Fonts: Build your Word
Base drawing
A course by Glíglifo , Graphic designers specialized in typefaces
Design a font with the double pencil technique
- Spanish with subtitles in English
- 96% positive reviews (51)
- 1157 students
About the video: Base drawing
Overview
“Once the technique is learned, we begin to draw our first letters with a premeditated and studied intention.”
In this video lesson Glíglifo addresses the topic: Base drawing, which is part of the Domestika online course: Fonts: Build your Word. Design a font with the double pencil technique.
Partial transcription of the video
“Well, as we have seen in the previous video with Pedro, we have already introduced in the double pencil line, because now we are going to take that technique and we are going to apply already to the anatomy of the letter, to draw letters, summarizing we have seen the double pencil technique have the pencils in parallel and what is important is the inclination of the double pencil or pen in this case. Let's do some examples of how the anatomy of the letter changes depending on the double pencil, for example as we have seen with Pedro which is what we are working on the 30 °, these forms coul...”
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Course summary for: Fonts: Build your Word
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Category
Calligraphy & Typography -
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Glyphs -
Areas
Graphic Design, Typography, Typography Design
Damià Rotger Miró, (Ferreries, Menorca, 1981) is a graphic designer specialized in typography design. Their types can be purchased at the independent digital foundry Ductile . Diploma in Graphic Design in Palma de Mallorca, postgraduate in Corporate Identity in Elisava (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) and Typography «from the creation of the Letter to the Maquetación» in Eina (Autonomous University of Barcelona). He is a professor of typography and editorial design at the Edib school in Palma de Mallorca, organizer of Glíglifo, member of Lletraferits, teaches workshops and conferences on typography and editorial design throughout Spain, is a pioneer in the teaching of typography in the Balearic Islands and is a founding partner of the Dúctil study. He has been a jury in different competitions and his works have been awarded and exhibited all over the world.
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Pedro Arilla (Ejea de los Caballeros, Zaragoza, 1984). Graphic designer specialized in typography design. Their types can be purchased in the independent digital foundry pedroarilla.com . Diploma in Graphic Design by the Higher School of Design of Aragón, author and speaker of the blog and podcast on typography Don [url=http://donserifa.com/] , member of ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale), Some tough guys and Lletraferits, organizer of Glíglifo, disseminator of typography through articles in blogs and magazines and workshops and conferences throughout Spain, speaker of the podcast on design Losing the forms and founding partner of Detalier estudio creativo.
- 96% positive reviews (51)
- 1157 students
- 18 lessons (2h 8m)
- 8 additional resources (5 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: Spanish
- Spanish, English, Portuguese
- Level: Beginner
- Unlimited access forever
Adobe Illustrator
Glyphs
