Packaging Illustration: Create Imaginative Product Designs
Refining The Hand Lettering
A course by Lisa Perrin , Illustrator, Hand-Lettering Artist, and Professor
Joined December 2020
About the video: Refining The Hand Lettering
Overview
“Just like the process, I did early with the illustration sketch, I will show you how to enlarge and sketch the lettering work in more detail using your tablet in Adobe Photoshop.”
In this video lesson Lisa Perrin addresses the topic: Refining The Hand Lettering, which is part of the Domestika online course: Packaging Illustration: Create Imaginative Product Designs. Combine hand-lettering and illustration techniques to create unique packaging for any product.
Partial transcription of the video
“Refining the Hand Lettering Let's continue working on our project and move on from the artwork to the lettering. One key thing I wanna share with you before you continue drawing and resketching the illustration is how you might think about how to refine the hand lettering and the key to that is drawing guidelines for yourself. Let me go ahead and show you how I might do that. Make a new layer. Let's call this one Guide. You'll see that this is on an organic shape. There are not straight lines. Let's go ahead and draw an arc that I like and feels emblematic of the arc I'm trying to achieve. ...”
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Course summary for: Packaging Illustration: Create Imaginative Product Designs
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Category
Design, Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Design, Digital Illustration, Hand Lettering, Packaging, Product Design, Traditional illustration

Lisa Perrin
A course by Lisa Perrin
Lisa Perrin is an illustrator, hand-lettering artist, and professor based in Baltimore, Maryland. She was born in New York and went to college there, achieving a BFA in Drawing and Painting. She later went on to study a Master’s in illustration at MICA where she now works full-time as a professor.
Lisa has worked on over thirty book covers as well as for clients including Macy’s, Anthropologie, Penguin Random House, Harper Collins, Macmillan, The Saturday Evening Post, and Krispy Kreme. Her work has also been recognized by The Society of Illustrators, American Illustration, 3X3 Magazine, and Print Magazine.
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