Artistic Lettering: Tips to Decorate your Letters

Digital sketch

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: Digital sketch

Overview

“I already have a clear idea. I will go to Photoshop and polish the form, I will leave everything ready to then vectorize.”

In this video lesson Joluvian addresses the topic: Digital sketch, 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, we have already started with the monogram and we understand how the letters work and what is a monogram as such. Let's move on to make a digital sketch. I will show you a faster way. Or much more effective to be able to create a sketch in Photoshop. Go for it. Once we have an idea, of our monogram, if after the idea we have doubts, We don't know exactly what design to give it, what details to give I use the fonts I have on my computer. As in this case I know that it is a V and an A, I write several letters. I write the same letter with different typographic styles. Including th...”

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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 ".