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Creating a Digital Pen for Lettering Projects

by Domestika @domestika

Sindy Ethel explains how to create a digital pen to work on Photoshop as you would with regular pens

Using an ordinary Photoshop brush for your lettering projects can be the right tool to create neon, monoline, or other effects with few variations in the stroke. However, Sindy Ethel (@sindyethel) explains how to create a digital pen for lettering projects on Adobe Photoshop, that much more suitable for those occasions when we are looking for a more organic and similar effect to the one we could achieve with drawing and writing tools such as fountain pens or bird feathers.

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