InkTober first came under my radar last year, but at the time I was too busy working on drawing commissions to look into it properly. This year InkTober is back again, and it seems like the perfect thing to get involved with to boost those lettering skills, portfolios or both! Much of the work that gets submitted to InkTober is highly illustration based. Some of the work I've seen also incorporates lettering with illustration too. As a lettering community lets bring some amazing lettering … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2015
Introducing Lettering Tutorial Book Club
There are now a number of lettering books out there in the world. There are however a few gems, and a few that stand out as helpful for those learning hand lettering, or for those wishing to further improve their skills. The aim of Lettering Tutorial Book Club is to help introduce you to new lettering books, from different categories, that can aid you on your lettering journey. Also to highlight significant features of chosen books, and to provide information on where you can get hold of them … [Read more...]
Scott Biersack Drawing Custom Lettering Class (Skillshare)
Last week hand lettering artist Scott Biersack released a Skillshare class. Scott has already featured on Lettering Tutorial once before as a 'Lettering Legend', so I was very excited to discover his class 'Drawing Custom Lettering: Concept to Final Vector and Beyond'. A while ago Scott created a few lettering tutorials for Tuts+ and those helped me a great deal on my lettering journey. When I found that he'd created a Skillshare class, I knew there would be more knowledge to gain from the … [Read more...]
Why Sharing Your Hand Lettering Work Is Important
Sharing your hand lettering work might be something you're already doing. It might be something you're totally scared of doing. Either way whether you're sharing your work or not, you may be unaware of the benefits. Reflection If you're regularly sharing your work on something like Instagram or Pinterest even on a blog, over time you'll be able to look back over your work, and easily reflect upon it. You might start to notice patterns in your style of working, which can help you to … [Read more...]
Belinda Love Lee Digitize Your Own Calligraphy Class (Skillshare)
Belinda Love Lee, one of Lettering Tutorials 'Lettering Legends' has just launched her first Skillshare class, 'Digitize Your Own Calligraphy: From Logo to Letterpress'. If you've ever looked at Belinda's portfolio you'll see a lot of her work uses a calligraphic style, and her new class focuses on calligraphy. Along with calligraphy the class also explores digitisation, and taking your work to letterpress. I've watched all of the class videos as I'm a big fan of Belinda's work. It's very … [Read more...]
