today I have a hugely requested hand lettering illustrator tutorial
perfect for beginners to hand lettering where I'm going to walk you through the
four steps to make hand lettering in Illustrator
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so hand lettering for beginners the first thing you need to address an
illustrator for hand lettering is the brush settings for your tablet I have an
entire video that I'm going to link at the very end of this video specifically
on brush settings for our lettering it takes a deeper look into the topics
firstly open up the brush settings by going up the window and then brushes
then click the top right and new brush we want to use a calligraphic style
brush
here you can change the angle and I want to use a slightly slanted one like so
here we can make our brush thin and straight or make it fat around I like to
do something between and then finally the size however the important thing is
that we need to add pressure here this will make the thickness of your hand
lettering line depending on how hard you press down on the tablet in Illustrator
then select the brush and make sure your stroke is set to the color and test the
line when it's way too small so hit command Z to go back a step then double
click the brush to go back into the settings ok that's better
maybe a bit too big
for practicing on lettering as a beginner I think it's a good idea to
find an example of quality hand lettering and then place it at the birth
of your art board in Illustrator like I've done here to learn we must follow
suit or what it's already good so just like we learn from teachers you can
learn from this also hit command hard to open up your rulers and bring down two
guides they're going to add like lines on paper allowing you to have better
control with clubs on the bottom your hand lettering characters now I'm not so
amazing how muttering I'm okay all I also need to practice more often as well
I'm going to show you in this tutorial how to improve your hand lettering or
start to learn as a beginner in illustrator on the hill here take note
of how the brush stroke goes from thick to thin as it curls around on your
drawing table you can press down hard to begin with and then release the pressure
as you curl the air around making the line less thick this is why we added the
pressure setting at a starter tutorial so just like you learn to write a
scoreline paper take your time to practice a letter over and over ever if
you make a mistake just hit command Z and go back a step this is the good
thing about digital hand lettering you can delete your mistake so easily as you
can see here I need to relieve the pressure a little bit more to make it a
less thick on the round side
keeping the pressure aspect in mind let's look at this a here as I said
before I myself need to practice my lettering often I'm a tad rusty I must
say I'll throw another oh in to the mix so keep practicing over and over the
more you practice the better you're going to become with your hand lettering
and pretty much anything else in life for that matter just remember that
practice does make perfect - the more time you put into your hand lettering
and then whatever you put into it that's you're going to become don't worry if
you get frustrated and don't think you're getting anywhere with progress
just keep at it and keep making hand lettering designs in Illustrator
I think I should have adjusted the pressure settings of the pen we're not
responding so where when I flick the a at the end
to include this hand-lettering illustrator tutorial you want to
vectorize your hand lettering in Illustrator after you have had enough
practice I'm in the selection to select all of your hand lettering characters go
to object outline stroke if your letters are now shapes and it will help if you
go up to object and simplify after this will make things a lot easier for you
when you want to edit your hand lettering with the direct selection tool
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