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right here on YouTube he's typography Tuesday the series we're
bringing you guys a graphic design tutorial or a video every single Tuesday
that's based around typography design if you want to skip the intro moved the
timecard in the corner to jump right into today's tutorial now last week on
typography Tuesday's I showed you guys my new fun I made myself script Satori
and also showed you how to use font self to actually generate a font file of um
artwork but today I'm going to show you guys how to make the artwork itself with
two different methods in Adobe Illustrator so follow along and jump
into my tutorial today here at typography Tuesday on how to design your
artwork for your very own font in two different methods
this is the first method of creating your very entire graph you are working
in the ability straighter in involves the use of a Wacom tablet or any drawing
tablet for that matter if you don't have a drawing table where you simply don't
want to listen to this method skipped the timecard in the corner for the
second method in today's tutorial you want to plot the rule is to access the
guides and to do this press command will control I and then simply drag the
guides down to fit your hand lettering topography into you can adjust the color
of your guides as well as them being dots or lines in the illustrator
preferences right here if you right to control click the artboard you can lock
and hide the guides if you feel that you need to we are going to be creating a
calligraphy brush for a typography artwork so go ahead and open up the
brushes window here a lot of these settings will be personal preference to
you and your hand lettering for the third and final setting should be set to
pressure so when you press harder on the drawing tablet the line will become
thicker this is essential for some quality hand lettering typography
artwork now these settings might take some time
to experiment with and to get right when you already take the tablet pen and
start drawing your lettering between the guides if you feel this headings are not
right go into the brushes window and double click the brush here
you can then adjust the settings and once you're ready apply them to the
current stroke I will just draw some more hand lettering to show you how the
Tidy of the letters after generating them I forgot to bring down the guide
with the ascender which will represent the higher stretch our letters like
before you can write or control click to hide unlock or lock the guides your
lettering is now a stroke instead of a vector path and if you want to edit the
lettering fully we want to outline the stroke which will enable us to
manipulate the data path once you have outlined the stroke you'll probably see
overlapping areas on your typography artwork which needs to be tidied up
simply access the Pathfinder window and then use the align option on each
individual letter secondly we can go into the simplify option here and click
preview to see real-time changes it's always better to have a little anchor
points as possible on your typography whilst keeping the general shape of your
lettering
press a on your keyboards access a direct selection tool which would allow
you to move anchor points around and stretch out the handles furthering your
manipulation of your typography people have asked me how do I get large anchor
points well if you have illustrator CC you can adjust the size of our anchor
points in the preferences which can be very handy indeed
lastly the amazing smooth tool be very handy indeed for you to edit typography
you need to locate the smooth tool and then select the lettering with the
selection tool and then click back onto the smooth tool carefully smoothing out
the lettering or click an anchor point over and over again take your time to
utilize these techniques to make your very own typography artwork in the
illustration so that was the first method on how you can design artwork for
your very own font using a debut illustrator we're going to be going into
the second method now and also let me know in the comment section below which
one these methods you find more useful and which one do you think you'd use to
make your own funds and also of course have you enjoyed today's tutorial drop a
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graphic design content the second method of making your very own typographic
artwork uses a pen tool I'm going to show you how to create fluid and
professional typography using the pen tool to begin you might want to maybe
draw out your typography onto a sheet of paper then scan or snap a picture and
upload it to illustrator as a template to do around for the purposes of today's
video let's say this letter on screen here is actually something I created and
mocked up onto paper and uploaded its illustrator
you can of course these image trace function but I feel it's very useful to
know how to use the pen tool in a professional way to make typography
here I have a calligraphy style letter locked down as a template to draw around
you can press ctrl or command I to open up the rulers and then we need to use
vertical horizontal guides the place just where the letter touches when we
use the pen tool we can use the tricks and techniques that we've just covered
at 90 degrees angles but never use 45 degree for typography I will show you
what I mean now so carefully place your guides just touching the letter 90
degree angles
with the pen tool click but with Alt + Shift held down and then drag our handle
in the direction that you want to head
never bring the handle pass you're posing guide so in this point here I
will not move it pass to guide on the right you now have a curve line to which
you can move to the next point hold down shift M if you click and drag to make
the handles keeping things in 90 degrees angles the entire time we can use alt to
adjust the handle curves taking our time to be precise with everything shifts
will help keep things level also from the new point to repeat the process of
holding down alt and shift together and then drag our handle and then make the
new point if you carry on with this technique carefully you'll be able to
draw out perfectly smooth and crisp lines using the pen to an illustrator
it does take some time to get used to but it is the most methodical and best
way to work with a pencil when creating lines illustrator especially for
typography such as this practice this technique and master the pencil with
typography
so there is today's video on two different ways that you can make your
very amar work for a fun design using a de Beulah straighter i showcase to you
two different techniques today but which one did you think was the more useful
and a more practical method for making a font using euro my work for me
personally i prefer just to get out the Wacom tablet and just freehand draw and
then take the tools from Adobe Illustrator to kind of smoothing
everything out and finalize it but this is a contrast to how I used to be I used
to actually like to draw my font out on paper then you know as I showed you
upload it to illustrator and then use the pen tool to go over it you know I do
think you have mastered the pen tool to actually do that method I don't know
we're not all amazing at using the pen tool I know I certainly wasn't for a
very long time so that's why I showed you two methods today in satara graphics
typography Tuesday's video I'm actually working on my subscription-based website
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as the pen tool and other aspects of graphic design I'm gonna be back on
Thursday with more graphic design content and also on to Friday as I
usually do here to tour graphics with for graphic design uploads as always let
me know in the comment section below what you think of today's video and my
channel in general I always love reading your comments and trying to improve
myself as a content creator and even as a graphic designer
but in you guys until next time design your future today peace