Retro American Lettering: Discover the Interlock Style
The first sketches
A course by Francis Chouquet , Lettering Artist and Typographer
About the video: The first sketches
Overview
“I can now move on to making my first sketches. I'll draw these as thumbnails, just to get a first visual look at my project.”
In this video lesson Francis Chouquet addresses the topic: The first sketches, which is part of the Domestika online course: Retro American Lettering: Discover the Interlock Style. Create a unique poster with striking compositions by exploring hand lettering techniques in Procreate.
Partial transcription of the video
“The first sketches We will make the first sketches of our final project in this lesson. Personally, I always start with thumbnails. We start with small sketches. Then we'll do bigger sketches that we will have chosen in relation to our first list. Then, we will make a sketch which will be final. Here I will start by making small frames to make my thumbnails compared to the ideas that I found in the inspiration. In inspiration, we had things that I liked. like bubbles i could see, bubble effects in which I could put the names of my artists. So, there, I make three, four. It could be not bad,...”
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Course summary for: Retro American Lettering: Discover the Interlock Style
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Category
Calligraphy & Typography -
Software
Procreate -
Areas
Digital Lettering, Hand Lettering, Lettering, Poster Design

Francis Chouquet
A course by Francis Chouquet
After a career in web design and evening classes in art school, Francis Chouquet finally started lettering, an art form he has been passionate about since he was young.
One meeting with artist Ken Barber and a few strokes of the pencil later, he found himself working for Adobe and Fontself, as well as surfing clubs, for whom he designed many logos and posters.
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