The Lettering Workshops : 30 Exercises for Improving Your Hand Lettering Skills PDF

In The Lettering Workshops, you'll learn all about the art and practice of drawing letters using hands-on techniques in five workshops across 30 lessons! Whether you're a beginner or a professional graphic designer, you'll quickly learn how to develop and advance your lettering skills.

In this richly illustrated book of lessons and exercises, you’ll find:

• 5 Workshops to learn the art of drawing letters—from an introduction to brush lettering and lettering script to the decoration of letters; from the secrets of good composition to the process of digitization and vectorization of your type

• 30 Exercises that gradually develop from beginner through intermediate and advanced difficulty

• 16 Studies of works to understand what makes good lettering

• 52 Inspirational contributions in featured galleries from international brands

• 160 Pages for all skill levels

• 26 Letters to learn and explore!

TABLE OF CONTENTS

What Is Lettering?

Why This Book?

First Lesson

Lettering, Calligraphy, or Typography?

Basics and Technical Vocabulary

WORKSHOP 1: DISCOVERING BRUSH LETTERING

Exercise 1: Find the Right Position

Exercise 2: Set Up a Grid

Exercise 3: Execute the First Movements

Exercise 4: Place Letters

Exercsise 5: Join the Letters

Exercise 6: Retracing Your Tracks

Work Studies

Gallery

WORKSHOP 2: INITIATING SCRIPT LETTERING

Exercise 1: Discover the Skeleton Technique

Exercise 2: Trace an Alphabet

Exercise 3: Draw a Full Word

Exercise 4: Execute a Classic Script Letter

Exercise 5: Out of Your Comfort Zone

Work Studies

Gallery

WORKSHOP 3: USING TYPOGRAPHICAL CHARACTERS

Exercise 1: Decorate a Letter

Exercise 2: A Complete Word Exercise

Exercise 3: Go Further with a Vintage Style

Exercise 4: Discover the Interlock

Exercise 5: Work the Interlock

Exercise 6: Realize Complete Lettering in Interlock

Work Studies

Gallery

WORKSHOP 4: THE SECRETS OF A GOOD COMPOSITION

Exercise 1: Thinking in Block

Exercise 2: Execute the First Sketches

Exercise 3: Choose the Word Styles

Exercise 4: Tracing the Skeleton

Exercise 5: Develop and Finalize Your Track

Work Studies

Gallery

WORKSHOP 5: SCANNING AND VECTORIZATION

Exercise 1: Scan and Prepare Your Lettering

Exercise 2: First Steps to Vectorization

Exercise 3: Testing the Summit Theory

Exercise 4: Vectorize the Entire Set of Letters

Exercise 5: Critiquing Vectorized Letters

Exercise 6: Prepare Lettering without Vectorization

Exercise 7: Isolate Lettering

Exercise 8: Apply Texture

Exercise 9: Finalizing the Composition

Gallery

The Artists in This Book

Resources