Vintage Lettering: Custom Compositions From Scratch
Drawing Letters
A course by Mark van Leeuwen , Lettering Artist and Type Designer
About the video: Drawing Letters
Overview
“Time to draw your first letters with type, flourishes, and ligatures.”
In this video lesson Mark van Leeuwen addresses the topic: Drawing Letters, which is part of the Domestika online course: Vintage Lettering: Custom Compositions From Scratch. Learn the fundamentals of typography to create an original typeform composition by hand and bring it to life in Procreate.
Partial transcription of the video
“Drawing Letters In this lesson, we'll draw and sketch out letters. First off, we're going to draw out a single word just for a warm up for our final project, so we get a hang of how things flow and how we can apply the principles we learnt in the previous lessons. The first thing we're going to do when writing out our word is plotting out some guidelines. For a rough sketch, you can plot out your guidelines freehand, but I prefer to use a ruler just to have consistent guidelines to base my wordmark on. I'm going to start off drawing the baseline and then the X-height. The technique we'll be...”
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Course summary for: Vintage Lettering: Custom Compositions From Scratch
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Category
Calligraphy & Typography -
Areas
Calligraphy, Digital Lettering, Lettering, Typography, Typography Design
Mark van Leeuwen
A course by Mark van Leeuwen
Mark van Leeuwen is an Italian-Dutch freelance lettering artist and type designer based in Berlin, Germany. Over the past decade, he has worked with independent clients, agencies and a number of international businesses, creating logo designs, posters, murals, books and album covers.
His client list includes Cadillac, Etsy, Apple Music, DJ Tiësto, Jägermeister, Harper Collins, Penguin Random House, and Adobe. He has been featured in numerous publications including AIGA Eye On Design, Goodtype: The Art of Lettering, Rizzoli, and Yearbook of Type. He is also the recipient of the CommArts Typography Annual Award, both in 2020 and 2022.
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