The Lettering Workshops: 30 Exercises for Improving Your Hand Lettering Skills

Description

In The Lettering Workshops, you’ll be told all in regards to the artwork and observe of drawing letters the use of arms-on ways in 30 courses throughout five workshops. Whether or not you’re a novice or a qualified picture fashion designer, you can briefly learn to increase and boost your lettering talents.

In this richly illustrated E-book of courses and Workout routines, you’ll to find:

• 5 Workshops to be told the artwork of drawing letters―from an creation to comb lettering and lettering script to the ornament of letters; from the secrets and techniques of excellent composition to the method of digitization and vectorization of your type

• 30 Workout routines that steadily increase from novice via intermediate and complicated levels

• 16 Analyses of lettering samples to bear in mind what makes just right lettering

• 52 Inspirational contributions in featured galleries from global letterers and brands

• 160 Pages for all ability levels

• 26 Letters to be told and discover

TABLE OF CONTENTS

What Is Lettering?

Why This E-book?

First Lesson

Lettering, Calligraphy, or Typography?

Basics and Technical Vocabulary

WORKSHOP 1: DISCOVERING BRUSH LETTERING

Exercise 1: Finding the Proper Position

Exercise 2: Environment Up a Grid

Exercise three: Sporting Out the First Motions

Exercise four: Drawing the Letters

Exercise five: Connecting the Letters

Exercise 6: Remodeling Your Drafts

Analysis of Lettering Samples

Gallery

WORKSHOP 2: INTRODUCTION TO SCRIPT LETTERING

Exercise 1: Finding the Skeleton Technique

Exercise 2: Drawing an Alphabet

Exercise three: Drawing a Whole Word

Exercise four: Lettering in a Vintage Script

Exercise five: Leaving Your Convenience Zone!

Analysis of Lettering Samples

Gallery

WORKSHOP three: USING TYPOGRAPHIC CHARACTERS

Exercise 1: Embellishing a Letter

Exercise 2: Practising on a Whole Word

Exercise three: Going Additional with Antique Style

Exercise four: Finding Interlock

Exercise five: Practising Interlock with Serifs

Exercise 6: Generating a Whole Interlock Lettering Project

Analysis of Lettering Samples

Gallery

WORKSHOP four: THE SECRETS OF GOOD COMPOSITION

Exercise 1: Pondering in Phrases of the Block

Exercise 2: Finishing the First Sketches

Exercise three: Opting for the Kinds for Every Word

Exercise four: Drawing the Skeleton

Exercise five: Growing and Finalizing Your Path

Analysis of Lettering Samples

Gallery

WORKSHOP five: DIGITIZATION AND VECTORIZATION

Exercise 1: Digitizing and Making ready Your Lettering

Exercise 2: First Steps in Vectorization

Exercise three: Checking out the Vertex Theory

Exercise four: Vectorizing the Complete Lettering Project

Exercise five: Critiquing Your Vectorized Lettering Project

Exercise 6: Making ready Your Lettering Venture with out Vectorization

Exercise 7: Keeping apart the Lettering

Exercise eight: Including Texture to the Lettering Project

Exercise nine: Finalizing the Composition

Gallery

Artists Represented on this Book

Resources