Chalk Lettering for Murals
How to give more movement to your arts
A course by Cristina Pagnoncelli , Designer and Visual Artist
Joined March 2021
About the video: How to give more movement to your arts
Overview
“In this class, we're going to build on what we learned from the previous class and add movement. You can use distortions in a variety of ways, always looking to use guidelines to maintain the proportions and orientation of the letters.”
In this video lesson Cristina Pagnoncelli addresses the topic: How to give more movement to your arts, which is part of the Domestika online course: Chalk Lettering for Murals. Learn to express yourself through chalk and compose stunning designs for murals, walls, and signs.
Partial transcription of the video
“How to give more movement to your arts In this class, I will show you other possibilities to add movement to your art, adapting the word "dream" in different distortions, maintaining the proportions and coherence of the design. In this class, we will see the importance of keeping proportions and always have a reference, mainly vertical, of the letters. For example, here Martina brings this idea of gravity and how we behave when we are on a climb. The letters will behave exactly like our human body, adapting to gravity, so the letter might look like it's falling if you lose that vertical ref...”
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Course summary for: Chalk Lettering for Murals
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Category
Calligraphy & Typography -
Areas
Hand Lettering, Lettering, Street Art

Cristina Pagnoncelli
A course by Cristina Pagnoncelli
Cristina Pagnoncelli is a designer and visual artist from Brazil. With a degree in graphic design from PUC-PR as well postgraduate degrees from the EINA Barcelona and the School of Visual Arts New York, she specializes in chalk illustration and lettering, and is a pioneer of the technique in Brazil. Throughout her career, she has taught courses in Argentina and across Europe, and produced work for national and international brands like O Boticário, Freddo, and Ragazzo, among others.
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