Introduction to Lettering with Procreate
Typographic reticles
A course by Daniel Hosoya , Advertising Designer
About the video: Typographic reticles
Overview
“We will leave the iPad for a moment to move to Illustrator, where we will build the grids that will help us in Procreate to accurately draw the different styles of letters that we will use in our project.”
In this video lesson Daniel Hosoya addresses the topic: Typographic reticles, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Lettering with Procreate. Discover how to design letters in different styles on your iPad.
Partial transcription of the video
“Now it's time to draw our grid. Remember that this is a tool that will help us to draw our letters better. This is a basic guide, but if you need to add lines, enter them in the process. Everything will depend on the style you're working with. Let's start. Remember that the guides going to be a tool that allows us to guide to find the correct form of the letter. There will be very simple grids and there will be others that allow us, or that we draw to be able to draw this type of strokes. Let's start with Illustrator, and let's create a scenario of 2160 x 2160. Let's start to build our guid...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Lettering with Procreate
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Category
Calligraphy & Typography -
Software
Procreate -
Areas
3D Lettering, Digital Lettering, Lettering

Daniel Hosoya
A course by Daniel Hosoya
This Mexican advertising designer's true passion for letters is palpable in each and every one of his works. Throughout his more-than-ten-year professional career, he has worked as an art director for different agencies such as Wunderman, Lunave, IDologie, and GTB.
In addition, he has collaborated independently with brands such as Absolut Vodka, Johnnie Walker, Grupo Expansión, Grupo Modelo, and Palacio de Hierro, among others.
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