Retro Hand-Lettering: Embracing Imperfections
Digitizing Your Lettering
A course by Jay Roeder , Illustrator and Hand-Lettering Artist
Joined September 2021
Joined September 2021
About the video: Digitizing Your Lettering
Overview
“For those of you who didn’t create the course project on a tablet, this lesson is to show you how to digitize your piece!”
In this video lesson Jay Roeder addresses the topic: Digitizing Your Lettering, which is part of the Domestika online course: Retro Hand-Lettering: Embracing Imperfections. Learn lettering techniques to create original compositions composed of words, letters, and phrases that reflect your personal style.
Partial transcription of the video
“Digitizing Your Lettering In the last lesson, we focused on social media as a growth tool. In this lesson, I want to focus on digitizing your lettering in case you created your artwork using traditional tools, like paper and pencil. Early on in my career I started out, this is before the iPad was around, I started and created my workflow based on the use of traditional tools, like pencil and paper. In this lesson, I want to talk a bit about what that process is like. So typically, when I've evolved my artwork to an ink stage where all the lettering is black, I'll typically scan it into my c...”
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Course summary for: Retro Hand-Lettering: Embracing Imperfections
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Calligraphy & Typography -
Software
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Areas
Digital Illustration, Digital Lettering, Hand Lettering, Lettering, Traditional illustration
Jay Roeder
A course by Jay Roeder
Jay Roeder is a freelance illustrator who specializes in hand-lettering. From a young age, he was always passionate about art. In college, he studied graphic design and illustration, and after graduating, he started working in different design agencies, handling projects for a range of international brands. In 2012, he decided to quit his job to focus on hand-lettering.
Since then, he has worked with brands such as Nike, Hilton, and Subway, and agencies on branding, packaging, books and magazine covers, ad campaigns, and murals. He has also written three books on hand lettering: 100 Days of Lettering, Lettering Alphabets & Artwork, and Harry Potter Hand Lettering.
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