Hand-Lettering Sketchbook: Techniques to Unlock Creativity

Hand-Lettering Sketchbook: Techniques to Unlock Creativity

“You have reached the end of this course, so congratulations to you! Thanks for trusting me to be your teacher, it’s been a pleasure sharing with you all I learned on my way through the world of lettering. Sharing what we love to do is an amazing way to give the world a piece of us. During this course, I have shown you some exercises to help you be more confident about your letterings. As a final challenge now it’s your turn to create your own final project! Try to begin by drawing in your sketchbook without a specific aim in mind. Are you ready? Will you take the challenge? If your answer it’s yes, let me show you an example of the steps I would like to see in your final project. Play The Music Play your chosen music and try to get lost in your drawing, almost like a state of creative meditation! Headphones can help you to enter the ‘zone out’ to the music, especially if you have a lot of background noise. Pick out a short lyric - something that resonates with you - it could be anything! Try and keep it to around 3 to 5 words, this will make it quicker and easier to draw and develop. The phrase I selected is: "All together now" Draw! Draw and redraw over and over! This is how you and your designs will become better. Repeating your drawing is a great way to slowly develop the art, tweaking it with every new drawing and experimenting with small changes as you go.

Add Colour Draw some varieties of your original version and add colour to your lettering. Begin the process again, but with a focus on finding the right palette and balance of colour. The options are endless here, so limit the design to three or four colours, and seek out the very best combination! The Final Design Now you have a lot of options! But it’s time for you to pick just one. Capture it to post it, or adapt it for an art print, or a poster to send to new clients or even turn it into an animation, anything is possible! Don’t feel like you need to settle on the first thing you hear or think, take your time! Be playful, often the best ideas come when you are not thinking too hard and you are relaxed and simply enjoying drawing. It’s been a great journey, I hope you have enjoyed this course! I can’t wait to see what you have created. Please, do not forget to upload your final project. Showing your sketchbook art and the developments you have made to a design is always interesting and can be a great confidence boost. Let’s create a gallery of amazing sketchbook lettering! I aim to reply to every project posted, but sometimes this may take me a little while - be patient and I will get back to you! I’ll give you feedback on your creations, and try to give you a few ideas of how you could develop the work further to really get the most out of all your hard work. Now...get to work on your sketchbooks and I’ll speak with you soon!”

Partial transcription of the video

“ Final Project This is the end of this introduction to lettering sketchbook course, so well done to you. You've achieved so much and I want to thank you for coming on this journey and learning about something that I truly love to do. You began this course learning why your sketchbook is so important and how you can turn simple overheard words into great typographic designs. I explained the different pens and sketchbooks you can use in your sketches and what I prefer to use. Remember to find a sketchbook that works for you. It can be any size, but make sure you can easily take it with you. ...”

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Course summary for: Hand-Lettering Sketchbook: Techniques to Unlock Creativity

• Level: Beginner
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• 4 units
• 15 lessons (2h 35m)
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• Category

  Calligraphy & Typography

• Areas

  Creativity, Drawing, Hand Lettering, Sketchbook, Sketching