Level Up Your Typography with Procreate Brushes

1. 1 Typography Class Intro 10: Have you ever wanted to explore more than just illustrating and drawing in Procreate on your iPad. Well, in this course, I'm going to show you just how to do that. Hi, my name is Danielle burner. I am a graphic designer and illustrator from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In this course, I'm going to show you the tools and tricks needed to level up your typography and procreate. We're going to create a fun dessert themed project. And once you complete your artwork, you can take what you've learned to make your own theme to type four posters, birthday cards, social media posts and more. And as a bonus, I will be showing you how to create the candy sprinkles brush that I've included for you in this course. Let's get started. 2. 2 Project Intro Downloads Resources: I am so excited to begin this class focused on my two favorite subjects, art and desert. But before we begin, you'll want to download the resources that I provided for you in the projects and resources section below this video. Make sure you are using Skillshare's website and not the app to access these files. You will be downloading the desert topography file of the brushes and the desert palette file of colors. When you click on these, always choose the option open and procreate. And then you will find the new brush set at the very top of your brush library, and the color palette will be added to your swatch library. Last, I want to show you how to access the two free fonts that we will be using in this class. Head on over to fonts.google.com, LinkedIn, the About section below this video. Here, you'll search for and download happy monkey and Erica, one. If you want to choose your own typeface or use the ones you already have, just be sure to use two contrasting options. One thicker san-serif block type, and one with either a script or general lighter weight. You can use font properties to narrow down your searches in fonts.google.com. Now that you've got all of your resources, we are ready to start building our canvas. 3. 3 Canvas Prep and Font Layout: Our first step is going to be building our canvas and prepping our fonts. Open up your Procreate app and we're going to make a new Canvas. So you'll tap the plus in the top right-hand corner. And we're going to go with a 4,000 by 4,000 pixel canvas. This is something I've already created, but if you don't have that in your previous Canvas library, you'll want to tap this plus up here and make sure it's set to pixels. You can see that here your options are on this side. So we're going to type 4,000.4 thousand. And you'll see that if we're at 300 DPI or maximum layers are 29. So we can have 29 layers in this piece. If you increase the size or layers will go down. So just pay attention to that when you're making any project. Tap Create and we're blank canvas is ready to go. Next. We're going to add our background color. So go to the Layers menu and select background color. With the desert palette loaded. I'm going to select this dark blue shade. Now, we're going to add our text. Go to the Wrench icon, which is the Actions menu. Make sure you have selected add and add text. We're going to start with the word sweet. Double-tap and select the font selection. I'm already on Erica won. But if you were on something else, make sure you go to Erica won or the block text that you've chosen and hit Done. Select the arrow to resize. You can select Snapping if you want it to be exactly in the middle. And it will snap to the spot that you want. To make it more exact. You'll see Suite has been added to its own layer here. We're going to add some more text. So first we're gonna do have a and I want to change this font to the Happy Monkey font that we've chosen. It done. I make this a little smaller. I'm going to make sweet even larger. Center that. And we're going to add the bottom part, which is going to say birthday. You can select all three layers of texts by making sure they're all selected here, birthday. And then we're going to swipe to the right. Swipe to the right again, and you'll see all three are highlighted. You can go to the arrow and then move all of them at the same time once you have it all set up. And that way, if you're snapping is on, you can put it all in the center. Okay, that looks pretty good. So next we're going to start drawing to enhance the word sweet and turn it into a desert. 4. 4 Inking to Add Depth: Next, we're going to use some drawing skills to create our very own block type lettering in 3D. We're going to start here by making sure our fonts are and the color that we want them to be in. Mine are already set. But you'll see this is the dark pink that I have chosen as the icing color. If you are not on that color, you can double-tap the font that you want to change, to select it, tap your color and change it. What we're gonna do now is make sure the sweet font is selected. Swipe to the left and duplicate. Select the bottom sweet color and tap. We're going to set it to restaurants. This will allow you to make changes in the decoration, but you cannot change the type. So makes sure once you rasterize, You already set the word to, you wanted to say. Now we're going to choose Alpha Lock. And you'll see this checkered background. That's how you know alpha lock is on. This is going to allow us to change just this word, just what is selected here. We're going to choose the cookie color. Tap this bottom sweet layer that is on alpha lock fill layer. And now you can see it has changed to this ten cookie color, which is a really easy way to do it. Tap and take it off alpha lock. You shouldn't move tool and we're going to move this. I'm actually going to take the snapping off. And we're just going to move it a little bit to give it a 3D effect. I'm moving it down and to the left a little bit. And now we're ready to start filling in with our Pen tools. I want you to go to your Layers menu and create a layer below the Sweet layer. So you're going to tap this plus and it automatically puts it above. So just take it and drag it below. Here. We're going to use the desert topography pen set. And we're going to use the technical pen because it's smaller and easier for fine details. And making sure you're on that new layer below. Zoom in and we're just going to add some lines to create block lettering. So you'll want to draw. And if you hold your pen you can see it makes a straight line. And you want to fill that in so you can color it in all the way or make sure it's a solid shape by filling in all three sides. You'll see if we take this off and take this off. I've made a triangle. That's how you know that you've filled it in. And then you can use color dropped by tap and hold, and drag and drop to fill in the layer. Some given to you that quickly. And I'll see you when working on something you want to try to do is take your cookie layer and the extra drawings that you've created and you want to merge these layers. You pinch them together. Or you can tap one swipe right on the other. This selects them both. Group this group, tab and flattening. So that's a longer way to do it, but there are two options there for you. 5. 5 Decoration and Enhancement: This is my favorite part of the project where we decorate our cookie with, I think, swirls and sprinkles to really bring it to life. Now that we have our cookie base all set up, we're going to take some bite marks out of it. Go to the eraser and in the desert topography set, choose monoline. We're going to make sure we're on the top suite layer. We want to rasterize so that we can make edits on that layer with the eraser. Zoom in to a spot and we're just going to tap a couple of taps that might look like teeth. Then you're gonna go to the cookie layer below, tap back to your eraser. And then you can just erase. Now, I want to add some extra elements by adding some crumbs for the bite was taken out. Go to your layers and make a new layer above everything else. With your brush. We're going to choose monoline. And we're gonna be using the icing and colors from your palette. You can go ahead and just tap a few crumbs. However you see fit. If you ever do something you don't want to do. Two finger tap will undo. And then if you change your mind, three fingers will replace. It. Looks pretty good. Now we're going to go to our sweet hello. Swipe left, duplicate. Tap the bottom one, alpha lock. And we're going to fill it with black to get pure black, just double-tap anywhere near black and it'll snap to alpha locked layer. And we're going to fill the layer. Tap again, undo Alpha Lock. And we're gonna go to this magic wand, which is the adjustments menu and choose Gaussian blur. Here's our size. Slide to adjust means take your pen and just slide. I'm just going to give it a little bit of a shadow on that and be like 13%. And go back to your layers. Tap this n, gives you some options here. I'm going to turn down the opacity a little bit. You can see how that changes a little bit. We just want a little bit of a shadow. Okay, now we're ready to decorate. Go to your sweet layer with the pink icing and tap the Plus to create a new layer above it. Tap again, and now we're going to create a clipping mask. This will ensure what we do is only on this layer, but instead of where alpha lock goes directly on the layer, it's creating a mask above it so that we're not making the edits directly to this layer. I'm going to choose a lighter pink, maybe this next one down from the dark. For the brush, I'm going to choose the soft brush. We're going to create some icing swirls. Gently. Swirl, not quite figure eights, but think about icing a cake, how you may put the icing on to create some dimension. So you can see where we're at there. You can go even lighter or darker. And just, you know, it helps to add a little bit of dimension with some highlights in there, like that one. And it creates an effect that gives more dimension to our icing. Next, I want to create another clipping mask above those. So it's only going to go on knees. And I want to put some of my sprinkles on. I'm going to start with this golden, yellowy color. And I'm going to choose the plane party sprinkles. There's a rainbow And a regular. So choose the regular for this. And we're just gonna go over top. Now I also want to add some purple. And again, just however you want to see them done, you can add even more colors or less colors. You can tap or you can swipe your pen. Now, I want to add a layer underneath everything. So go to your bottom layer, tap and drag it till the bottom. I want to do some of these rainbow sprinkles around, want to underneath. So in case we're not going over top of our texts. And with this, this is pressure sensitive. I'm pushing and picking up and it's directional. So like the color will change depending on what you're doing. So we just want a fun border play with this to do whatever you want that you think is nice. Once you pick up your pencil with this link, you can go over top like that. But once you pick it up and put it back down, it's going to layer it. So just be mindful of that. But some sprinkle look. That way. It's kinda fun. You can, you don't have to use the rainbow. You can choose your color, but I like the spontaneity of the rainbow look. Now you have your completed birthday message. While this project is done, stick around for the next video for a bonus, where I can teach you how to make these candy sprinkle brushes and maybe enhance it with your own shapes. Sprinkles. 6. 6 BONUS Make Your Own Candy Sprinkle Brush: For the icing on the cake or the icing on the cookie, I bring you this little bonus lesson of how to make your very own brush. The possibilities are endless when you can make your very own brushes for use in Procreate on all your future projects. Okay, we're going to start with a ten by ten Canvas at 300 DPI. I've chosen solid black. You'll want to make sure you do the same. And I'm going to be using the monoline brush. All we're gonna do is draw our sprinkles or whatever type of candy or topping you want to draw. Just a bunch of different direction. Help whatever size you think might look nice. To make this a little bit different than the one we've already created, is I'm actually going to make this a little bigger. And have you seen those little candy balls that they have in the sprinkled section for baking. Add some of these variation. Again, this is your brush, so make them the size that you want. Spaces. Once you have your patterns setup, I want you to three finger swipe down on the canvas, copy all creating new layer. This is where we're going to test our brush. We'll go ahead and turn away along to your brush library. And make sure you're in your desert topography brush set and tap this plus to create a new brush. Within that library. We're going to choose Grain, Edit, Import, tap off to the side to get rid of this menu. And you're actually going to two finger tap to invert white equals your brush. Whatever is, white is what your brushes going to be. Another time you could actually keep it the other way. And the co-owner would be this background film. Maybe there's something you create that may call for a brush like that. But for this one, we want it to be the actual sprinkles or the brush. So hit Done. And you can see this is where you can test your pattern. We are going to go to this menu. You'll see there are so many options I highly suggest as you move forward, just play, play with all these options to see what you like as you start to learn to create more brushes. Turn off the offset jitter because we want this to be more precise. This Zoom where it's cropped. Take it off because we want whatever size we decide this is going to be to be that size. If it's all the way up, no matter what size you make it, it'll will always be that set to that size or the largest size. I want my scale to be around 35 is 36%. For this particular brush. Next, choose Properties. We're going to take a look at the brush behavior. For this particular brush, I want to move up the maximum size. In the 300s. Something. This preview is the preview that you see in your brush library. I don't want it to be about maybe 5% or so percent done. And you can see this is what we've created. You can test as you need. Undo that. You can always go back in and edit by tapping. So we have one more thing to do here with the actual brush. Good Apple pencil. For my brush, I'm going to turn down the opacity to turn it off. If you want it to be pressure sensitive, you can mess with that, but I want it to always be a solid sprinkles. So I'm going to turn mine off. Then make sure you name it. About this brush tap up here where it says Untitled. I'm going to name my dancers, sprinkles it done. There you go. Now you can choose whatever color you have in your palate, your favorite color. And you can add this as needed. For your project. I hope you enjoyed this bonus lesson. I love making brushes. It makes life so much easier when there's something you want to create that you want to create over and over again. You can do it once and then always have it. 7. 7 Final Thoughts: Well, we did it. Your finished project should look something like this. Or maybe it's a little different if you decided to customize it. You can now take this art and posted on social media for someone's birthday. Or maybe you want to put it on a birthday card and have it printed for a friend or family member. In this class, refocused on layers and how to apply clipping masks and alpha lock. And the difference between how to install fonts and color palettes and brushes, as well as how to make your very own brush. You can take these basic tools and apply them to all your projects moving forward. For this project, please don't forget to share in the projects below for me and everyone on Skillshare to see what you've been up to. Well, I've had so much fun drawing with you today. I look forward to seeing you all in the next class. So happy art-making.