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

Francis Chouquet

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

About this title

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.

Edition details

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