About the video: Selection and Sketching 1
Overview
“In this lesson, you will go back to basics and, with the help of a blank paper and a pencil, you’ll create rough sketches of your lettering piece. For this, you’ll select the parts of the mood board that inspire you the most or serve a better purpose for your project idea and you’ll understand what could work best while sketching. ”
In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Selection and Sketching 1, 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
“Selection and Sketching In this lesson, we'll start sketching our piece and I'm going to tell you the importance of it. Remember that in this stage, the sketches have to look really rough. It's really not important that they look good. Actually, it's better that they don't because this is the mental training and it's really important for you to feel free to do something dirty that doesn't look good, and it's going to help you afterwards. Let's say that we're going to do four sketches. Since our piece is going to be square, we're going to first draw the containers. Here you can do as I'm doi...”
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Course summary for: Creative Lettering Specialization: Handcrafted Designs and Digital Innovation
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Category
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Calligraphy, Digital Lettering, Hand Lettering, Lettering, Typography

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