Intro to Hand-Lettering for Inspirational Quotes
Balance
A course by Nico Ng , Lettering Artist
About the video: Balance
Overview
“Next, you will learn how to plan and develop a balanced lettering composition. This will create a more stable, neat, and orderly finish.”
In this video lesson Nico Ng addresses the topic: Balance, which is part of the Domestika online course: Intro to Hand-Lettering for Inspirational Quotes. Turn your message into meaningful artwork step by step by exploring lettering styles, composition, color, and decorative details.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Balance Now, you'll learn how to plan and create a balanced lettering composition. Let me show you how. Distribution of the visual weight Balance is a distribution of the visual weight of your composition's objects, colors, and decorations. The reason we want to achieve a balanced composition is that they appear more stable, neat, and orderly. We want our audience to feel calm and stable when they look at our lettering compositions. We don't want it to look like your composition will tip over and break or something. Here is an example of an unbalanced layout. This layout was created with ...”
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Course summary for: Intro to Hand-Lettering for Inspirational Quotes
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Calligraphy, Hand Lettering, Lettering, Typography, Typography Design
Nico Ng
A course by Nico Ng
Nico Ng is a multidisciplinary designer, educator, and creative entrepreneur from Manila. After completing a degree in engineering, he started to teach himself lettering and before long, it was clear he was destined for a career in the art world. He first shared his work on Instagram in 2014 and began to receive private commissions. His systematic approach was born out of his struggles with aligning larger compositions freehand. During its creation, he used his background in engineering and created his first ever letting tool—the Composition Ruler.
Thanks to his deliberate, carefully structured, and harmonious style, he’s had the pleasure of working with Japanese stationary brand Tombow, for which he was one of the first brand ambassadors in the Philippines, and Manuscript Pen Company. Nowadays, he is into exploring other artists’ processes as well as digital lettering.
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