{"id":5308,"date":"2015-04-27T16:05:52","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T06:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kayleenwest.com.au\/portfolio\/?p=5308"},"modified":"2015-05-21T16:33:48","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T06:33:48","slug":"hand-lettering-tutorial-inspire-drawing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kayleenwest.com.au\/portfolio\/hand-lettering-tutorial-inspire-drawing\/","title":{"rendered":"Hand lettering tutorial: Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[av_two_fifth first]<\/p>\n<p>[av_image src=&#8217;http:\/\/kayleenwest.com.au\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jennifer-Coyle-skillsahre.jpg&#8217; attachment=&#8217;5300&#8242; attachment_size=&#8217;full&#8217; align=&#8217;center&#8217; animation=&#8217;no-animation&#8217; styling=&#8221; hover=&#8221; link=&#8221; target=&#8221; caption=&#8221; font_size=&#8221; appearance=&#8221; overlay_opacity=&#8217;0.4&#8242; overlay_color=&#8217;#000000&#8242; overlay_text_color=&#8217;#ffffff&#8217;][\/av_image]<\/p>\n<p>[\/av_two_fifth]<\/p>\n<p>[av_three_fifth]<\/p>\n<p>[av_textblock size=&#8221; font_color=&#8221; color=&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h1>Hand lettering tutorial and projects<\/h1>\n<p>Hand lettering is like sketching; with a little practice you can get surprising results. A recent hand lettering tutorial inspired me to begin filling my sketchbooks with lots of illustrated type. The beauty of hand lettering is that there&#8217;s no pressure to be exact!\u00a0 I am really enjoying the challenge of illustrating type! Hand lettering was also an assignment from MATS Bootcamp this month, which I didn&#8217;t get to finish but I did do the last illustration on this post.<\/p>\n<p>Each week I try and watch at least one tutorial on line, to glean wisdom from, and develop\u00a0 as an illustrator. Fonts or calligraphy and hand lettering have been on my wish since the increase of editorial needs with clients. It is something I have wanted to do and a challenge yet overcome!<\/p>\n<p>Like pattern design, hand lettering has slowly begun to creep its way into my illustration work. I discovered a hand lettering tutorial recently, that not only delved into the process of lettering by hand, but also taught how to transform the drawing into an actual font that can be used on computers. Didn&#8217;t the drooling start after that!?<\/p>\n<p>I enrolled in a <em>hand lettering tutorial<\/em> class by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skillshare.com\/classes\/design\/Paper-to-Digital-Create-Your-Own-Hand-Drawn-Font\/540639695?via=my-classes\">Jennifer Coyle<\/a> titled, Paper to Digital &#8211; <em>Create Your Own Hand Drawn Font<\/em>. 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I don\u2019t usually write as curly and ornate as my project font, however I do scribe on an angle, and often draw rounded or ornate and curly shapes when I sketch randomly.<\/p>\n<p>I began with all caps (as recommended) and a hard grey-lead pencil. I used a HB, 0.3 mechanical pencil on blue graph paper grid which I downloaded from the Internet. I didn\u2019t draw the letters P or O. They will be an edited version of the letters R and Q eventually. 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I opened up Photoshop and coloured the image using the hue and saturation setting. I also made it semi-transparent to print it out lightly. This was so I my lines would be much darker than my print out when scanning again. Also the red line would be easier to remove being a different colour from black in Photoshop.<\/p>\n<p>[\/av_textblock]<\/p>\n<p>[\/av_three_fifth]<\/p>\n<p>[av_two_fifth]<\/p>\n<p>[av_image src=&#8217;http:\/\/kayleenwest.com.au\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015-04-10_font_Skilldot01_scan-tracing.jpg&#8217; attachment=&#8217;5309&#8242; attachment_size=&#8217;full&#8217; align=&#8217;center&#8217; animation=&#8217;no-animation&#8217; styling=&#8221; hover=&#8221; link=&#8221; target=&#8221; caption=&#8221; font_size=&#8221; appearance=&#8221; overlay_opacity=&#8217;0.4&#8242; overlay_color=&#8217;#000000&#8242; overlay_text_color=&#8217;#ffffff&#8217;][\/av_image]<\/p>\n<p>[\/av_two_fifth]<\/p>\n<p>[av_three_fifth first]<\/p>\n<p>[av_textblock size=&#8221; font_color=&#8221; color=&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h2>Stage 3: To be continued but&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p>The project isn&#8217;t finished as yet. I will need to return to the hand lettering tutorial to figure out the computer font side of this process and download a program to complete it. I also have to finish drawing my font.<\/p>\n<p>Since beginning this project, I have sketched and inked lettering like an obsessed woman! It is so much fun and up until now I never realised this.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some examples of what I have been doing since and the lettering I did for the MATS assignment. There is more on <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/kayleenwest\/\" target=\"_blank\">my Instagram account<\/a> as I decided to do a 100 day hand lettering challenge. Yes &#8211; I&#8217;m hooked!<\/p>\n<p>Anyone else out there with this addiction? 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