How to Create Beautiful Watercolor Lettering with Procreate

Learn how to turn your iPad lettering into beautiful watercolor lettering with Procreate that not only looks pretty and real, but also gives you control!

Learn how to turn your iPad lettering into beautiful watercolor lettering with Procreate that not only looks pretty and real, but also gives you control!

How to Create Watercolor Lettering with Procreate

Creating watercolor lettering with Procreate has always been a challenge for me. I’ve bought and share numerous reviews of brushes for you over the past two years. I’ve tried making my own Procreate brushes. Nothing really worked the way I wanted them to. So I thought, let’s try and create a process instead.

You see, typical watercolor Procreate brushes made me feel like my iPad lettering colors lacked vibrancy and I didn’t have the ability to make the dark inks bleed into other colors, just like real watercolors.

This process may be more than you want to do to achieve watercolor lettering in Procreate, but maybe you’re like me and you enjoy the soothing process of drawing, coloring, and creating something. If that’s you, then you might just like these new brushes!

Watch My iPad Lettering and Watercolor Process

Check out my tutorial where I show you how to letter the word Love in Procreate on the iPad Pro and how I apply these brushes to stylize and make something magical!

The Water Pixels Brushes for Procreate

This is a set of 20 brushes that are used as part of a six step process to build a stylized watercolor look to your letters. These brushes don’t do it all for you. You need to:

  • Letter
  • Add Color
  • Blend
  • Add the Inner Highlights
  • Dark the Edges
  • And Apply Textures and Splatters

Plus as a bonus I’m giving you a booklet of instructions that I follow in the video tutorial above to help you achieve that watercolor look to your iPad lettering. And, three bonus watercolor background papers.

Samples Using the Water Pixel Brushes for Procreate

Learn how to turn your iPad lettering into beautiful watercolor lettering with Procreate that not only looks pretty and real, but also gives you control! Learn how to turn your iPad lettering into beautiful watercolor lettering with Procreate that not only looks pretty and real, but also gives you control!

Purchase the Water Pixel Brushes for Procreate

  • You can grab this set of brushes in the shop right here. To install brushes in Procreate:
  • Download the purchase file from the button after you order goes through.
  • Go to Files App and Downloads Folder
  • Locate the file and press. It will automatically import into the Brushes palette of Procreate at the top of the palette. You will need to have a new canvas open to see the palette of brushes.

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About Holly McCaig

Holly McCaig is a 20 year veteran of the design world. With her mark being made in scrapbooking and photography, Holly now educates eager artists how to do lettering in procreate on the iPad Pro. She resides in Denver, Colorado with her two dogs, Lola and Daisy. Visit Holly: Instagram | Pinterest | Facebook | Shoppe

4 Comments

  1. Cathy Y on January 14, 2020 at 8:02 pm

    Thanks for the cool process! I love splatters.

  2. Denise/DIY Crush on January 20, 2020 at 7:13 pm

    Absolutely stunning! Thank you for putting these helpful videos together for us!

  3. Lou Schmidtfranz on February 28, 2020 at 12:02 pm

    I bought your watercolor brush set today and followed your video. I did it but my word love using same brush as you looks different. Yours is thicker in some areas of the letter and then thin. Is this achieved by holding the pencil different ways? Do you have a video to teach that? I would appreciate any help. I love the brush set very much and is worth the money!
    Thank you!

    • Holly McCaig on March 2, 2020 at 9:08 am

      We have a free course under the Learn tab of our site for iPad Lettering. It sounds like maybe you need to dive into learning lettering on the iPad first. Check that out.

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