Easy Hand-Lettering using Fonts as a Starting Guide

Jasmine Lové
Sep 4, 2018 · 3 min read

Hello lettering-lovers! Have you become obsessed with lettering? Are you just getting started, but don’t know how or where to begin? Are you a lettering artist, hoping to improve your lettering skills? Would you like to speed up your lettering process? Want to know how to create a custom Photoshop brush specifically for lettering? Would you like to learn lettering?

If you answered YES to any of the questions above, then you are in luck because there’s a class for that! ^_^

Modern lettering and calligraphy styles to for inspiration.

Check out this super in-depth, and easy-to-begin class about digital lettering. In this class, we start by looking at different kinds of script lettering and modern calligraphy styles that has become very popular over the recent years.

Learn to create a custom Photoshop brush for lettering and iPad lettering.

Afterwards, you’ll watch a demonstration on how to create a custom lettering brush for Adobe Photoshop (which can also be used in the Adobe Sketch App for the iPad and Android tablets). iPad Lettering, anyone?

Then you will learn an easy way to begin creating your lettering—using fonts as a guide! After that, you’ll see a different method of drawing letters based on using your own handwriting.

Learn how I created this lettering for floral wedding invitations.

In addition to learning how to create beautiful, stylish lettering in Adobe Photoshop, you’ll get a bonus video on the best ways to vectorize your lettering using Adobe Illustrator (and this applies to lettering that was drawn in Photoshop, as well as traditionally-drawn lettering that you scanned into your computer).

Learn how to vectorize your lettering and calligraphy in Adobe Illustrator.

Are you ready to improve your lettering skills? Join Photoshop Lettering: Modern Script now on Skillshare. If you’re new to Skillshare, using this unique link will grant you 2 months free! You’ll have access to thousands of classes for 2 full months (and you can cancel at anytime)!

I hope to see you there. I’ll be available to help you through your lettering process, if you ever have any questions. Check out the class trailer below. Click here to enroll.

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