The Golden Secrets of Lettering
From analog to digital
A course by Martina Flor , Lettering Artist
About the video: From analog to digital
Overview
“Let's first briefly see how to scan our sketch in pencil and place it in a digital file to start vectoring. ”
In this video lesson Martina Flor addresses the topic: From analog to digital, 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
“FROM ANALOGUE TO DIGITAL Perfect, now that you have your sketches, I'm going to show you how to scan those drawings to move on to digital translation. We have already sent our sketch to the art director. The art director thought it was fantastic and gave it the OK. So now we can start with our vector drawing. For that, we first scan our analog sketch. The scan is very simple. I'm going to show you how I do it, but it has nothing in particular. I just try to scan it in high resolution. So I always generate an extra document, a digital document of my analog drawing. I like to have a backup of...”
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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

Martina Flor
A course by Martina Flor
Buenos Aires-born Martina Flor has been based in Berlin for several years, where she runs a custom lettering and typography studio working internationally for clients such as The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Cosmopolitan, Harper Collins, Fontshop, Monotype, and Etsy, among others.
Martina is cofounder of the popular online battle "Lettering vs Calligraphy" and founder of "Letter Collections." When she's not drawing letters, she travels to present her work at conferences and universities. She is the author of the book The Golden Secrets of Lettering, originally published in German and later translated into English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Japanese.
She also teaches the Domestika lettering courses The Golden Secrets of Lettering and Lettering for Perfectionists, as well as Freelance: Keys and Tools to Find Success as Your Own Boss , in which she reveals the secrets to the self-employed essentials.
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