Creative Calligraphy: Find Your Style with a Sketchbook
Preparing the Sketchbook
A course by user8590285 surname8590285 , Lettering Artist and Type Designer
Joined September 2021
Experiment with brush strokes and lettering techniques to develop your own unique visual language
Joined September 2021
About the video: Preparing the Sketchbook
Overview
“In this lesson, I will model how to bring everything together — the pages and the exercises — and make a couple of editorial decisions to prepare the sketchbook. ”
In this video lesson user8590285 surname8590285 addresses the topic: Preparing the Sketchbook, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Calligraphy: Find Your Style with a Sketchbook. Experiment with brush strokes and lettering techniques to develop your own unique visual language.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Preparing the Sketchbook In this lesson, we'll start reviewing what we've done in all these exercises and experimentation and deciding what to keep, we'll start to prepare our sketchbook. Remembering our first exercise, we were doing these straight lines, trying to find the rhythm and balance. Looking back, we can see our progress. I've added some examples that I've done in the meantime. We did not get a chance to do more complex compositions, but that's fine. This is exactly the point and the purpose of this course. It's for you to take inspiration and take things to the next level. You ...”
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Course summary for: Creative Calligraphy: Find Your Style with a Sketchbook
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Calligraphy
A course by user8590285 surname8590285
João Varela is a lettering artist and type designer based in Lisbon, Portugal. His passion for letters started in his teenage years with graffiti, and he’s since dedicated himself to creating expressive lettering in different mediums and styles. João went on to study graphic design at ESAD in Caldas de Rainha, and a master’s degree in type design at Écal, but also considers himself to be largely self-taught.
He is known for his experimental approach to calligraphy that challenges the traditional methods. As well as collaborating with clients and studios, João is committed to his personal projects, including a self-published book on his creative process. He also documents his work via Instagram.
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