Custom Hand-Lettering for Playful Compositions
Finesse to Death
A course by Scott Biersack , Graphic Designer and Illustrator
About the video: Finesse to Death
Overview
“Lastly, I'll teach you how to take a final pass at the entire lettering piece and perfect every detail. This is the stage to have clean and perfect curves, spot-on spacing, and just the right amount of visual interest. It’s a short and sweet lesson that will have you pushing your final projects to perfection…even though perfection is impossible. ”
In this video lesson Scott Biersack addresses the topic: Finesse to Death, 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
“ Finesse to Death Everything's cleaned up, so we'll finesse everything to perfection. Let's do it. In the last lesson, we saw how to clean up our compositions and the lettering styles, and get everything to a proper working order. Everything's looking a bit more fleshed out, but in this lesson, we'll continue that process and perfect everything even further. This is where we'll go from the second pass, what you see here, which is still rough but a bit cleaner, so we have a good idea of where it's going. We'll take this second pass and reach that final drawn piece of lettering that we will ...”
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Course summary for: Custom Hand-Lettering for Playful Compositions
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Category
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Areas
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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