Laid-Back Lettering For Urban Sketching, Journaling, & Everyone with Terrible Handwriting

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Free Online Course: Laid-Back Lettering For Urban Sketching, Journaling, & Everyone with Terrible Handwriting provided by Skillshare is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 1-2 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Laid-Back Lettering For Urban Sketching, Journaling, & Everyone with Terrible Handwriting is taught by Amy Stewart.

Overview
  • If you want to add more artistic, colorful, dramatic lettering to your sketchbooks, journals, and artwork, but you don't want to put in the hours it takes to really perfect a hand-lettering style, this class is for you!

    I love all the beautiful brush pen and modern calligraphy styles I see all over Instagram, but filling out practice sheets and trying to learn upstrokes and downstrokes felt too much like work for me.

    So I developed an approach to lettering that I could do without a ton of practice, using more or less my own handwriting and the art supplies I already carry with me.

    In this class, I’ll show you how to work with pencil, pen, marker, and watercolor to create visually interesting letters using the same approach to drawing and painting you already use in your art.

    I’ll work from examples of the styles I like to use, that fit my personality and my artwork, but I’ll also show you how to find the styles that work for your tastes and interests.

Syllabus
    • Introduction
    • Supplies
    • Starting With Pencil
    • Lettering with Watercolor
    • Ink With Your Own Handwriting
    • Ink and Watercolor
    • Drawing a Typeface
    • Putting it All Together
    • Bonus: What to Write
    • Final Thoughts