And finally.... Saturday!
I think I might continue with the hand lettering, Maybe one style per day this time :)
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Saturday, July 21, 2012
Friday, July 20, 2012
Hand Lettering Week - Friday
Friday is my favorite day!
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Thursday, July 19, 2012
Hand Lettering Week - Thursday
Rainy Thursday deserved a warm color to compensate the lack of sun :)
I tried to make a nice ligature for the TH... ligatures are the best!
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Hand Lettering Week - Wednesday
Half way there!
Wednesday is very pleasant so far. Blue for a nice day.
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Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Hand Lettering week - Tuesday
Musical tuesday.
The project has decided that this will be Scripty Week. I have been trying other styles that I want to show you guys but I want to make all the days in Script style first.
The next step is to try some of these letterings with my illustrations.
Check out the other days:
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Monday, July 16, 2012
Hand Lettering Week - Monday
Happy Monday!
Easy peasy.
Check out Sunday's entry to learn some insights about my "Hand Lettering Week"
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Sunday, July 15, 2012
Hand Lettering Week - Sunday
Typography.
I went to school for Fine Arts with emphasis in Illustration. Typography was never my forte, I never took a single class about it. I didn't even understood how people would like to make their own fonts, it just seemed boring. However, when I left school and started to hang out with graphic designers, my desire to get better at typography has grown exponentially. I would say they brought me to the dark side. I have been getting better and better at graphic design, typeset and all that thanks to my pirate friends. But it wasn't enough to turn the switch and made me love it.
And then it did hit me: hand lettering.
Hand lettering is the perfect marriage of my passion (Illustration) and one of my pending subjects (Typography). It's like drawing, but you have to think in different terms. You have to think about your kerning, your leading, your stylistic alternates, your swashes... It's Open Type Live!
It's so addicting that I decided to hand letter all the days of the week for one week.
I don't have a lettering pen (yet), so I have been using a Pilot pen and filling in the strokes. It's time consuming but I am getting better at it. I like how this "sunday" looks. So far my letter repertoire it's kinda limited but I am trying to make more and more variations as I go. Capital letters are far harder to me. You know what they say though, practice makes perfect!
So, see you on Monday!
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Saturday, July 14, 2012
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