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Delving into the Art of Grosser Hand lettering

The world of hand lettering offers a delightful escape from the monotony of digital fonts. It's a creative pursuit that allows you to transform words into works of art. But within this realm lies a specific style known as Grosser Hand lettering, capturing the essence of grandness with its bold strokes and majestic presence.

Grosser Handlettering, translating to "Big Handlettering" in German, lives up to its name. This style emphasizes large, sweeping strokes that create a sense of scale and drama. Letters are often decorated with flourishes and embellishments, adding a touch of elegance and sophistication.

Think of grand signage adorning historic buildings or hand-painted invitations to a royal ball. That's the essence Grosser Hand lettering aims to evoke.

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While the visual impact is undeniable, Grosser Handlettering isn't just about aesthetics. It requires a certain level of skill and intentionality. Here are some key aspects that define this style:

Emphasis on Form: Each letterform is carefully considered, ensuring clean lines and consistent thickness.

Serifs and Swashes: Serifs, the decorative elements extending from letter strokes, are prominent in Grosser Hand lettering. Swashes, ornamental flourishes, add an extra layer of grandeur.

Limited Color Palettes: Typically, Grosser Hand lettering employs a limited color scheme, often black and white or gold and black, to maintain a sense of sophistication.

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Boldness over Delicacy: Unlike some handlettering styles that focus on intricate details, Grosser Hand lettering prioritizes boldness and clean lines.

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Who is Grosser Hand lettering For?

This style is perfect for:

Creating impactful signage: Whether for a storefront, wedding venue, or special event, Grosser Hand lettering grabs attention and leaves a lasting impression.

Designing luxurious invitations: For weddings, galas, or any occasion demanding a touch of grandeur, Grosser Hand lettering adds a level of elegance.

Crafting personalized gifts: Birth announcements, framed quotes, or personalized certificates become truly special with the artistry of Grosser Hand lettering.

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Getting Started with Grosser Handlettering

If you're captivated by the world of Grosser Handlettering, here's how to embark on your journey:

Invest in Quality Tools: Opt for pointed brush pens or chisel-tip markers that allow for consistent stroke control.

Practice Basic Strokes: Master straight lines, curves, and ovals - the building blocks of lettering.

Alphabet Drills: Dedicate time to practicing uppercase and lowercase letters, focusing on form and consistency.

Find Inspiration: Explore resources like lettering workbooks or online tutorials dedicated to Grosser Handlettering.

Remember, like any art form, Grosser Han lettering takes practice and patience. But with dedication and a love for the craft, you can unlock the power of this grand lettering style and create truly captivating pieces.

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here are some clearer pictures of my mildliner ideas! I'm honestly not sure how I'm really going this quarantine 😂 how are you guys doing now that we all haven't gone out for about two months?

materials used:

- Mildliner Highlighter in Cool Blue

- Artline Stix Brush Pen in Blue

- Uni Ball Signo FX in White

- Muji Retractable Pen 0.38 in Black

[nerdladydraws]

Calligraphy 101: Uppercase Letters

Calligraphy 101: Uppercase Letters

Alright beginning calligraphers! This is for those of you who know your basic strokes, you’ve practiced standard lowercase letters, and you’re ready to be creative and move on to uppercase letters!

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Have you seen beautiful writing on formal invitations or decorated planners and bullet journals and thought to yourself, "I wish I could write like that"? Now you can! Tune in to our Hand Lettering for Beginners program on our YouTube and we'll show you how. 

2pm, Wednesday, August 19  Premiering on our YouTube (Tune in to the broadcast to chat with us live!) 

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[amirfolio]

Hello everyone, In this tutorial i will show you How To Create 3D Lettering Effect Using Blend Tool in Adobe illustrator Tutorial. Hope you guys enjoy and will be meaningful for you. Don't forget to subscribe, comment, like, and share.

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Lettering tutoral, kindof

Heya! This one is terribly overdue, but here's to you @glacierkato​ ! and the request you made in January

Let's do some lettering :)

Disclaimer: I'm not an expert by a long way. I did not even study the right way, but I did discover what works for me... kinda? So I'm more than happy to share my methods :))

1. Lines

In general lettering is all about lineweight, making it perfect for chumps like me who refuse to learn properly. This will defenetly help improve your understanding of lineweight across all your work. Lineweight is all about using both the thick and the thin lines in your work to make shapes and lines more interesting. Lineweight usually is all about pen pressure. Low pen pressure results in thin lines, high penpressure results in thick lines. There is ofcourse much more than just thick and thin. you can vary in all shapes and sizes by varying pressure.

The traditional way of handlettering uses smooth strokes and a variation of up stroke and downstroke to achieve marvelous and elegant shapes and lines. Up stroke is a thin line, having little pressure on your pen as you move it up. Downstroke is heavy, putting lots of pressure on the pen as you move it down.

This might sound like a lot of practive to master... and it is. As you can see in my example I barely did it right. You might be familiar with this way of practicing lines over and over. lettering is something you probably practiced in grade school when learning to write cursive. Remember those exersices where you needed to mimic letter shape time and time again to get it consistent? That's the key to learning up stroke and down stroke. I was and still am very bad at those, but you can get fancy practice sheets everywhere nowadays by googeling “lettering practice sheet” You can also easily make your own, Youtube is also filled to the brim with tutorials just search “Handlettering” and off you go!

Keep that practice part in mind if you are really commited to learning lettering. You'll need to practice lots of repetitions. However there are multiple "hacks" to get the same effects without countless hours of practice, ways that don't use up and down stroke to achieve line variation. This is what I use... ‘cus I’m impatient... I'll get to that later

2. Materials

Anything you have.

You don't need expensive materials to start lettering. I started out with one (1) sharpie. Heck you can achieve similar results with sidewalk chalk or even paint. ANY. THING. YOU. HAVE.

Not to say there are not A METRIC TON of different and cool materials availible to try and experiment with!! That's the fun part:) What's cool is now that there is a lettering craze happening, my local dollar store regularly sells cheap knockoffs that are perfect for me to try and mess around with.

I'll discuss a few tools here, or you can skip this section and get down to the nitty gritty.

Pen

Plain, pure and honest pen, pencil,- heck even ballpoint. These all share one thing. You can't vary linethickness with them, but you can mimic thick and thin lines. boom. life: hacked.

Brush pens / dip pens: The traditional art way of getting the pen pressure thing

drawing tablet: Uses settings to calculate your en pressure, use a brush that eables pen pressure and boom, you got yourself a digital brush.

WHAAAAAT? Yes you can absolutely use the lineweight on your drawing tablet to practice and create up-and downstroke. Bonus is you can download any effect in a brush format. con is... you need to learn to control your tablet and that takes practice and time...

Chisel tipped pens: Fancier dudes for cool lettering effects. Has a flat edge and when you turn the brush you’ll get thick and thin strokes.

As for inks, anything and everything. Go digital, use fountain pen inks, indian ink, alcohol markers, water color, anything your heart desires <3

3. Methods

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Basically you apply the correct forms here, study the type of letters (or font) you want to letter and practice the correct form, using those up- and down strokes to vary lineweight. I used red lines below to indicate me trying to figure out the movement of the strokes in this type. Again there are loads of tutorials availible on youtube, just search “handlettering tutorial” and off you go! I was in a rush and did not practice nearly enough hahaha

faux lettering

Here’s my “fake it ‘till you make it” trick. Do I look like someone who has the patience to learn lettering?? .... well...maybe? But I didn’t, that’s the point! I don’t know why, but I never had enough attention to learn the classic forms of drawing... uuh oops?

You basically use the sketch and fill method and copy the pretty forms that your heart demands so. Like this:

4. Embelishments

My favorite part. Some of you may know I'm a goblin when it comes down to adding little petty details, my eyes see shineys and I gotta draw them, so I like this part most >:)

Here reference is key as well. I love taking inspiration from illuminated manuscripts or look up plants and stuff. And then I just add ‘em >:)

After sketching, color add details, rinse and repeat untill satisfied or frustrated

5. Reference Material and Link List

So here's my linklist of reference I use when lettering. I have a whole pinterest board with collected works from which I draw inspiration

Font inspiration: https://nl.pinterest.com/a3811/inspiration/typography/

Pattern inspiration: https://nl.pinterest.com/a3811/inspiration/tatoos-and-patterns/

DaFont.com or any other font site like fontsquirrel or 10001fonts for inspiration and complete fonts to use, sorted by type and appearance and usually with an input box to geneerate sample text. Perfect for inspiration and practice.

That’s it! Hope this helps someone. Message me if you want me to go into detail on something. I tried to keep this brief.

6. Bonus step: Shitpost. Thanks for reading!

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Hey everyone! In this post, I am going to share with you all my calligraphy and my tips for hand lettering!      

In this sample, I used a Papermate Inkjoy 0.7 Black Gel Pen.

How to start 

One drill to start practicing the thickness/thinness of calligraphy is to practice upstrokes and downstrokes. To do this, put more pressure on your writing utensil when creating a downstroke (when your hand and the pen moves downward) and then lighten up during the upstroke (when your hand and the pen moves upward). Below is an example of two variations of this drill, each done with a Crayola marker. 

For further practice, you can look up tutorials and practice sheets! This is what I did when I first started and are good for helping you at the beginning when you don’t know much about calligraphy.

As you start to practice calligraphy, you can find a photo of someone’s calligraphy that you like and try to mimic it or incorporate their techniques into your own style. This will help you like the way your calligraphy appears.

Pens to use: the best pens to use for calligraphy are brush pens (many use Tombows), but a cheaper alternative is Crayola markers

How I do mine

Because I don’t own any brush pens and aren’t good at doing calligraphy with Crayola markers, I always do faux calligraphy. This means that I create hand lettering that looks like calligraphy, but isn’t done in the same process as calligraphy normally is. 

To create faux calligraphy, the first step is to write out the word(s) in cursive. Then, wherever there was a downstroke, create a second line close to the actual downstroke to thicken it. Lastly, fill in the space between those two lines with your pen to give the illusion of thicker downstrokes when you were writing. 

Here is a step by step photo of how to do faux calligraphy:

Pens to use: for this you can use any pen, but to make it more realistic (not have scratch marks in the fill), use gel pens. I’d recommend the papermate inkjoy gel pens because they have lots of colors and write super smooth and dry quickly.

That’s pretty much it! I hope you guys enjoyed seeing how I create my calligraphy and found this guide helpful! As always, feel free to leave any comments or questions and I’ll get back to you!

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Calligraphy tutorial, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YjOiVtGX-Y

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How to write ‘Merry Christmas’ in Brush Calligraphy Video Demonstration / Tutorial

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Am glad to let you all know that I have decided to upload my study and practice guides for Fraktur, Uncial and Ruling Pen calligraphy on my store These are the materials that I have used for my workshops since last few years. I thought this might be the right time for everyone to learn and practice at home, having substantially reduced the download price (Just charging maintenance charges and taxes). Each download contains 2 guides - study and practice. The link to the store is in my bio. Happy Learning. . . . #learncalligraphy #tutorial #calligrafia #calligraphymasters #etsystore #handmade #handmadefont #handlettering #typespire #calligraphy #typography #goodtype #strengthinletters #artoftype #thedailytype #typematters #typegang #typographyinspired #lettering #script #sachinspiration #designspiration https://www.instagram.com/p/B-zddYdpzRr/?igshid=bopkdw6ofagx