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Fun with Hand Lettering
Rating: 4.5 out of 5(43 ratings)
405 students

Fun with Hand Lettering

Bring your ABC's to life using these twelve styles of hand-lettering
Created byMary-Jane Roussel
Last updated 4/2020
English
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What you'll learn

  • Twelve styles of hand lettering

Course content

1 section • 14 lectures • 2h 32m total length

  • Introduction2:22

    Explore 12 lettering styles through 12 playful projects using a short phrase or sentence in hand lettering and calligraphy. Use flexible supplies on 15 by 20 cm papers.

  • 1 Playing it rough10:16
  • 2 Getting puffy9:35
  • 3 Poppin' Plain6:32

    Pop plain letters off the page with colorful backgrounds, using a rough framework, horizontal guides, and layered strokes to emphasize major words; color with pencil crayons to form geometric shapes.

  • 4 Makin' Waves23:29

    Create hand lettering with wave motifs using watercolor backgrounds, calligraphy lettering styles, and varied marker techniques to express rough textures, rhythm, and emphasis.

  • 5 In Stitches12:13

    Create a reverse-lettering piece on watercolor paper, using baselines, margins, and a freehand frame to stitch the Hamlet quote nothing is either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

  • 6 Thick 'n' Thin10:31
  • 7 Going Geometric6:54

    In module seven of fun with hand lettering, explore geometric letters with primary colors, sketch and trace, erase pencil lines, and paint while preventing bleed and preserving black lines.

  • 8 Black Letter9:34

    Here's the link to the Simple Gothic Hand course, if you're interested in that: https://www.udemy.com/course/simple-gothic-hand-calligraphy/?referralCode=8353A29CCBB9AE99248E

  • 9 Brushing Up11:28
  • 10 Scottish Architect13:00
  • 11 Faux Calligraphy21:22
  • 12 Flowery12:50

    Learn to create flowery hand lettering, drawing letters with squiggles, roses, three leaves, and dots inside four frames, outline with Sharpie and paint for depth.

  • Project and Conclusion1:59

    Create a multi-style hand lettering envelope project by using at least two techniques to write a name and address on the outside, then include your mailing address and email inside.

Requirements

  • None, aside from loving to hand-letter

Description

This “fun with hand-lettering” class is meant to be just that … FUN!

Set your keyboards and tactile surfaces aside for a while. Grab a pencil, some markers, your watercolour palette, maybe some pencil crayons, too — whatever you find on your shelves — and come along with me to discover 12 styles of hand-lettering.

One letter style will have you “in stitches”, other will allow you to “rough it up”. Maybe you’ll like to walk in the steps of a Scottish architect; perhaps you’ll prefer to ride “the waves”.

Intrigued? Then come join the class to discover the twelve letter styles, presented through twelve positive and optimistic phrases in the form of simple projects.

NB This class is not focused on precision and technique … the goal is to have fun writing and drawing letters.

Who this course is for:

  • Hand-letterers looking to take their writing one step further

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