The Artwork of Whimsical Lettering

The Artwork of Whimsical Lettering is an clever instruction ebook on creating stylized fonts and expressive art work with private handwriting expertise. Writer Joanne Sharpe exhibits you how one can create exuberant and customized writing types to your art work—whether or not it’s a journal, canvas artwork, or different tasks that use textual content.

After an summary of Joanne’s favourite instruments and surfaces, take a peek into Joanne’s private lettering journal to find how you can also accumulate inspiration, hone your lettering expertise, and faucet into your pure creativity. Joanne then demonstrates twenty artwork strategies for creating quite a lot of lettering types utilizing many various instruments. She gives you with fifteen fundamental alphabets, starting from easy pen-and-ink renditions to more and more elaborated texts that reference calligraphy, classic fonts, and doodle artwork, amongst different types. Joanne additionally teaches you how one can flip prosaic lettering into web page artwork itself, merging textual content into illustration, or ornamenting phrases with ornamental drawings.