Creative Calligraphy: Find Your Style with a Sketchbook
Joining Everything Together
A course by João Varela , Lettering Artist and Type Designer
About the video: Joining Everything Together
Overview
“Now, we will choose the most appropriate binding method, prepare and select the material, and put the sketchbook together. ”
In this video lesson João Varela addresses the topic: Joining Everything Together, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Calligraphy: Find Your Style with a Sketchbook. Experiment with brush strokes and lettering techniques to develop your own unique visual language.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Joining Everything Together In this lesson, we are finally binding our sketchbook together. It will be rewarding to see our work coming together as one object, to see the compilation of calligraphy that we have done, and to check our process and evolution. We need to think about some decisions that we need to make for binding. One thing about the pages we have done is they are all one-sided because we are doing these exercises with ink and we need to let them dry, so we don't draw on the other side. You can see, that the page is white on one side and has calligraphy on the other. One thin...”
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Course summary for: Creative Calligraphy: Find Your Style with a Sketchbook
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Calligraphy
João Varela
A course by João Varela
João Varela is a lettering artist and type designer based in Lisbon, Portugal. His passion for letters started in his teenage years with graffiti, and he’s since dedicated himself to creating expressive lettering in different mediums and styles. João went on to study graphic design at ESAD in Caldas de Rainha, and a master’s degree in type design at Écal, but also considers himself to be largely self-taught.
He is known for his experimental approach to calligraphy that challenges the traditional methods. As well as collaborating with clients and studios, João is committed to his personal projects, including a self-published book on his creative process. He also documents his work via Instagram.
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