"Stylish lettering has always been of great importance within the graffiti and street art movements. Over the last 25 years many artists have pushed the practice into a powerful stylized calligraphy. The Art of Writing Your name follows the arc of this movement from its earliest…
A selection of forty-one pages of the manuscript Mira calligraphiae monumenta, comprising Joris Hoefnagel's illumination of Georg Bocskay's model book of calligraphy, now in the manuscript collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum.
Offers techniques, instructions, a sample alphabet, and creative variations for different lettering styles.
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Tools : surfaces and materials for lettering -- The basics : techniques and getting started -- Old school : classical italic and new variations -- Scripty : vintage copperplate writing and variations using a pointed pen -- Raw brush : pointed brush letters -- Scrawly : rough and…
Offers techniques, instructions, a sample alphabet, and creative variations for different lettering styles.
