The Golden Secrets of Lettering
Techniques for drawing letter shapes in a vector program 2
A course by Martina Flor , Designer and Lettering Artist
Design lettering for a personalized postcard from start to finish
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About the video: Techniques for drawing letter shapes in a vector program 2
Overview
“This is the second part.”
In this video lesson Martina Flor addresses the topic: Techniques for drawing letter shapes in a vector program 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: The Golden Secrets of Lettering. Design lettering for a personalized postcard from start to finish.
Partial transcription of the video
“TECHNIQUES FOR DRAWING LETTER SHAPES IN A VECTOR PROGRAM After seeing the extreme points technique to draw letter shapes, let's start with our first vectorization of our lettering. I generally work with a tablet, ordinary, nothing exotic. It's just comfortable for me work with a tool you can grip like a pencil. But you can work with your trackpad, with your mouse, whatever is most comfortable for you. We will start with the first vectorization. We have already seen an effective or appropriate technique to draw letters in vectors. Now what we will do is start digitizing our lettering. I have...”
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Course summary for: The Golden Secrets of Lettering
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Category
Calligraphy & Typography -
Software
Adobe Illustrator -
Areas
Hand Lettering, Lettering
A course by Martina Flor
Martina Flor combines her talents as a lettering designer and illustrator. Born in Buenos Aires, Martina has lived, studied, and worked in a number of cities throughout Europe including Berlin, where she founded a custom lettering and typography studio. Some of her international clients include The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Cosmopolitan, HarperCollins, Fontshop, Monotype, and Etsy.
Martina is cofounder of the well-known online “battle” project Lettering vs Calligraphy and founder of Letter Collections. She holds a master's degree in type design from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, and she spends much of her time teaching lettering and type design in Europe and abroad.
Martina is the author of the book The Golden Secrets of Lettering, published in 2017 by Princeton Architectural Press in the United States and by Thames & Hudson in the United Kingdom (Original title: Lust auf Lettering, 2016 Verlag Hermann Schmidt), which has been translated into several languages.
When she is not drawing letters, she travels the world presenting her work at conferences and universities. In 2016, she spoke at TEDx Río de la Plata before an audience of 10,000 spectators.
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- 14 lessons (2h 0m)
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- Audio: English, Spanish
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- Level: Beginner
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