In this video, I will show you some of my favorite tricks on procreate. So instead of using the Undo and Redo buttons here, the Undo and Redo, you can tap with two fingers to undo and with three fingers to redo what you just drew or wrote. If you want to draw straight lines, there's another cool thing you can do. So, when you draw and you hold what you just did, procreate will create a straight line for you. If you put one finger down, you can move it in 15 degree angles. So it's an easy way to get a horizontal line for example.

And if you wanna create guidelines for your hand lettering, You just draw, hold, put your finger down like that, and then you can do another one. And you get two parallel lines that you can use to guide your writing. Obviously, it's a good idea to make your guidelines on a separate layer. I totally forgot to do that. So it happens to me as well. I'm pretty good at using the layers but sometimes I forget.

So instead, here, I would just go back, undo what I did. And then create a new layer, name it, text and then start writing there. To make it more clear that your guidelines are set on a separate layer, you can make them change change the opacity so that they are less visible. And since this text was on the guidelines layer, it also became lighter. Okay, so one cool thing that will make your hand lettering especially if you're doing script much easier is streamlining your precious. I'll show you one example with the if you go to the calligraphy set of brushes and choose the regular brush pen that has not been modified yet and tap it twice.

You'll get the settings here you have different options. So if you go under stroke you see the stroke. properties and here you see a streamline slider. So by changing the slider, your presh will become smoother or streamlined if you will. So I'll show you what it means. By default it should be set to none.

So here if I'm not trying very hard, you can see that the line is becoming wobbly. But if I streamline it, I usually have mine about at about 70 something. So now that I've streamlined it, and I tried to do the same and make it wobbly, okay, it's still wobbly but less so I was trying to do as wobbly as up here. And you see it especially when you write Okay, so trying to make it really wobbly here I also tried so you can see the difference that this one still became much smoother, although I was trying to shake the pen. So that's a nice, nice trick that I usually do to most of my brushes. If you want to modify other things, you find everything here in the settings.

You can change the size, how big or thin or thick your line will become. How much it fades at the end. There's a lot of settings that you can play with. So just just have a look and see. See what you like. You can even create your own brushes by clicking the plus sign here and then start from scratch.

That's a whole another lesson so I will not get into that. But um, the streamlining is something that I find very useful and I use it a lot. So there you go. So one more thing that I'd like to show you is the eraser and how to quickly change it. So if I'm writing of coloring, for example, with a crunchy looking pen like this, you can see that the edges are not very sharp. And I want to erase a part, but I don't want the eraser to make it sharp line.

So I can quickly change the eraser to the same brush as my writing or drawing brush by tapping and holding down the eraser. Like so. So now my eraser is also the six p pencil Which is what I used for for coloring this part. So just to demonstrate normally I have something like my heart airbrush selected, and that creates a very sharp line. So it wouldn't work as nicely as as the six be pencil. So you just do the trick, you just hold down the eraser and it will pick up the same brush as your drawing pencil.

So that's all for tricks. In the next video, we'll start the class project with you by hand lettering the word for this illustration. So see you there