Hello my loves, coming at you from the comfort of my bed today, and in the same sketchbook
but I’ve just stuck in some dotted paper with some pritt stick cos I thought it might
come in handy to have some sort of grid background for today’s practice session.
So as the title says, I’m doing some lettering or typography practice today.
I feel like it’s something I’d like to commit a lot more time to in the future, it
really fascinates me to see how people put together letters and words and like the geometry
and stuff behind it, but for now I’m just kind of experimenting with it.
So I started out with what I find to be the easiest kind of lettering, it’s basically
how I write already just a bit more like swirly and up-and-down and with a fancy ‘r’ and
then obviously with added thickness in some bits to give the impression of like a fountain
pen or brush pen.
Quick tip for anyone who wants to do this kind of writing, the line should get thicker
on your downward strokes, so anytime the pen is going down towards you, thats where you
would naturally apply more pressure and therefor give a thicker line if you were using a fountain
pen or something.
Err and just FYI, I jump around the page a lot in this one, I was just looking at a random
word generator and trying to write the words in different styles rather than trying to
put together this page as like a whole piece.
And as you saw a second ago, this was quite a slow and careful process, or at least it
started out like that, but I did have to speed it up quite a bit or this video would have
been really long and taken forever to upload.
So yeah apologies if it goes quite quickly, I’m gonna have to figure out a way to compress
my videos in the future so we can slow things down a bit and see it all in more detail.
The only other issue with that is that I never have enough to talk about for like more than
two minutes and I don’t wanna ramble.
So yeah moved onto this ampersand here and I think this ended up being my favourite thing
on the page.
And I had the sudden urge to add colour and the only thing I had to hand by my bed was
the highlighters I use in my planner so I went for a sunshiney yellow just to make it
stand out.
Then I wanted to just try a basic S, well I thought it would be basic but I actually
got it wrong, where I placed the thicker edge so there I just did it again how it was supposed
to look.
Those little mistakes are a great way to unlearn any assumptions you have about how something
is drawn anyway.
And then I started on this gothic looking thing that didn’t even turn out to be a
real letter, I liked the process of drawing in that way and got a bit carried away with
it.
I spent a lot of time gridding this next one up and then in the end didn’t really use
the guidelines so the e ended up a bit to big for the rest of it and it was all a bit
off balance but I kind of fixed that with just a few decorative bits around it to even
things out.
I do think having the grid paper helped a huge amount and its just fun and different
to draw on if you never have.
Gives things a bit more structure.
Then I liked the look of an uppercase L in this style so I drew that in the background
but it kind of ended up merging with the word charming next to it so i just kind of fiddled
with it until it started to look like a separate piece again.
A little bit of shading in the right place makes all the difference.
And by this point, things were getting a bit messy, the sun was disappearing and my hands
weren’t very steady anymore so that last one could have been better but it was all
good practice and I’ll definitely be doing more stuff like this in the future.
Thanks for watching, I’ll be doing some landscape painting tomorrow which I’m really
looking forward to but hopefully you enjoyed this one, and I'll see you tomorrow.
Bye!