Adobe Illustrator for Typography, Lettering and Calligraphy

Overview

“With the tools and concepts learned in this course, I am going to ask you to sketch a letter with pencil and paper to later digitize it, focusing on giving coherence to the letters, correcting the strokes and making sure that it will be well visualized in different sizes. We will enlist the file to work, create layers and guides and define parameters. Since everything is ready, we will begin to draw, the first thing will be to position the nodes in the right place, as well as create the necessary cranks. Once all the nodes are in place, we return to the beginning to adjust the length of the cranks, which will give us smooth and well drawn curves. Finally, we will ensure that the parameters we proposed are correct in all letters.”

In this video lesson Andrés Ochoa addresses the topic: Practical lesson, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 4 - Create your Own Letters. Discover the secrets to creating your own letters.

Partial transcription of the video

“ILLUSTRATOR COURSE 4 LESSON 11 Practical lesson For this practical lesson I will ask you that with paper and pencil draw a word and then digitize it, either with a scanner, a photo or as you prefer, and we will follow the process that we reviewed earlier. We are going to focus on the strokes being unified, have consistency and we will correct the parts They were not well drawn in the sketch. In the end, we are going to focus in which the word has good performance in various sizes, both small and large. Let's practice. The first thing I'm going to do is set the worktable. I will place my ske...”

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Course summary for: Course 4 - Create your Own Letters

• Level: Beginner
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• 14 students
• 11 units
• 11 lessons (1h 9m)
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