It is incredibly rare to come across a lettering class or course that teaches you how to create professional level lettering, but Jon Contino's class offers just that. Jon is an immensely skilled lettering artist and illustrator. His work has been commissioned by some very notable brands and companies including Nike, Microsoft and Coka Cola. Jon's lettering and illustration work was also showcased in one of my all time favourite films The Book of Life, and in much of the marketing that went with … [Read more...]
Eight Classes To Excel Your Hand Lettering
Just a couple of days ago Lettering Tutorial turned one year old. I can't quite actually believe it, I can still remember writing my first ever article pretty clueless about all things lettering, and I've come a long way since! I have learnt a lot about lettering this past year, and I mean a lot, but there is still so much I don't know and there are still so many lettering skills I've yet to master. At the end of the day nearly everything comes down to practice, and as a lettering artist it's … [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...]
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...]
Tips To Take Away – July Skillshare Hand Lettering Experience
Near the beginning of July, Skillshare announced a hand lettering challenge that would take part throughout the rest of July. The challenge consisted of completing two of hand lettering artist Mary Kate McDevitts Skillshare classes. This included finishing and sharing two lettering assignments also. I wrote about the hand lettering challenge back in July, and decided that I would have ago at participating myself. I'm still only a short way into my lettering journey, and knew that it would … [Read more...]
