Are you a fan of Procreate but have not yet mastered the skills for drawing or lettering? Look no further than this article! We’ve curated the very best Procreate drawing courses for beginners, taking you from the basics of shape drawing and texture adding to developing your own unique character designs.

If your focus is on lettering, we’ve got you covered too! Our selection of courses range from basic Procreate lettering for beginners, all the way to advanced techniques such as 3D lettering and adding decorative elements to your work.

With step-by-step video tutorials, comprehensive PDF guides, workbooks, and a range of Procreate brushes included, you’ll have everything you need to master your Procreate skills and take your art to the next level!

In this article you will find the best Procreate Courses for Beginners:

1. Procreate Illustration School
2. Procreate Watercolor Masterclass
3. Procreate Artist’s School
4. The Slayout Lettering Masterclass
5. Procreate Lettering For Beginners
6. Flower & Botanical Drawing & Watercolor Masterclass
7. Learn to Draw Anything – Masterclass for Beginners
8. Eazy 3D Lettering Builder – Brushes & Stamps Toolbox For Procreate
9. How to Create and Use Texture in Drawings in Procreate
10. Instant 3D Lettering For Procreate – Brushes & Stamps

1. Procreate Illustration School

The Procreate Illustration School is the ultimate learning experience to help you level up your digital illustrations. This comprehensive course will teach you the fundamentals of composition, shading, texture application and earning money from your artwork.

Your instructor team features four Procreate masters: Peggy Dean, Floortje Visser, Lisa Glanz and Nathan Brown. Combined, they have decades of illustration experience and have generated millions from their art. This is your chance to learn from the very best.

The Procreate Illustration School features over 4 hours of practical lessons.

Procreate Illustration School
Procreate Illustration School

Procreate Illustration School

Included in this set:

  • Learn Composition Techniques to Improve Your Artwork in Procreate (42 minutes)
  • Learn to Use Shading, Values and Techniques in Procreate (75 minutes)
  • How to Create and Use Texture in Drawings in Procreate (56 minutes)
  • How To Make Money From Your Procreate Artwork (70 minutes)

Bonus Assets:

  • Nathan’s Gouache and Pencil Procreate brushes
  • 5 Procreate artwork source files
  • Composition cheat sheet
  • Composition guides: golden ratio, golden triangles, rule of thirds
  • Lisa Glanz’s art + texture brushes
  • Procreate bonus swatches
  • 90s colour palettes
  • Artwork submission tracker template

2. Procreate Watercolor Masterclass

I’ve created this course for anyone who wants to learn digital watercolor using traditional techniques on the iPad in Procreate. We’ll start from scratch and cover the basics all the way through to more advanced topics.

So whether you’re brand new to digital painting, or you have some experience with the medium, this course has something for you. I’ll be sharing my thoughts and techniques for finding the right artistic mindset, how to sketch for watercolor, how to plan and compose, how to choose the right brush, and all of the tricks and techniques that I use to achieve realism in digital watercolor.

By the end of the course you’ll have confidence, and you’ll have learned every step of a watercolor painting from beginning to final printing. The course is structured to include both theory and practical examples. So you can watch along or jump right in with project assignments as you progress. I’ve also included a set of custom brushes for Procreate, specifically made for this course, so that you’ll have everything you need to follow along. There is also layered artwork and examples so that you can study and review as we work.

I’m so excited for you to take this course. So grab your iPad and get ready to explore digital watercolor painting with a whole new perspective!

Try the first 5 classes for free with our taster course offer.

Procreate Watercolor Masterclass
Procreate Watercolor Masterclass

Procreate Watercolor Masterclass

Included in this set:

  • 14 Video Lessons
  • Course Assignments
  • Bonus Course Brush Set
  • Bonus Brush Strategy Video

3. Procreate Artist’s School

Procreate Artist’s School brings together four artists and Procreate masters with decades of professional experience – creating a unique course to take your digital artistic skills to the next level.

Enjoy over 4 hours of lessons from our four Procreate masterminds, who will teach you everything including moving to digital, drawing fundamentals, signature styles, manipulating and creating your own brushes, and more.

In addition our instructors have also included some great bonus content too, such as workbooks, templates and Procreate brushes!

Procreate Artist’s School features over 4 hours of lessons.

Procreate Artist’s School
Procreate Artist’s School

Procreate Artist’s School

Included in this set:

  • Combining Traditional & Procreate Drawing & Painting (29 minutes)
  • Drawing In Procreate For Beginners (103 minutes)
  • How To Find Your Signature Artistic style (67 minutes)
  • Procreate Brushes: The Complete Guide (61 minutes)

Bonus Assets:

  • 20 Page Course Workbook and Templates
  • Flo’s ‘The Perfect Start Brush Pack’
  • Workbook: Hand Control
  • Workbook: Observational Skills
  • Nathan’s sample set of 13 brushes from the Master Watercolor set. (These brushes are needed to paint along with the final project in the last video).
  • 16 Page Procreate Brushes Guidebook

4. The Slayout Lettering Masterclass

Learn the art of composition for your lettering pieces with this highly comprehensive Lettering Masterclass for Procreate!

With this Masterclass full of actionable tips, you will master your lettering compositions and bring your lettering pieces to a whole new level. We will hold your hand through every stage and take you from beginner to layout master!

In this Procreate Course you will find: Lettering Basics, Composition Theory & Grids, Design & Gestalt Principles, Composition Practice through Words and Quotes, Covering Spaces, Media Composition and Extra Fun Exercises!

The course also comes with unique lettering brush stamps and composition lines to make lettering layout easier and faster. The composition lines have been studied in depth to allow you to create your own 100% unique layouts.

Learn how to work with 3D lettering, ornaments and flourishes and learn how to control each blank space around your letters. We’ve included 45 Ornamental Brush Stamps to help you ease the process.

The Slayout Lettering Masterclass
The Slayout Lettering Masterclass

The Slayout Lettering Masterclass

Included in this set:

  • Procreate Workbook with over 120 pages (and a .PDF Printout version)
  • 26 Lettering Brushes
  • 30 Composition Line Stamps
  • 45 Ornamental Brush Stamps
  • 4 Grid Brush Stamps
  • 10 Color Palettes
  • An Easy-to-Follow .PDF Installation Guide

5. Procreate Lettering For Beginners

Procreate Lettering For Beginners is the ultimate learning experience to help you develop your lettering skills.

This comprehensive course will teach you the fundamentals of lettering composition, brush and decorative lettering.

Your instructor team features four lettering masters: Loveleigh Loops, ShoutBam!, Molly Suber Thorpe and Ian Barnard. Combined, they have decades of lettering experience and millions of followers. This is your chance to learn from the very best.

Procreate Lettering For Beginners features over 4 hours of practical lessons and a ton of bonus content including practice sheets, guides, brushes and bonus projects!

Procreate Lettering For Beginners
Procreate Lettering For Beginners

Procreate Lettering For Beginners

Included in this set:

  • Beginners Guide To Lettering (89 minutes)
  • Lettering Composition For Beginners (56 minutes)
  • Brush Lettering For Beginners (88 minutes)
  • Decorative Lettering For Beginners (61 minutes)

Bonus Assets:

  • Assignments: Tips & takeaways for continual improvement
  • Artwork: Follow along easily with lesson artwork Practice Sheets Alphabets, flourishes, words, strokes, lowercase & uppercase
  • Other Bonuses: Brushes & brush cheat sheet, lettering quotes & bonus project

6. Flower & Botanical Drawing & Watercolor Masterclass

Hi, my name is Kris Lauren. For as long as I can remember, I’ve loved to draw and paint. I’ve created this course for anyone who would like to learn how to draw and paint watercolor flowers and botanicals. It’s specifically made for the iPad and Procreate, but you can follow along using traditional media if you prefer and you can just as easily follow along in other software platforms like Photoshop, Fresco or similar.

If you’re a beginner, that’s no problem, this course is designed to start at the very beginning, and I’ll be walking you through the whole way. Whether you have little experience with the medium or know your way around Procreate, this course has something for you. The course will have theory and practical examples, and you’ll learn through easy, practical, step by step projects, to work on and improve your skills.

After you finish this course, you’ll have a new confidence in drawing and painting flowers and botanicals in digital watercolor as you’ve walked through the whole process, beginning to end. I’m so excited for you to join me in class, so grab your iPad and get ready to create beautiful watercolor botanicals and flowers in Procreate.

Try the first 5 classes for free with our taster course offer.

Flower & Botanical Drawing & Watercolor Masterclass

Flower & Botanical Drawing & Watercolor Masterclass

Flower & Botanical Drawing & Watercolor Masterclass

Included in this set:

  • 21 course videos: 19 lessons, intro, outro & bonus video (English Language & English Captions)
  • Over 6hrs of video in total
  • Procreate brush set (14 brushes)
  • Procreate Watercolor Canvas
  • Layered PSD Watercolor Canvas
  • Textured JPG Watercolor Canvas
  • Procreate Color Palettes
  • Practice files (Procreate & JPG)
  • Bonus invitation creation lesson
  • Tested by Design Cuts community members in both digital and hand drawn media
  • Permanent Access – No time limit for undertaking the course
  • Lessons available to stream anytime via your Design Cuts account
  • High Quality Video – Quality options matched to your connection

7. Learn to Draw Anything – Masterclass for Beginners

Would you like to be able to draw anything you want like a professional artist? If that’s the case and you love drawing, then this class is for you!

My name is Claudia Riveros. I have a master’s degree in Creative Illustration and Digital Illustration, and also make a living as an illustrator and graphic designer, by creating tools and courses that help students like you improve their drawings.

I created this course for anyone that wants to get better at drawing – so, if you’re a beginner that can only draw stick figures or an experienced artist, this class has something for you.

We’ll break down the most important parts of drawing, so it’s easy for everyone to understand, and develop the skills of observation that you need to become a great artist.

The course is created to work just as well on paper, as it does digitally – so, you can decide what medium (or mediums!) you’d like to work in.

It comes in 19 in-depth lessons, and has supporting bonus brushes and lesson worksheets – so you have everything you need to get started!

Try the first 5 classes for free with our taster course offer.

DLearn to Draw Anything – Masterclass for Beginners
Learn to Draw Anything – Masterclass for Beginners

Drawing Foundation Masterclass

Included in this set:

  • 19 Amazing Video Lessons that will help you easily go from the most basic parts of drawing, to advanced
  • Bonus Worksheets as Procreate, PSD, and Printable PDF Files so you can follow along and improve your drawings, no matter the medium of drawing you like.
  • Free Brush Set
  • Reference Images
  • Layered Illustrations
  • Permanent Access – No time limit for undertaking the course
  • Lessons available to stream anytime via your Design Cuts account
  • High Quality Video – Quality options matched to your connection

8. Eazy 3D Lettering Builder – Brushes & Stamps Toolbox For Procreate

Welcome to another dimension – the Eazy 3D Lettering Builder for Procreate has arrived, and guess what? It’s jam-packed with awesome extras!

In the past, creating 3D lettering compositions has been time consuming, tricky, took a lot of guesswork and could be very daunting! But this new pack changes everything – it combines a super easy to use and innovative 3D grid builder, with awesome video tutorials and a workbook to hold your hand every step of the way!

This mega-set brings you more than 400 grids & brushes and a huge amount of educational content. So you can learn all about different kinds of perspectives and 3D views to use for your 3D lettering work.

By the end of the mini-course you will know how to design 3D words from 6 different angles, and how to shade them properly with the extra texture brushes. The video content is divided into 5 episodes, and you’ll learn not just how to use the easy to use grid system, but how to add realism to your letters and illustrative elements around them.

In addition to that, the workbook will teach you the 3D theory you need to get started in the world of dimensional lettering – and you’ll get to practice building your skills with the fun exercises included.

With the grid system you will be able to create short & long 3D words, using different perspectives and axonometric views that few people dare to use!

Eazy 3D Lettering Builder – Brushes & Stamps Toolbox For Procreate
Eazy 3D Lettering Builder – Brushes & Stamps Toolbox For Procreate

Eazy 3D Lettering Builder – Brushes & Stamps Toolbox For Procreate

Included in this set:

  • 350+ 3D Grid Stamps
  • 80+ Page Workbook
  • 90+ Minute Video Mini-Course
  • 20 Texture Brushes
  • 2 Bonus Alphabet Stamps
  • Vector Files (.AI .EPS and .PNG Files For Each Stamp)
  • Permanent Access – No time limit for undertaking the mini-course
  • High Quality Video – Quality options matched to your connection
  • PDF Workbook
  • An Easy-to-follow Installation Guide

9. How to Create and Use Texture in Drawings in Procreate

Lisa Glanz, leading illustrator and teacher – guides you through using and creating textures and brushes in this amazing, in-depth Procreate course – you’ll learn more than 10 actionable texturing techniques, including:

  • How to use texture brushes
  • How to layer colour to add texture to your compositions
  • How to create your own stamp brush in Procreate
  • Using clipping masks to apply texture
  • Using alpha lock to apply texture
  • Using masks to apply texture
  • Creating your own custom texture brush
  • Working with selections to apply texture
  • Drawing your own texture from scratch
  • Applying finishing touches to your artwork
  • Using lighting to add dimension and texture
  • Applying paper texture to your artwork

How to Create and Use Texture in Drawings in Procreate
How to Create and Use Texture in Drawings in Procreate

How to Create and Use Texture in Drawings in Procreate

Included in this set:

  • How to Create and Use Texture in Drawings in Procreate (56 minutes)

Bonus Assets:

  • Art + texture brushes
  • Procreate bonus swatch

10. Instant 3D Lettering For Procreate – Brushes & Stamps

Are you ready to create an instant 3D Lettering and design a dimensional world around it?

These Brushes are made from rendered 3D shapes bringing you perfect shading in just one stroke. There’s a total of 26 different shapes making a total of 120 brushes. Plus 68 Bonus Stamps and Touch-up brushes.

Included alongside the extensive brushes there’s a bunch of 3D shapes, backgrounds and touch-up brushes to come up with astonishing dimensional artworks.

You can also find a Quick Start Guide and a Video Tutorial where Jimbo takes you step-by-step on how to create super-realistic letters.

This pack is not only just for lettering. You can also come up with expressive illustrative work. Just try to combine all the Bonus materials and you’ll see!

We are thrilled to invite you to this 3D adventure. Grab your iPad and see you on the other side!

Instant 3D Lettering For Procreate – Brushes & Stamps
Instant 3D Lettering For Procreate – Brushes & Stamps

Instant 3D Lettering For Procreate – Brushes & Stamps

Included in this set:

  • 120 Instant Lettering 3D Brushes
  • 46 3D Stamps
  • 10 Touch-Up Brushes
  • 12 Background Brushes
  • Video Tutorial (Introduction & 3 Lettering Styles)
  • Permanent Access – No time limit for undertaking the video tutorial
  • High Quality Video – Quality options matched to your connection
  • PDF Quick Start Guide
  • PDF Reference Sheet
  • An Easy-to-follow Installation Guide

11. Ultimate Drawing And Painting Guide – Wildlife Edition

Hey, I’m Nathan. professional artist and teacher with over 20 years’ experience in fine art techniques, mixed media and watercolor.

I’ve created this drawing and painting guide for artists who want to develop their fundamental art skills, and for those who might want to jump into any stage of a pre-made artwork, and just paint for fun! It holds your hand through the steps you need to consider to take your own art subjects and develop them into a professional painting or drawing.

All of the steps are in individual layers for five different wildlife subjects, and come complete with a walkthrough video showing them in detail. You can either work from those or use them as a guide to create your own.

After working through these guides you’ll be able to easily tackle any subject matter using the same process and build up your own drawing or painting from scratch!

Ultimate Drawing And Painting Guide – Wildlife Edition
Ultimate Drawing And Painting Guide – Wildlife Edition

Ultimate Drawing And Painting Guide – Wildlife Edition

Included in this set:

  • 10 Guide Files – 1 single and 1 side-by-side version for each subject
  • 5 Video Walkthroughs – over 90 min covering how to use the guides with demo paintings
  • 1 Video walkthrough demo on using the print guides for traditional painting
  • Printable guides in JPEG and PDF formats for all 5 subjects
  • High res JPEGs of the 5 demo paintings
  • PDF Instructions for the guides, color theory and the golden ratio
  • Guide videos available to stream anytime via your Design Cuts account
  • Permanent Access – No time limit for watching the videos
  • High Quality Video – Quality options matched to your connection

12. Introduction To Digital Illustration In Procreate

Get started with digital illustration in Procreate! This is the perfect class for you if you are just getting started with digital illustration or if you want to brush up your skills in the app Procreate.

During this fun and engaging class you will be learning by doing. You’ll learn all about the features and tools in the app Procreate while you create a lovely illustration.

The line art is provided with the class, so we can focus on exploring Procreate together and building your confidence. You will learn how to use layers, create and manipulate shapes, use the symmetry tool, harness the power of selections and more!

This class comes with a special brush pack, a line art file, color palette and 3 BONUS project bundles which you can use to create even more fun illustrations after watching the class!

Introduction To Digital Illustration In Procreate
Introduction To Digital Illustration In Procreate
Introduction To Digital Illustration In Procreate

Learn Composition Techniques to Improve Your Artwork

Included in this set:

Practical lesson: Introduction to Digital Illustration in Procreate (81 minutes)

  • Getting around in Procreate
  • Working with layers
  • Colors in Procreate
  • Creating your first brush strokes
  • Filling shapes
  • Symmetry tool
  • Easy shapes
  • The power of selections
  • Alpha lock and clipping mask explained
  • Adding lighting effects
  • Exporting your artwork

Easy Lesson Access:

  • Permanent Access – No time limit for undertaking the course
  • Lessons available to stream anytime via your Design Cuts account
  • High Quality Video – Quality options matched to your connection

Bonus Assets:

  • 8 brushes
  • 20 Little Tiger swatches + worksheet
  • 22 Happy Toucan swatches + worksheet
  • 30 Sunny Cabin swatches + worksheet
  • 30 Van Adventure swatches + worksheet

13. Learn to Use Shading, Values and Techniques

Nathan Brown, professional artist and teacher – guides you through shading theory and techniques, with easy to understand concepts to help improve your work.

Inside this class you’ll learn:

  • The purpose of shading & how to convey 3D space
  • Understanding light and shadow: values, contrast & lighting
  • Key shading techniques How to shade using colour: master values, contrast & depth
  • How to shade a complex form

Learn to Use Shading, Values and Techniques
Learn to Use Shading, Values and Techniques

Learn to Use Shading, Values and Techniques

Included in this set:

  • Learn to Use Shading, Values and Techniques in Procreate (75 minutes)

Bonus Assets:

  • Gouache and Pencil Procreate brushes
  • Gouache and Pencil Photoshop brushes
  • 5 Procreate artwork source files
  • 5 Photoshop artwork source files

14. Drawing In Procreate For Beginners

Procreate artist, Art With Flo will teach you the basics of drawing through fun exercises and practice sheets!

This is the perfect course for you if you are a beginner or if you simply want to improve your drawing skills. During this course you will learn all the basics of drawing while doing fun exercises.

Special workbooks and brushes are included with the course and by the end you will have the confidence and the tools to continue improving your drawing skills. And of course you’ll have experienced how much fun practising can be!

Drawing In Procreate For Beginners
Drawing In Procreate For Beginners
Drawing In Procreate For Beginners

Drawing In Procreate For Beginners

15. Add Personality To Your Character Drawings

My courses are designed to help you gain more knowledge, build confidence and produce work you’re proud of.

Drawing cute characters is super fun! But adding personality to your character can be one of the hardest things to achieve. The great news is, it doesn’t have to be!

In this class you’ll learn three simple, but very effective ways you can add more personality to your characters. The techniques can be applied to any character!

The three drawing principles we’ll be exploring are the characters’ pose, expression and accessories. The principles are a fantastic foundation to help your character leap off the page!

In This Class You’ll Learn How To:

  • Create a cute character with simple shapes
  • Use the same principle animators use
  • Give your characters a dynamic pose to add energy to your work
  • Learn how simple lines used in expression have big impact
  • Understand why accessories can enhance your character

First we do a quick study of our character using basic shapes. Then we move onto exploring the three drawing principles to improve our character.

 Add Personality To Your Character Drawings
Add Personality To Your Character Drawings

Add Personality To Your Character Drawings

Included in this set:

Practical lesson:

3 Effective Techniques to Add Personality To Your Character Drawings (29 minutes)

  • Materials Used and Class Project
  • Sketching Our Basic Character
  • Adding Personality: Pose
  • Adding Personality: Expression
  • Adding Personality: Accessories
  • A Quick Recap

Easy Lesson Access:

  • Permanent Access – No time limit for undertaking the course
  • Lessons available to stream anytime via your Design Cuts account
  • High Quality Video – Quality options matched to your connection

16. Learn Composition Techniques to Improve Your Artwork

Composition is the cornerstone of successful illustrative work. In this masters course, Floortje Visser teaches you:

  • How to understand focal point: color, light & contrast, blur & focus, motion
  • How to create balance in your compositions: rule of thirds, horizon shift, golden ratio & triangle
  • Common composition issues, and how to overcome them: space, crowding, repletion, tangents, leading lines
  • How to properly plan and apply strong composition to any artwork
  • Fine tuning: color balance & layers, contrast, blur & focus

Learn Composition Techniques to Improve Your Artwork
Learn Composition Techniques to Improve Your Artwork

Learn Composition Techniques to Improve Your Artwork

Included in this set:

  • Learn Composition Techniques to Improve Your Artwork (42 minutes)

Bonus Assets:

  • PDF composition cheat sheet
  • PNG composition overlay guides: golden ratio, golden triangles, rule of thirds

17. Learn to Draw: Daily Practices to Improve Your Drawing Skills

In this class, we’ll walk through basic fundamentals to build your drawing skills!

You’ll learn how to see your subjects as basic shapes, how to place your subject on your paper with simple angles, and how to draw by seeing the negative space. I’ll share measuring tricks that will help you draw accurately, exercises that will help you activate your creative right brain, and I’ll share how you can find beautiful rhythms in your subjects.

We’ll also go over five project ideas to help you practice the techniques learned in class. From drawing from life to drawing from the masters, I’ll demonstrate my personal approach and how I apply the techniques in each example.

If you’ve always wanted to learn how to draw, but have been scared to start, join in today to learn new ways of seeing the world around you.

I’d love to help you in your journey of drawing. This class shows examples in both traditional media (pencil and paper) and digital media (Procreate app and iPad Pro with Apple Pencil.) So grab a pencil and paper, or whatever drawing media you’re comfortable with, and jump into class!

Learn to Draw: Daily Practices to Improve Your Drawing Skills
Learn to Draw: Daily Practices to Improve Your Drawing Skills

Learn to Draw: Daily Practices to Improve Your Drawing Skills

Included in this set:

Practical lesson: Learn to Draw: Daily Practices to Improve Your Drawing Skills (84 minutes)

  1. Drawing Shapes
  2. Breaking Things Down into Shapes
  3. Seeing Angles
  4. Drawing the Negative Space
  5. Drawing Upside Down
  6. Measuring Techniques
  7. Drawing Forms
  8. Breaking Things Down into Forms
  9. Value Scale
  10. Shading Forms
  11. Drawing Rhythmically
  12. Experimenting with Materials
  13. Class Project
  14. Drawing from Photos
  15. Drawing from Life
  16. Copying the Masters
  17. Quick Sketches
  18. Drawing from Your Imagination
  19. Closing Thoughts

Easy Lesson Access:

  • Permanent Access – No time limit for undertaking the course
  • Lessons available to stream anytime via your Design Cuts account
  • High Quality Video – Quality options matched to your connection

Bonus Assets:

  • Procreate .brushset
  • 8 Class worksheets
  • Photo references
  • Daily Practices to Improve Your Drawing Skills PDF

18. Modern Cursive Handwriting Procreate Kit

Master the fundamentals of cursive handwriting through step-by-step instructions and targeted exercises.

Modern Cursive Handwriting Procreate Kit is a comprehensive digital workbook set for iPad. Learn script penmanship with beginner-friendly directions and guided practice files.

Whether you have never tried cursive before or are simply looking to improve your handwriting, this kit will help you develop a consistent, modern, and elegant style you can be proud of.

Modern Cursive Handwriting Procreate Kit
Modern Cursive Handwriting Procreate Kit

Modern Cursive Handwriting Procreate Kit

Included in this set:

  • 11 Procreate workbook files (.procreate)
  • 1 Procreate cursive brush (.brush)
  • Detailed instructions on how to install and use the files (.PDF)
  • Bonus! 2 Procreate practice exercises (.procreate)

19. Decorative Procreate Lettering For Beginners

There’s no better way to end a lettering masterclass than with a little pizzaz and in this class Ian Barnard delivers this and more, teaching you the art and secrets to creating letters with the wow factor.

Inside this class you’ll find tons of practical advice and examples to help, including:

  • Discovering different styles of inline decoration
  • How to add shading to your letters
  • How to add depth to your letters
  • Taking away elements to add text effects

Decorative Procreate Lettering For Beginners
Decorative Procreate Lettering For Beginners

Decorative Procreate Lettering For Beginners

Included in this set:

  • Decorative Lettering For Beginners (61 minutes)

Bonus Assets:

  • 4 Brushes
  • Lettering quote sheets

20. Procreate Lettering Composition For Beginners

Composition is a skill that makes or breaks your lettering art and this masterclass by ShoutBam! teaches you everything you need to know.

Inside this class you’ll learn:

  • How to find inspiration for your art
  • The art of getting your piece started
  • How to establish the importance of your words
  • To understand visual hierarchy
  • To understand how to use lowercase & uppercase for composition
  • How to adapt the size of your words to create hierarchy in a layout
  • More about letterforms in ascenders & descenders
  • The first step towards composition containers
  • How to create containers for your layouts
  • How to create layouts based on containers
  • How to use & understand negative space
  • How to fine tune your layouts & add lettering
  • How to create your 3 final thumbnail compositions
  • How to pick your strongest composition
  • How to create final artwork from your composition

Procreate Lettering Composition For Beginners
Procreate Lettering Composition For Beginners

Procreate Lettering Composition For Beginners

Included in this set:

  • Decorative Lettering For Beginners (61 minutes)

Bonus Assets:

  • Lettering Composition Brushes
  • Sketch Scene
  • Printable Guidelines

21. Procreate Brush Lettering For Beginners

Professional lettering artist Molly Suber Thorpe will teach you to write a simply beautiful brush script alphabet from start to finish. Molly Suber Thorpe has been a professional calligrapher and type designer for over twelve years, creating custom lettering for brands and individuals around the world and designing digital assets for other artists.

This is a beginner-level class for learning the fundamentals of brush lettering – whether you’re using an iPad or pen and paper! Starting with the basics of using a brush pen, you will learn essential strokes, a complete alphabet, letter connections, and other pro tips for beginner lettering artists. By the end of class, you will be writing modern brush lettering with confidence!

Molly’s in-depth practice sheets provide a road map for continued learning, with exercises to follow along in class and continue practicing on your own. You’ll also get lots of free bonuses, including Molly’s favorite Procreate marker brush and a handy Brush Lettering Cheat Sheet. All these free assets are bundled together so you’ll have absolutely everything you need to get started.

The techniques shared in this class are for both digital and ink-on-paper lettering, as the same fundamental principles apply no matter which medium you are using. Molly will be demonstrating on her iPad using the Procreate app, however, you can follow along with other apps (such as Affinity or Photoshop) or even paper and a brush marker!

Procreate Brush Lettering For Beginners
Procreate Brush Lettering For Beginners

Procreate Brush Lettering For Beginners

Included in this set:

  • Brush Lettering For Beginners (88 minutes)

Bonus Assets:

  • Upper and lower alphabet practice sheets
  • Lettering, brush strokes and layout guide sheets
  • Bonus Brush
  • Brush cheat sheet

22. Beginners Guide To Procreate Lettering

This masterclass from Loveleigh Loops gives you a complete breakdown of the fundamentals required to develop your lettering skills.

Inside this class you’ll learn:

  • The basics of digital lettering and everything you need to know to get started
  • How to use Procreate for lettering
  • All about essential lettering tools
  • The step by step process to create your first lettering piece
  • How to add finishing touches to your piece
  • How to overcome common lettering problems
  • How to avoid overwhelm and stay creative

Beginners Guide To Procreate Lettering
Beginners Guide To Procreate Lettering

Beginners Guide To Procreate Lettering

Included in this set:

  • Decorative Lettering For Beginners (61 minutes)

Bonus Assets:

  • Lettering Brush Cheat Sheet
  • Layered Procreate File
  • Watercolor Lettering Effect Project
  • Lettering Guidelines Sheet
  • Lettering Sketch Sheet

Best Procreate Courses for Beginners

We hope you’ve found this article incredibly useful and the only thing you’re wondering now is which course to start first?

To help you along the way in mastering your skills as Procreate illustrator or lettering artist, we’re sharing a selection of some of our best Procreate brush packs, covering a wide variety.

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