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The Golden Secrets of Lettering

Color and completion

A course by Martina Flor , Lettering Artist

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98% positive reviews (1K)

19,576 students

Audio: Spanish, English

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About the video: Color and completion

Overview

“In this lesson we will see how to apply color and textures to this vector drawing to give it a finish.”

In this video lesson Martina Flor addresses the topic: Color and completion, 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

“COLOR AND FINISH Now that we've been working on and refining our digital drawing, I will tell you some techniques that I use to add color and texture to my designs. In general, I look for movie references and photos of that movie that have to do with the concept, the ideas that I worked on for my lettering. I take pictures from that movie and I extract the color palette what's in the atmosphere of that film. For example, for this case, where I am working on the idea of practicing, to educate oneself, to improve, I'm going to choose the movie "The Society of Dead Poets." I'm going to go to t...”

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Course summary for: The Golden Secrets of Lettering

Level: Beginner
98% positive reviews (1003)
19576 students
5 units
14 lessons (2h 0m)
10 downloads

Category
Calligraphy & Typography
Software
Adobe Illustrator
Areas
Hand Lettering, Lettering

Martina Flor

A course by Martina Flor

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Lettering Artist

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.