There’s no shortage of Procreate brushes – so every possible texture, effect or style you’re looking for is out there somewhere, and can be added using Procreate. These allow you to place lettering grids on your artwork, so you can easily draw your text over the grids, and create hand-crafted text and fonts that are readable and stay in position. To make your hand lettering a lot easier, I recommend using Stefan Kunz and Ian Barnard’s Letter Builder and Letter Grid Builder Brushes for Procreate: Simply hand draw your text, and you have no need to ever leave Procreate. If you’d prefer to keep everything inside Procreate – the solution is Hand Lettering. Procreate does have some text features – but I often find it easier to export my Procreate artwork to Photoshop, and then add fonts and text over there. Procreate doesn’t (yet) offer all the the font-based features you have in software like Photoshop. You don’t want to use your default screen size – instead I would recommend a canvas size equal to the Merch by Amazon artwork file specifications: 4500px wide by 5400px high – at 300dpi. To avoid this problem – make sure the canvas size you’re working on is going to be big enough to deliver quality artwork when the time comes to export. Procreate is not a vector based – which means if you’re not careful you could end up with some lovely looking artwork that looks horrible when eventually printed on a shirt. …and here’s a more detailed look at some of the things you should bear in mind when creating T-Shirt designs on the iPad using Procreate…including links to the brushes and tools I used to create this design.

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