Digital Lettering with Illustrator and Photoshop

Overview

“In this lesson we will learn the basic concepts that are required to draw letters: as the height, the optical adjustment, the modulation of the letters; among others.”

In this video lesson Daniel Hosoya addresses the topic: Basic concepts for drawing letters, which is part of the Domestika online course: Digital Lettering with Illustrator and Photoshop. Learn to create combinations by combining different lettering styles.

Partial transcription of the video

“[Functional music] Now that we have understood the difference between calligraphy, typography and lettering It's time for us to start drawing letters I will not go deeper into the subject There are many concepts But I will try the most indispensable and most important to get started I am going to draw A baseline Is This baseline It will allow us That our letters have the same address Then we will draw A second line We will call this line X height This line will determine us The maximum height of our letters Lowercase We will also have a line A third line That will determine the height Of ca...”

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Course summary for: Digital Lettering with Illustrator and Photoshop

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (105)
• 1983 students
• 4 units
• 20 lessons (4h 36m)
• 9 downloads

• Category

  Calligraphy & Typography

• Software

  Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  3D Lettering, Digital Design, Digital Lettering, Lettering