Calligraphy and Lettering for Restless Hands
A course by user149839 surname149839 , Designer, Calligraphy Artist, and Lyricist
Joined October 2014
Create lettering using your calligraphy for a printing project
Create lettering using your calligraphy for a printing project
Joined October 2014
Learn calligraphy with a graphic artist. Cross over to the world of lettering, typography, and graffiti and develop the superpowers that will change your work from the moment you click on the first lesson of this course.
Delve into the process of drawing and vectorizing a piece of lettering from a calligraphic sketch that you make with an automatic broad pen. Learn to use this tool with some basic chancellery calligraphy exercises and clean and shape the forms of your design through tracing. Finally, take it to the digital plane, where you vectorize and export it for the final project.
What will you learn in this online course?
15 lessons & 14 downloads
- 99% positive reviews (168)
- 4,262 students
- 15 lessons (3h 0m)
- 14 additional resources (10 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: Spanish
- Spanish · English · Portuguese
- Level: Beginner
- Unlimited access forever
Recommended software for this course
Adobe IllustratorWhat is this course's project?
The final project is to design a piece of lettering for an artist of your choice. It can be a designer that inspires you, a graphic artist, or an artist from any other discipline. It can even be for yourself—you can take advantage of the project to design your own logo or personal image. The idea is that your design be used for screen printing or printing on t-shirts or posters or other supports.
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Who is this online course for?
The course is aimed at anyone interested in typography; students of graphic design, calligraphy, and/or lettering; and graphic designers who want to expand their knowledge in the field of custom fonts. In general, it is for anyone with a basic understanding of design and an interest in letters.
Requirements and materials
You need a pencil, paper, and a broad pen; a computer with vector software; and a basic understanding of how to use the program.
Reviews
A course by user149839 surname149839
I am Víctor Kams (Mister Kams), a graphic artist from Madrid focusing on calligraphy, lettering, typography, and graffiti. I studied graphic design at Sussex Downs College in East Sussex, England. I have worked for different advertising agencies and for clothing brands, associations, album covers, accessories, and tattoo studios at a national and international level. I have also shown my work in different exhibitions and have given various calligraphy and lettering workshops.
Content
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U1
Presentation
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Welcome
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References
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Tools
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U2
Calligraphy
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Initial exercises
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Italic italic basic alphabet (Cancilleresca)
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Capital letters
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Ligatures
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Initial sketch
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U3
Lettering
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Tracing
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Cleaning and retouching
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U4
Vector
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Scanner and import
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Vectorizing I
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Vectorizing II
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Vectorizing III
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We export and ready
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FP
Final project
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Calligraphy and lettering for restless hands
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