The Lettering Workshops : 30 Exercises for Improving Your Hand Lettering Skills PDF
by Francis Chouquet
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Description
In The Lettering Workshops, you'll learn all about the art and practice of drawing letters using hands-on techniques in five workshops across 30 lessons! Whether you're a beginner or a professional graphic designer, you'll quickly learn how to develop and advance your lettering skills.
In this richly illustrated book of lessons and exercises, you’ll find:
- • 5 Workshops to learn the art of drawing letters—from an introduction to brush lettering and lettering script to the decoration of letters; from the secrets of good composition to the process of digitization and vectorization of your type
- • 30 Exercises that gradually develop from beginner through intermediate and advanced difficulty
- • 16 Studies of works to understand what makes good lettering
- • 52 Inspirational contributions in featured galleries from international brands
- • 160 Pages for all skill levels
- • 26 Letters to learn and explore!
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- What Is Lettering?
- Why This Book?
- First Lesson
- Lettering, Calligraphy, or Typography?
- Basics and Technical Vocabulary
WORKSHOP 1: DISCOVERING BRUSH LETTERING
- Exercise 1: Find the Right Position
- Exercise 2: Set Up a Grid
- Exercise 3: Execute the First Movements
- Exercise 4: Place Letters
- Exercsise 5: Join the Letters
- Exercise 6: Retracing Your Tracks
- Work Studies
- Gallery
WORKSHOP 2: INITIATING SCRIPT LETTERING
- Exercise 1: Discover the Skeleton Technique
- Exercise 2: Trace an Alphabet
- Exercise 3: Draw a Full Word
- Exercise 4: Execute a Classic Script Letter
- Exercise 5: Out of Your Comfort Zone
- Work Studies
- Gallery
WORKSHOP 3: USING TYPOGRAPHICAL CHARACTERS
- Exercise 1: Decorate a Letter
- Exercise 2: A Complete Word Exercise
- Exercise 3: Go Further with a Vintage Style
- Exercise 4: Discover the Interlock
- Exercise 5: Work the Interlock
- Exercise 6: Realize Complete Lettering in Interlock
- Work Studies
- Gallery
WORKSHOP 4: THE SECRETS OF A GOOD COMPOSITION
- Exercise 1: Thinking in Block
- Exercise 2: Execute the First Sketches
- Exercise 3: Choose the Word Styles
- Exercise 4: Tracing the Skeleton
- Exercise 5: Develop and Finalize Your Track
- Work Studies
- Gallery
WORKSHOP 5: SCANNING AND VECTORIZATION
- Exercise 1: Scan and Prepare Your Lettering
- Exercise 2: First Steps to Vectorization
- Exercise 3: Testing the Summit Theory
- Exercise 4: Vectorize the Entire Set of Letters
- Exercise 5: Critiquing Vectorized Letters
- Exercise 6: Prepare Lettering without Vectorization
- Exercise 7: Isolate Lettering
- Exercise 8: Apply Texture
- Exercise 9: Finalizing the Composition
- Gallery
- The Artists in This Book
- Resources
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:160 pages
- Publisher:Rocky Nook
- Publication Date:29/11/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9781681984452
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Information
-
Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:160 pages
- Publisher:Rocky Nook
- Publication Date:29/11/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9781681984452
