Calligraphy and Lettering for Restless Hands

Initial exercises

A course by user149839 surname149839 , Designer, Calligraphy Artist, and Lyricist

Designer, Calligraphy Artist, and Lyricist. Madrid, Spain.
Joined October 2014

Create lettering using your calligraphy for a printing project

99% positive reviews (168)
4,262 students
Audio: Spanish
Spanish · English · Portuguese

About the video: Initial exercises

Overview

“In this lesson we will familiarize ourselves with the tool and we will learn how to use it correctly.”

In this video lesson user149839 surname149839 addresses the topic: Initial exercises, which is part of the Domestika online course: Calligraphy and Lettering for Restless Hands. Create lettering using your calligraphy for a printing project.

Partial transcription of the video

“[Silence] [Music] Ok, we have seen our tools we have seen the paper that we can use and let's start with the exercises initials, basic exercises we need to build our letters, first what are we going to do build our guides to accommodate the lyrics to the size in which they have to be written and to adapt the angle we need to do the Letters, first let's mark it uh, for this italic font style the height of the lyrics would start from what is ours baseline, let's make an initial baseline and from this baseline we would take our pen and we would mark the thicknesses on the side we would mark on...”

This transcript is automatically generated, so it may contain mistakes.


Course summary for: Calligraphy and Lettering for Restless Hands

  • Level: Beginner
  • 99% positive reviews (168)
  • 4262 students
  • 4 units
  • 15 lessons (3h 0m)
  • 10 downloads
  • Category

    Calligraphy & Typography
  • Software

    Adobe Illustrator
  • Areas

    Calligraphy, Hand Lettering, Lettering, Street Art

user149839 surname149839

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Designer, Calligraphy Artist, and Lyricist

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.


  • 99% positive reviews (168)
  • 4,262 students
  • 15 lessons (3h 0m)
  • 14 additional resources (10 files)
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  • Audio: Spanish
  • Spanish · English · Portuguese
  • Level: Beginner
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Calligraphy and Lettering for Restless Hands. Calligraphy, and Typography course by user149839 surname149839

Calligraphy and Lettering for Restless Hands

A course by user149839 surname149839
Designer, Calligraphy Artist, and Lyricist. Madrid, Spain.
Joined October 2014
  • 99% positive reviews (168)
  • 4,262 students