How To Create Hand Drawn Worship Lyrics

Hi, I’m Michael Slater and I’ve made this tutorial to help you bring life to your lyrics through this hand-drawn style, inspired by Hillsong Young & Free.​ I hope this tutorial and the resource attached will really be a great help for you! I love the online community of church media guys and want to give back to that community by providing you with this! All the best.

Original Inspiration

You can download the resources for this tutorial here:

28 Comments

  1. Jonathan Malm on May 6, 2014 at 3:50 pm

    Baller

  2. Kendall Conner on May 6, 2014 at 4:14 pm

    Very nice! Love the simplicity.

  3. Alex Shepler on May 8, 2014 at 10:11 am

    This is amazing! I think I’m gonna try it!

  4. dcking5 on May 10, 2014 at 3:17 pm

    Is anyone producing YF style backgrounds yet?

  5. Henry Thomas on May 18, 2014 at 3:09 pm

    Awesome thank you. I will definitely try it out!

  6. @PaulAlanClif on May 20, 2014 at 10:42 am

    I'm adding his tutorial to my ProPresenter 5 tutorial set. Great work.

  7. @PaulAlanClif on May 20, 2014 at 10:45 am

    Okay, so apparently, something about the playlist doesn't want me to, so now I have a "Great Videos from others" playlist that will include this one.

  8. Kaz on July 10, 2014 at 1:30 am

    so I did this with one of our songs, but in pro presenter because its an image not actual editable text the worship team couldn't see it on the Stage display monitor so we havn't used it yet. Suggestions?

    • Rod on June 1, 2016 at 7:25 pm

      Kaz, enter the text lyrics as normal and make them either transparent or move the text box off screen. They will still display to the stage display but not to screen 🙂

  9. Jonathan on September 30, 2014 at 12:42 pm

    Where can i get those motion backgrounds you are using?

    • Brad Zimmerman on September 30, 2014 at 9:23 pm

      Check the youtube comments for this video, there are some ideas listed there.

  10. Raphael Funck on October 8, 2014 at 4:29 am

    Hi there, we did something very similar in our church, we made almost 40 songs in the handdrwan style.

    How we do it: I give the lyrics to some talented people, and they write every sentence on one page, afterwards I scan all pages of one song into one .pdf . I have created a Gimp-script, that converts this 1 pdf to multiple files (jpg + 1048*768), and then turns it to white on black. Then we import it in Songbeamer/ ProPresenter

    if you are interested in the script or more information, feel free to ask me 🙂

    • Jonathan Hector on February 3, 2016 at 2:19 am

      Hi Raphael, you reckon it would be possible to have the script. My pastor asked me to create something in the style and it would be great to not re-invent the wheel. :). Thanks heaps. Contact me personally on jo******@************cs.ch

    • Kent Coleman on July 22, 2016 at 3:16 pm

      Great idea! Could you send on the script for Gimp? I’d like to try that out? Still learning from the ground up on PS and Gimp,

  11. @jmleggott on November 8, 2014 at 1:09 am

    Actually got the Y&F hand drawn lyrics available for download. Scroll to the bottom of the page and they're all yours. http://hillsong.com/youngandfree

  12. Seth Wells on November 19, 2014 at 1:54 pm

    Dude so awesome!! thanks for taking the time to do that!!

  13. John Franco on November 29, 2014 at 1:15 pm

    This is awesome!! I have a question. We work with Stage Display and how do you guys work with the hand drawn lyrics and help the lead vocal?

    • Rod on June 1, 2016 at 7:26 pm

      John, enter the text lyrics as normal and make them either transparent or move the text box off screen. They will still display to the stage display but not to screen ?

  14. Nikki on January 28, 2015 at 10:13 pm

    where can i find the pdf of the boxes to hand write on?

    • Brad Zimmerman on January 29, 2015 at 9:07 am

      It is included in the download link above.

      • Bekah on July 14, 2016 at 2:33 pm

        I attempted to download the PDF file and it would not download. Do you have any other suggestions or ways that I could get ahold of that PDF or even create my own?

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  16. Sunny on November 3, 2015 at 7:16 pm

    Im having trouble putting motion background behind the text in propresenter. It is recognizing it as a jpeg, and hence i cant put motion behind it.

  17. Imbert Allen on March 29, 2017 at 10:31 am

    Looks like the resource link is broken now… I get an error when clicking on it:
    http://churchmediamarket.s3.amazonaws.com/file.mp4?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAIC436HNE2HK3XSEQ&Expires=1490797367&Signature=WjCkN7BpkVxvuSsM2bliCzgBb%2Bk%3D
    Wrong file extension maybe?

    • Brad Zimmerman on March 29, 2017 at 1:09 pm

      This resource has been removed due to copyright issues. It is not Legal to share lyrics from any copyrighted song without expressed consent of the copyright holder.

      • Imbert Allen on March 29, 2017 at 3:20 pm

        ah, most unfortunate. Is there a link for the empty pdf template? Thanks.

  18. Hamthan Konyak on July 9, 2022 at 10:21 am

    Thankyou so much. I’m from India and I’m so grateful to find this website for so many wonderful resources. God bless the Team!!

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