I’m having a lot of fun practicing hand lettering! I’m taking a course on Domestika :
Hand-Lettering Sketchbook: Techniques to Unlock Creativity A course by Adam Hayes
I really am enjoying it and I’m gaining confidence in creating and using hand lettering. I suspect some of that confidence in playing around with shapes and patterns comes from all the pattern explorations I’ve been doing.
While this page isn’t strictly what the course involves, it is my kind of thing. It combines both hand lettering, my kind of pen drawing, and a way for me to get used to using hand lettering in artwork.
While the black and white version is just fine. I think it needs colour to bring it to life. So, Inktense and Colorsoft pencils are being used to do this. Once I’ve finished adding colour, I may add pattern/texture using other pens e.g. Gelly Roll pens, coloured fineliners.
Oh, I did scan this page before I started to add colour, just in case I make a total mess of it!
The words/phrases are just things that came to me as I was drawing, often commenting on my life at the time I was drawing parts of the design.
“Because I can!” is a phrase I use often during my video tutorials. Talking of videos, there won’t be one today. Time has run away with me and I have things I need to do today. There’ll be another video tomorrow, all things being well!
Angela Porter 