How to Make a Watercolor Logo in Procreate

I’ve been thinking a lot about (and planning!) how to share more monetization ideas for my tutorials moving forward. It’s important to me that while you build your digital skills, you’re also empowered with how you can use them for your own financial benefits.
This past week, it hit me - these little doodles would be a great skill to monetize because they're so versatile!
While the video focuses on creating a logo (freelance with it, or sell it as a customizable template), you could also create a stationery line with the watercolor graphic or sell your own clip art graphics, too!
This is probably a good time to drop a reminder that you can’t replicate a tutorial then sell that recreated artwork (since it’s my original concept/art); but you can reuse the process and the brush set and create your own using the same method (changing up colors, scale, proportions and shapes are a quick and easy way to do that!).
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CREATE THIS PROJECT WITH:
✅ Messy Watercolor brush set: every-tuesday.com/messy-brushes
if you plan to monetize, you'll need this license: every-tuesday.com/messy-brushes-extended
✅ Free color palette: every-tuesday.com/watercolor-logo-color
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Looking for more Procreate tutorials + freebies?
👉 Head to my site: every-tuesday.com
👉 Free Procreate brushes + swatches: tuesdaymakers.com
✨ New to Procreate? Take my free course, Procreate for Beginners here: learn.every-tuesday.com/procreate-for-beginners/
🎨More Procreate projects like this one: kzbin.info/aero/PLOaLExfvXZWKiSx41F91WSZy4eDrPqj4c
🎓Love the messy watercolor style in Procreate ? Check out my full course here:
learn.every-tuesday.com/messy-watercolors-in-procreate/
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TECH STUFF + ACCESSORIES I USE
✨ This artwork was created on a 5th gen iPad Pro (12.9”, 256GB) with a 2nd gen Apple Pencil using the Procreate app
✨I recommend any iPad listed here for working in Procreate: every-tuesday.com/ipads as they all allow for pressure sensitivity. I only recommend an Apple Pencil because of its reliability compared to other 3rd party styluses
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro + Specs
00:50 Add the base splash
01:45 Recoloring the splash
05:50 Watery edges
09:30 Add splatter
11:10 Export the texture
12:05 Import the texture
12:45 Easy logo ideas
13:15 Stationery ideas
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LET’S CONNECT!
👉 Website: every-tuesday.com
👉 Instagram: everytuesday
(Use #procreateit and #tuesdaymakers to tag your work!)
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[@CarolineJones]

Thank you Teela. I really love that you are giving us ideas on how we can use the designs - that is very helpful. x

[@ClaudineTrottier]

❤WoW thank you 😊, enjoy your vacation 😊

[@alisplace2211]

Incredible, loved this tutorial so much! Thank you :)

[@anneburke2405]

Thank you Tesla, that was fascinating.

[@DeserieDrew]

Wow this is amazing thank you for sharing. I'm super new and enrolled in your course. I'm going to try this!

[@EveryTuesday]

Thanks for watching! 💕

[@wanderingcreativity]

Love it 🥰

[@MarciaEman]

Thank you Teela 🎉 this is very helpful! :)

[@EveryTuesday]

I'm so glad! Thanks for watching! 💕

[@FlowerPower1000]

Thank you for the great idea! What got me puzzled though, was the last bit about masking the texture into the letter mark. I can’t quite pin down the masks, and their different purpose. Perhaps you could make a video on them if you find inspiration for another project? Thank you in advance. XO from Greece ❤

[@EveryTuesday]

Thanks so much for watching! And thank you for the request! I'll def keep that in mind :) In the meantime, I do a deep dive into masking in my free Procreate for Beginners class here if it helps! 👉 every-tuesday.com/pfb

[@FlowerPower1000]

@@EveryTuesday oh cheers! Great! I will look into it 😊

[@anothersoulintheuniverse]

The only problem with creating a logo in a pixel based software like procreate is that you can’t resize it (to make it bigger) because it is not vectorized. Just keep that in mind, people.

[@SuzetteSantori1]

Hi T. This is a cool idea. coincidentally, I did design a logo for myself in procreate using a watercolor splotch. But when I went to create business cards and so forth I wondered if the logo would work in grayscale, or in a 2-color mode like a rubber stamp. So I panicked and abandoned the idea. Does this type of logo only work if it is FULL color? thanks so much for answering.

[@EveryTuesday]

Hey Suzette! Yes, it would hold up as greyscale, though I would tweak the levels of black to make the denser areas of texture stronger. For rubber stamps, I would vectorize and adjust from there. Really depends on where it would be used most often. If you'd do a lot of rubber stamping of it or it would be used as greyscale a lot, I would create an alternate version of the logo for those purposes (in the examples I gave, I would just use the lettermark vs with the texture behind it only in those scenarios) - this is an accepted practice for more complex brand marks 👍

[@SuzetteSantori1]

@@EveryTuesday Thanks so much. I would love the stamp to use to stamp for my logo on back of greeting cards or maybe on a note in mailed packages, that sort of thing. So I'll work on the different versions. I just gave up, thinking everything would look like a gray blob. haha. 💕

[@lizzieb4963]

Cannot find your logo color swatches in your resource library?

[@EveryTuesday]

Added in - sorry about that!