Introduction to Brush Lettering

Overview

“First you’ll need to practice calligraphy. We will be using brush lettering, so please download the guidelines and practice this brush lettering. The guides will form a solid foundation for creating the logotype. I’ll talk about how to: hold the brush pen, about the different strokes, about the rules and when to break them. ”

In this video lesson James Lewis addresses the topic: An introduction to Brush Lettering - The Brush Pen, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Brush Lettering. Learn how to use brush pens and lettering brushes to create letters, words, and phrases.

Partial transcription of the video

“Welcome back. In this lesson, I'm going to be showing you through the basics of brush lettering. Using brush past. Now, we're going to be using this to understand the fundamentals of how a letter form is constructed using basic strings. But then you're gonna take that knowledge and understanding into using our chiseled brush. And then we're going to be going through the alphabet in the future lesson. So let's get started. So by now, hopefully you would have printed out the brush lettering sheet here. and we're going to be turning on to the front page. Now, when we're using this booklet, we ...”

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Course summary for: Introduction to Brush Lettering

• Level: Beginner
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• 3052 students
• 4 units
• 17 lessons (2h 28m)
• 6 downloads

• Category

  Calligraphy & Typography

• Areas

  Hand Lettering, Lettering