Brush lettering techniques will allow you to move your brush lettering to the next level. As mentioned in 'Brush Lettering For Beginners Part One', script skills and brush pen experimentation will give you a good starting point, but there is more to brush lettering than just those two things! If you've not read part one I definitely recommend reading it and acting upon it first, before practicing the techniques in this article. I know often it's tempting to dive straight into new activities. … [Read more...]
Brush Lettering For Beginners Part One
Brush lettering is one of those skills where once you master it, the results can look brilliant. There are a lot of different styles of brush lettering out there, but learning the basics will allow you in time to develop any brush lettering styles you like. To learn brush lettering, you only need a handful of tools. You'll need a few sheets of paper, you can use cheap printer paper for practice, and then may want to upgrade to something of a nicer quality once your skill develops. A sharp … [Read more...]
FREE Hand Lettering Guides! – Lettering Tutorial
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...]
