Introduction to Brush Lettering

Overview

“In this lesson, I’ll breakdown a famous logo in detail and show you how I would paint it for practice. I'll talk about how I would approach the logo and help you visualize it was brush strokes first. Different brushes for different parts of this logo have been refined so it is not true to the original calligraphy. We'll talk about twisting the brush to achieve curves and about refining the edges using the background color or gesso. ”

In this video lesson James Lewis addresses the topic: Replicating Coca Cola’s logotype - The Paint Brush, 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

“Replicating Coca Cola's Logotype: The Paint Brush Welcome back. In this lesson, we'll be painting the Coca-Cola logo. In the previous lesson we got everything prepared, so on our easel here we have a prepped logo. We'll use three different brushes for this. We'll use number 5, and also the number 3 and the number 1. With this logo we'll try to achieve as much precision as possible. Whereas we have this thick stroke, we'll use the number 5 as we've done before and for some of the thin strokes and details we'll use the smaller brushes to achieve this sort of shapes here. So let's get on with ...”

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Course summary for: Introduction to Brush Lettering

• Level: Beginner
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• 2852 students
• 4 units
• 17 lessons (2h 28m)
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• Category

  Calligraphy & Typography

• Areas

  Brush Painting, Hand Lettering, Lettering