Introduction to Custom Lettering

Overview

“Now that you know some more concepts about the world of letters, I will show you how to put into practice what we have seen so far and teach my technique to design a lettering with construction layers that will evolve step by step.”

In this video lesson Cyla Costa addresses the topic: Drawing with layers, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Custom Lettering. Learn how to create expressive letters in your own signature style by combining manual and digital techniques.

Partial transcription of the video

“Drawing with layers Now I’ll put into practice everything we’ve seen so far and I’m going to show you my technique of building a lettering, layer by layer. I will make a simple and quick lettering and I will use the two types of letters that we are seeing, cursive and roman letters. I'll get a super Brazilian expression, which is Putz grila. I'm going to draw this very quickly now, only the skeleton of the letter. I chose two words to make one in cursive and one in Roman. I'm going to do Putz in Roman, and Grila in cursive. I will make the basic skeleton. Here the constructive skeleton of t...”

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Course summary for: Introduction to Custom Lettering

• Level: Beginner
• 99% positive reviews (139)
• 2562 students
• 4 units
• 19 lessons (3h 35m)
• 12 downloads

• Category

  Calligraphy & Typography

• Areas

  Digital Lettering, Hand Lettering, Lettering