It's truly an honour to announce this months 'Lettering Legend'. Ruth Rowland is an active member of the Hand Lettering HQ group I manage on Facebook, and is often sharing her work. She is regularly inspiring group members and has been quite modest around her lettering career achievements. It might be that Ruth Rowland's name is unfamiliar to you, or you may have come across her huge portfolio of work before. There's a good chance you will have seen her work at some point though, whether you've … [Read more...]
Lettering Tutorial Six Months In, Looking Back & Future Goals
This week marks the six month anniversary since the very first article went live on Lettering Tutorial. This article will be a little different to the usual ones you might have read on here before, as I'll be taking a look back over the last six months of Lettering Tutorial, and also talking about what I have planned for the future too. Looking Back Let's start by taking a look back over the past six months. To some six months probably won't seem all that long, but because of the way the site … [Read more...]
Drawing Ornate Lettering For Beginners
Ornate lettering was something that could be found in a lot of places a hundred or more years ago. Advertisements, and products often used ornate lettering, nowadays ornate lettering isn't seen anywhere near as much. At this point if you're very new to lettering you might be wondering what ornate lettering is. The simplest way to describe ornate lettering is that it's usually just decorative, and references letter shapes and patterns that were around from the past. The decoration can … [Read more...]
Lettering Legend – Matt Vergotis Interview
It's so exciting to announce that Gold Coast Australian Matt Vergotis is this months 'Lettering Legend'. Matt has been working freelance for seven years, specialising in typography and branding. Altogether he has over twenty years of experience in the design industry. Matt is truly talented at creating unique lettering designs, and it's very clear that a lot of thought and effort goes into every lettering piece of work he creates. In the past he's shared a few videos and tips aimed at helping … [Read more...]
Join InkTober 2015 – 31 Days Of Ink Projects
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...]
