Introduction to Sign Painting
Basic strokes and first exercises
A course by Miguel Reyes , Typographic designer and lyricist
About the video: Basic strokes and first exercises
Overview
“In this lesson we will know the practical basis, the template; the basic strokes and their formal characteristics. Practice enough until you achieve constant traits in weight, shape and consistency, until you master them. We must be self-critical with our work and move forward only until we have noticed improvements in our practice. ”
In this video lesson Miguel Reyes addresses the topic: Basic strokes and first exercises, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Sign Painting. Learn the basic principles of signage with brushes.
Partial transcription of the video
“[Music] In this lesson we will learn the practical basis of casual letters. We will also define our template and we will Learn the basic strokes that make up our alphabet. The success of casual letters consists of stroke thickness, proportions and inclination. It’s very important that they practice a lot and control the tool, in this case our brush. As I mentioned earlier, casual letters They are commonly used in capital letters. Now let's analyze a little These elements in our sheet. To be able to define the height of our capital letters It is important to use as a unit of measure the thic...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Sign Painting
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Category
Calligraphy & Typography -
Areas
Lettering

Miguel Reyes
A course by Miguel Reyes
Graphic designer training, Miguel Reyes his love for letters has led him to specialize in typographic design and lettering. Since 2013, he has been a typographical designer at the international typesetter Commercial Type and his work is published every day in newspapers such as 'El Universal', in Mexico, 'La Repubblica', in Italy and in all the newspapers of the McClatchy Group, U.S.
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