Creative Lettering Specialization: Handcrafted Designs and Digital Innovation

Overview

“Before bringing the artwork into Photoshop, let's make the necessary preparations in Illustrator. I will teach you how to create a bevel effect on your letterforms and look at some techniques for simulating the lighting. You will see how this helps to enhance the effect and give depth to the letters.”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Preparation in Illustrator: Lighting the Design, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Lettering Specialization: Handcrafted Designs and Digital Innovation. Learn hand-painted sign creation by mastering lettering techniques, brush handling, and color application for unique signage.

Partial transcription of the video

“Preparation in Illustrator: Lighting the Design So in the last unit we vectored our lettering piece. As I was saying, it can be sometimes beneficial to add extra depth, texture and dimension to our lettering pieces to really bring them to life. So that's what we're going to look at in this next unit. So I've brought some examples to show you. So this is the first example. I'd say with texture and depth, sometimes subtlety is the best way to go. And we don't want to go too over the top. So you can see that the texture in here, it's just a very simple grain texture. So the other thing to cons...”

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Course summary for: Creative Lettering Specialization: Handcrafted Designs and Digital Innovation

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (3)
• 272 students
• 6 units
• 89 lessons (16h 12m)
• 55 downloads

• Category

  Calligraphy & Typography

• Areas

  Calligraphy, Digital Lettering, Hand Lettering, Lettering, Typography