Artistic Lettering: Tips to Decorate your Letters

Contact with reality

A course by Joluvian , Graphic designer, calligrapher, typographer and illustrator

98% positive reviews (60)

923 students

Audio: Spanish

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About the video: Contact with reality

Overview

“It is time for you to play with the light and shadows that are generated to understand how they influence the surface of various objects.”

In this video lesson Joluvian addresses the topic: Contact with reality, which is part of the Domestika online course: Artistic Lettering: Tips to Decorate your Letters. Learn to draw illustrated letters, numbers, symbols and monograms.

Partial transcription of the video

“Hello again. Now we are with the contact with reality. Looking for resources at home that can help us to realize this type of digital art. It does not matter what we have at home. Any element can serve us as a reference to understand how light works, how the shadow works. How much can affect light on a surface or not. Let's turn off the lights of the shoot to understand how the light works on the objects that we have on the table. We are going to test how light affects this type of material. There are some that are much brighter, as we can see in this type of spoon. Where light concentrates...”

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Course summary for: Artistic Lettering: Tips to Decorate your Letters

Level: Intermediate
98% positive reviews (60)
923 students
5 units
20 lessons (4h 24m)
9 downloads

Category
Calligraphy & Typography
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
Areas
3D Lettering, Fine Arts, Lettering, Traditional illustration

Joluvian

A course by Joluvian

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Graphic designer, calligrapher, typographer and illustrator

After a lifetime as a designer, illustrator and publicist, Joluvian began a few years ago a romance with the alphabet and strokes with brushes. Since then he has not stopped making lyrics. He studied graphic design in Mérida (Venezuela), and worked for many years as an art director; In 2009 he decided to move to Spain, where he did a master's degree in 3D and postgraduate studies in illustration, while he began to take courses in calligraphy and lettering.

He has studied with major industry, although he always had an innate talent for stroke and drawing, " I always looked at the covers that our dad made in school notebooks because he had a very nice and stylized handwriting. Later, when I started studying design, I forgot about manual work as I used the computer more, until I got into calligraphy. Actually, going back to the lyrics has been to take back my original vocation l ".