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Vintage Lettering: Custom Compositions From Scratch

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Overview

Learn the fundamentals of typography to create an original typeform composition by hand and bring it to life in Procreate
  • Introduction
  • Lettering Basics
  • Creating a Lettering Composition
  • Finalizing a Lettering Composition
  • Finishing Touches
  • Final project
Sending a message is always better when done with style. Lettering artist and type designer Mark van Leeuwen believes that typography alone can take viewers on a visual and storytelling journey. Inspired by the typeforms of the 60s and the 70s, his work has been used by clients like Cadillac, Etsy, Apple Music, and DJ Tiësto.

In this course, Mark takes you through his creative process when designing vintage typography. Learn lettering techniques step by step and bring them to life in Procreate. Rediscover the bold and daring typeforms of the past, and make them your own by adding a modern twist.


Syllabus

  • About Me
  • Influences
  • The Materials I Use
  • Introduction to Lettering
  • Typography Basics
  • Drawing Letters
  • Styling the Letters
  • Gathering Inspiration
  • Sketching a Lettering Composition
  • Moving to Procreate and Drawing the Lettering Skeleton
  • Styling, Contrast and Weight
  • Refinement
  • Finalization
  • Effects
  • Adding the Final Touches and Preparing for Social Media
  • Introduction to lettering

Taught by

Mark van Leeuwen

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