Lettering for Perfectionists
How to add textures
A course by Martina Flor , Lettering Artist and Designer
About the video: How to add textures
Overview
“In this lesson I will show you how to add layers of textures and I will give you some final tips for the finalization of your design such as the application of shadows or gradients. We are almost done!”
In this video lesson Martina Flor addresses the topic: How to add textures, 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
“[Music] We know how to generate some textures. Now I would like show you or share with you what effect they have when you apply them in your drawing and then I'm going to show you how I added texture to my Alice in Wonderland design Wonders. Let's see it. Let's now go to the digital drawing where we have already added all the decorative elements, we have our entire design almost closed and we are going to try what we have to say by adding a little bit of touch effect to this shape, here I added some examples for show you like some of the textures I showed you before They have an effect on a...”
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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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