Draw with me in Procreate: 70s Text Effects

1. Introduction: Welcome, creative minds. Get ready to transport yourself back to the colorful and groovy era of the '70s where posters, album covers, and advertisements were bursting with vibrant colors at captivating design. Hi. I'm Utash Naida [phonetic], a teacher, illustrator, and designer based in Germany and in this class, I share my secrets on how to create three different '70s text effects using Procreate. Whether you're looking to add the special something to your editorial design, create unique greeting cards, or just have fun with lettering, I have got your covered. You'll learn how to infuse your designs with energy and personality by mastering the last use of colors and intriguing shapes that defined the '70s art style. With my guidance and all the resources you need, you'll be creating, stunning and timeless artwork that will never go out of style. This class comes in lunchbox size, perfect to add a dose of creativity to your busy day. Take a break, grab your iPad, and let's get groovy, plus don't forget to participate in my spring drawing challenge over on Instagram where you can showcase your new skills. Are you ready to unleash your creativity and step back in time to the '70s? Then join me in class and let's get started. 2. Class Project: For your class project, I would like you to upload one or all of the styles you drew during this class. You can upload them in the projects and resources tab by hitting the Create Project button. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced artist, this project tab is a perfect platform to showcase your art and receive constructive feedback from your peers. If you participate in my spring aspirational drawing challenge, you can update your project daily with your artwork of the day. I will check your projects regularly for newly added pieces. By sharing your project, you not only enable me to give constructive feedback on your art, but you also show potential new students, whether or not this class is of interest for them. Not to forget about that, seeing what you create from the content you've learned in my classes always excites me as a teacher, and I'm sure it will inspire and motivate others as well. Let's get started and unleash your creativity. I can't wait to see your unique and beautiful artwork in the project section. 3. Resources: To achieve the same at work as I do, I added several resources which you can find on the skillshare.com website, not in the app under the Projects and Resources tab. In case you don't know how to download and install these files, I recommend you to check out my movie sized classes where I explain that in detail. This class comes with a fan 70s font, a brush set, and two color palettes. The other two fonts we're going to use can be found on Google Fonts. You'll find the links to these fonts also here in the Projects and Resources article. There's the Oleo script and the Monoton font. I recommend downloading and installing everything before you start the next lesson to be able to draw along with me. You'll also find two PNG files, these belong to my springspirational drawing challenge I host on Instagram. They can turn further information about the drawing challenge itself as well as the prompts. I will talk about my drawing challenge and the benefits of a daily drawing habit at the end of this class. Are you ready now? Then let's get those creative juices flowing. 4. First Effect: Let's get started with our first design now. What I did is, I opened Procreate and I started a new canvas with the dimension 3,000 by 4,000 pixels. This size doesn't really matter though. If you plan on sharing most of your artwork on Instagram, you might want to go with a square canvas, but again it doesn't really matter what size it is. First step is now we can attend to our background and I want to explain quickly about my color palettes. I have these little blocks of colors added and those are each one pallete on their own. Here's one, here's one, here's one, and here's one. Also, this is one pallete, this is one pallete, and this is one pallete. For our first basic design, we're going to go with this one and I want to tint the background in this honey mustard dish, yellow tone. Next step, is obviously, we're going to add some text. We go to the wrench tool and we say, add and add texts. And, of course, to have it visible, we want to pick the second color, the light tone. Tap the text again, tap those two A's to get to the font library. Here's the font you've downloaded. Don't stop the '70s and this is what we're going to pick. We can adjust the size a little bit and also the window. That should be fine. And then, we tap the keyboard symbol and start typing the word, groovy. We tap this little arrow sign here and adjust the size and rotate it a little bit and put it in the middle. That's fine. One basic characteristic of the '70s style is that all the letters look like block letters. They have this very long shadow or echo or whatever you want to call it. This is what I'm going to show you here in this first design because we need it for every other design as well. It's the basic technique. We're going to start with an outline to our font here. So for that, we need to duplicate this layer and we're going to pick the bottom groovy layer, the A here marks that it's a font that we see so we still can adjust the letters. We want to change the color to the dark tone here. I picked this dark greenish tone. Next is, we need to apply some Gaussian blur. We find that under the magic wand, we pick Gaussian Blur and swipe with our Apple pencil to the right until we reach, let's say, 11, 12%. We disable the magic wand, and now we go to the Selection tool. We need to make sure that we have, automatic, selected and then we tap just somewhere in the background. Now, we can see everything all around the letters is selected. The background plus some of the Gaussian Blur was selected. This area here, indoors around the letters here, that marks the area which is later going to be filled with color, and we can adjust it by swiping to the right. That's makes it a little bit smaller, and I guess that's enough of the outline. The next step is super important. We need to invert our selection. Right now, everything all around the letters is selected but we want to select everything like the letters themselves, so we just invert it. Now we see this everything all around the letters is selected. Let's go to our layers panel and add a new layer and say, Fill Layer. Boom, here we have a nice outline all around our letters. We can delete the groovy layer, and now we're going to work with this Layer 4. This is what we need to duplicate now. We just swipe it to the left and choose duplicate, and then place the duplicate on the bottom. Now, we choose our duplicate, which is on the bottom now, go to the arrow, move it to the bottom right. Now you can see it appears already three-dimensional. There's just those gaps that doesn't really work, but we're going to fix that now. So we need to go and pick a brush, tap the brush symbol, and here we are in my brush set. You'll find some Sketchers, you find the nice liner, and you find some brushes that drove with more than just one line, maybe you want to use them later, and you'll find a nice flower stamp which you can use for your background. But what we're going to pick now is the nice liner. You can see, it's coming with a 70% of streamline. You can adjust that if you want to. I don't like too much streamline, and also, I don't like too much stabilization, so I'm going to go with this amount of streamline and this 14% of stabilization. But again, you can go with your own liking. We make sure we are still on the bottom layer. We are, we adjust our brush size a little bit. Now, what we need to do is we need to match those areas here and fill them with color. I'm going to show you here at this wide. I'm just taking the widest curve of the top layer and match it with the widest curve of the bottom layer. Then I'm just going to fill that with color. Now, you see this looks like one really thick letter. This is what I'm going to do all around the letters, but as speed up the video, you can follow along in your own pace. And here we go, our first groovy word, three-dimensional is done. Since it looks a bit simple, but '70s posters usually are really lash, really overflowing with effects. We want to add a little glowing effect underneath our word, so, we tap the bottom layer, the yellow one, and we add another layer. We choose a light color again and with our nice liner we draw a circle, this size, it doesn't really matter, and we fill it with color. We try to place it somewhere in the middle. That's what we did and now we apply Gaussian blur again. Magic wand, Gaussian blur, swipe to the right till you get this nice glow here. I'm at 74% and if it's too light for our liking, we can adjust the opacity by just tapping this little n here on the same layer and just turn down the opacity a little bit. Here we have a nice glowing first text effect gun so let's continue in our next video. 5. Second Effect: Here we have with our second text effect. Again, I started a new Canvas, 3,000 by 4,000 pixels. We don't need too many layers anyway. It can be a very big size because of better quality. This time, I'm using this color palette here is the bottom one of the Text Effect 2 palette, the bottom one here. I'm going to tint my background in this beige color. Now, I want to add those rays all around the Canvas. We're going to use the symmetry tool for that. Let's first add a new layer. Go to the wrench icon, pick Canvas drawing guide, and then edit drawing guide. We want to go with symmetry but change the options. We want to go radial and we want to enable the rotational symmetry. You're going to see what that does next. Let's first tap Done. Pick a dark color. That's what I added those black shades here for. Then a nice liner is okay, we just go with a pretty small size. Now, we just add some lines going from the outside towards the middle but we need to make sure we start at the longest spot to get them everywhere we want so that doesn't really look super fancy and I see we didn't go all until the edge here. So I'm adding some more. That should add everything everywhere. Since we have the symmetry tool enabled, but we can check now. Are all the lines around along to the edge? Yes, they are. This is going to be our reference layer now. I'm going to show you what that means. I tap this layer and here we will find the word reference. Now, like in a coloring book, I just can fill areas with the color drop tool here and doesn't need to pay attention if it goes over the edge or if it's a crooked line or wonky, we just fill areas in a new layer. Add another layer, and start picking our first color. We are using all of them in any order you like. I want to start with yellow and now I just grab the dot and let go. You can see just this area within these lines is filled with color. Next one, I want to leave empty and I always just want to go alternating. Next is my orange tone. If I turn off the reference layer, we see we have those perfect rays. That looks fantastic. Let's go on all around the Canvas. Here we go. Our rays look super cool. Let's turn off the drawing guide that we're not getting irritated by those gray lines here. I really like that. I just find right now the colors are a little bit too bold and too bright. I want to turn down the opacity a little bit and check how that looks. Now that I don't like that, but I wanted to have them a little bit lighter and toned down. We can go to our magic wand tool and choose Use Saturation Brightness. Now we can turn it a little bit lighter and go a little bit down with a saturation. That's already quite nice. I'm just not super happy with this turquoise because I think it really burns in my eyes. Let's pick that tune here. Go to our disk and pull it a little bit towards the gray. Fill it again and now it's not that bright any longer. That looks much better, hey, turn the reference of, yes I'm really happy with this background now. Let's go ahead and write our text. Make sure we are in the top layer. We can also delete this layer here now, we don't need it any longer. Then the reference doesn't interfere with our next steps. Let's go to the wrench tool, let's say add, add text, and go to those two little as. Now we want to choose the Oleo Front we downloaded at Google Fonts. Google Fonts is very convenient. They all come with a license you can use for both commercial and also private work, which is really important to check before you get a new font. All the fonts you download on Google Fonts are for both commercial and private use. Let's pick the Oleo Script. Of course, we need to make little bit larger here. That should be fine. But I also want to choose my lightest turquoise tone here and type in boogie. Let's move this to the middle. Now, we need to duplicate our bottom layer again because we want to create a light outline around our letters. Let's do the same steps as we did in the previous technique. We duplicate the layer, we tap it, and we pick a light color for it. Let's go with this light tone here in this top palette, and then tap the layers again and rasterize. Now, go to the wand, Gaussian blur, blur it to, let's say 12%. Go to the selection, select the background, adjust the thickness. If you don't want the inner areas here being selected, you can tap them. Here we go. Don't forget to hit Invert. Add a new layer and tap Fill Layer. Here we go with our outline. Delete the Gaussian blur, go get a nice liner, and just draw where we need a little bit more outline and that's okay. We can delete the Gaussian blur that we don't get confused. What we're going to do now is we work with this white layer and duplicate it. Put the duplicate towards the bottom. We tap it again and say Select, pick the darkest green tone and we say Fill Layer. What I want to create is a shade towards the bottom that narrows down at the very end a little bit. Let's move this dark green boogie layer towards the bottom. Here, it's better to have snapping disabled because we can move it a little bit better. Now I'm going to go ahead all around and make sure that we match those layers together, the white one and the dark green one. I make sure I am on the dark gray layer, pick my nice liner and just match those lines. Since we added already those matching lines, we want to make sure that we work with this layer and always duplicate this layer now, because it saves us a bit of time. We're going to duplicate it three more times now and always give it a different color. Let's say duplicate. Move it to the bottom, select and fill with dark orange and move it towards the bottom. We need to make sure that the lines meet perfectly, then we don't have to work. That looks super now. Now we're going to make sure that our shade, or echo or whatever it is, goes towards the center a little bit. We need to make sure that they all meet perfectly well and we're happy with how it looks because we're going to merge down all four shady layers here by just pinching them all together. Now I'm going to select that and tap the arrow and make sure I have warp enabled. Now I can move it a little bit towards the center, on both sides just towards the center. I just need to make sure that the ends are still connected. We need to move a little bit here and there. Here we see it goes to the center. I really like that. What we need now is, I want to add a little bit of a shade now to just make it more visible towards the background. Let's go ahead and turn all the three layers into a group. What I did, I just swipe to the right to mark them blue and then tap Group and that turns all three layers into one group. I'm going to duplicate this group and flatten it. Now I'm going to put it towards the bottom, on top of the rays, and select it. Pick a black color and say Fill Color. Now we add some Gaussian blur. Again, the magic wand Gaussian blur, and blur it as much as we like. Then move it a little bit towards the bottom. We can turn it back to uniform. If it's a bit too dark, we just play with the opacity grade. Now, we move the shady layer and our group we mark them both, pick our arrow and move it into the middle. Turn on snapping and make sure we have it in the center. Our text effect Number 2 is done. Let's continue in our next video with our last design. See you there. 6. Third Effect: Here we are with our third design, which is going to be a very vibrant one and very colorful one. Typical '70s, lush and overflowing. What we start first is we're going to give our first layer a black color, and then we add something like a rainbow on top. This is going to be our background. That's what we can use those five-liner for, in this case. You could go with three lines or four lines and you can see what I mean in a second. Let's just turn that white. We're going to use from our text effects to the top color palette for now. I want to pick white and make sure it's the biggest size, although it's not big enough for my liking at the moment. Let's go pick the brush, pick five-layer, tap it again, and go to properties. Here you can change the maximum size. Let's go up to 350 and tap done. Let's see if it's big enough now. Could still have a little bit. So turn up the size to 500, done. Let's add a new layer now and start. Yes, this is big enough. Let's have it snap into a perfect line. If we put down a finger, it's going to be perfectly vertical. Let's move it into the center and now I want those bottom parts to bend outwards a little bit. We're going to go and tap our arrow again, mark warp, and then we just pull those little nodes here to the outside a little bit. We just eyeball that it's symmetrical. Here we go, we have this gorgeous little whatever rainbow thingy in the background. But I just want to give each stripe another color. Let's go and start with pink, and just let go on this stripe itself. I like it. Next, what are we going to do is we write a word and this time I want to write peace. Let's go to the wrench. Let's add a text, but we want to make sure it's white and this time we're going to pick the third font we downloaded from Google font. It's called monotone. Here we go. It's a stripy font. Let's see. That should be it. Go to the keyboard and tap PEACE, make sure we use capitals only. Tap it and move it to the center. Of course, this is a bit boring. So what we want to do is we add some shade in this direction now, also in different rainbow colors. We need to make sure that we duplicate the peace layer, but give it a solid color and I'll show you what I mean by that. Let's duplicate our peace layer. Choose the bottom one, turn the color to purple, and now we need to rasterize it. What I'm going to do now is pick my nice liner and I'm going to fill in all the areas that don't have color yet. That is going to be a solid fat P. I show you what I mean, I'm just closing all the shape and then I fill it with color. If I turn off the visibility of this one here, you can see we have a solid P. This is what I'm going to do with all the letters we have here. As you can see, I filled all the layers now and I can move it towards the bottom left. Make sure I turned off snapping. Now I see I need to match those corners again. That's what I'm going to do now. Then we can work furthermore with this purple layer. As you can see, all the letters are block letters now and we can duplicate the purple layer furthermore. I want to duplicate it, let's say, five more times. Duplicate, put to the bottom, say select and fill. Now let's go with orange and move it. I didn't say fill layer. Let's go select. Let's go fill layer. Now we can move it, go and we make sure again that the ends meet perfectly. Like this, awesome. We duplicate it again, put it to the bottom, select. Here we go. We have the rainbow shade shadow, echo, however you want to call it. I just wanted to be a little bit more distinct towards the background. I want to duplicate the bottom layer, the last one, once more, and select it, turn it black, and apply Gaussian blur to create a shade and also move it a little bit towards the bottom. Of course, we can't see it towards a black background, but that's not a problem. I wanted to be more like distinctive in front of the rainbow. Turn the opacity down a little bit like this. That looks great. Let's just put that in the center now. We group the whole layers and make sure we have snapping on and move it towards the center. It still looks a little bit boring if you ask me, so what I do now is I want to add this PEACE sign here on top of the rainbow. Let's turn our text layer off, I just tap this little check mark here, and I am going to add another layer over the rainbow. Choose white, choose my nice liner. Turn up the size, let's see. Let's just draw a circle. Make the ends meet. We have this circle, now we need that line in the middle, and draw two lines to this side, one here and one here. That's alright. Now we put our text, and here we go. That's a great '70s design. In our next bonus video, I'm going to show you how you can make a cool psychedelic effect in Procreate. See you in the next video. 7. Bonus Video: Make it Psychedelic: Welcome to my bonus video in which I'm going to show you how to achieve a nice vibrant psychedelic effect in Procreate. Again, I'm on my canvas. The size doesn't really matter. We just pick our vibrant color and let's just go with our rainbow here. Let's start with pink and just draw random white stripes over our canvas. Make sure we don't have too much light in-between. Just draw whatever stripes you would like, very colorful and crazy. Now we are going to apply Gaussian blur to create a nice gradient. Let's go to the magic wand pick Gaussian blur, swipe to the right until the colors are the way we want them to be. I'm at 26% right now. Let's disable the wand and go back there and now we pick the Liquify tool and we are going to pick the twirl. We need to make sure that everything is turned to max, just not the momentum. Now we just move our pencil over the Canvas and here you have your awesome psychedelic, that crowd. What you could do now, a super cool effect is when you pick a fat text. Let's choose another color. Let's pick a fund, that's really blobby, really voluminous. Let's type music this time. Now, we make our layer a clipping mask to our text layer. Then you have a great effect in your letters itself. I hope you can use that too. It's a great effect. You could even move this layer around to have the best color areas in your letters, whatever you like. This looks fantastic. I hope you can use that for a lot of your designs. Then see you in my next video where I'm going to talk about the drawing challenge. 8. Drawing Challenge: Calling all artists and art enthusiasts. Are you looking for a fun and engaging way to enhance your creativity, reduce stress, and improve your mental and physical health? Then look no further. Join me in the springspiration drawing challenge on Instagram. For 30 days, I'll be providing you with inspirational words that you can use to create any artwork you want. You'll find the prompts list in the resources tab. Whether you prefer to use digital tools like Procreate or Adobe Illustrator, or you want to stick with traditional mediums like watercolors, acrylics, ink, or pencils, the choice is yours. You can follow along even if you're pressed for time, because a few lines on an old receipt count as drawing too. This sprinspiration challenge is designed to not cause any stress, but the opposite. There's no start or end date. You can begin whenever you're ready and follow the challenge for as long as you'd like. Preferably, you finish all the 30 prompts. Once you've completed your artwork, be sure to share it on Instagram using the hashtag, sprinspiration, and make sure you add the prompt list as well in case somebody else that finds it on Instagram wants to participate as well. I love to feature your art in my stories, and if you use the right hashtag, sprinspiration, I am able to find your art. What are you waiting for? Let's create a healthy habit of drawing every day and see where it takes us. Join me in the springspiration challenge, and let's make some art. 9. Final Thoughts: Congratulations, artists. You did it. You've completed this journey of exploring and mastering the world of '70s texts' effect in Procreate. Your creativity has reached new heights, and I can't wait to see where you'll take it next. Now that you've owned your talents, it's time to show off your amazing artwork. Remember, sharing your creations is essential for growth and improvement and it inspires others too. Let's fill up our project gallery with your stunning designs and make this class even more special. If you're sharing your artwork on social media, make sure to follow and tag me so I can keep up with your progress. You guys always impress me and I love featuring your artwork in nice stories. Also, don't forget to use the hashtag spring inspiration if you participate in my Instagram drawing challenge, I'm sure it will be fantastic. Before we part ways now, I'd like to ask a small favor. If you've enjoyed this class and found value in my teaching style, please take a moment to leave a review. Your feedback helps me to improve my teaching and other aspiring artists to decide if this class is right for them. If you're looking to develop your skills even further, be sure to check out my other classes. It's been a real pleasure to have you all in class. Your hard work, dedication, and creativity are truly inspiring. I hope this experience has been as enriching for you as it has been for me. Keep up the fantastic work and never stop creating. Thank you for joining me on this journey. Happy drawing.