Brush Lettering Made Simple: A Step-by-Step Workbook to Create Gorgeous Freeform Lettered Art - Softcover

Elizabeth, Chrystal

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1624146767 ISBN 13: 9781624146763

Publisher: Page Street Publishing, 2018

Synopsis

Add Beautiful Effects to Your Brush Lettered Artwork and Enhance Your Hand Lettering

Fantastic brush lettering artwork is right at your fingertips―and far easier to achieve than you think―with renowned lettering artist Chrystal Elizabeth’s simple step-by-step guide. In Brush Lettering Made Simple, she reveals her secrets to mastering a vast array of brush lettering techniques, including di erent fonts, styles, flourishes, e ects and mediums.

You’ll begin with the basics―how to form letters, then connect them to form words―and work your way up to more tricky techniques, such as lettering with watercolors, as well as how to make your lines and transitions as smooth as a professional lettering artist. Learn how to create the most popular brush lettering e ects, such as galaxy, ombre and blended colors, and how to add drop shadows behind your text to make your words really pop! Chrystal also shows you how to bring beauty and depth to your lettering projects with colorful backgrounds and borders.

Doodling is encouraged in this interactive workbook, which features special high-quality art paper and beautifully bordered blank pages where you can practice your new skills. With more than 45 easy-to-follow tutorials, you’ll be creating elegant, professional-looking lettering projects in no time.

About this title

About the Author

Chrystal Elizabeth is an artist who specializes in modern brush lettering with bold colors uniquely blended together. She also runs a blog and an Etsy shop, where she sells artwork and brush lettering practice worksheets. She lives in Puyallup, Washington.

From the Back Cover

Riding the wave of lettering enthusiasm that?s only grown over the past year, this new workbook by a master artist with 170k Instagram followers will be 2018?s go-to lettering book for instruction and inspiration. Chrystal Elizabeth?s unique brush lettering features bright, bold colors blended together, often with a rainbow of colors in a single line which gives the finished quotes a multi-dimensional look that pops off the page. In this workbook, Chrystal reveals her special techniques to take readers? lettering to the next level. With 40 tutorials, readers learn step by step how to recreate her gorgeous designs or make them their own. Featuring the popular format and features of bestselling Hand Lettering for Relaxation, this book includes high quality art paper, step-by-step illustrated instruction, space for practice and bordered blank pages for drawing final designs. Modern brush lettering is created freeform with swooping, cursive lines inspired by calligraphy, whereas hand lettered designs tend to have a more structured form, often drawn first in pencil. Because of its spontaneous nature, brush lettering can be more difficult than hand lettering, but this book breaks down the techniques and makes it easy! Both beginners and skilled artists will be thrilled to find this book overflowing with motivational quotes, new techniques and one-of-a-kind artwork. This book has 40 illustrated design tutorials.

Edition details

• Publisher: Page Street Publishing
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1624146767
• ISBN 13: 9781624146763
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192