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- [Karin] Hello, and welcome back to my channel.
I really hope you are well.
In today's video,
I wanted to show you how to make one
of these streaky letting pieces.
This is by request from G.
Thank you so much for the request.
I've actually make this letting piece
quite a long time ago
so I don't 100% remember how I did it.
So this video is gonna be almost real time
where I'm going to show you how I've made this
from start to finish and let's see how much I remember.
So we're going to start with a sketch.
I like to do sketches first.
So I'm using a sketching brush here,
and I'm also using the small watercolor templates for this.
And you will notice that my lettering style
has actually changed a little bit
since I've made the original piece.
I'm writing my R’s differently now,
but I don't think it's too bad.
So you can also see how lettering styles evolve
and how you are progressing
through your lettering journey.
So I always like doing those,
redoing some of my original pieces.
And then, once you're finished with your sketch,
turn down the opacity of the layer
and create a new layer.
And now this is actually still sort of sketch,
but now I'm using a different brush.
This is my IPL Hazelnut Creme brush.
I didn't have this brush back in the day
when I did the original piece,
but it's currently my favorite brush.
So I'm using it for this piece.
And this is really just to figure out the spacing
of the letters and their thickness
and see whether it fits in the space
where I made the sketch.
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What I like to do now.
So this phase is gonna take a little while.
So what I do, literally, I create a new layer.
I turn the opacity of the previous layer down.
You can see that the previous layer shines through
ever so slightly.
And now I'm just tracing my letters
and make them look nicer.
I really like using this technique
because I can practice my lettering a little bit
and I can refine it.
So rather than trying and erasing things
and maybe rewriting them
I just write everything again
and make it more beautiful the next time round.
And we're doing it one more time.
Actually, I've probably done this about six or seven times.
And sometimes I do it up to 10 times
and you might find it a little bit boring.
So maybe you don't need to do it that many times,
but I don't mind.
I find it really relaxing, actually.
And every time I do this,
I can refine my letter shapes a little bit
and really focus on the thin and thick strokes
and really getting the endings nicely of my letters as well.
I'm going to speed up the video a little bit now,
because I think it's getting a little bit repetitive,
but I still wanna show you the whole process
that I'm going through.
And just to show you that sometimes it takes a little while,
but it always pays off in the end.
All right, so now we are going to turn off
the background textures.
I don't know,
I just felt it would be better to turn them off.
And then we're creating a new layer
and we are setting that layer as a clipping mask.
And that is super important.
The brush that I'm using here is not a brush
that I've ever shared or sold or anything like that.
It's called IPL Magic Streaks.
And I'm actually gonna share it with you for the first time.
So you can get this brush for free from my website.
I'm gonna leave a link in the description of this video.
So you can grab this brush
and you can try this out for yourself.
And you can see that the brush is not the best quality.
That's probably why I've never sold it,
but it still creates a really nice effect
and you can try it out and see what you can create with it.
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So I've started the magenta color
and you see that I'm creating the streaks
on that side of my strokes,
and I'm gonna change to cyan
and go over my letters a second time.
And now I'm trying to fill in the parts
where my letter is still black,
but still trying to blend it a little bit
with the magenta.
And then you'll see how it creates just
that really, really nice blend.
And now I'm actually quite curious to hear from you.
How many different colors do you think I'm going to be using
for this lettering piece?
You've seen example at the start
and the outcome's gonna be quite similar
and put in the comments,
what are your thoughts?
How many different colors are we going to use here?
It doesn't matter if you get it wrong,
but I'm just curious to hear.
So now I'm going all the way around,
filling in the cyan color and trying to blend it
a little bit with the magenta as well.
And really trying to cover the spots
where we don't have any color yet,
where the black color is still coming through.
And then we are going to change to yellow.
And we're going to go over our letters a third time
and maybe you've guessed that
this is actually the last color that you're going to use.
Yes, we're only going to use three colors
for this whole piece.
And you see how
the yellow really, really makes the difference.
This really brightens up the whole piece
and creates so many new colors.
Every color of the rainbow pretty much is
what we can achieve now with only three colors.
And again, we are going to go all the way around
and really use yellow as the highlight color as well.
You can see how it blends super, super nicely.
If you blend it with the cyan, it creates green.
If you blend it with the magenta,
it creates all sorts of different oranges.
And then, of course, the yellow just by itself
looks really, really beautiful as well.
And then you want to duplicate this layer one
or many times, just to intensify the colors a little bit.
And then I've also decided to turn the textures back on.
But it ended up being really intense,
so I turned some of the textures back off
and I also adjusted the bottom color burnt layer
with the gray background.
And then I create another new layer
and I actually set the blend mode to darken
to start with and filled the layer with gray,
but it didn't turn out so nicely.
So I ended up changing that blend mode to color burn
and then use the curves to adjust that layer.
And you can see that I'm using the gamma adjustment first
and that brightens up the whole layer again.
So we can use the curves tool to dial in the exact color
that we want for this layer.
And then also maybe change the blues a little bit
and take some of the blue off
to bring it more into the green spectrum
and create a little bit of warmth
to our lettering piece here.
Now I'm actually quite happy with this.
And so I'm merging all the colors.
And then I'm creating a mask onto the letters layer
and we're using the mask to hide part
of our colorful layer so that the black
that we've written below comes through again.
And the reason why I like using a mask is
because it's a non-destructive modification.
That means if I make a mistake, I haven't erased anything.
I can change the color to white
and then almost paint the color back in.
And you'll actually see me doing this in a little bit.
So to start with,
I'm creating all these shadows
and I actually like them to be quite black.
Normally I'm not a big fan of the really dark shadows,
but, for this piece, I really think it lends itself.
And then, once you've gone all the way through,
you wanna change black to white.
Maybe decrease the size of your brush a little bit,
and then you can make the edges a little bit sharper,
just so that that shadow effect
becomes a little bit more visible
and becomes a little bit more defined.
And then last, but certainly not least,
it is time to create some splatters as well.
I love splatters.
It really, really makes a difference to the lettering piece.
And you'll see
that I'm not creating too many splatters here.
I'm using the Fine Dots brush for this.
And I'm actually only using two different colors
because when it comes to splatters, less is usually more.
And then just as a little bit of an extra,
I actually wanted to create a little shadow
at the bottom of my lettering piece as well.
So I'm gonna use the soft brush for this
and just paint a black line here.
So we're gonna use the gaussian blur tool
to blur it out,
and then we're going to use the free-hand selection tool.
And we're going to shrink this line a little bit
and make it sort of like a really thin line.
And then we're going to turn down the opacity
and only make it visible ever so slightly.
And there you have it.
This is our streaky lettering piece.
Give me a thumbs up if you enjoyed this video,
subscribe to my channel, if you haven't already.
And then I'm also going to put up
another couple of videos
with more Procreate lettering tutorials.
Thank you so much for watching
and I'll see you in my next video.