Procreate Tutorial: Glow Effect and Glitter Overlay
This tutorial will guide you through how to create glowing, glittery celebratory lettering in Procreate on the iPad Pro. Use it for a New Year’s piece, or to celebrate other exciting holidays, announcements, or events!
Brushes used in this video:
Monoline (Procreate defaults)
Color palette used in this video:
Gold (lettering): #d9b01c
Light Gold (highlight): #f8f0b1
Dark Grey (background): #252525
Black (shadow): #090909
How to add a glow effect to lettering:
Create a new blank canvas in Procreate (I used a square size since I was planning to post it to Instagram).
Fill the background layer with the dark gray color.
Create a new layer, and letter your phrase in a bouncy monoline script style in gold.
Duplicate your lettering layer twice.
On one blur layer, add ~6% Gaussian blur. On the second blur layer, add ~12% Gaussian blur.
Add a “Highlight” layer above your original lettering. Using the lightest gold color, reduce the size of your monoline brush and trace over the center of your original lettering.
Add a ~2% Gaussian blur to the highlight layer.
Duplicate your original lettering and move this layer underneath your blur layers. Fill it with the black color, and move it down and to the right so that it appears as a drop shadow under your lettering.
Create a new layer for the glow background. Select the Soft Brush in the Airbrushing section of Procreate. Make the brush a small size, then tap on your screen once. Expand the glow until it is the size of your lettering. Reduce the opacity on this layer so that it appears as a soft glow in the background.
Create a new layer on top of everything for your confetti. Draw confetti all around your lettering, using dots or small shapes.
Import a gold glitter or foil image into your Procreate file. Place it directly above your confetti layer, then tap the gold glitter layer and select Clipping Mask to clip the texture only to where you drew confetti on the layer below.
That’s it! You can use this technique to add interesting glow effects to your lettering and illustration.
And, if you want more help creating the Monoline style of lettering in this tutorial — check out my Monoline Script Workbook.
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