Hand-Lettering Sketchbook: Techniques to Unlock Creativity
Furry Words: Onomatopoeia
A course by Adam Hayes , Illustrator and Designer
About the video: Furry Words: Onomatopoeia
Overview
“I will show you a really playful exercise where you will draw words to look like they sound or by their definition. You will realize this exercise will help you to start looking at letter spacing, overlapping, and legibility. ”
In this video lesson Adam Hayes addresses the topic: Furry Words: Onomatopoeia, which is part of the Domestika online course: Hand-Lettering Sketchbook: Techniques to Unlock Creativity. Fill your sketchbook with playful and creative typographic compositions to inspire your future lettering projects.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, we'll do a really playful exercise where we'll draw words by how they sound or by their definition. By doing this, we'll start to look at letter spacing, overlapping and legibility. Okay, I've called this exercise furry words and that's because furry is such a great word. To draw. I'm gonna start off by really faintly pencil sketching in the word furry. just quite loose, just to give myself a rough guide So. F U double of y. There we go. And now I'm going to use those pencil lines as a guide to start drawing this word as furry. as I can. So we're being quite literal here. We...”
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Course summary for: Hand-Lettering Sketchbook: Techniques to Unlock Creativity
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Creativity, Drawing, Hand Lettering, Sketchbook, Sketching
Adam Hayes
A course by Adam Hayes
Adam Hayes is an illustrator and designer based in Wales. After completing a degree in graphic design, he went on to work on a number of freelance illustration projects, both independently and at an advertising agency. He studied a master’s at the Royal College of Arts in London before continuing to work as a freelance illustrator and typographer.
Adam works on a variety of projects across design, publishing, advertising, and even animated typography using stop-frame software. Adam’s first paid job in illustration was a project with the famous graphic designer Alan Fletcher. He has since worked with clients all over the world including Google, Apple, Facebook, Sony, The Washington Post, and GOOD magazine.
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