Guided Course: Use a Brush to Paint Your First Logo
Logo Painting Preparation
A guided course by James Lewis, Lettering Artist
About the video: Logo Painting Preparation
Overview
“In this lesson I’ll introduce you to the process I undergo prior to painting the logo. This includes: drawing the logo, tracing it onto the canvas, and preparing the canvas with gesso.”
In this video lesson James Lewis addresses the topic: Logo Painting Preparation, which is part of the Domestika online course: Guided Course: Use a Brush to Paint Your First Logo. Master brush lettering for logo design with practical exercises and replicate iconic logotypes like Coca-Cola and Champion.
Partial transcription of the video
“Welcome back. So in this lesson, we're going to be preparing our canvas, ready to paint the logo. As you can see, we're going to be painting the Coca-Cola logo. And as we previously learned, a lot of the logos that are famous and well-known today would have started off as calligraphy and have gone through a hand-lettering process, which results in these sort of geometric shapes and these intersects here. So using the brush techniques that I taught you in a previous lesson, I'm going to be showing you how to create and paint this more unorthodox lettering. Before we do that, I just want to t...”
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Course summary for: Guided Course: Use a Brush to Paint Your First Logo
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Calligraphy & Typography -
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Hand Lettering, Lettering
James Lewis
A guided course by James Lewis
James Lewis is a multidisciplinary British artist, specializing in calligraphy and lettering, with clients such as Pepsi, Amazon, Montblanc, the BBC and more. He's well-known on both Instagram and TikTok with a combined following on both apps of over 1.5 million.
He began his career as a digital logotype & lettering designer but slowly transitioned from designer to artist by focusing on calligraphy and painting. His passion for letters, social media understanding, and a handcrafted approach have formed the basis of his career.
James has exhibited his art and taught lettering workshops all around the world.
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