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The Lettering Workshops: 30 Exercises for Improving Your Hand Lettering Skills - Softcover

Francis Chouquet

 
9781681984445: The Lettering Workshops: 30 Exercises for Improving Your Hand Lettering Skills
Softcover
ISBN 10: 168198444X ISBN 13: 9781681984445
Publisher: Rocky Nook, 2019

Synopsis

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

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About the Author

As far back as he can remember, Francis Chouquet has always drawn. After many years as a graphic designer, his attraction to lettering led him to begin drawing and creating his first letters in 2010. Since then, he has not stopped exploring all the different ways to draw letters. In 2015, he went to the United States to learn from a master in the field, Ken Barber, and has since decided to make lettering his full-time job.

Find Francis online at his blog beautifultype.net and on Instagram @fran6.

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Publisher
Rocky Nook
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
168198444X
ISBN 13 
9781681984445
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
160