Custom Hand-Lettering for Playful Compositions
Packing and Cleaning It Up
A course by Scott Biersack , Graphic Designer and Illustrator
About the video: Packing and Cleaning It Up
Overview
“Now you'll see how to further push and finesse your overall letterform characteristics as well as perfect your spacing and the overall composition. I'll focus on teaching you how to correct widths, weights, proportions, and so much more to create a balanced and pleasing piece. ”
In this video lesson Scott Biersack addresses the topic: Packing and Cleaning It Up, which is part of the Domestika online course: Custom Hand-Lettering for Playful Compositions. Learn the fundamentals of hand-lettering to create custom type designs that combine spacing, composition, color, and texture for a strong visual impact.
Partial transcription of the video
“All right, now that you have your four to five concepts complete, In this lesson, we're going to pack it up and clean it up. Let's get to it. Alright, so in the last lesson we explored by drawing various compositions, So at the end of the last lesson, ideally you have four to five different concepts that we can then take a look at piece apart, sort of understand what it is we like, don't like which one we want to of course, move onward to final. So before we jump into, you know, flushing this out even further, I want to share. The other concepts that I did off screen so you can see the wide...”
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Course summary for: Custom Hand-Lettering for Playful Compositions
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Branding & Identity, Digital Lettering, Graphic Design, Hand Lettering, Lettering, Logo Design, Motion Graphics, Traditional illustration

Scott Biersack
A course by Scott Biersack
Scott Biersack, also known as youbringfire, is a graphic designer, illustrator, and type designer specialized in hand-lettering. Although he’s been drawing for as long as he can remember, his professional journey really kicked off in 2013 with Project365, in which he shared a new lettering creation on social media every day for a year. It was this online visibility that launched his freelance career into what it is today.
With his colorful palettes and playful style, he provides clients with custom pieces for advertising campaigns, social-media content, branding projects, animations, and much more. He is constantly exploring new mediums, methodologies, and ideas to overcome boundaries. Throughout his career, he’s collaborated with names like Adobe, Facebook, Snapchat, and Oakley as well as received awards from Communications Arts, Print Magazine, and The Type Directors Club.
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