Get FREE hand lettering guides, including guides for lettering phrases or quotes, a grid guide, and a guide for lettering in script or for using with calligraphy. The Lettering Tutorial FREE guide pack includes nine guides that you can print out and use time and time again for your lettering practice. To get your free guides all you need to do is just sign up to my Newsletter. I don't send spam, just updates, tutorials and lettering related content! When you sign up to my Newsletter … [Read more...]
Hand Lettering Guides For Beginners
Hand lettering guides are something you can use when you first start lettering, or they can be introduced early on into your lettering journey. They help to keep your lettering level, and evenly sized. So lets get started with the basics of hand lettering guides. A guide is made up of a series of lines, the lines all have different names and positions on the guide. The bottom of all letters except g, j, p, q, and y usually sit on what is known as the 'Baseline'. By taking advantage of the … [Read more...]
Useful Lettering Tools: Paper – Lettering Tutorial
There are a number of different types of paper that you can use for your hand lettering. If you're new to lettering though, you might not have had much opportunity to experiment with paper types. I've made a video highlighting three different types of paper you can use for creating your lettering on. The video explores a few things, how transparent the types of paper are, this is useful for light boxing and tracing. Whether the types of paper allow much bleed when inking outlines, and also I … [Read more...]
Creative Market On Hand Lettering For Beginners
Creative Market have recently shared an article on their blog all about hand lettering for beginners by C.S. Jones. The article gives a great simplistic guide on some of the materials used within lettering. It also talks about basic steps you can follow to start lettering. Some of the information within the article I have previously talked about on Lettering Tutorial, such as what exactly is hand lettering, and using pencils. However, there are definitely a couple of things in the article I … [Read more...]
Four Reasons Why To Take Up Hand Lettering Now
Aside from the fact hand lettering is a lot of fun, there are four really great reasons that stand out as to why you should take up hand lettering now if you haven't already. 1 . Interest in hand lettering is on the rise According to Google Trends hand lettering has been gaining interest since 2007. Around 2007 to 2013 it had slow but steady interest. Then throughout 2013 interest in lettering started to rise massively and has been rising ever since. It's hard to determine the exact … [Read more...]
