Laid-Back Lettering

For Urban Sketching, Journaling, & Everyone with Terrible Handwriting

What you'll learn
How to use rulers and guides to plan your lettering
How to make interesting lettering using your own handwriting
How to make simple letter shapes with watercolor brushes
How to choose and draw a unique font style with no practice!
Requirements
Beginning drawing skills
Description
If you want to add more artistic, colorful, dramatic lettering to your sketchbooks, journals, and artwork, but you don't want to put in the hours it takes to really perfect a hand-lettering style, this class is for you!I love all the beautiful brush pen and modern calligraphy styles I see all over Instagram, but filling out practice sheets and trying to learn upstrokes and downstrokes felt too much like work for me.So I developed an approach to lettering that I could do without a ton of practice, using more or less my own handwriting and the art supplies I already carry with me.In this class, I’ll show you how to work with pencil, pen, marker, and watercolor to create visually interesting letters using the same approach to drawing and painting you already use in your art.I’ll work from examples of the styles I like to use, that fit my personality and my artwork, but I’ll also show you how to find the styles that work for your tastes and interests.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Supplies

Section 2: Easy Lettering Styles

Lecture 3 Starting with Pencil

Lecture 4 Lettering with Watercolor

Lecture 5 Ink with Your Own Handwriting

Lecture 6 Ink with Watercolor

Lecture 7 Drawing a Typeface

Lecture 8 Putting It All Together

Section 3: Wrapping Up

Lecture 9 What to Write, and Wrapping Up

Beginning and intermediate artists