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7 Ways to use hand lettering in your blog design
I'm all about DIY graphics. Hand lettering is the perfect way to add a personal touch to your blog design which will help your blog stand out from the crowd. There are lots of places to use hand lettering in your blog design. Here are some of my favorite ways!
Make your own hand lettered blog header: design tutorial in Photoshop
Creating your own hand lettered blog header is a lot easier than it sounds. Plus, it's fun! There's something super rewarding in getting your hands dirty and creating your own blog graphics. There are a lot of hand lettering styles you can try to create your blog header. For this tutorial, I'll be working with the popular handwritten style, because I think it's a great personalized option for lifestyle blogs. Learn how to add black and white lettering, or even colorize your work to match your blog's color scheme!
How to create a hand-drawn font with minimal sketching
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how thinking critically about your letterforms is a great way to save time, while simultaneously making your uppercase block letters feel more cohesive.
Equipment I use for lettering and illustration
Here are some tools I use to make my life easier for my illustration process and showcasing my work.
Learn how to create your own hand drawn font with me on Skillshare
BIG NEWS GUYS - I'm pumped about this one. A bit ago, Skillshare reached out and asked if I could teach a class on their platform. What? Mind blown! So I said yes, and my class on how to Create your Own Hand Drawn Font is live!
How to make your own font using Glyphs and Illustrator
Have you always wanted to learn how to make your own font? Creating a font is easier than you think. You can learn how to create a font by reading this post. I'll walk you through how to use Glyphs and Illustrator to make your own hand-drawn font that you can use for personal use or to sell for profit!
How to vectorize hand lettering without Photoshop, Illustrator, or a scanner
I've shown you a lot of ways to digitize hand lettering, but most of these involved Photoshop, Illustrator, or a combination of the two. Here’s how to digitize your art and lettering without an Adobe program.
How to create 3D hand lettered text in Illustrator
Create 3D hand lettered text with personality. Follow along with this step by step tutorial in Photoshop and Illustrator to achieve a fun effect.
The Paperweight Font - My hand drawn font available for download
The hand drawn, brush calligraphy style Paperweight Font is available for free and for commercial purchase. A couple of other exciting announcements for Hello Brio Studio, too.
Hand lettering styles: block lettering tutorial
The beauty of a block hand lettering style is that you don't have to outline your letters perfectly from scratch. If you're using a pencil, you can start with the overall structure of the letters and then later go around and ink or darken the outermost edges.
Illustrator and hand lettering tutorial: brush calligraphy using a Wacom tablet
Here's how to set up your Wacom Tablet for Illustrator to be able to have fun with brush pen lettering.
When do you draw? Unplug and make it happen
Dive in. Pretty soon the unplugged-creation-zone habit will be in place, and I guarantee you'll feel more balanced and accomplished.
12 Inspiring hand lettering works in progress
While it's always cool to see finished pieces, it's also equally as cool to see the work in progress. Seeing how people progress on hand lettering projects can help guide you in your own endeavors and can be extremely motivating.
Hand lettering starter kit
While the tools don't make the artist, the right tools can be more fun to use. You can definitely get by with a number two pencil, a sharpie marker, and copy paper. However, here are the supplies I recommend for a beginning hand letterer. These things will help you achieve finer and more precise results, and you may enjoy the experience that much more that you do it more often.
11 Female hand letterers to follow on Twitter
As a follow up to my posts on letterers to follow on Instagram, I wanted to share a list of amazingly talented female letterers to follow on Twitter. While you can follow these ladies via other networks, the binding ingredient a findable Twitter account, so there you have it. Plus, Twitter is my favorite.
How to create a hand lettered chalkboard drawing in Photoshop
It’s so fun and easy to create a faux chalkboard effect in Photoshop. Learn how to put your hand lettering on a chalkboard, digitally.
My first hand lettering project
One newfound love, which understandably builds off of my love for typography, is hand lettering. Admittedly, I'm jumping on the bandwagon a little late. It's the work of Jessica Hische that really tipped the scale.