Brush hand lettering

Let’s talk about lettering: how to define it, what materials to use, and all the steps involved. Throughout this article, you’ll learn how to create unique lettering for anything from greeting cards to comics, invitations, or even banners for special occasions.

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The best way to learn any new skill is to do it often and on a consistant basis. Tracing letters is not cheating. It’s training your muscles to remember certain shapes, and it’s perfect for a quick warmup before you do any freehand lettering.

North of Wonderfull on Behance

These photos showcase my brush pen calligraphy and lettering for logos and random words and sayings, posted over the past two years on Instagram.

Learning brush lettering can be quite the process but it is so. much. fun. Of course, when you’re starting out there are so many resources for learning how to form the letters and actually use the different types of brush pens. Once you start to learn the basics the best way to improve is practice […]

Look Ma’ No Brakes on Friends of Type. Friends of Type is a type & lettering sketchblog by Erik Marinovich, Aaron Carambula, Jason Wong, and Dennis Payongayong, and their guests.

Some of the the tricks I like to use often to add depth and dimension to my work are shadows and highlights. I'm going to give you a quick overview that will get you started with both techniques.

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I’ve referenced “fauxligraphy” a couple of times on my blog and had planned to do a post on it at some point, but after getting a couple of questions on how to do some lettering h…