About the video: Block Letters
Overview
“From blockbuster movies to your favorite musician, restaurant, or brand: block letters play a huge role in our daily landscape. Here I’ll show you some simple tricks that will give visual impact to your message. ”
In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Block Letters, 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
“ BLOCK LETTERS We're now in the second part of this lesson, the block letter. As I've described it earlier, block letters are letters made of foundation. They're usually heavier. Often used for titles. Something that has a strong visual impact. These block letters and the script letters often mix well within lettering compositions. This is not the point here today, but it's always good to know. Let's move. A simple technique to draw a block letter is the fence technique, as I call it. Let's try it with an A. We have our letter, and now it comes to... Imagine that we'll be tracing a fence a...”
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Course summary for: Creative Lettering Specialization: Handcrafted Designs and Digital Innovation
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Category
Calligraphy & Typography -
Areas
Calligraphy, Digital Lettering, Hand Lettering, Lettering, Typography

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