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Fun with Hand Lettering
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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
English [Auto],

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

    Explore rough hand lettering, guided by the idea 'all that we are is a result of what we have thought,' with pencil sketches, Sharpie, and watercolor.

  • 2 Getting puffy9:35

    Learn puffy hand lettering by refining pencil guides with a black marker, erasing lines, coloring with markers; add circles, a 1970s color palette, and the subtitle believing is seeing.

  • 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

    Freehand letters, outline them, and thicken strokes to create thick and thin typography. Use baselines and guidelines, then color with blue markers and dotted accents to emphasize clutter and simplicity.

  • 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

    Learn brush-pen lettering with watercolor color washes to fill a heart, applying down stroke pressure and light up stroke lifts, then frame with a textured pink paper border.

  • 10 Scottish Architect13:00

    Explore hand lettering inspired by Scottish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh, replicating his distinctive letterforms, off-center crossbars, and geometric roses, then apply watercolor washes to a Thoreau quote.

  • 11 Faux Calligraphy21:22

    Master faux calligraphy in a hand lettering session on black card stock using a white marker, an oval template, and thick down strokes with corrections for spacing and layout.

  • 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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