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

I’ve had a few requests for advanced tutorials lately, so we’re closing out the year with my most advanced tutorial to date: complex ribbons! If you’re brand new to Procreate, you’ll want to take my free course before tackling this beauty. We’ll be combining selections, masking variations and depth effects, along with determining hierarchy within our ribbon folds. Even if you are a more advanced Procreate user, my hope is that you’ll still learn a few new tricks you can carry with you into the new year 😉

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Beginner, Hand Lettering, iPad Lettering, Tutorials

If you’re just getting started with Procreate – especially after all the recent updates – it’s totally normal to feel a bit overwhelmed! This week, I wanted to do a super simple Procreate tutorial for beginners that will also give you some great insight into the capabilities Procreate now has. In this tutorial, we’ll create 2 easy ribbons in Procreate and you’ll pick up some tips you can use for your future digital artwork, as well. Read on to get started!

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Crafts, Hand Lettering, Holiday, Tutorials, Watercolor

This week, I thought I’d go completely analog with a DIY watercolor ribbon Father’s Day card. I love taking handmade creations digital, but every now and then – especially for sentimental holidays, you can’t really beat 100% handmade 😉 With Father’s Day coming in less than a week, you’ll still have time to seal this in an envelope, stamp it up and get it in a mailbox in time. So, let’s get this card going; all the instructions, materials and full video are below!

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Beginner, Illustrator, Tutorials, vector

If you’re just diving into Illustrator, this week’s tutorial is perfect for beginners! We’ll go over some very basic, but powerful tools that you can use in different ways well into the future. In this tutorial, we create a simple ribbon brush together (from scratch) using Adobe Illustrator. We’ll talk about different brush settings, customizing your ribbon before and afterwards, and even how to save it for future use. Everything you need to get started is below!

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Freebies, Hand Drawn, Illustrator

Today is an especially happy Thursday, because 2 years ago today was the very first Every-Tuesday post! I can’t believe how much has changed in that time and I couldn’t be happier delivering new design goodies and tutorials here every week. Speaking of design goodies – it wouldn’t be a proper birthday without a few design gifts! To celebrate 2 years, this week’s freebie is a set of birthday vectors as an ai, eps and psd for versions of Illustrator and Photoshop, CS3 or newer. See the full preview below!

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Freebies, Hand Drawn, vector

Happy Tuesday! Who doesn’t love a good ribbon? They fit well on practically everything – stationery, web graphics, blog headers, gifts, logos, packaging, etc. And who doesn’t also love options? 😉 To fulfill all of your ribbon style wishes, this week’s freebie is a big one – a set of 20 hand drawn vector ribbons! Every ribbon comes as an ai + eps file for versions of Adobe Illustrator, CS3 or newer. Scale at will, put em on everything, and download them now!

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