifully varied that the ideas just started to flow once I started to play. For this week’s tutorial, I’m sharing one of my favorite results! 

We’ll be adding more complex details to the lettering like an outer stroke, inner shadow, and cast shadow, so if you need to slow me down at all, hit the gear icon in the bottom right of YouTube’s player + adjust the playback speed 😉

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