By Hand and On The Cover
Scanning
A course by Sergio Jiménez , Illustrator and Letter Artist
About the video: Scanning
Overview
“In this lesson we will see the tricks I use to optimally scan our ink-drawn letters, and also the textures we have generated ”
In this video lesson Sergio Jiménez addresses the topic: Scanning, which is part of the Domestika online course: By Hand and On The Cover. Design with handwritten letters.
Partial transcription of the video
“Okay, so let's make some small adjustments to the scanner before scan the drawings, first we must make sure that we are scanning, in gray scale, in a scale profile of gray, in some home scanners, with in this example sometimes appears as an option called black and white, which What happens is that sometimes there is also an option that is scan in bitmap, it is where it only makes black pixels which are also called black and white and usually come for the grayscale, we put the scanner in grayscale with 256 grays is more than enough, because the drawings that we have, what we are interested i...”
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Course summary for: By Hand and On The Cover
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Category
Calligraphy & Typography -
Areas
Hand Lettering, Lettering, Traditional illustration

Sergio Jiménez
A course by Sergio Jiménez
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.
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