By Hand and On The Cover

Fundamentals of the letters

A course by Sergio Jiménez , Illustrator and Letter Artist

Illustrator and Letter Artist. Madrid, Spain.
Joined October 2005

Design with handwritten letters

  • Spanish with subtitles in English
  • 93% positive reviews (58)
  • 1164 students

About the video: Fundamentals of the letters

Overview

“I will show you the necessary tricks so that the letters, despite being hand-made, maintain a certain coherence. I teach you different styles of letters to give you ideas and you can choose the one that best suits your project. To move from the vegetable to the watercolor paper, use a light table or a window pane. ”

In this video lesson Sergio Jiménez addresses the topic: Fundamentals of the letters, which is part of the Domestika online course: By Hand and On The Cover. Design with handwritten letters.

Partial transcription of the video

“Good. The next thing we're going to do is, we're going to start drawing some letters. So let's establish some drawing guidelines. That they allow us to later, that composition that we are going to make; Well, even though it is something that is made very manually; in a very free way, because it maintains a certain coherence with what it has to do with... ...with the shapes of the letters, right? So, the first thing we're going to do. Everything is a small guideline. We are going to make it approximately, about seven centimeters. OK. Okay, let's draw a little guideline. What is going to mark...”

This transcript is automatically generated, so it may contain mistakes.

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Course summary for: By Hand and On The Cover

  • Level: Beginner
  • 93% positive reviews (58)
  • 1164 students
  • 4 units
  • 10 lessons (2h 28m)
  • 16 downloads
  • Category

    Calligraphy & Typography
  • Areas

    Hand Lettering, Lettering, Traditional illustration

Sergio Jiménez

A course by Sergio Jiménez

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Illustrator and Letter Artist

Sergio Jiménez is a freelance illustrator specializing in illustration and lettering. In his works, a manual approach to the drawing of letters and an experimental use of typography feature heavily. He currently lives in Madrid from where he has worked inside and outside the country for clients such as Computer Arts, Random House Mondadori, Etapes, Rolling Stone, Público, El País, Yorokobu, Uno Skateboard, and el Periódico de Catalunya.

He has collaborated with prominent advertising agencies such as Attik London, Coca Cola, Sra Rushmore, Vodafone, Avalancha, and Vallnord Freestyle. In 2010 he was selected as an emerging designer at the IV International Typography Congress in Valencia, and for a few years he has been giving lectures and workshops at different schools and universities.


Spanish with subtitles in English
  • 93% positive reviews (58)
  • 1164 students
  • 10 lessons (2h 28m)
  • 19 additional resources (16 files)
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  • Audio: Spanish
  • Spanish, English, Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Polish, Dutch
  • Level: Beginner
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By Hand and On The Cover. Calligraphy, and Typography course by Sergio Jiménez

By Hand and On The Cover

A course by Sergio Jiménez
Illustrator and Letter Artist. Madrid, Spain.
Joined October 2005
  • 93% positive reviews (58)
  • 1164 students