Digital Lettering for Beginners

Overview

“In this practical lesson we will begin to draw letters from an existing typographic model. Modifying some of the variables of these models we will create our own letters. I will give you some sketching tips that will help your letter shapes to be well built from the beginning.”

In this video lesson Sindy Ethel addresses the topic: Drawing from a typographic model, which is part of the Domestika online course: Digital Lettering for Beginners. Learn how to draw stylish letters by using Photoshop and Illustrator.

Partial transcription of the video

“UNIT 3 Drawing from a typographic model We have already seen what is contrast in typography and the types of contrast there is. In the course we will see different drawing techniques. The first is to draw our own letters from existing fonts. If you just start in the lettering, this technique will help you a lot because it will help them to become familiar with the shapes of the letters. Lets go see it. I'm going to put them like this. If we saw the face of a person and reversed the nose, We would quickly realize that something on his face is weird. But, for example, in the lyrics it is not ...”

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Course summary for: Digital Lettering for Beginners

• Level: Beginner
• 96% positive reviews (171)
• 3513 students
• 6 units
• 24 lessons (3h 42m)
• 16 downloads

• Category

  Calligraphy & Typography

• Software

  Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  3D Lettering, Digital Design, Digital Lettering, Lettering