Introduction to Sign Painting
Refinement and final piece
A course by Miguel Reyes , Typographic designer and lyricist
About the video: Refinement and final piece
Overview
“Now I will show you how to transfer the sketch to our final support. Then, we will apply everything we have learned so far, taking care of our lines and detailing them so that they are very well done. Make it readable, nice and clean. Ready!”
In this video lesson Miguel Reyes addresses the topic: Refinement and final piece, 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] After having practiced lot on our sketching we have already selected a version that we will use for our final composition. Now I'm going to share a technique so that you can pass this composition that you have selected to your final substrate . For this we are going to use our stitch marker and our sandpaper. The process that we are going to follow is to place our sketch on a smooth surface, in my case a cardboard to be able to drill on our sketch. In this case I'm just going to drill the skeleton of our letters so we have a reference of the position of our letters in the final subs...”
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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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