Custom Letter Design with Procreate
Selection and Sketching 1
A course by Jimbo Bernaus , Lettering Artist
About the video: Selection and Sketching 1
Overview
“In this lesson, you will go back to basics and, with the help of a blank paper and a pencil, you’ll create rough sketches of your lettering piece. For this, you’ll select the parts of the mood board that inspire you the most or serve a better purpose for your project idea and you’ll understand what could work best while sketching.”
In this video lesson Jimbo Bernaus addresses the topic: Selection and Sketching 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Custom Letter Design with Procreate. Combine lettering and illustration to create colorful compositions that communicate captivating messages.
Partial transcription of the video
“Selection and Sketching In this lesson, we'll start sketching our piece and I'm going to tell you the importance of it. Remember that in this stage, the sketches have to look really rough. It's really not important that they look good. Actually, it's better that they don't because this is the mental training and it's really important for you to feel free to do something dirty that doesn't look good, and it's going to help you afterwards. Let's say that we're going to do four sketches. Since our piece is going to be square, we're going to first draw the containers. Here you can do as I'm doi...”
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Course summary for: Custom Letter Design with Procreate
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Category
Calligraphy & Typography -
Software
Procreate -
Areas
3D Lettering, Digital Lettering, Lettering

Jimbo Bernaus
A course by Jimbo Bernaus
Jimbo Bernaus is a Spanish lettering artist based in Croatia. As a child, he was always interested in art and was encouraged by his family to pursue a career in creativity. After earning his degree in graphic design in Barcelona, he moved to Croatia to work for a well-known advertising agency. From there, he took the leap and started BAM!, an agency of his own in Zagreb which he runs with his partner.
Jimbo has been working in the design space for more than ten years and has worked for agencies and freelance clients across the world. His client list includes Booking.com, Carlsberg, BMW, and Affinity Design.
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