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Skillshare

Digital Lettering: Designing 3D Type and Texture

via Skillshare

Overview

Join designer and illustrator Jeff Rogers for a 70-minute class on designing dimensional type. In this fun and practical class, you'll dive into the essentials of working with typography in your digital illustration work — starting with selecting the right font, and then building it up with color, texture, and dimension.

Throughout bite-sized lessons, Jeff designs an original postcard to show dimensional type in action. Along the way, he also shares his most useful Photoshop and Illustrator tips to make your process smooth and second nature.

You'll walk away from this class with an organized, smart, and efficient approach to working with typography, a great sense for what works visually, and how to create that aesthetic in your own work.

This class is perfect for illustrators and designers looking to hone their typography skills. From customizing fonts for a new project to incorporating type into existing illustrations, use this class to master dimension and color that can take your work to the next level.

Syllabus

  • Introduction
  • Selecting Your Font & Creating Blends
  • Playing with Dimension
  • Photoshop I: Sketching & Layout
  • Photoshop II: Digitizing
  • Photoshop III: Adding Dimension
  • Photoshop IV: Adding Details
  • Photoshop V: Color & Finishing Touches
  • Photoshop VI: Wrapping Up
  • Explore Design on Skillshare

Taught by

Jeff Rogers

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