Lettering for Perfectionists
Big Sketch
A course by Martina Flor , Lettering Artist and Designer
About the video: Big Sketch
Overview
“Now it's time to scale our drawing. In this lesson, we will work with the layered drawing technique to perfect our hand drawing.”
In this video lesson Martina Flor addresses the topic: Big Sketch, which is part of the Domestika online course: Lettering for Perfectionists. Learn to enrich and add character to your lettering.
Partial transcription of the video
“Well now let's take one of these little sketches At a larger size to work on details I'm going to take this sketch to a larger size and Basically what I'm going to do is copy this same Drawing on a larger scale I like to work With a4 size or letter size because it seems to me that it is a size Neither too big nor too small and too big means that you will not be drawing For hours each letter and not even very small means that Do you have space or do you have the necessary scale to be able to Work on the details and then basically what What I'm going to do is copy this sketch on a larger scal...”
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Course summary for: Lettering for Perfectionists
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Category
Calligraphy & Typography -
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Lettering, Hand Lettering, Lettering
Martina Flor
A course by Martina Flor
Martina Flor combines her talents as a lettering designer and illustrator. Born in Buenos Aires, Martina has lived, studied, and worked in a number of cities throughout Europe including Berlin, where she founded a custom lettering and typography studio. Some of her international clients include The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Cosmopolitan, HarperCollins, Fontshop, Monotype, and Etsy.
Martina is cofounder of the well-known online “battle” project Lettering vs Calligraphy and founder of Letter Collections. She holds a master's degree in type design from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, and she spends much of her time teaching lettering and type design in Europe and abroad.
Martina is the author of the book The Golden Secrets of Lettering, published in 2017 by Princeton Architectural Press in the United States and by Thames & Hudson in the United Kingdom (Original title: Lust auf Lettering, 2016 Verlag Hermann Schmidt), which has been translated into several languages.
When she isn't drawing letters, she travels the world presenting her work at conferences and universities. In 2016, she spoke at TEDx Río de la Plata before an audience of 10,000 spectators.
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